After several hours of play and with just 3 seconds left on his clock, Wayzata High School's Andrew Tang won a thrilling final-round game to become National High School Chess co-champion.
While it may not have grabbed the same attention as the wild finish to the NCAA Final Four championship game, Tang's own buzzer-beating victory put him into a six-way tie for first place at the U.S. Chess Federation's K-12 championship held last weekend in Atlanta.
Tang a 10th-grader at Wayzata, went undefeated, with five wins and two draws.
With Tang's final-round game hanging in the balance, five other players had already finished their games and stood at 6 points out of 7 (with a point awarded for each win, and a half-point for a draw).
Tang was playing the tournament leader, who had won all six games and needed just to hold a draw to secure sole first place. Tang, meanwhile, needed to win to claim a share of first place.
The U.S. Chess live Twitter coverage captured the drama:
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