Suffolk Chess

On Tuesday, Woodbridge School faced the might of Haberdashers' Aske's School in the Zonal Final of the National Schools Championships.

Apart from top board, the Woodbridge team was outgraded by a huge margin.   The game between Justin Tan and Ravi Haria (pictured below) featured two of the strongest juniors in the UK:

Board	Woodbridge	Grade	Result	Haberdashers	Grade
1	Justin Tan	241	½ - ½	Ravi Haria	226
2	Lai Chun	122	0 - 1	Tarun Malhotra	189
3	Anthony Yu	u/g	0 - 1	Roman Mitra	178
4	Taisei Tsuroka	u/g	0 - 1	Lawrence Lee	154
5	Hugo Kelleway	95	0 - 1	Vincent Lee	152
6	Harry Rennell	87	0 - 1	David Xu	150

Adam Hunt reports:
"The scoreline didn’t really reflect the games, with all matches going comfortably into the second hour.   Anthony Yu entered a B+5 v N+5 endgame which he couldn’t hold.   Harry Rennell lost a pawn in the opening and a second in the endgame and that was that.   Taisei Tsuruoka got to Rook and 4 v Rook and 5; again which he couldn’t hold.   Predictably the last game to finish was the top board encounter where Justin Tan was a touch better but never enough to really trouble White.   Haberdashers are, grading-wise, favourites to go on and win the event."