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Rookly Fall 2026 Season — Week #4
Your weekly recap of league standings, an instructive and fun Game of the Week, and a new Rookly Quest boss battle high score.
Lucas Thompson
November 02, 2026
Welcome to the Rookly Fall 2026 Season newsletter! This is where we share a weekly update on league standings, highlight some great moments from each of our leagues’ games, learn a thing or two from our coaches, and of course, share any news about Rookly.
First let’s look at the standings of the Fall 2026 Season. You can click on the title of a league to view the full standings for that league. The standings pages are public, so please feel free to share with parents, friends, or whoever you think might be interested.
Without any further ado, let’s get to it!
Fall 2026 Season — Week #4 Standings (Top 3)
Ransom Everglades — 94 | WIISER — 116 |
River City Science Academy — 88 | Lakeside, Moreland — 111 |
Boys’ Latin — 82 | Laurence — 96 |
Scarsdale — 123 | Parish Episcopal — 96 |
Hackley — 115 | Desert View — 66 |
Salesianum — 93 | Bok Excalibur Knights — 36 |
Temecula — 71 | Upper St. Clair — 96 |
Windward — 70 | Elkins — 89 |
Holy Ghost, Randolph Macon — 60 | PCS — 82 |
Winston Prep — 94 | Pace — 97 |
Freeland — 86 | Macon ECHS — 94 |
OFL — 70 | Stanford Online — 86 |
Durham — 94 |
Trinity Episcopal — 89 |
Eureka Springs, Leffell — 82 |
Game of the Week
This week’s Game of the Week goes to Roy Y from Trinity Episcopal (White) and Alice W from Eureka Springs (Black) short and sweet game which reminds us that when playing chess, if we see a good move, we should look for a better one.
We join this game on move 15, with White to move. It’s actually mate-in-seven from this position—can you find the best move for White to kick things off?
White to move
It’s Bxb7+, of course!
Bxb7+
Black’s only legal move is Kb8.
Kb8
White follows up with Bc6+, unleashing a discovered check from the rook on b1 and threatening Black’s queen on d7.
Bc6+
Black plays Kc8, trying once again to seek shelter behind the other black pieces.
Kc8
Now, of course, White captures the qu—
Hang on, let’s remember that when we see a good move, we should look for a better one!
Take a second to consider what could be better for White in this position than capturing Black’s queen; checkmate, perhaps?
White starts with Rb8+
Rc8+
Black’s only legal move is to capture the ‘free’ rook on b8.
Kxb8
White responds with Qb3+.
Qb3+
And now pick your favorite move for Black, because it’s mate-in-one no matter what.
Black goes with Kc8…
Kc8
…and White swoops in with Qb7#, winning this one on move 19.
Qb7#
Thank you to both players for such a fun an instructive game! You can see how the game unfolded from the very start using the link below:
Rookly Quest High Scores
Just when you thought that the Connors couldn’t be beat, Ryan from Shoreland Lutheran smashed the previous record with a whopping 170!
A score of 170 means that Ryan captured a cheese every 1.06 seconds.
Will anyone crack 180 and get their time per cheese below one second? Stay tuned!
If there’s anything that you need help with please feel free to get in touch with Coach Lucas at Lucas@rookly.com.