Senior School news

Norwich School Chess Club Victory

07 July 2020

Against a field of other School Chess Clubs across the country, Norwich School played in an online Team Chess Battle (on the website lichess.com) on the 3rd July 2020.

Lasting for an hour and consisting of rolling 5 minute matches, the Norwich School team, made up of Kian Moghaddas, Joshua Allen, William Blythe-Bartram, George Taylor, Jack Yaxley, Jay Ambadkar and Arthur Dannatt racked up 77 points to win the competition, 8 points ahead of second place. 

In addition, in the individual standings, Norwich School had three players in the top five with Joshua Allen coming 5th, Jack Yaxley coming 3rd and George Taylor winning the whole competition outright. George won six games out of six!

Mr Hudson said "Very well done all, from a proud chess coach!"