Murfee fifth-grader wins fourth straight SP World Open for boys
Posted: June 20, 2010 - 1:01am
The fourth annual SP World Open for Boys and fifth annual SP World Open for Girls took place in Las Vegas on June 12 and 13 at the South Point Resort. Nearly 300 young boys and girls from across the country and as far as Mongolia and the Philippines competed for approximately $150,000 in chess scholarships and chess prizes.
The event was organized by the Las Vegas International Chess Festival and sponsored by Texas Tech SPICE, ChessOnDVD.com, Chess4Less.com, World Chess Live, and the Susan Polgar Foundation.
Murfee fifth-grader Tom Polgar, 11, won his fourth straight SP World Open for Boys title by scoring a perfect 5/5 in the boys' younger than 14 section. Tom also scored 5/5 in the same section last year and 5/5 in the boys' younger than 11 section in 2008. In 2007, he tied for first with two other players in the same younger than 11 section.
Below are the winners of the eight sections. Each winner received a state-of-the-art netbook computer with more than $600 in chess software installed.
Sean Manross (California), Randel Eng (Arizona), Anu Bayar (Mongolia), and Maria Roselle Vicencio (Philippines) were the winners of the Texas Tech $1,000 competitive chess scholarships (each has a value of more than $36,000 for out-of-state students).
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