Henry Slater-Jones wins First Friday Blitz with 9/9!

Picket fence for Henry Slater-Jones

 Firstly, I would like to thank Lara Armas, a chess friend from France for organizing this event. $5 from each entry was earmarked for Child.Org , a charity that helps children less fortunate.

 

Henry had only one …ahem…challenging game that I witnessed, and that was against 3rd place finisher, Aaron Huang.  Aaron tricked Henry, won a knight, and had an easily winning position. Now Aaron started celebrating wildly while the game was still in progress. He soon blundered his Queen and lost.

Alexavier Ly-Liu matched Aaron on 7/9 points and had the better tiebreak so took second place.

Also thanks to Tom Slayter-Jones for being the arbiter, and Churchie Master of Chess Max Condon, who, together with son Mitchell, took late registrations and managed a large number of excited young children. Not a task for the fainthearted 🙂

It was nice to have so many visitors from other Schools. All the girls featured prominently on the top boards throughout the tournament, and as you can see below, in the final standings as well.

The next Doubleroo event at Churchie will be our Autumn camp. Details will be published in our next post. Thanks for reading and have a nice day 🙂