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LHWHS Chess Team Wins State Championship

The Ladue Horton Watkins High School Chess Team is the 2022 Missouri Scholastic K-12 state champion.

The school took first place in the team standings, and individual results were as follows:

Board 1

  • Iris Zhou (12) – 2nd place

Board 2

  • Andy Teh (11) – 1st place
  • Ben Liu (12) – 3rd place

Board 3

  • Andrew Stappenbeck (11) – 1st place

Board 4

  • Kanishk Shanmugam (12) – 1st place
  • Arya Bhushan (12) – 2nd place
  • Edison Lu (9) – 3rd place
  • Shang Jiang (9) – 4th place
  • Alex Rybak (12) – 8th place
  • Vishmi Rajapaksha (9) – 19th place (tie)

This is the second-consecutive state championship for LHWHS dating back to 2019; the event was canceled in 2020 and 2021.