Chess Club

Chess Victoria Interschool Tournament at Scotch College

On Tuesday 23rd August, Glen Eira College participated in an interschool chess event at Scotch College. 36 Glen Eira College students took part in this event and formed five teams, one of which was a girls’ team. It was the first time that a girls’ team has represented Glen Eira College in interschool chess. The tournament involved the participation of 157 students from several schools.

The Glen Eira College A team performed very well winning 23 games and finishing in fifth position out of 25 competing teams, only 2 points behind the third placed school and 4 points behind the winning school. The Glen Eira College B, C and D teams were also very competitive with all three teams finishing ahead of competing teams from other schools. Due to this very good performance, five more Glen Eira College students qualified to play in the Chess Victoria Secondary Open State Final in October. Twenty Glen Eira College students will participate in this event next month.

Congratulations to Pierre Maziarz of Year 10 and Sanjay Bandla of Year 8 who each won 5 of their 7 games in a very strong tournament.

The Glen Eira College Girls’ team also played very well winning 9 games and qualified to play in the Chess Victoria Girls’ State final in October by finishing the tournament as the second best performing girls’ team. Ten girls will represent Glen Eira College in this event.

A big thank you to Mr Eric Bohlen who gives generously of his time to coach students at Chess Club. For the remainder of term three, Chess Club will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunchtime in rooms 110 and 111. There is also an after school chess coaching session, which takes place every Tuesday from 3.15pm to 4.30pm in room 110.

Congratulations to the following students who represented Glen Eira College in this event:

Year 11: George Fetsis & James Robbs

Year 10: Pierre Maziarz

Year 9: Casper Agnew-Mildren, Noeleen Bautista, Jesse Cappel, Param Dave, 

Arlo Grimwade, Jamie Katic, Angus McNeill, Genevieve Salinas &

Alexander Tari

Year 8: Sanjay Bandla, Nicholas Jiang, Antoine Maziarz, Arjun Nair, Rohan Roy,

Kushal Sathish & Evan Shields 

Year 7: Sharannya Charkavorty, Arthur Dutrieux, Vasko Gladanac, Ishaan Jagtap,

Sullivan Jordan, Marko Le, Milja Lin, Tarun Madan, Gabriel Merl, 

Zac Millar, Patrick Mills, Aarush Panuganti, Ridhi Panuganti, Pranit Praveen, 

Audrey Salinas, Kadek Sujana & Randheer Thogata

House Chess Challenge

During term three, 44 students participated in a House Chess tournament which was held at the College. All four houses were keenly represented and after five weeks of intense competition, Emerald House emerged as the tournament winner, finishing narrowly ahead of Sapphire House. Well done to all students who took part in this event and made it such a success.

The final team standings in this tournament are shown below:

Emerald House           18.5 points

Sapphire House          17.5 points

Ruby House                 16 points

Topaz House                15 points

Chris Zuccala

Chess Organiser