After chess competitions were cancelled earlier in the year, the first tournament for the year was finally held, with 8 Coromandel Valley students taking part - Beau, Daniel, Ewan, Finn, Isla, Jackson, Jake, Micah.

The team did very well, winning lots of early games to keep pace with the eventual winners St Martin de Porres School, before falling behind in the later rounds to finish second and pick up the Silver medals.

Jake was our best player, scoring 5.5 wins from his 7 games to finish in 4th place overall.   Congratulations to all our players for representing our school so well.  Special mention to Beau and Isla who were competing in their very first interschool tournament.

By finishing 2nd, Coromandel Valley has now qualified for the State Finals which will be played in term 4.

Huge thanks to Opal Greenwood and Kerry Coghlan for assisting with transport.  It's greatly appreciated as without your help it would not have been possible for our team to compete.

The Chess Club continues to meet on Monday lunchtimes, and anyone is welcome to come along. It would be great to see some new faces.

David Shaw