The 2022 Quick-Chess State Champions

Benjamin Kim and Tyler Ching tied for first with 5.5.  They are co-Champions for High-School Quick Chess, but Benjamin took home the trophy on tiebreaks.  The 2022 Middle-School and Elementary-School champions are Tyler's brothers, Kyle and Kevin Ching.  The Primary-School champion is Jacob Wong. 

Here are the grade-level Quick Chess Champions:  K - Cooper Larson, 1 - Brooke Kleman, 2 - Jacob Wong, 3 - Ta'i Satterfield, 4 - Corbin Bishop, 5 - Kevin Ching, 6 - Aurelia White, 7 - Justin Wong, 8 - Kyle Ching, 9 - Tyler Ching, 10 - Benjamin Kim, 11 - Caleb White, 12 - Eric Arikura.

Here are the Quick Chess State Champion Teams and runner-up teams:

In the afternoon Open tournament, fifth-grade prodigy Kevin Ching finished in clear second place at 5 points. Aurelia White earned the title of 2022 Hawaii Women State Quick Chess Champion. Scholastic players earned category-level titles as Quick Chess Champions: C - Kyle Ching, D - Kevin Ching, u1000 - Koa Satterfield, and u600 - Troy Kinamura-Foki.  Collectively the younger generation captured almost 500 quick-chess rating points from the older, experienced players.

Several teams of young players competed in the evening Bughouse Championships, but none of them made the podium.  The winners - who are now the first official Hawaii State Bughouse Champions ever - are former Hawaii K-12 chess superstars Likeke Aipa and Tristan Kaonohi. They finished with 9 wins and only one loss.  They split their match 1-1 with Gabriel and Caleb White, who finished in second place with 8 wins.  Third place went to the master/expert team of Paul Iinuma and Damian Nash with 7 wins.  Here are the full results.