Local Brothers Fare Well in National Chessfest
Trung and Tan Nguyen are among the top in the K-12 national scholastics in chess
Asburn Chess Club members Trung and Tan Nguyen of Lansdowne placed among the top in the recently concluded 2010 National Scholastic K-12 Championship in Lake Buena Vista, FL. Trung, 8, tied for second in the grade 2 division, while his younger brother Tan, 6, also tied for second in the grade 1 division. Players from all over the country gather every year in mid-December to test how they compare with the best nationally. The two boys exceeded their expected performance. Tan was seeded in the top 10, while Trung was among the top 20. They played seven rounds of three hours each, and both scored a total of six points. "We knew that both boys were competitive in their grade levels," Luan Nguyen, the father of the boys said. What got it …
