The Lothian Junior Congress Chess Tournament took place over the weekend and there was more fabulous success for team Dalry.
Our team won second place!! The initial ranking for our team was 8th position, but they finished 2nd after 6 rounds of play.
Many thanks to our chess tutors, Mr Good and Mr Hynd, and to Mr Ashly for supplying the photos.
Massive Congratulations to our tournament team members Rishon, Thanish, Jeric and Ishaan!
We have two great achievements by members of the Dalry Primary chess club to report.
Rishon has won The 8+ championship at Edinburgh Chess Academy.
Alden in P2 has won in the Junior 5 Scotland.
Amazing achievements boys and thanks for bringing in your trophies to show us.
Our chess sessions awards were given out at Leavers assembly this week with recognition of contributions to great results at the events our team attends and great chess played in our lunchtime and masterclass club tournaments.
The overall Joint winners this year were Fabio and Ade.
Congratulations to them and all the prize winners.
Thanks again to our amazing volunteer chess tutors Stewart Good and Bill Hynd.
We hope for an even better year next year and Mrs Honeyman challenged the girls of Dalry to try and be sure we don’t only have boys in the winners next year. So come and try chess and show the boys a check mate girls.
Dalry Primary School first team won Best P6/7 Intermediate Level Team at the Lothian Junior Chess Team Tournament on the 4th of November.
