A magnificent 56 players turned up for the first Chess congress of the new school year. This time it was a team event, with 14 teams of 4. Each player was seeded into groups 1 to 4 with players only allowed to play players in their group.
We had 2 players seeded 1 therefore playing the most difficult players. Ethan Lancaster and Lawrence Moustafa found it really tough going scoring 1 and 2 out of 5 respectively.
We had 6 players seed 2, 2nd toughest grp. Alex Hollingworth scored 5 out of 5 and was in the winning team. Nathan scored 4 and won best seed 2 outside winning team. William HE, Dylan C, Patrick S (scored 2), Austin B struggled a touch to score 0.5.
Lucy Lowe was seeded 3 and scored a fabulous 4 out of 5 and was 2nd best out of the 14 in her group.
Leon Li was seeded 4 and ran away with it scoring 5 out of 5. James Cooper scored a brilliant 3 out of 5 on his debut.
Oct 18 Team CSC |
Seed |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Comments |
Alex Hollingworth | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Winning Team |
Ethan Lancaster | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Patrick Shaw | 2 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
William HE | 2 | 0.5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Nathan Li | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Seed 2 Champion |
Leon Li | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Seed 4 Champion |
James Cooper | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Newcomer |
Lucy Lowe | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
Lawrence Moustafa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
Dylan Crothers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
Austin Butterworth | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |