John McRae Junior Summer Shield  2013  Ethen Stowers

Russell Metge Junior Rapid Cup  2013  Lucy Massey

Lew Collins Junior Autumn Cup  2013  Arav Gaundar

Hans Gao Junior Handicap Shield  2013  1st = Skyler MacFarlane , Christopher Delport

Graeme Coleman Junior Winter Knight  2013  Ryan Nguyen

Clive Wilson Junior Spring Cup  2013  Rebekah Massey

 

Nigel Metge Rook  Junior A Grade Champion 2013 –    Lucy  Massey

Graham Banks Cup  Junior B Grade Champion 2013 –   Rebekah Massey

Lew Peti Cup  Junior C Grade Champion 2013 –  Stanford  Colson

Pauline Thomas Trophy  Junior 5min Blitz Champion 2013

Other Prizes –

Russell Metge  B Grade  – Joanna Lee  [ book prize]

 Hans Gao Handicap  –  Green Prize Jasraj Singh

Blue Prize  Andrew Crowsen

Red Prize  Anusha Gaundar

Graeme Coleman Winter Knight  Best Game   1st  Rebekah v Joanna  R1

2nd  Emily v Lucy  R2

Winter Pawn 1st  Robin Han  [ book prize]

Clive Wilson Spring Cup B Grade 1st  Lucy Massey [ Table 2 ]  [ book prize ]

Our Juniors playing for their local schools have done very well again, last year Papatoetoe West Primary placed 3rd in the NZ Schools Finals, this year Papatoetoe Central Primary School came 3rd in the Chess Power National Finals. The team was 1.Arav Gaundar 7/9  2.Henry Wang 6/9  3.Fergus Lee 5.5/9  4.Anusha Gaundar 5.5/9 and Dylan Nguyen 4/9.

Holy Cross Primary came 1st in the Southern Area Primary Finals, and did very well in the Auckland  Primary Finals finishing 2nd to the very strong Hillsborough team and drawing 2-2 friendly against Rosehill Intermediate. From there they went to Tauranga and played in NZ Schools Finals and came 3rd, behind Kings Primary who they had beaten a few days before.   The team was    1. Lucy Massey 2. Conrad Hart     3. Rebekah Massey  4. Stephan Sabu   – Awesome effort by our Juniors – Congrats  all round.