K-12 Chess Champs Underway in Florida!

US Chess has gone to Disney World as the Main Event of the K-12 Chess Championships is underway in Buena Vista, Florida (live games here!). On Thursday, December 7th, Maximillian Lu (Connecticut), formerly the youngest US Chess Master in history, took down the K-6 Blitz with 11.5/12.   Matthew James Stevens (Illinois) won the K-12 Blitz, also with a resounding 11.5/12. Akhil Kalghatgi and Nikhil Kalghatgi, twins from Illinois, took top bughouse honors with a perfect score. The twins have won multiple US Chess bughouse titles and are certainly ones to watch in the Main Event as well, both over 2100 and ranked 4th and 8th going into the event.   Follow the @USChess twitter feed for takeovers from Greg Shahade with photos from Vanessa Sun and Jim Doyle. Starting tomorrow, also look to our instagram story feed.  Follow pairings and results here, and live games from the top boards here.  Check out some highlight tweets below, and join the conversation using the hashtag #K12ChessChamps: https://twitter.com/Tatev__A/status/939209219546501127 https://twitter.com/USChess/status/939277308338364416 https://twitter.com/USChess/status/939218758266126341 https://twitter.com/rbartlett14/status/939199225983881216 https://twitter.com/USChess/status/939252632950108162 https://twitter.com/USChess/status/939271920834482176 https://twitter.com/USChess/status/939281561408757760