Fairlop Chess Club - 'Centre of Excellence'

Our school Chess Club has been highlighted as one of the best places in the country to learn and play the game!  We have been made a 'Centre of Excellence' by the English Chess Federation.

Last week, we played a match against another school who are a listed centre - Knights of Gidea Park Junior Chess Club.  This nine-a-side contest was a tense time!  We took the first round, but they came back to take the second, finally the match was a draw and we all received a medal.  Fairlop hope to make this tournament an annual event.

Our Chess club meets every Monday evening between 4.00 - 5.00 pm and is run by Richard Harding, our Chair of Governors.  Did you see our photo in the Ilford Recorder last week!

What a great game!

In Chess we have been learning different techniques to win. We have been practising really hard as we have lots of competitions coming up. We have already won a lot of competitions and are still winning. On our last comptetion we played in Basildon this was quite tough! Some of us qualified for the next round but not all of us.
Once you get used to the moves in the game and have a good understanding it is really interesting and fun!
Lots of people enjoy playing chess.


By Myna  3K

Latest News from Chess Club

During the past few weeks at Chess Club we have played some serious competitions but only against ourselves. We have been doing this because on 6th March there is going to be a competition for chess but is a school team event.
The other Sunday we played in a tournament. This time it was an independent event.

We played really well in this chess competion and  two of Fairlop's children have gone through to the next round.This was a tremendous acheivement.

Keep an eye on this Blog for regular updates!

By Piraveen and Maaz

Chess Club - Monday after school

At Fairlop, we have a Chess club, run by our school governor Mr Harding, or we can call him Richard.


We have to learn the chess rules - there are 10 of them and one is that if you touch one of the pieces on the board you have to make a move.

Richard gives us a pep talk every week before we start playing, and then he gives us help and tips to improve our game.

Chess club is on Monday evenings after school if you would like to join.



By Piraveen

CHESS CLUB SUCCESS IN LONDON TOURNAMENT

The under 9 team


Last Sunday 7th of March Fairlop's under 11 and under 9 teams played in London zone qualifier to the National Championships.
In the under 9 section Fairlop finished 4th and in the under 11 section Fairlop finished joint 2nd.
Both teams have qualified to the National final in Somerset during May.
The under 9 team Mernan, Vinosha, Deveena, Sharman, Piraveen and Pravina.
The under 11 team Shagilan, Sam, Nilaa, Hareshaa and Omer.
Well done to them all.
The children had a great day and some fantastic chess was played.



The under 11 team





Under 11 team with their medals.


The chess club has great parents,thank you for your support.

TEAM TOURNAMENT 7th MARCH 2010

Fairlop chess club goes to East London on Sunday 7th March, to play in the London zone of the English Primary Schools Chess Championship.
The London zone is being held at William Patten School in Stoke Newington Hackney.
At the tournament Fairlop will face strong competition from Schools in London and the home counties.
For the first time a team from Fairlop will be entered in the under 9 section,in the past Fairlop has only entered teams in the under 11 section.
Good luck to both teams Shagilan,Sam,Nilaa,Hareshaa,Omer,Mernan,Vinosha,Deveena,Sharman,
Pravina and Piraveen.
If either or both teams win enough points they will qualify for the Nation Championship,held at a holiday camp over a whole weekend.

CHESS PUZZLE

White to move and checkmate in 3 moves.

Set the position up on your chessboard, and try

to find the checkmate.

LAST CHESS CLUB OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR

The last chess club of this School year will be on Monday 22nd of June 2009.

Chess club would normally end in July,but Mr Harding (the chess coach)is going in to hospital to have an operation during the end of June, and will be out of action for a few weeks.

Chess club will restart in September when the School opens.

REDBRIDGE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHESS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2009

The second day of the 2009 Redbridge Primary School Chess Team Chamionship, was hosted by Newbury Park Primary School on Thursday 11th of June.
Some excellent chess was played by all the Schools.

Newbury Park won the tournament but Fairlop came second.
The Fairlop team was Shagilan,Chen,Sam,Nilaa,Hareshaa,Vinosha,Robert and Mernan.
Well done Newbury Park.
Well done to all the Fairlop players.


Newbury Park 20 points
Fairlop 16.5
John Bramston 13.5
William Torbitt 10
Clore Tikva 7.5
Redbridge Res 7.5

The work now begins for next years tournament.

BEST EVER YEAR AT BASILDON

The final results have been logged and Fairlop chess club has had it's best Basildon tournament ever.
The UKchess challenge county tournament for Essex is held in Basildon each year.
This year Fairlop chess club achieved.

3 second places
Mernan u7 boys
Shagilan u10 boys
Hareshaa u10 girls

2 third places
Vinosha u9 girls
Nilaa u10 girls

2 fourth places
Sam u10 boys
Chen u11 boys

Also 4 players qualified to the National finals.
Mernan
Hareshaa
Shagilan
Chen

This is a fantastic achievement for the chess club as the players worked very hard during the build up to the tournament.

SHAGILAN FAIRLOP CHAMPION 2009

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.

ONE OF THE BEST GAMES EVER PLAYED

This game was played in Paris during 1858. Between the American chess champion Paul Morphy and a Duke and a Count.
It was played at the Opera and Morphy had is back to the stage while the Opera was in progress.

Play over the game and see the way Morphy uses his pieces to attack.
See how Morphy uses the PIN to his advantage.

Can you count how many PINS are in this game?
As you play through the game,see if you can workout Morphy's next move?



In this game Morphy Sacrificed many pieces to bring about Checkmate.

REDBRIDGE SCHOOLS TEAM TOURNAMENT 2009

The first stage of the 2009 Redbridge chess team tournament took place on Thursday 26th March at Fairlop School.

In round 1 Fairlop narrowly lost to john Bramston 2-3.
Shagilans game was the last to finish with the score at 2-2,he had chances to draw right up to the end but Jamie from John Bramston was to strong in the endgame.

Fairlop got back to winning ways in round 2 by beating Redbridge 3-2 in a close and exciting match.

Fairlop goes into stage 2 with 5 points and in 3rd place out of 6 teams,behind John Bramston on 7.5 points and tournament leaders Newbury Park on 8.5 points.

Shagilan,Nilaa,Hareshaa,Menan and Vinosha made up the Fairlop team, well done to them, they played some very good chess.

The second stage of the tournament will be held at Newbury Park School in May.

Chess Tour 2009

In January 2009, the chess team; Cheran (6M), Nilaa (5G), Chen (6R), Shagilan (5M), Harishaa (5GR), Vinosha (4K), Manan (2S), Sam (5GR) and our substitute Joe (6M) will be attending the chess competition at Colchester to represent Fairlop Primary School. Our chess instructor, Richard, will also be coming along. With Shagilan as our captain and Nilaa as our vice captain we have great hope for our team. Last year, Nilaa, won the Under 8’s and the year before she won the Under 7’s award. Also we won the competition last year and got to go to Pontins for two whole days on Saturday and Sunday. We hope to win it next year and the team gets to go to the holiday camp again because they thoroughly enjoyed it last year.

The members of chess club have been busy playing in tournaments since we have came back to School.
Shagilan played in the 40th Barnet Junior Tournament under 10 (21/09/2008) and finished a fantastic 3rd with 5 points from 6 games (5 wins 1 loss). This also qualified him to the prestigious London Junior Chess championship held just before Christmas.
Shagilan also played in a under 10 tournament at the New Hall School in Chelmsford coming 4th with 4 points from 6 games,this was another great result.
But the star of the tournament was Mernan also from chess club, who went to support his brother Shagilan but was asked to play in the under 8 section. The under 8 section was a player short after round 1 so Mernan stepped in at round 2 only playing 5 games. Every other player playing 6 games but Mernan still finished 3rd and has a trophy as well a great result.
Basildon is a place of many chess tournaments during the year, 22/11/2008 saw the Essex qualifier to the London Junior Chess Championships. (See above picture)
Once again Shagilan put in a solid performance 4th in the under 10’sand gain his second qualification.
Mernan was in the under 8 and finished 3rd just missing out on qualifying.
In the under 12 section ex Fairlop chess club now year 7 Sathiya also qualified to the London tournament.

Game 6 - Chess World Championships

Probably the best game so far. With this win V. Anand leads V. Kramnik 4.5 points to 1.5 points with only 6 games to play.

Game 1 - Chess World Championships

Take a look at Game 1 below:

Fairlop Primary School Chess Championship 2008
The 2008 Fairlop Primary School Chess Championship took place over the spring and early summer term during Monday Chess Club, 20 players entered and here are the top 4 positions.

1st Ruqayyah 20 points from a total of 21 wow!
2nd Ryan 18 points
3rd Sathiya 17 points
3rd Shagila 17 points
4th Max 15 points
4th Eleanor 15 points

Well done to all the players, some excellent chess was played and many of the games were very close.
But what a performance from Ruqayyah 6 wins and 1 draw from 7 games and the only undefeated player in the tournament.

Basildon 2008
Fairlop Chess championship 2008 came to a finish in April Ruqyyah became the champion with 20 points out of a possible 21.
Ruqyyah and the high finishers qualified (Ryan, Shagilan, Sathiya, Sam, Max, Liam, Nilaa, Joe b and Oliver) for the Essex County Championship held at Basildon.
Some great chess was played and while this year Fairlop did come away with an age group champion,we had 5 3rd places , 1 4th place and 1 5th place in various age groups.
Also 4 players Ryan, Max, Sam and Shagilan qualified for the National Finals.
Well done to everyone.
National Primary School Chess Championship 2008
In June Fairlop Chess team took part in the National Primary School Chess Championship semi-final at Pontins Holiday Camp Hemsby in Norfolk over a weekend.
We qualified for this by coming 3rd in the Essex team tournament in Colchester back in January.
In the semi-final was 40 Schools 35 of them private Schools, many of these teach chess as part of the curriculum so we knew this was going to be a very tough tournament.
Each School plays 6 matches against other Schools 5 boards a match.
1 point for a win ½ a point for a drawn game, so if your team wins 3 games and loses 2 games the match score is 3-2. You get 3 points the other team gets 2 points.
Fairlop played 6 private Schools and won 3 matches drew 1 match and lost 2 matches.
For the Fairlop team to compete at this level was a fantastic achievement our final position was 23rd out of 40.
The team Ryan, Ruqyyah, Max, Shagilan, Sathiya, and Liam.

Chess News Update!
Ryan Smith and Max Carlstrom have been awarded Essex Junior Master title. This title has been awarded for strong play and points won in tournaments.
Ruqayyah Anwar plays board 5 out of 12 boards for Essex girls under 11. This year the girls played a County National qualifier in Oxford and finished 6th out of 14 counties.
Ryan Smith plays for the Essex under 11 boys team and in March they played a County qualifier and came 4th going through to the final in Liverpool in May.
Shagilan Jeevaresan plays for the Essex under 9 boys team. The under 9 team played a qualifier in March, they finished 3rd going through to the final in Kent. In the final they came 8th out of 17 counties.
Nilaa Subendren was picked for the Essex girls under 9 team but could not make the event.
Ruqayyah Anwar has just become Fairlop Primary school Chess Champion for 2008, going through the tournament undefeated. Ruqayyah scored 6 wins and 1 draw finishing 2 points ahead of Ryan Smith in second place.