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Mexico City Bests Portland

14 children from Mexico City and Portland, OR. played a two round match on Saturday, February 25, on KGS.  Mexico City won the match 8-4. "Our players are from two elementary schools in Mexico City,  Escuela de Arte Pipiolo and Colegio Serapio Rendón," says team leader Siddhartha Avila.  Diego, 5 kyu, Bruno, 10 kyu, and Javier, 18 kyu all won both their games. Oliver, 23 kyu, won two games for Portland.  Portland and Mexico City have been playing one or more matches a year for the past several years. - Peter Freedman, Portland organizer.  Photos by Siddhartha Avila and Peter Freedman: The teams meet via Skype to set up the match.