By the time late entries had been added, we were pushing up towards 60 competitors. Accompanied by their parents, this made for a great day.

Whilst Claires Court led the way in the number of competitors from any one school, we were unable to turn this into a victory in the schools' competition due to the outstanding performance of some brothers from Southampton who pushed us into second place.

Richard Hogg, Junior Boys chess teacher, praised the pupils:

“The tournament field was extremely strong but all the Claires Court pupils who played earned some pleasing results against good players.”