Johnsonville School placed 5th at the National Chess Finals. A great result considering they’re such a young team. The top 4 placed teams and the 6th placed team were all the Auckland teams. So we had the distinction of being the top non-Auckland team. The only match losses were to the top two placed teams. In the final match Johnsonville beat the third placed Holy Cross School.
Here are the full results:
There were 12 teams. Each team qualified by
winning a regional competition.
Round 1: Beat Hereworth (Hawkes Bay)
3-1
Round 2: Drew with Waimairi (Canterbury) 2-2
Round 3: Lost to King’s School (East Auckland) 4-0
Round 4 Beat Hukanui (Waikato)
3.5-0.5
Round 5: Beat Kaurilands (West
Auckland) 3-1
Round 6: Lost to Hillsborough (Central Auckland) 4-0
Round 7: Beat
Holy Cross
School (South
Auckland) 3-1
Primary final standings
1
Hillsborough (Central Auckland)
26.5
2 Kings School
(East Auckland)
18.5
3 Holy Cross School (South Auckland)
16.0
4 Willow Park School (North
Shore)
15.5
5 Johnsonville School
(Wellington)
14.5
6
Kaurilands (West Auckland)
13.5
7
Hukanui (Waikato)
13.5
8
Waimairi (Canterbury)
13.0
9 Hereworth School
(Hawkes Bay)
10.5
10 Manchester Street School
(Manawatu) 10
11 Omanu (Bay of Plenty)
8.5
12 Lepperton School
(Taranaki) 8.0