Chess

On Sunday, 12^th January, two children from TES took part in a Blitz chess competition at the Vida Chess Centre in Xindian.  Brendon from Year 3 played very well against some much older and more experienced opponents to finish 13^th out of the 21 participants.  Aidan from Year 6, the TES school chess champion for the last two years, also performed fantastically in his first ever Blitz competition and finished second overall.  I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate Brendon and Aidan for representing TES so well and making the effort to participate in the competition.

If you would like your child to take part in a chess competition, there are regular events around Taipei. 

On Sunday 12^th January, a group of children from TES took part in a tag team chess competition at the Vida Chess Centre in Xindian.  In this chess format, children play with a partner and take alternate moves against another team.  An added difficulty is that children are not allowed to communicate with each other.  Altogether 16 teams took part, and despite the fact that the TES children were unused to this particular chess format, I am pleased to say that Aidan and David from Year 6 won the competition.  I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the following children for taking part and representing TES so well:

Year 3 – Jiri , Mick , Juan

Year 4 – Lawrence

Year 5 – Jose

Year 6 – Scott, Baltazar

Further details  with the dates of other chess activities taking place throughout the year, can be found here:

http://taipeichess.com/2014/01/21/we-will-hold-the-2014-first-monthly-chess-tournament-on-126-%e6%9c%88%e8%b3%bd%e5%a0%b1%e5%90%8d%e4%b8%ad/