The final Saturday of this summer season concluded with an exciting part 2 of our thrilling 5-minute Swiss tournament, bringing more intense competition and great moments for all participants.

Today, a total of 20 juniors showed up, with most of them actively participating in the Swiss tournament. A few others were playing casually, simply enjoying the game for fun and relaxation. Everyone had the opportunity to experience using digital clocks, gaining valuable familiarity with this modern timing method.

A warm and welcome to Seyon, our newest and most recent member who has already demonstrated that he truly knows his way around a chess board with impressive skill and strategy. I am eager to see how he will continue to develop and progress when we all reconvene and return in September.

Swiss Tournament Winners

After completing a total of 6 intense and thrilling rounds of fast-paced 5-minute chess, the victorious players emerged as follows:-

In 3rd place – Kieran with 8 points received a bronze Medal

In 2nd place – Henry with 9 points received a Silver Medal

Our Winner today with 10 points was Oscar who gets the Gold Medal

Chess over the summer holidays

There will be chess sets set up and available to play unsupervised in the library every Saturday morning, should you feel the need!

The Ferndown Junior Chess Club will officially start up again very Saturday morning on September 5th, right through until the Christmas break.

Along with the usual competitions, there will be some new ones yet to be announced, so start making that trophy cabinet!

Website

The current website is about to go through a much needed change, the domain name remains the same, but overall it will look much different, so much more professional.

Happy holidays to you all, take care and be safe!