In terms 2 and 3 there has been a group of 8 boys going out to play competition chess against other schools every Friday afternoon after school. Newington entered two teams into the competition – one at a Rookie level and one in the Intermediate Level.

The Rookie team of Laksh Pande, Caleb Strawbridge, Eddie Timpson and Will Johnston (Connor Egiziano was the reserve and played one match for us). This team came third in their division.

Our Intermediate team of Justin Dai, Kalen James, Gabriel Dickinson and Alex Wang (Callum Sharp was our reserve for this team) also came third. The result for this group was extremely close – there was only one point between first and third. In the chess results there are also half points and second place was only half a point ahead of us!

This is a wonderful result for both teams.

Congratulations to all the boys!

Vanessa South