Somerset Chess is Heading to State Finals

Another successful day saw two busses of keen Somerset secondary students take on over 300 of the best High School chess players on the Gold Coast.

PREMIER TAKES BRONZE AND QUALIFIES FOR STATES

Our top four chosen students took on the best of the best to compete for a hotly contested spot at the State Finals later this year. With the pressure on, our All Star Team pulled off several upsets and held back a who's who of Gold Coast Private Schools to only fall behind the stacked King's teams.

Somerset Chess legend Eason Wang (4.0/7) made his return as our Board 1 strengthening our team considerably with his 1533 rating and taking on the big boys. Welcome back Eason!

Elijah Hadikusmo (5.5/7) continued his blistering form on Board 2 with an excellent result and a performance rating 227 points higher than his rating!

Oscar Credland-Ballantyne (5/7) on Board 3 smashed it, coming up with 2 huge clutch draws against the twp King's teams both rated over 400 points higher than him.

Our decorated Captain, and Girl's chess champion Sophia Ahern (3.5/7) rounded out our top
four with an awesome performance including a huge draw against King's top team Josh Cooper rated over 500 points higher.

Awesome work by our Premier Team!

Results.

OTHER DIVISIONS CLEAN UP

Taking place at TSS, our qualifying Premier All-star team were joined by another four teams in A Division, two Teams in C Division and one Team in D Division with some amazing results.

Congratulations to the following students:

'Somerset 2' won Division A 2nd Place out of 22 Teams - Melody Yang, Jeremy Zheng, Ruhara Mapandara, Annika Lim.

'Somerset 6' won Division C Overall 1st Place out of 22 Teams- Caspar Crampton, Jaden Jiang, Joshua Thompson, Arjun Rai.

Caspar Crampton won Division C Individual =1st Place out of 76 participants

Merit Ribbons- Melody Yang, Jeremy Zheng, Ruhara Mapandara, Annika Lim, Bobby Long, Jaden Jiang.

All Results.