Recently our Somerset Chess participants have competed at both the Queensland Reserves Championships and the Gold Coast Secondary Interschool competitions. Read on to see how our players performed.
On the weekend of 22 and 23 February, a group of Somerset students took part in the Queensland Reserves Championships for U1750 ACF rated players: Eason Wang, Sophia Ahern, Ken Wu, Calen Tang, Alessandro Martinese, and Harrison Qu. The event was played with long time controls, three rounds on each day and featured some very strong opposition.
Harrison Qu from Year 1 managed to defeat much older players and score 2/6, whilst Sophia Ahern scored 3/6. The standout performance however was Eason Wang, who scored 4.5/6 to claim = first in Rating Group A.
On Wednesday 26 February, Somerset College hosted the Gold Coast Secondary Interschool tournament. Somerset fielded 25 players in the tournament, which comprised three divisions.
In the A division, Somerset 1 (Byron Morris, Kenning Ming, Oliver Yang and Eason Wang) proved too strong for the opposition to win with a score of 22/28. Finishing in second position was Somerset 2 (Jack Luke-Paredi, Charlie Liu, Jason Li, Kona Baldock) who scored 20/28. TSS 1 finished in third. Individually, Kenny Ming and Byron Morris finished = first with 6/7 - Kenny finishing ahead on tie-break, whilst Jack Luke-Paredi finished =3rd with 5.5/7 but missed out on a tie-break.
In the B division, Somerset 6 (Hamish Folliott, Lachlan Hartley, Riley Jennings, and Debby Kuo) finishing first with 18.5/28, ahead of St Andrew’s 2 and Miami SHS. Individually, Hamish Folliott finished 1st with 6/7 and Lachlan Hartley finished 2nd with 5.5/7.
From next week, the Year 3 to 6 lunch club will be held in the Ray Dining Hall on Monday to Wednesday plus Friday.
Event full results.
Interschool Competition full results.
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