BOISHAAIER 2016

SKAAK

Chess CHESS

SKAAK INTERSKOLE-SPAN Agter: Mark Williams, Sunin Kim, Sufyaan Abrahams, Tristan Perfett, Al-Ron Solomons, Michael Moolman, Dominik Oberzaucher Middel: Dian Jacobs, Ti-yu Chiu, Francesco Pepe, Lucian Abrahams, Hawk Wood, Faizal Saban, Torsten Babl, Inakho Qangule, Divan van der Bank Voor: Liam Relling, Jan-Meyer Verhoef, Daniel Nam, me. C du Toit, Jack Chiu, Anton de Villiers, Auden Jacobs

FROM OUR CHESS CAPTAIN, JACK CHIU As the year 2016 draws to an end, naturally Chess of 2016 also draws to an end. However, the end simply cannot be a sad and negative encounter when we know, deep in our hearts, we have done our best and it resulted in another successful year.

Despite the disappointment, the chess teams trained long and hard in preparation for their annual battle against our nemesis: Paarl Gimnasium. Training was without a doubt challenging, but it definitely paid

Jack Chiu CHESS CAPTAIN

The year started with a brand new group of Grade 8s wanting to join the Chess Society. The adjective “enthusiastic” is not strong enough to describe the passion the new members showed towards chess. Of course, their senior counterparts showed the same intensity of passion towards chess and it did not take long for the new members to feel part of Boys’ High chess family from the uniformity of passion everyone showed towards chess. The teams showed promising results and growth during the local Boland Chess League, our U15 team qualifying for the Central Boland, Boland and finally Western Cape Top Schools where they ended ninth in the Western Cape. Unfortunately our first team were unable to retrieve the No. 1 Boland U18 chess team title for the second consecutive year, but this did not beat down our spirit.

off as we claimed our victory against Gim. This year’s Interschools was nerve-wracking. In the past years Boys’ High were usually far ahead before Gim started taking points. However, this year they brought their A-game. Gim were trailing quite close behind Boys’ High for the entire session: like a dog clinging desperately to its bone, Gim refused to let Boys’ High achieve a comfortable gap in points. Before the end of the last game, Gim was just behind Boys’ High with 1 point (4 – 3). In the end a draw was unacceptable to the chess team; thus the remaining player decided to rip the word “mercy” out of his vocabulary: he dominated his opponent, securing the winning point for Boys’ High.

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