Top chess pair win

Press, 7 August 1985, Page 64

Top chess pair win

The top two teams from the preliminary rounds of “The Press” A grade schools’ chess competition, Christchurch Boys and Burnside, both had wins in the first legs of the roundrobin play-off series. Burnside, fourth last year, beat the 1984 runner-up, Shirley, 4%-l¥2, while the defending champion, Christchurch Boys, downed Christ’s College, 4-2. In both cases, though, the losers fared better than when they met the same teams in the preliminary competition. Results:— A GRADE Christchurch B.H.S. A 4, Christ’s College A 2

M. C. Wilson beat D. W. Edwards; A. Hartshorn lost to S. H. Greenwood; G. Cole beat J. N. Fink; D. R. McKee lost to K. Hongladarom; T. Morton beat N. P. Law; K. Millar beat S. J. Dent. Burnside A 4%, Shirley 1% I. Jackson beat C. D. Murphy; R. Whelan drew with C. Dyer; 0. Pritchard beat R. de Visser; S. Parker beat A. Smyth; A. Franks lost to D. Moore; J. Parker beat P. Baylis. B grade.— Zone I: Burnside B 5%, St Andrew’s A %. Zone II: Ashburton 5, St Thomas’s 1; Hillmorton 4, Cashmere B 2; Shirley B 3%, Christchurch C 2%; Mairehau 5, Hornby 1. Final points: Mairehau 6 (29%), Hillmorton 5Vz (26%), Ashbur-

ton 4% (26). Shirley B 4% (25), Christchurch C 3% (25), Cashmere B 2 (16%), St Thomas’s 2 (12Va), Hornby 0 (7). C grade.— Chisnallwood 4, Cobham B 2; Cobham B 5, Branston 1; Christchurch South 4, Casebrook 2; Chisnallwood 4, St Andrew’s Preparatory 2. C grade progress points.— Christchurch South 6% (34), Chisnallwood 6 (32%), Cobham A 6 (31%), Cathedral Grammar 5 (24), Cobham B 4% (29%), Branston 3 (20%), Casebrook 2% (15), Heaton 2 (15%), St Andrew’s Preparatory 1% (15), St Thomas’s 0 (1%). The grand final will be held at the Burnside High School library on Tuesday, August 13, between 6.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. Members of the public are invited.