On Tuesday 30th April, CCS played host to the inaugural Inishowen Schools Grandmaster Tournament. We welcomed competitors representing their schools from Scoil Mhuire (Buncrana), Crana College (Buncrana) and Moville Community College. All the photos can be found below...
There were students representing each year group. The standard of each game was extremely high and the results were as follows:
Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
1st Year | Max Dreyer Scoil Mhuire | Cara Anne McLaughin Carndonagh Community School | Tomas Dvoran Crana College |
2nd Year | Senan O’Connor Scoil Mhuire | Aidan Bright Moville Community College | Lorcan Doogan-Bellec Carndonagh Community School |
3rd Year | Abi Dreyer Scoil Mhuire | Louis Purves Crana College | Wesley Zhen Moville Community College |
TY | Unax Vital Moville Community College | Pauric McBride Scoil Mhuire | Cormac Reynolds Moville Community College |
5th Year | Adam Fullerton Crana College | Shawn St. Sanis Scoil Mhuire | Jake Murray Moville Community College |
6th Year | Yiming Yang Carndonagh Community School | Shawn St. Sanis Scoil Mhuire | Dima Sularmanidze Moville Community College |
Junior Grandmaster: Max Dreyer, Scoil Mhuire
Runner Up: Senan O’Connor, Scoil Mhuire
Senior Grandmaster: Adam Fullerton, Crana College
Runner Up: Abi Dreyer, Scoil Mhuire
A huge congratulations to all who took part. We hope that this can be an annual event and the prizewinners can go on to represent Inishowen at a National Level.
A very big thank you to Ms. Barbara McGuire, Ms. Clare Bradley and Ms. Aoife Cregan for accompanying their students and assisting with the tournament and to Ms. Shauna O’Neill for organising. Thank you to all the TY students that helped with the set-up, took photos and reported on the competition. Thank you to Mr. John McGuinness, who gave a lovely opening speech and presented the winners with their medals and trophies.
A big thank you to Annemarie McIntyre and Gary Duffy in the School Completion Programme for generously funding the event.
Chess has increased in popularity in recent years and is an excellent game for developing skills in problem solving, decision making, planning and creative thinking.
CCS Chess Club meet in room 141 on Friday lunchtimes, all students are welcome to join our growing club.
