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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Northfield Students Fare Well in Chess Tourney

Students from Sibley Elementary, St. Dominic School and Northfield Middle School all placed in a recent chess tournament.

Several Northfield students recently competed—and placed—in the 2012 Spring Chess Tournament hosted by South Central Service Cooperative and Mankato Community Education/Recreation Sibley Elementary's Peter Hillmann tied for first in the elementary division and tied for first in the second-grade level. Sibley's Collin Thomas-Green tied with Peter for first in the elementary division and first in the second-grade level. St. Dominic School's Henry Hutton tied for third place in the middle division and tied for second in the fifth-grade level. Northfield Middle School's Jackson Hillmann finished fourth in the upper division and first in the seventh-grade level. South Central Service Cooperative offers several chess tournaments throughout the …

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Sibley Elementary School, St. Dominic School, and Northfield Middle School

Monday, November 22, 2010

Northfield Youth Playing a King's Game

Budding chess players compete in local tournament.

One boy tucked an old chess medal in his pocket for luck. Another brought along his own board, just in case. Both had the same goal in mind: victory. Armed with skills they've honed over months, or in some cases years of play, 16 boys spent Saturday exercising their brains in earnest, good-natured competition. The first chess tournament sponsored by the Northfield School Dstrict's Community Services Division was open to youth in grades 1-8 who had participated in this fall's weekly after-school chess club sessions, or who had taken previous Grandmaster of Chess classes. Participants gathered in the Northfield Middle School's media center and divided into three age groups for round-robin play. The matches between the youngest boys inched …

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