Bremen Youth Team Competition U12 Season 2012/13
1st day`s play 10th November Willms Gymnasium Delmenhorst.
Our team , Gete II with Julien, Jennik, Paul, Lenne, Nick and Gregor , won Category B. They won both rounds 3:1 against Chessfreinds Bremen East III and 4:0 against St Joseph`s School I.
In the A Category Gete I with Moritz, Malte. Theo and Luis lost 1:3 against Chessfriends Achim I in the first round, but Moritz showed a lot of ingenuity in his game.
Theo, in his first competitive game outside of Gete School played valiantly for nearly two hours and it could have gone either way.
We had to do without Jakob because he is now playing for U12 Delmenhorst chess club.
Lower Saxony and Bremen Primary School Chess Championship 2012
Tuesday 20th November Hermann-Böse Gymnasium.
In contrast to the high number of participating teams of four from Bremen in the last contest, this competition was between fewer, stronger teams, each with eight players from Lower Saxony as well as Bremen. Finkenberg primary school from Aurich were the winners.
We ended the seven round tournament in 6th place, beating our `arch-rivals` Baumschulenweg!
The third graders from Gete had very little experience of playing in tournaments, something that is going to be very different in the spring. Already Julien surprised us with 4 wins, 1 draw and no defeats!
Michael Kollers, Gete Chess Trainer.
