The Spiritridge Elementary School chess team cruised to victory on Pier 91 in Seattle during the 2014 Washington state chess championship. A total of 1,157 K-6 grade chess players competed in Smith Cove Cruise Terminal building in Magnolia.

Spiritridge defended its’ state championship title among 160 4-6th grade teams and the school’s K-3rd grade team secured a14th place among 146 teams. Neil Chowdhury is the state chess champion among 195 fourth graders and Richard Yang and Brian Chen are two co-champions among 197 fifth graders. The other top scored players are Tom Yin (seventh place), Freya Gulamali (eighth), Eric Bogolyubov (14th), Justin Chen (14th) and Kevin Yang (20th). Freya also was recognized as the top scored girl player in fifth grade.