January Childrens Chess: a primary one comes second

Calvin Patterson one of the youngest players we have had at our events came second in the Primary Section with an excellent score of 4 out of 7.

At his first tournament Calvin distinguished himself scoring 4 out of 7 coming 2nd overall. Whilst Phoebe Patterson a P3 gained 3rd place. Two young players to watch. The primary section had 6 players including the Ulster U10 Champion Honor Parissis who has just returned from playing the London Junior Chess Championship coming 7th out of 87 players in the Under 10 Minor competition. Honor won this tournament only dropping 1/2 point to Andrew Farquharson. Andrew was the draw King managing to draw 4 games. It was good to see some new faces. The format of tournament was all play all 5 rounds followed by a two round swiss with the players points used to pair. So 7 rounds in total.

P5 Winner: Calvin Patterson (P1), 2nd Pheobe Patterson (P3)

P6 Winner Honor Parissis, 2nd Ben Wilson, 3rd Andrew Farquharson

P7 Winner Sara Kelly

Standings

Place Name               Feder Score

  1   Honor Parissis     P6    6.5  
  2   Calvin Patterson   P1    4    
 3-4  Phoebe Patterson   P3    3.5  
      Ben Wilson         P6    3.5  
  5   Andrew Farquharson P6    3    
  6   Sara Kelly         P7    0.5

The puzzle competition introduces a different skill set - here is more considered problem solutions with precise answers. Chess puzzles are fun and good for your chess. Everyone should try a puzzle a day!

Primary Puzzle Winner

Gold Certificate:

Honor Parissis 12

Silver Certificate:

Andrew Farquharson 8

Secondary Puzzle Winners

Gold Certificate:

Kevin Robbin 19

The secondary tournament was hard fought Kevin Robbin winning the tournament, Matthew Chapman second followed by Thomas Donaldson and Karina Kruk joint 3rd.

Form1 Winner Eibha Ni Mhuireagian, 2nd Eoghan Turkington

Form 2 Winner Naoisa Ellis

Form 3 Winner Jake Patterson, 2nd Finlay Kelly

Form 4 and above Winner Kiran Robbin, 2nd Matthew Chapman, 3rd Thomas Donaldons, Karina Kruk

Standings

Place Name                 Feder Score

  1   Kiran Robbin         F5    5.5  
  2   Matthew Chapman      L6    4.5  
 3-4  Thomas Donaldson     F5    4    
      Karina Kruk          U6    4    
  5   Jake Patterson       F3    3.5  
 6-8  Kevin Robbin         F4    3    
      Eibha Ni Mhuireagian F1    3    
      Chris Turnbull       L6    3    
  9   Finlay Kelly         F3    2.5  
 10   Eoghan Turkington    F1    2    
 11   Naoisa Ellis         F2    1

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Our next tournament will be at Methodist College 12:30pm 16th February.

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Details of the rounds:

Primary Competition

Round1

No Name                    Result   Name               

 1 Sara Kelly       P7       0:1    Ben Wilson         P6   
 2 Honor Parissis   P6      .5:.5   Andrew Farquharson P6   
 3 Phoebe Patterson P3       0:1    Calvin Patterson   P1

Round2

No Name                      Result   Name             

 1 Ben Wilson         P6       1:0    Calvin Patterson P1   
 2 Andrew Farquharson P6      .5:.5   Phoebe Patterson P3   
 3 Sara Kelly         P7       0:1    Honor Parissis   P6

Round3

No Name                    Result   Name               

 1 Honor Parissis   P6       1:0    Ben Wilson         P6   
 2 Phoebe Patterson P3       1:0    Sara Kelly         P7   
 3 Calvin Patterson P1       0:1    Andrew Farquharson P6

Round4

No Name                  Result   Name               

 1 Ben Wilson     P6      .5:.5   Andrew Farquharson P6   
 2 Sara Kelly     P7       0:1    Calvin Patterson   P1   
 3 Honor Parissis P6       1:0    Phoebe Patterson   P3

Round5

No Name                     Result   Name           

 1 Phoebe Patterson   P3       0:0    Ben Wilson     P6   
 2 Calvin Patterson   P1       0:1    Honor Parissis P6   
 3 Andrew Farquharson P6      .5:.5   Sara Kelly     P7

Round6

No Name                      Result   Name             

 1 Andrew Farquharson P6       0:1    Honor Parissis   P6   
 2 Ben Wilson         P6       0:1    Phoebe Patterson P3   
 3 Calvin Patterson   P1       1:0    Sara Kelly       P7

Round7

No Name                      Result   Name             

 1 Phoebe Patterson   P3       0:1    Honor Parissis   P6   
 2 Andrew Farquharson P6       0:1    Calvin Patterson P1   
 3 Ben Wilson         P6       1:0    Sara Kelly       P7

Secondary Competition