Primary Schools' Team Event 1 June 2001
For the third successive year the Ulster Chess Union is running two events for primary schoolchildren. This year the first of the events was for the first time a team competition. They were in total 24 teams, each with 4 players, from 6 primary schools - Cairnshill, Edmund Rice, Inchmarlo, Killinchy, St Colum's (Portstewart) and Strandtown. The winners were The Noble Knights from Inchmarlo. There were also competitions for the best team name, won by The Brilliant Battling Bishops from St Colum's and the best flag, won by Nigel Chan from Inchmarlo. Tim Husbands, General manager of the Waterfront Hall presented the prizes. Once again the competition was very efficiently organised by Adrian Skelton and David Houston, together with a large band of helpers from the competing schools and the Ulster Chess Union. The second of this year's competitions is an individual event on the 7th June and is also at the Waterfront Hall.
Place Team School Points 1 The Noble Knights Inchmarlo 17.0 2 The White Knights St Colum's 13.5 3=4 The Conquering Knights Cairnshill 13.0 3=4 The Radical Rooks St Colum's 13.0 5 The Passing Knights Strandtown 12.0 6=7 The Ruthless Rooks Inchmarlo 11.5 6=7 All Aboard Composite Team 11.5 8=9 Check Mates Strandtown 11.0 8=9 The Raging Rooks Cairnshill 11.0 10=12 The S.C.M.G's Strandtown 10.5 10=12 The Baffling Bishops Cairnshill 10.5 10=12 Killinchy Kings Killinchy 10.5 13 The Powerful Pawns Cairnshill 9.5 14=16 Checkmakers Edmund Rice 8.5 14=16 Killinchy Knights Killinchy 8.5 14=16 The Chess Champions St Colum's 8.5 17 Inchmarlo Checkmates Inchmarlo 8.0 18 Strandtown Aliens Strandtown 7.5 19=20 The Legends Edmund Rice 7.0 19=20 Chess Masters Strandtown 7.0 21=22 The Checkmate Champs St Colum's 5.5 21=22 Brilliant Battling Bishops St Colum's 5.5 23 The Knifty Knights Cairnshill 4.5 24 The Strongest Link Edmund Rice 4.5
