Children enjoy monthly Chess Tournament
The afternoon of 15th February saw 23 young chess players gather for some chess fun. We held three tournaments a 7 round swiss for the Secondary pupils, a 7 round all play all primary tournament and, as we had a little time, a Primary all play all battle chess tournament.
The big thing to learn in chess when you start is handling losing. Learning from your mistakes and playing the next game. It is a difficult lesson. At times even top chess players find losing hard to take. Its brilliant to watch these youngsters enjoying the game and even if losing coming back to improve and sometimes then winning and then eventually becoming the best....
Photos and full results below.
Secondary Feb - Round 1
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Cameron Brown F1 [0] 1:0 Marcus McEneaney F3 [0] 2 Christopher O'Hagen F4 [0] 0:1 Patrick Creagh F1 [0] 3 Joel Dawson F3 [0] 0:1 Hannah Patterson F2 [0] 4 Jake Patterson F4 [0] 1:0 John Dawson F5 [0] 5 Matt Duffy F1 [0] 0:1 Kevin Robbin F5 [0] 6 Adam Simmonite F1 [0] 1:0 Matthew Gray F4 [0] 7 Kieran Martin F1 [0] 0:1 Andrew Todd F5 [0] 8 Samuel Todd F2 [0] 1:0 Ethan Martin F1 [0]
Secondary Feb - Round 2
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Kevin Robbin F5 [1] 1:0 Cameron Brown F1 [1] 2 Patrick Creagh F1 [1] 0:1 Adam Simmonite F1 [1] 3 Hannah Patterson F2 [1] .5:.5 Samuel Todd F2 [1] 4 Andrew Todd F5 [1] .5:.5 Jake Patterson F4 [1] 5 Ethan Martin F1 [0] 0:1 Joel Dawson F3 [0] 6 John Dawson F5 [0] 1:0 Kieran Martin F1 [0] 7 Marcus McEneaney F3 [0] 0:1 Matt Duffy F1 [0] 8 Matthew Gray F4 [0] 1:0 Christopher O'Hagen F4 [0]
Secondary Feb - Round 3
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Adam Simmonite F1 [2] 0:1 Kevin Robbin F5 [2] 2 Jake Patterson F4 [1.5] 0:1 Hannah Patterson F2 [1.5] 3 Samuel Todd F2 [1.5] 0:1 Andrew Todd F5 [1.5] 4 Cameron Brown F1 [1] 0:1 John Dawson F5 [1] 5 Matt Duffy F1 [1] 1:0 Patrick Creagh F1 [1] 6 Joel Dawson F3 [1] 1:0 Matthew Gray F4 [1] 7 Kieran Martin F1 [0] 0:1 Marcus McEneaney F3 [0] 8 Christopher O'Hagen F4 [0] 1:0 Ethan Martin F1 [0]
Secondary Feb - Round 4
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Kevin Robbin F5 [3] 1:0 Hannah Patterson F2 [2.5] 2 Andrew Todd F5 [2.5] 1:0 Joel Dawson F3 [2] 3 John Dawson F5 [2] 1:0 Matt Duffy F1 [2] 4 Jake Patterson F4 [1.5] 1:0 Adam Simmonite F1 [2] 5 Patrick Creagh F1 [1] 0:1 Samuel Todd F2 [1.5] 6 Matthew Gray F4 [1] 1:0 Cameron Brown F1 [1] 7 Marcus McEneaney F3 [1] 1:0 Christopher O'Hagen F4 [1] 8 Ethan Martin F1 [0] .5:.5 Kieran Martin F1 [0]
Secondary Feb - Round 5
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Andrew Todd F5 [3.5] 0:1 Kevin Robbin F5 [4] 2 Hannah Patterson F2 [2.5] 0:1 John Dawson F5 [3] 3 Samuel Todd F2 [2.5] 0:1 Jake Patterson F4 [2.5] 4 Matt Duffy F1 [2] 1:0 Matthew Gray F4 [2] 5 Adam Simmonite F1 [2] 0:1 Marcus McEneaney F3 [2] 6 Joel Dawson F3 [2] 1:0 Christopher O'Hagen F4 [1] 7 Cameron Brown F1 [1] 1:0 Ethan Martin F1 [.5] 8 Kieran Martin F1 [.5] 1:0 Patrick Creagh F1 [1]
Secondary Feb - Round 6
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Kevin Robbin F5 [5] 1:0 John Dawson F5 [4] 2 Jake Patterson F4 [3.5] 1:0 Joel Dawson F3 [3] 3 Marcus McEneaney F3 [3] 0:1 Andrew Todd F5 [3.5] 4 Hannah Patterson F2 [2.5] 0:1 Matt Duffy F1 [3] 5 Matthew Gray F4 [2] .5:.5 Samuel Todd F2 [2.5] 6 Adam Simmonite F1 [2] 0:1 Cameron Brown F1 [2] 7 Christopher O'Hagen F4 [1] 0:1 Kieran Martin F1 [1.5] 8 Patrick Creagh F1 [1] 0:1 Ethan Martin F1 [.5]
Secondary Feb - Round 7
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Kevin Robbin F5 [6] 1:0 Jake Patterson F4 [4.5] 2 Matt Duffy F1 [4] 0:1 Andrew Todd F5 [4.5] 3 John Dawson F5 [4] 1:0 Samuel Todd F2 [3] 4 Joel Dawson F3 [3] 1:0 Marcus McEneaney F3 [3] 5 Cameron Brown F1 [3] 1:0 Patrick Creagh F1 [1] 6 Kieran Martin F1 [2.5] 1:0 Adam Simmonite F1 [2] 7 Ethan Martin F1 [1.5] 0:1 Matthew Gray F4 [2.5] 8 Christopher O'Hagen F4 [1] 0:1 Hannah Patterson F2 [2.5]
The outright winner of the secondary tournament was Kevin Robbin unbeaten with a score of 7 out of 7, closely followed by Andrew Todd and John Dawson.
Andrew is a very keen chess player and organizes Chess at Bangor Grammar School. He brings a group of students from the Grammar and they are all doing very well. It is also nice to see families playing - we have a number of excellent chess playing families - The Pattersons, The Dawsons, The Robbins, The Guptas. Now to join these are the Todds with Andrew chasing Kevin in the secondary section and Samuel doing well in the lower Secondary and Peter having won this months Primary Section without a loss.
Secondary Feb - Standings
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 1 Robbin, Kevin F5 7 21.0 28.5 28.0 2 Todd, Andrew F5 5.5 19.0 29.0 22.0 3 Dawson, John F5 5 19.5 29.5 19.0 4 Patterson, Jake F4 4.5 21.0 30.0 19.0 5-7 Duffy, Matt F1 4 20.5 28.5 16.0 Dawson, Joel F3 4 16.0 22.5 15.0 Brown, Cameron F1 4 15.0 23.0 13.0 8-10 Patterson, Hannah F2 3.5 20.5 28.5 16.0 Gray, Matthew F4 3.5 14.5 19.5 12.0 Martin, Kieran F1 3.5 12.5 19.0 8.0 11-12 Todd, Samuel F2 3 18.0 24.5 15.0 McEneaney, Marcus F3 3 17.5 24.0 12.0 13 Simmonite, Adam F1 2 18.5 26.5 13.0 14 Martin, Ethan F1 1.5 15.0 20.0 4.0 15-16 O'Hagen, Christopher F4 1 15.0 20.0 5.0 Creagh, Patrick F1 1 14.0 19.0 7.0
Primary - Round 1
Results
No Name Feder Result Name Feder 1 Calvin Patterson P2 1.0:0.0 Seamus Douglas P4 2 Admira Kecskameti P3 1.0:0.0 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 3 Peter Todd P7 1.0:0.0 Calum Glendinning P5 4 Phoebe Patterson P4 : BYE
Primary - Round 2
Results
No Name Feder Result Name Feder 1 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 0.0:1.0 Peter Todd P7 2 Seamus Douglas P4 0.0:1.0 Admira Kecskameti P3 3 Phoebe Patterson P4 0.0:1.0 Calvin Patterson P2 4 Calum Glendinning P5 : BYE
Primary - Round 3
Results
No Name Feder Result Name Feder 1 Admira Kecskameti P3 1.0:0.0 Phoebe Patterson P4 2 Peter Todd P7 1.0:0.0 Seamus Douglas P4 3 Calum Glendinning P5 .5:1.5 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 4 Calvin Patterson P2 : BYE
Primary - Round 4
Results
No Name Feder Result Name Feder 1 Seamus Douglas P4 0.0:1.0 Calum Glendinning P5 2 Phoebe Patterson P4 0.0:1.0 Peter Todd P7 3 Calvin Patterson P2 1.0:0.0 Admira Kecskameti P3 4 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 : BYE
Primary - Round 5
Results
No Name Feder Result Name Feder 1 Peter Todd P7 1.0:0.0 Calvin Patterson P2 2 Calum Glendinning P5 1.0:0.0 Phoebe Patterson P4 3 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 1.0:0.0 Seamus Douglas P4 4 Admira Kecskameti P3 : BYE
Primary - Round 6
Results
No Name Feder Result Name Feder 1 Phoebe Patterson P4 1.0:0.0 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 2 Calvin Patterson P2 1.0:0.0 Calum Glendinning P5 3 Admira Kecskameti P3 0.0:1.0 Peter Todd P7 4 Seamus Douglas P4 : BYE
Primary - Round 7
Results
No Name Feder Result Name Feder 1 Calum Glendinning P5 0.0:1.0 Admira Kecskameti P3 2 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 1.0:0.0 Calvin Patterson P2 3 Seamus Douglas P4 0.0:1.0 Phoebe Patterson P4 4 Peter Todd P7 : BYE
Peter Todd won the Primary tournament without a defeat. Sharing 2nd place was the very young P2 Calvin Patterson and P3 Admira Kecskameti, with her younger brother also P2 Arnold placing a close 4th place. These are very promising young chess players with lots of talent.
Primary - Standings
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Berg. Wins 1 Peter Todd P7 6 16.00 6 2-3 Calvin Patterson P2 4 8.50 4 Admira Kecskameti P3 4 8.00 4 4 Arnold Kecskemeti P2 3.5 7.75 3 5 Calum Glendinning P5 2.5 3.75 2 6 Phoebe Patterson P4 2 3.50 2 7 Seamus Douglas P4 0 0.00 0