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Schools Chess Challenge

Waterfront Hall, 14 June 2000

The second of this year's Schools Challenges had 98 competitors and was expanded to include some Form 1 pupils. Primary Schools sending teams were Cairnshill, Inchmarlo, Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Bernard's, St. Columb's (Portstewart) and Strandtown, as well as individual entrants from Holy Cross and St. Mary's on the Hill. The Form 1 competitors comprised a team from Methodist College and an individual entrant from Friends (Lisburn). Next year's events will probably have separate events for Form 1 and Primary School competitors.

The prize winners were:

FORM 1: 1st Ryan Deane (Methodist College), 2nd Christopher McGlade (Methodist College) 3rd Christopher Millar (Methodist College) 4th Nicola Hood (Friends)

PRIMARY SCHOOLS: 1st Anthony Dornan (Our Lady of Lourdes) 2nd Kathryn Treacy (Our Lady of Lourdes), 3rd Callum Leach (Strandtown),) 4th Matthew Hill (Strandtown), 5th David Corrin (Strandtown)

FINAL STANDINGS: 4 ROUND SWISS

1-3. Anthony Dornan, Christopher McGlade and Ryan Deane 4.0
4-9. Christopher Miller, Kathryn Treacy, Nicola Hood. David Corrin, Callum Leach and Matthew Hill 3.5
10-22. Aidan McGowan, Christopher Rooney, Darren Gray, Eamon Walls, James Parish, Jennifer Jackson, Jonathon Maxwell, Naimh Logan, Paul Karayiannos, Peter Grier, Philip Baillie, Rose Capper and Simon Doherty 3.0
23-39. Brendan Cormican, Colin Taylor, Donald Hill, Hasini Bolledulla, John Madden, Max Gilbert, Michael Burke, Stephanie McKillop, Timothy Kelly, Andrew Little, Alex Russell, James Williams. Mark McCamley, Shane Coors, Matthew Sherrard, Matthew Gaston and Michael Shaw 2.5
40-60. Barry McTaggart, Brett McKeown, Catherine Delaney, Conor Carey, David McClelland, David McMaster, Emma Carlin, Francis Hughes, Graeme Young, James Shannon, Jonathon Bardgett, Jonathon Clarke, Jonathon Cunning, Lloyd Linton, Matthew McCaughey, Matthew Turkington, Nicholas Maw, Orla McElhone, Ronan Brolly, Sam McKinnon and David Corrie 2.0
61-75. Daniel McDowell, David McCullough, James Skelton, Jamie Lusk, Jonathon Savage, Lauren Bell, Michael O'Loan, Patrick McMullan, Peter Whitaker, Stephen Dowling, Scott Daw, Michael Woods, Jamie Morton, Philip Emerson and William Clarke 1.5
76-90. Adrian Roche, Angela Lappin, Barry O'Kelly, Christopher Lynn, Erin McGurnaghan, Gerard Kelly, Mark Gorman, Mark McColgan, Matthew Whiteside, Michael Milliken, Michael Monaghan, Nadeen Perry, Rafika Sellani, Thomas Crawford and Christopher Coates 1.0
91-94. Clare McKeith, Holly Gates, Kiera McHugh and Alan McDowell 0.5
95-98. Aine Regan, Desmond Kilfedder, Emma Henry and Philip Gault 0.0

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