This is a page with information about the U.S. Under 8 Invitational Championships, which is being played on Chess.com from June 8 through June 10. The tournament is a round-robin (everyone plays everyone else once) with 8 players. It is USCF-rated, and a national championship! The participants were invited based on their positions on the USCF top-100 lists of February 2012.
We will be updating and adding to this page as the event progresses.
To see the Under 12 Championship, go here.
Participants
Ben Rood 1733
Jason Metpally 1689
Joaquin Perkins 1654
Daniel Levkov 1600
Ethan Tang 1569
Rohan Suryawanshi 1565
Roshan Idnani 1532
Taran Idnani 1531
Rounds
Round 1 - more info
Round 2 -
Round 3 - more info
Round 4 - more info
Round 5 - more info
Round 6 - more info
Round 7 - more info
Pictures
Rohan preparing for the tournament
Setting up before the first game
Joaquin looking into a position
Daniel plays his games at a real board, while the tournament director enters moves onto Chess.com
[more coming]
Video Coverage
Video coverage was done for each round, and can be found here as well as in the round-by-round articles above.
Final Standings
1-2. Perkins, Tang 5 Co-Champions!!!
3-4. Levkov, Metpally 4.5
5. Suryawanshi 3.5
6. R. Idnani 2.5
7. Rood 2
8. T. Idnani 1
