A team of three Redmond High School (RHS) freshmen — Daniel He, Samuel He and Tejas Bharadwaj — took first place in the recent 2013 Washington State Mini-Teams Chess Championship. The tournament was organized by the Washington High School Chess Association and was held at Interlake High School.
Forty-eight teams from high schools and middle schools all over the state competed in the tournament. The RHS team scored 12.5 points out of 15. The team from Skyline High School scored 11.5 points and took second place, and a team from Interlake High School scored 11 points and took third place.