In the Easter holidays seven boys travelled to Aldro School in Surrey accompanied by Mr Callun,Mr Stables & Mrs Edwards to compete in the IAPS National Chess Compettition. The leading 130 players in the country compete in different sections of varying ability.
The Championship is for the best 40 players and two of our boys competed at this very high level Isaac S scoring 5 points out of 7 to finish in 3rd position overall a tremendous achievement. Ben E scored a very creditable 3 ½ out of 7 finishing 18th again a great result.
On the first day the remaining 90 players are split into 4 sections to determine what level they will play at for the remainder of the Competition. In these group matches Hugo R scored a maximum 5 out of 5 and won his group and Paddy D scored 3 ½ out of 5 to be 2nd in his group. This resulted in Hugo & Paddy playing in Group A , Charlie L & Matthew N in Group B and Angus E in Group D. The boys all performed really well over the next two days and achieved some outstanding results
Group A
Paddy D 5 ½ out of 6 Winner of the group
Hugo R 2 ½ out of 6 11th
Group B
Matthew N 4 ½ out of 6 2nd in Group
Charlie L 4 out of 6 4th
Group D
Angus E 5 ½ out of 6 Winner of the group
The tour was not just about chess the boys played Table Tennis and air hockey against other schools pupils in organised tournaments on the first evening with Charlie L winning the Table Tennis Tournament, Ben E runner up and Hugo R 3rd . Paddy D was runner up in the air hockey. On the second evening the boys played in the 5 a side football tournament and were joint winners.
On one of the afternoons an enjoyable time was had by all in a visit to Chessington World of Adventure.
A great experience for all of the boys who behaved impeccably for the duration and were a pleasure to be with.
Posted on
Sat, May 7, 2011
by MAC