On Thursday, 8 March, a record 55 teams met for School Chess`s annual highlight.In the Aula of Schulzentrum Habenhausen there were 108 chessboards with 216 children playing simultaneously.
There were moments when one could hear all 108 chess clocks ticking, but the silence was often punctuated by excited voices and cheers, not just from the children!
The two Gete teams were well prepared. The previous Sunday , our top third graders, Jakob R, Julie L, Malte A and Moritz R went to a Youth Series - a singles competion in Aurich. They all did well there, especially Jakob, who beat the absolute favourite! Then on Monday morning the children played a training tournament in the new science room at school.
By now they are getting used to doing well at these competitions and at the Habenhausen Championship the Gete Team were ranked 4th. We narrowly missed qualifying for the German Championship, but our team is relatively young and we have high hopes for next year!
Gete I were the best pure school chess team, with not one club player in the team and Gete II played self confidently and ranked 14th, which is well into the top quarter of the league table!
At the end the exact positions were:
I 1)Jakob 2) Moritz 3)Malte 4) Jan Gregor
II 1)Fynn 2)Johann 3) Julie 4/5) Moritz/Gregor
Thanks to Herr Delor who helped out on Thursday.
Michael Kollars
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