A report on the Wellington Primary Interschool Competition (by Scott
Wastney)
The
Wellington Primary Interschool was held at Johnsonville School on Friday 24th
August. Teams of four players play
in a 6-round Swiss with clocks set for 15 minutes.
The winning
team was Ngaio. Their star
player was Wellington Chess Club
member Layla Timergazi who scored 6/6 on board 1. The other players in the team were
Boston Hart, William Scarlett (a relation of a former NZ champion Martin
Dreyer), and Ben Harvey. By winning
the competition they are the Wellington representatives at the National
School Finals, which is being jointly organised by Martin Sims and Mark Noble in
Palmerston North on 29/30th September.
Second place
was the van der Hoorn coached Thorndon A-team which included Wellington Chess Club
player Andrew Sknar. Then in third
place was the Johnsonville A-team , a
team with great potential since two of their players are only year 3
students.
I’d like to
make a special mention on the Maungaraki team. A keen parent, Doug Burdon, organises
their school chess club even now after his children are no longer at the
school. The first time they entered
they finished somewhere near the bottom, but each year since they finish higher
on the table. This time it was
5th place.
Here is the crosstable:
Place Team
Score
1 Ngaio
19.5
2 Thorndon A
16.5
3 Johnsonville A
16
4 Eastern Hutt
15
5-6 Maungaraki 13.5
Crofton Downs
13.5
7 Newlands
12
8 Thorndon B
11
9 Johnsonville B
10.5
10-11 Cashmere
10
St Brigids B
10
12-13 Karori West
9.5
Khandallah A
9.5
14 Waterloo
8.5
15-16 St
Brigids A
8
Khandallah B
8
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