Gold Coast High Schools - 2006 Final

 

Kings Christian College have convincingly ended Somerset College's 10 year reign as Gold Coast High Schools Teams Chess Champions. Their team comprising Sam Grigg, Daniel Ford, Cameron Thompson and Lachlan Pedersen-Lee scored 25/28, to win by four points from Somerset. Well done Kings!!

Final standings in Championship Grade:

Teams:

1st Kings 25,

2nd Somerset 21,

3rd Kings 2 17,

4th Merrimac 16.5.

These four teams qualify for the Queensland Inter-Schools Finals to be held at Brisbane Grammar School on the weekend of 14/15 October.

Individual Board Prizes:

1 Alex Jule

2 Amy Evans

3 Cameron Thompson

4 Brendan Baker

In the open division, TSS came first on countback from Somerset College, both teams scoring 22/28, with Saint Stephens third.

 

Individually, five players tied for first on 6/7. In countback order they were:

1st Koo Jeong,

2nd Mikio Kimura,

3rd Andrew White,

4th Candice Ong,

5th Sohum Banerjea.

 

Results:

High Schools Teams - open

High Schools Teams - Championship

High Schools Teams - Championship Individual