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The winners of last Saturday's All-Mercer Island Chess Tournament are now posted online, organized by section.  That posting lumps Kindergarten and 1st grade together, so just for fun I dumped the results into a spreadsheet to see how they would have ranked if we combined grades.  Here are the top 30  measured by K thru 3rd grade:   1   ZHU, JASON 1026 2   EMANUELS, GRIFFIN 950 3   DIERKES, CHRISTOPHER 942 4   SHEN, DANIEL 931 5   ELLIOTT, CHRISTOPHER 899 6   PEHRSON, ADAM 895 7   TAM, OWEN 833 8   BERNSTEIN, OWEN 813 9   BOKSEM, MAX 809 10   SCHMIDT-WARNECKE, CHRIS 791 11   HASSALL, JACK 782 12   PADGETT, MATTHEW 777 13   QUE, JASON 761 14   BOKSEM, LUKE 735 15   KELLY-HEDRICK, IAN 726 16   BAUMAN, HUNTER 707 17   CUMMINGS, CAMERON 707 18   CHANSKY, MATTHEW 704 19   HIRSCHOWITZ, DAVID 701 20   BATALOV, PAVEL 693 *21   CHANSKY, JOSH 692 *22   BENSON, ALEXANDER 692 23   KIM, ERIC 682 24   NOONE, THOMAS 676 25   MAJEWSKI, DYLAN 668 26   PARK, JOSHUA 640 27   SPRAGUE, NATHAN 631 28   BURGER, DAWSON 616 29   ZIMMER, MATTHEW 613 30   BENSON, NATHANIEL 595   The surprising result is how many kindergartners are on this list.  If this keeps up, Mercer Island will have a very strong high school chess team in about ten years.