It was a pleasure to meet and greet and so many juniors and parents yesterday as chess seems to be on the increase in our area.

We welcomed Advik and Anthony for the 1^st visit and another newcomer Josh will be starting next week. There were other enquiries from other potential interested parties so maybe with the coverage of the recent BBC programme – Chess the Endgame currently showing this is giving a wider interest which we welcome.

Anthony our new comer gave me a note when he arrived ‘ Hello, my name is Anthony and I am really into chess and I really want to learn and play better’ unquote. Lovely – thank you Anthony and I am sure you will be a better player in no time at all.

We had a total of 30 Juniors than played chess at the club yesterday, see pictures in the conference room…..

Results from yesterday’s games are:

1^st session advanced

Neill 0 Peter 1

Rafan 1 Harish 0

Nicolas ½ Nathanial ½

Tristan ½ Coach ½

Peter strides ahead on the league tables and has a clear lead – see the ladder board tables below

1^st session intermediates and beginners

Jacob 1 Pavina 0

Markas 1 Nirvan 0

Anthony 0 Kit 1

Kit our 5 year old is progressing weekly and has now scored 5.5/7 and tops the table, he is certainly more than a beginner now.

2^nd session intermediates and beginners

Mariella ½ Coach ½

Advik 1 Zayaan 0

Nilay 0 Koco 1

Andrew 0 Nicolas 1

Carlo 0 Rowley 1

Holly 0/5 Coach 0/5

Oakley 1 James 0

Zara 0 Arthur 1

Our newcomer Advik showing promise had a good win against Zayeen and its great to see the improvement in Nicholas who is doing really well.

Arthur leads the table with 5 points but followed closely by Nicolas, Rowley and Zayaan all on 4 points.

Thank you to all the parents and players for coming along to enjoy and play chess and again a big thanks to all our coaches – Steve/Paul/Azhar/Tony and Martin.

See you all next week.