It was a sensational day for Spartans Chess as they finished first and second in the Gold Coast Secondary Chess Finals this week. Two teams will progress in Queensland finals later in the year.
In the Premier Division Somerset 1 which comprised Byron Morris (6/7 board 1 prize), Kenny Ming (7/7 board 2 prize), Eason Wang (7/7 board 3 prize) and Jason Li (6/7), scored a massive 26/28 to comfortably win the day. Somerset 2 (Jack Luke-Paredi, Charlie Liu, Kona Baldock and Lyanna Chan) scored an impressive 21/28 to claim 2nd place, with Lyanna scoring 7/7 to claim the board prize.
These two teams will now represent the school and region at the Interschool State Finals in October up in Brisbane.
In the Open Division, Somerset 3 (Jennifer Yeung, Melody Yang, Aadi Rai, Aaron Lim) claimed third position in the teams section, whilst Nina Varcoe claimed third place individual with 5.5/7.
Recently a number of Somerset students have also played in the Cookies Rapid events over the last couple of weeks. Eason Wang, Alessandro Martinese, Elijah Hadikusumo, Oscar Credland-Ballantyne, Harrison Qu and Dylan Hu. In the July event, Alessandro picked up third in Rating Group B and gained 11 rating points. Elijah picked up 13 points in July and another 12 in August, and Harrison gained 11 points in the August event.
Well done to all the players who took part in the Inter-school event and we hope to see the primary event going ahead in the near future!
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