Chess Club
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kids: Oct 15
adults: Oct 22
Two sessions of eight Wednesdays in the fall and winter time | for 2nd to 6th grade | Program Room
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Chess at Simsbury High School

There is also a chess club at Simsbury High School.

3/4/23: Third place at the 2023 High School Champion Team Championship:

from left: Raymond L, Raymond Z, Gianni, Nakul, Adittya.

4/3/22: The CT State 2022 High School Champion Team:

Our Nakul won the individual title.

3/7/20: The CT State 2020 High School Champion Team:

from left front: Nakul, Tanner, Tim, at the back: coach Gary, Gianni, Luke.

11/15/19: Team for the annual match vs UConn in Storrs

Simsbury lost 16.5 - 27.5.

3/1/19: The new 2019 State High School State Champions:

from left: Tim, Samantha, Coach Gary, Sharvil, Tanner.

02/14/2019: team SHS 2019 at Manchester:

11/9/2018: chess match SHS+HJMS+Central+SQL versus UConn in Storrs:

Oct 2017: chess match SHS versus UConn in Storrs

SHS won 13-11.

3/9/2017: chess match SHS versus UConn in Storrs

Team SHS around the UConn husky. SHS lost 9.5 - 6.5.

2/12/2017: SHS wins the team prize at the CT State Scholastic:

From left: Seth, Eric, Jonathan and Danny.

12/11/2016: SHS won the 16/17 CT State Scholastic Blitz Championships:

From left: Danny, Eric, Jonathan, Justin, Sean, Nick (Mo not in picture).

2/28/2016: SHS took 2nd place at the 2016 CT State High School Championships:

From left: Justin, Sean, Eric, Bob, Seth, Daniel and Jasper (Samantha and Sanjeev not in picture).

The SHS team is the 2015 CT State High School Chess Under-1200 Champion:

From left: Bob, Jasper, Josh, Tommy and Daniel.


All 13 participants from HJMS and SHS.


Final standing in the top section.


The new 2015 CT State High School champion: Eric.


Time left for Eric in his last deciding game: 2.7 seconds. His opponent had 18 minutes and 36 seconds left.


Afterwards, chess awards banquet at Sakimura - two chefs did a great job.


2014: The High School team won the overall CT State High School championship.
From left to right: Daniel, Jonathan, Cole, Dylan, Eric, Tommy, Dhruv and Jasper.