Chess-ed for Success

The JLC had 36 students participate in the Gold Coast Regional Interschool Chess tournament that involves more than 30 schools and over 600 students attended.

Notable performances included:

In Premier our team came second (Byron Morris, Ben Atia, Cooper Douglas and Raf Atia) Raf Atia also was awarded a medal for best ‘board 4’ – This also means the team have qualified for QLD state finals - well done boys!

In D grade our team came first (Malakai Guidolin, Jet Parkes, Tom Seton and Nathan Gardner) Malakai and Tom also received equal first for winning all games

In E grade Hugh Cullen was third individually

In F grade Elijah Welsh was first individually

Several students also received ribbons of merit: Joshua Cotton, Mischa Bestuzhev, Niamh Duffy and Isabella Marcos

P.s – Seth Welsh was also filmed for the tv show Totally Wild on channel 10!