North Zone
The School Chess League North Zone Competition was held on the 16th August at North Woodvale Primary School. The event attracted 45 players representing 16 different schools.
The competition was convincingly won by Aarnav Gupta with a perfect score of 7/7, who took the primary school division first place trophy. There was a tie for second place between Daniel Levin and Anthony Nguyen, both scoring 6/7. After the players’ countbacks were factored in, Daniel was awarded the second place trophy, with Anthony receiving the trophy for third.
The winning Primary school was Carmel Primary School, finishing 2 and half points ahead of second placed Rosalie Primary School. Both these schools have qualified for the SCL Finals later this year.
Victoria Park Primary School and Christ Church Grammar School tied for third place, with Saint Paul’s Primary School and Nedlands Primary School coming fifth and sixth place respectively.
The only school to enter the Secondary division was Perth Modern School. Anoushka Gupta was the highest placed secondary student, only half a point ahead of Rayan Jape. They received the first place and second place trophies for the Secondary school division. This result also means that Perth Modern School has also qualified for the SCL finals later this year.
List of prize winners:
1st Primary Aarnav Gupta – First place trophy.
=2nd Primary Daniel Levin – Second place trophy.
=2nd Primary Anthony Nguyen – Third place trophy.
1st Secondary Anoushka Gupta – First place trophy.
2nd Secondary Rayan Jape – Second place trophy.
Gold medals: Anoushka Gupta, Rayan Jape, Daniel Levin, Aaron Levine, Kovi Leib, Raphael Resnick, Asher Leib, Ezra Levine
Silver Medals: Oz Caro, Paula Gruber, Jeremiah Ng, Kobe Wu, Baxter Shiner, Aarnav Gupta, Anthony Nguyen, Jayden Arav
Bronze Medals: Callan Arav, Nathan Arav, Finian Jordan, Emily Zhang, Jack Ryder, James Sommerfield, Niranjan Menon, Daren Vinod
Full tournament results can be accessed at:
https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/lakner-chess/events/2020-wa-scl-north-zone/pairings
Up-to-date School Leaderboards can be viewed at:
https://sites.google.com/view/2020-wa-school-chess-league/leaderboards
A very special thank you should go to:
North Woodvale Primary School for hosting the event.
Shai Levin, who did an extraordinary job throughout the day, both setting up the playing hall, operating the computer, arbitrating disputes and many other countless different tasks.
Alan Wolstencroft for all the time he put in cleaning up the playing hall after the event concluded.
And also a big thank you to all the many generous parents and players who helped set up at the start and pack away everything at the conclusion of the event.