QE’s 2010 Swiss Chess Tournament was won by Year 8 pupil Jake Breindel, who scored six points by winning all six of his games. The tournament was open to boys in the School from Years 8 to 11.
“It was a memorable day, both for the quality and competitiveness of the chess played, and the enthusiasm shown by the 40 boys who took part,” said Geoff Roberts, teacher in charge of chess. A Swiss-system tournament involves players being paired to face each other for several rounds of competition, rather than following a ‘round-robin’ arrangement.
Kieran Chan from Year 9 was runner-up with five points and three boys tied for third place scoring 4.5 points each. They were Madhi Elango of Year 10, Joseph Levene of Year 9 and Reyvanth Varathan of Year 11. All four boys, together with overall winner Jake Breindel, also won prizes for the best performances in their year groups.
“A feature of this event, which the boys enjoy, is that they have only 15 minutes to play all of their moves in each game – only a fraction of the time normally allocated in tournaments,” added Mr Roberts. “This leads to a much faster pace of game and on occasion some surprising results.”