Chess Team
RE's chess team aims to popularize the game of chess, teach strategy and compete in chess tournaments. Since its formation in 2020-21, RE chess players have gathered for on-campus tournaments and practice sessions designed to improve skills and performance.
Team News
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First RE chess tournament draws a crowd
Ransom Everglades' first RE chess tournament on May 15 crowned a sixth grader – Chris Page '27 – as its champion, and it provided an entertaining test for RE's nationally ranked chess star Nikhil Kumar '22. Kumar did not officially compete in the event because of his stature, but he played all 25 participants simultaneously for fun – and won all 25 matches. In the individual competition, Ryan Berkshire '23 and Lucas Civantos '24 finished second and third, respectively.Read More -
Sixth grader wins scholastic chess event
Read MoreChristopher Page '27 won first place in the K-8 division of the South Miami Chess Club Avant Garde Scholastic Tournament, one of the first in-person events in scholastic chess since the pandemic hit. Page competed alongside some 60 students from Gulliver Prep, Franklin Academy and other schools, going 5-0 in five rounds of the March 16 competition in Hollywood, Fla. Faculty member Luis Felipe advises RE's chess team. -
Sixth graders win chess competition
Four Ransom Everglades sixth graders – Manav Saigal '26, Matteo Bloom '26, Michael Goff '26 and Nicholas Juhasz '26 – teamed up to win a middle school chess competition on Jan. 11, topping teams from Miami Country Day, Belen Jesuit and John F. Kennedy Middle School. Saigal finished second individually and Bloom, fifth, in the field of 17 at the 2019-20 Miami Country Day Scholastic Grand Prix #2.Read More -
RE's chess team claims fourth place
The Ransom Everglades chess team finished fourth overall at a Nov. 5 tournament at Divine Savior Academy in Doral as Ben Shapiro '18 claimed third individually out of 26 competitors. Shapiro was joined by Thor Wahlestedt '18, Eric Plass '18, Guillermo Wenrich '17 and Ezekial Adreassen '18 on RE's fourth-place team.Read More -
Eighth-grade student wins world chess championship
Nikhil Kumar '21 arrived back to campus a world champion in chess after pulling off a thrilling underdog victory at the Oct. 18-31 World Cadets Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia (the country). Kumar finished first in a field of 137 students from 36 nations in the under-12 division despite being ranked 25th at the start of the tournament.Read More -
Seventh-grade student lands on world championship chess team
Nikhil Kumar '21 has been selected to represent the United States at the 2016 World Cadets Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia, in October on the heels of his second-place finish at the U.S. championships. Kumar will compete in the under-12 division of the two-week Eastern European event in October.Read More -
Seventh grader wins state championship in chess
Read MoreNikhil Kumar '21 claimed the state title at the 2016 Florida State Scholastic Championship in chess March 12-13, advancing as Florida's middle-school representative to the national scholastic chess championship in Indianapolis in August.
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Roster
Arul, Aditya '26
Diemar, Griggs '25
Do Valle, Gustavo '26
Geller, Elle '25
Jindal, Aarav '26
Juhasz, Nicholas '26
Kumar, Naman '25
Mederos, Michael '25
Rosenfeld, Ivan '25
Rua, Lucas '26
Sun, Solon '25
Valles, Theo '25
Vazquez, Oscar '26
Vela, Leah '25
Vella, Sebastian '25
Wesoloski, Michael '24
Diemar, Griggs '25
Do Valle, Gustavo '26
Geller, Elle '25
Jindal, Aarav '26
Juhasz, Nicholas '26
Kumar, Naman '25
Mederos, Michael '25
Rosenfeld, Ivan '25
Rua, Lucas '26
Sun, Solon '25
Valles, Theo '25
Vazquez, Oscar '26
Vela, Leah '25
Vella, Sebastian '25
Wesoloski, Michael '24
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.