From February half term chess club has been running a School qualifing tournament for the UK Chess challenge.
Each player plays 7 games of chess and the highest point scorers qualify to the County Championship stage of the event,in Fairlops case Basildon in Essex.
Shagilan finished as Fairlop School Champion with 21 points out of 21
7 wins 0 draws 0 loses,a fantastic result well done to him.
Nilaa,Hareshaa,Vinosha,Chen,Sam,Cheran,Mernan and Shagilan qualified to the county Championship stage.
Play at Basildon is tough as only the top 10% of Essex players qualify.
Some very good chess was played and all Fairlop players won games.
Hareshaa came 2nd in the under 10 girls section.
Mernan came 2nd in the under 7 boys section.
Shagilan finished 3rd in the boys under 10 section.
Nilaa finished 4th in the girls under 10 section.
4 players qualified from this event to the National final in Berkshire in early July.
Chen
Mernan
Hareshaa
Shagilan
We wish them good luck.
Sam and Nilaa missed out on qualifing by just 1/2 a point.
Well done to all the players they had a good day of chess.
Also a special thanks to the parents for help with transportation.
