Hawthorns School

I have been teaching the Hawthorns School (www.hawthorns-school.ik.org) Chess Club since January 2007. The school has been incredibly supportive for chess including hosting the 2nd Chess Kings event at their Summer fair in June 2007, and rumour has it there is likely to be another Chess Kings event hosted in the Summer fair in 2008! The kids are extremely enthusiastic too, with one of my biggest clubs, 11 of them took Saturday morning off to play in the 2nd Chess Kings event, with many of them finishing in the prizes. The level is fairly high at the top end, but no one player has managed to excel ahead of the others yet. There is fierce rivalry amongst them and this will surely help them develop rapidly. I have been incredibly impressed by the attitude of the pupils at Hawthorns and I anticipate many of them to maintain a keen interest in chess throughout their lives.

School Champion Spring 2007 – Michael Tran, 2nd - Matthew Manning.

School Champion Summer 2007 – Seunghyun Kwak, 2nd - Alex Cobb.