Chess Tournament

Glen Eira College hosts a Chess Victoria interschool tournament

An interschool chess tournament involving 129 students, who formed a field of 21 teams representing nine schools, was held at Glen Eira College on Tuesday 7th March. This tournament was the largest ever chess event held at the College and included the participation of six Glen Eira College teams and 43 students from the College. Never before have so many students represented Glen Eira College in an interschool chess event.

All six Glen Eira College teams performed well and are to be commended for their efforts. At the conclusion of the tournament, the Glen Eira College A team finished in fourth position and five students from this team qualified to represent Glen Eira College in the Chess Victoria Secondary Open State Final. Another five students who were competing in the Glen Eira College Girls team also qualified to play in the Chess Victoria Secondary Girls State Final. Both state finals will be held in October this year. 

Well done to all Glen Eira College students who participated in this event. A special congratulations is due to James Robbs in Year 12 who was the highest scoring Glen Eira College student achieving an outstanding 5 wins and a draw from his 7 games in a tournament in which many strong junior chess players were competing. Hasini Teddu in Year 10 is also to be commended for her outstanding effort, as she was the second highest scoring girl in the tournament.

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

Year 12: George Fetsis & James Robbs

Year 11: Miku Gilmore, Kirk Kodre, Pierre Maziarz, Rishan Porey & Tyler Wisdom

Year 10: Casper Agnew-Mildren, Sai Pranav Bollapragada, Jesse Cappel, Shanmukh Chennuri, Param Dave, Arlo Grimwade, Liam Iseya-Louey, Angus McNeill, Kaylan Riha-Jones, Max Robbs, Genevieve Salinas, Saket Samala, Arun Sivaraman & Hasini Teddu

Year 9: Hayden Baker, Nicholas Jiang, Antoine Maziarz, Nile Roberts & Kushal Sathish

Year 8: Sharannya Chakravorty, Ethan Goldman, Sullivan Jordan, Marko Le, Hari Mani, Kailash Nagaraj, Miro Nikakis, Ridhi Panuganti, Kristian Piasecki, Pranit Praveen, Audrey Salinas, Shambhavi Samal & Qinger Wu

Year 7: Isaac Egre, Krish Hanagal, Rafael Trevisani & Vihanga Wijewardena

Chess Club meets twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays at lunchtime in rooms 110 and 111. All students of all ability levels are welcome to attend.

Chris Zuccala

Chess Organiser