HBHS takes out ChessPower Regional Tournament
On the 12th of June, 11 students from HBHS competed in the ChessPower regional tournament. The boys had a great, fun and successful day playing chess and interacting with other students at the event. Hosted at Ngaruawahia High School, HBHS went on to convincingly win the tournament, with 26 points with the nearest placed school, Hamilton Christian School, on 17 ½ points. All HBHS students fared very well, filling 11 of the top 13 places in a field of 64. HBHS qualified for the ChessPower National Championship team tournament, with our top eight finishers also qualifying for the Champions Trophy individual tournament to be held in Auckland later in the year.
Particular congratulations go to Michael Lin and Ryan Farrell who scored 100%, with Michael being declared tournament winner on tie-break. Well done to all players who participated and sincere thanks to one of our Mums, Mrs Elaine Khoo, for helping out on the day.
Here are the results of individual players from HBHS (with tiebreak rankings). The first four player's results counted towards the team score.
| 1 | Michael Lin | 7/7 games | Winner |
| 2 | Ryan Farrell | 7/7 games | 2nd |
| 3 | Max Stephens | 6/7 games | 4th |
| 4 | Sean Clark | 6/7 games | 5th |
| 5 | Nathanael Loy | 6/7 games | 6th |
| 6 | Drishya Patel | 6/7 games | 7th |
| 7 | James-Hardy Rominpandey | 6/7 games | 8th |
| 8 | Andy Song | 6/7 games | 9th |
| 9 | Jeffery Li | 5 1/2/7 games | 10th |
| 10 | Sulaiman Bahiss | 5/7 games | 12th |
| 11 | Ben Wright | 5/7 games | 13th |
(Results are also on the tournament website here).
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