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PRIMARY INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2007
By Norrie Mathie
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This
year the Championship was held on SAT 23/24th June at the Dunolly Adventure Centre, Aberfeldy.
This
event is now in its 24th year and is a residential
Event
restricted to 32 invited players attending Primary School it has done, and
still does, attract almost all of Scotlands’
best young Chess talent. It is unique
in that it is the only occasion when all these players will play in a Primary
event with a time control of 1 hour per player, and all games being recorded. This gives some their first taste of longer
games prior to playing in adult tournaments.
SAT
23rd - Players arrived at the centre on Saturday morning where
they registered and were shown to their rooms, getting a few minutes to
unpack and meet up with friends new and old.
With the first round due to start at 10.30am everyone gathered in the
playing hall to hear the opening remarks and be introduced to this years’
Chaperones. We welcomed three
new!!! And two well kent faces. The
new, or not so new faces, were DONNA, JIM and AMY. JIM was controlling the event ably assisted
by AMY who also analysed games.
The other two members were Mr. Grumpy and
his long suffering wife MAUREEN.
Rd
1 produced several unexpected results with top seed JONNY SCOTT losing to
debutant CONNOR MCKAY and 5th seed CALLUM DICKSON losing to
another debutant in BEN HE.
Rd
2 - saw both JONNY and CALLUM again losing to ALICE LAMPARD and GRAHAM HANNAH
resp.
Rd
3 - after this round only PETER DEVENNY and CALLUM BIRKETT had maximum points
followed by KIERON O’DONNELL, ANDREW MCLAUGHLIN, CALUM HENNING and ALICE
LAMPARD on 2.5pts.
An
evening BBQ had been planned but owing to the fact that the rain had not
stopped all day this was moved indoors where the children still enjoyed
burgers etc.
After
the evening meal, outdoor activities took place despite the inclement
weather. This did not deter the
children from climbing the high wall and scaling the high pole etc. Most managed both tasks successfully
with 8 year old ROBERT CHILDS leading
the way by reaching the top of the high pole standing on the small platform
and launching into space. Not to be
outdone our youngest chaperone AMY managed the same task while displaying
part of her nether region to an appreciative audience!!!
After
this tuck shop did a roaring trade selling “HEALTHY FOODS”, crisps, sweets,
chocolate etc.
DONNA
and AMY organised a crazy chess team event which
included forfeits of singing and dancing well done to KIRON, SEAMUS, and
SHIVAN for leading these forfeits.
KIERAN O’Ds team ran out winners and SEAMUS
won the prize for most checkmates. So
to bed.
DAY
2 - luggage packed including clean
towels, rooms spotless and everyone at breakfast by 8.30am ready for action.
Rd
4 - saw PETER defeat CALLUM and move into pole position with KIERON moving
into outright second place
Rd
5 - PETER continued his good run with a hard fought win over KIERON. The highlight of this round was a titanic
battle between SHIVAN and ALICE, this game went right to the wire and resulted in a very
good win for ALICE. Jim thought this was the best game so far
and it earned a round of applause from a captivated audience. CALLUM B. and ANDREW also moved to 4pts
with wins over ROBERT and ADAM resp.
Rd
6 - saw PETER and ANDREW clash, ending PETERS’ run. Winning a tense encounter, ALICE defeated CALLUM B to join PETER and
ANDREW on 5pts. TAYLOR
PANTON moved to outright 4th with a win over KIERAN O’D.
With
three players finishing on 5pts tie break was used to decide the final placings.
THIS
YEARS’ CHAMPION PETER DEVENNY
RUNNER
UP ANDREW McLAUGHLIN
THIRD PLACE ALICE
LAMPARD
FOURTH PLACE TAYLOR PANTON
Medal
for 4pts CALLUM
BIRKETT, PETER
RAINEY, DANIEL THOMAS
A
big thank you to all who made this year’s event a very enjoyable experience
despite the weather.
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