Chess champs hail from Sunset Park
Theres a new team of kings and queens in town the P.S. 503 ChessMates, who won first place at the United States Chess Federations National Elementary Championship on Sunday, May 13 Mothers Day making many mothers and fathers proud.
The newly crowned champions returned to their Sunset Park school on Monday triumphant, carting back a three-tiered purple-and-gold trophy that is as tall as some of the fifth-graders themselves, as well as several plaques and smaller trophies.
As a team, the 14 students in second through fifth grade won first place in the intermediate level K-6 Under 1,000 category. They earned 22 points half a point higher than the second place team from Miami, Florida.