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Chess, May 2022

Last Thursday, 28th of April our Chess squad travelled to St. Benildus. Two Thirty-minute matches were played. Blackrock played black in the first round with St. Benildus on white. In round two, St. Benildus boards stayed the same position and we switched as outlined below. Blackrock played white in the second round and with 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw, we won an excellent match.

We thank Ms Wyse for her organisation of the opportunity.

Round 1:

Board 1Evan McCourt5th Year0
Board 2Charlie Parsons5th Year0
Board 3Theo Galligan2nd Year1
Board 4Philip Duffy3rd Year1
Board 5Conor Wall3rd Year1
Board 6Rory O’Kane5th Year1
Board 7Leon Coleman5th Year1
Board 8Brian Carroll2nd Year0
Board 9Ian Duane2nd Year½
Board 10Dominic Kilbride3rd Year1
Total Points:6 ½
Board 1Charlie Parsons5th Year0
Board 2Evan McCourt5th Year1
Board 3Philip Duffy2nd Year1
Board 4Theo Galligan3rd Year1
Board 5Rory O’Kane3rd Year1
Board 6Conor Wall5th Year1
Board 7Brian Carroll5th Year0
Board 8Leon Coleman2nd Year1
Board 9Dominic Kilbride2nd Year1
Board 10Ian Duane3rd Year½
Total points:7 ½

We decided to play two thirty-minute matches. Blackrock played black in the first round with St. Benildus on white. In round two, St. Benildus boards stayed the same position and we switched as outlined below. Blackrock played white in the second round.
There was 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw and 0 for a loss.

Great first round played by the boys. Evan and Charlie played right to the wire with their opponents. Evan gave it his all but his opponent was St. Benildus’ strongest player, he was excellent. Even our coach Hector said he has played against this student a few times himself and he found it hard to beat him!

Conor on board 5 had a quick victory. Theo and Philip on board 3 and 4 had very narrow matches but thankfully were victorious.
Another great round, with some boys winning both matches. Ian Duane played an excellent game against his opponent. They were the last board to finish with only minutes left on the clock. Frank Scott (St. Benildus’ coach) commended Ian on such an excellent but tough game.

We look forward to welcoming St. Benildus College to Blackrock on Wednesday 4th May at 10am for another friendly match. Hopefully we can keep up our winning streak!

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