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Another year of fun is starting for the Chess Club. We are very happy to see our current players back and would like to welcome our newcomers. Our club is for all LPS students who are interested in chess and we can accommodate kids with different skill levels from novices to advanced players. We are very lucky to have a competent and experienced team of chess coaches - Miro Nowak, Blair Mandla and Kathy Kuestler - at our school. The kids will have fun and surely learn lots from them.
We are trying to provide the best opportunity for our children to learn and utilize their skills. We believe that there are significant benefits from playing chess including:
Improve critical thinking skills and concentration,
Learn good sportsmanship - win and lose with grace,
Develop decision-making and planning skills,
Make new friends and have fun!
At the moment, we have 40 members in the club. We would like to encourage children who wish to join to contact (details below) or just show up on Friday after school.
2010 TOURNAMENTS
We will try to provide great opportunities for our members to experience tournament. It's part of their learning. It's an opportunity for every club member to experience the atmosphere of a real tournament. Each member will join at least a tournament within our club in term 3. We will also be joining other school tournaments as we have been doing over the last two years.
The following tournaments are lined up for this year.
2nd -3rd Term 2010 Primary Schools Chess Teams Competition www.nswjcl.org.au/Schools/2010/Primary/PS_entry_details.htm
3rd Term LPS Chess Club's Winter Challenge 2010 (possibility on Friday 18th September)
4th Term Primary Schools One-Day Tournaments
2009 ACHIEVEMENTS
3 July 2009 - LPS Chess Club's Winter Challenge 2009
Final Standings (after round 6): OVERALL WINNER Caspa W. , 1st overall RUNNER-UP Kirby W. , 2nd overall RUNNER-UP Victor S.
WINNERS for respective years: Year 6 Winner Derek K. , Year 5 Winner Jason M. , Year 4 Winner Janelle M. , Year 3 Winner Andrew T. , Year 2 Winner Callum S., Year 1 Winner Oliver C.
Special Awards:
The outstanding chess etiquette and knowledge of rules award goes to Lily E.
Sportsmanship award for the best chess manners goes to Jessica W.
Primary Schools One-Day Tournaments 2009
6 teams from LPS Chess Club entried the tournament. Team A (Harry R., Joshua B. and Nicholas S.) won the first place and qualify for Final.
November 2009 - Final - Primary Schools One-Day Tournaments 2009 The Metropolitan Finals, which with the addition of the top Country Districts finalists doubled as the State Finals, were contested by a record of 61 schools. Lindfield Public School was victorious, scoring 18/21 and finishing 1.5 points ahead of Sydney Grammar Preparatory St Ives. A total of 1120 teams from 266 schools took part in the 33 district tournaments in the Primary Schools One-Day series. http://www.nswjcl.org.au/News/news_archives_2009.htm
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