23-03-2012, 07:18 PM
Hi
Gillespies quarter final opponents will be Manchester Grammer - the team we lost to last year and who went on to win the event.
Last year we proved to be their toughest opponents and the match was a narrow 3.5 - 2.5 result in the favor. Sadly thats the good news. The bad news is that they have the same pool of players as last year plus two brothers from Singapore - a 13 year old rated 1800 for their bottom board and a 17 year old IM rated 2341 for their top board! :-(
I guess the final victory will taste all the sweeter!
It is a different world however for most of the schools that are left as most, if not all, are independents and offer chess scholarships. Not sure if the offer of a bottle of Iron Bru and a fish supper can quite compete but the offer is there to any Scottish junior that is an IM and wishes to join the newly started JG Out Reach program.
Gillespies quarter final opponents will be Manchester Grammer - the team we lost to last year and who went on to win the event.
Last year we proved to be their toughest opponents and the match was a narrow 3.5 - 2.5 result in the favor. Sadly thats the good news. The bad news is that they have the same pool of players as last year plus two brothers from Singapore - a 13 year old rated 1800 for their bottom board and a 17 year old IM rated 2341 for their top board! :-(
I guess the final victory will taste all the sweeter!
It is a different world however for most of the schools that are left as most, if not all, are independents and offer chess scholarships. Not sure if the offer of a bottle of Iron Bru and a fish supper can quite compete but the offer is there to any Scottish junior that is an IM and wishes to join the newly started JG Out Reach program.