Category: Chess

On Monday 16 May,  we welcomed our member school participants to Loyola College for the 2022 ACS Chess Tournament, with St Leonard’s College looking to defend their titles from 2021, 2020 and 2019. The top 6 players from each team contribute to the overall team score.

We congratulate the St Michael’s team for taking out the championship on 31 points, ahead of St Leonard’s College with 29.5 points and Westbourne Grammar with 28 points. Congratulations to Ryan from St Leonard’s who remained undefeated, winning all 7 rounds to place 1st in the individual scoring.

We would also like to welcome and acknowledge the efforts of St Aloysius in their first ACS Chess event.

A  big thank you to Loyola, Mr Andrew McDonnell and Ms Lauren Hartigan for hosting this year’s competition with wonderful enthusiasm and hospitality.

Final results listed below:

This year’s ACS Chess competition will be hosted by Loyola College onsite and will be run by Kids Unlimited on behalf of the ACS. 

Date:         Monday 16 May, 2022

Time:         10.00 am – 2.45 pm

Format:     Teams Swiss

Host:          Loyola College – 325 Grimshaw Street, Watsonia

In the Swiss system, players are paired with another participant that has the same number of points from the tournament. It is not a round-robin draw (the system that we have used in previous years), so players from your team will be competing against different schools from the ACS in any given round.

No players from the same school will play each other. After each round the rankings are updated and the draw for the next round is published.

Points are awarded for each match; 1 point for a win, ½ a point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.

The top 6 ranked participants in each team will determine the final ranking of teams after 7 rounds.

Participating Schools:

Beaconhills College

Loyola College

Overnewton College

St Aloysius College

St Leonard’s College

St Michael’s Grammar School

Westbourne Grammar School

We wish all competitors the best of luck!

In a return to face-to-face competition, this year’s event was hosted by Beaconhills College and run by Kids Unlimited on behalf of the ACS.

On Monday 17 May, 2021 at Beaconhills College (Berwick), 60 participants took part in the 2021 ACS Chess Tournament, with St Leonard’s looking to defend the titles they won in 2020 and 2019. The top 6 players from each team contribute to the overall team score.

The Swiss format provides for similar levels of players to compete against each other which led to such a close finish. With the final round underway one team held a healthy lead, but it wasn’t until the final board was completed that we learned that St Leonard’s and St Michael’s had tied for 1^st place. Another exciting finish to ACS Chess!

Congratulations to all teams on such a great day of chess play.

Thank you to Beaconhills and Mr Rodney Gonsalves for hosting this wonderful event.

Results for Chess below.