Family Guardian Scholastic Tournament 2005.

ELTON IS BACK

Our best rated junior Chess player, Elton Joseph 17, student at the College of the Bahamas had already won in 2003 and showed why his rating is well deserved, by winning the Family Guardian Scholastic 2005 played last week at CH Reeves.

The day was not an easy one for our young champion since the under 20 tournament where he belongs had all the best rated players, including Lemaro Thompson, who won last year.

After winning his own tournament Elton had to beat the winners in the other age categories before receiving from Mr. Gino Miller the Family Guardian trophy for the overall champion 2005.

The under 20 tournament was a Round Robin competition between seven players where each player lost at least one game. Lemaro Thompson who was eligible to play in the 13 to 15 age group accepted the challenge to move up to the next category at the invitation of the tournament director Mr. Warren Seymour. Lemaro, who is15 years old and was the 2004 Champion had the second rating of all 75 participants.

In the under 10 tournament, the biggest representation came from South Haven Academy that took last year all the first places but this time Akini Morris, the only student representing Palmdale Primary school, won the tournament. Mikala Allen and Talbot McKinney both from South Haven Academy finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. In 4th and 5th positions Matthew Sutton and Zachary Thurman from Unicorn Village showed that this school is coming on very well for its first participation.

The 10 to 12 tournament was logically dominated by Lavardo Rolle from St. Augustine's College, who in spite his 12 years of age, is already a seasoned player who represented the Bahamas twice abroad.

Finally, in the 13 to 15 tournament Sanchez Brown from CH Reeves won 5 games out of 5 in a 28 players group in spite of the presence of Lincoln Knowles, who had the best rating after Lemaro Thompson had moved to the under 20 tournament.