More than a dozen young players received medals for their performance during the Michigan Scholastic Team Championship earlier this month.
February was a good month for the young chess players at the Roeper School. On Feb. 2, the Roeper chess team won multiple awards at the Michigan Scholastic Team Championship, most notably the K-3 team, which took home first place and was named state champions. In addition, the K-5 team finished second in the state while the K-5 reserve teams received trophies for finishing in fifth and seventh place. The Roeper chess team is made up of 26 players from the Roeper Lower School, located on Woodward Avenue in Bloomfield Hills, and is coached by Diallo Smith. This isn't the first big win for the Roeper chess team. In November, the K-3 team won first place at the 2012 Michigan Scholastic Club Championship, which featured students competing as a …
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Chess teams from the Roeper Lower School took home first place in the state club chess championship last weekend.
Last weekend was a big one for the young chess players from the Roeper School's lower campus in Bloomfield Hills. The Roeper K-3 Chess Team took home first place at the 2012 Michigan Scholastic Club Championship in Lansing on Nov. 17. The tournament was open to students in grades K-12 and with students competing as a team and individually. The team, which is made up of 30 students, is coached by Diallo Smith, of Detroit. In addition to placing first, the following Roeper students received medals for individual achievement at the tournament: "There is a very high caliber of skill at these events as most clubs have been competing for much longer and are regionally based, which means they pull from a much larger group of students," Smith said…
