As is traditional at Regent, the autumn season brings an increase in activity for our chess players. We have fully resumed the Regent Chess Club sessions for both the younger students (20 participants!) and the older group (from Grade 3 to final year, the so-called „tournament” group).
On Friday, October 24th, a chess tournament for students from Elbląg’s primary and secondary schools, organized by the „Skoczek” club and Primary School No. 1, concluded. We are pleased to report that the favorite, Krzyś Bernas, a 7th-grade student at Regent Primary School, achieved an undisputed victory. He scored a perfect 7 out of 7 points and confirmed his position as a leader in the Elbląg school chess scene.
His talented younger colleagues also participated in the event: in the older group, Janek Zięba (Grade 5) took 10th place (4.5 pts), and Robert Symonowicz (Grade 4) finished 11th (4 pts). In the younger group, second-grader Wiktor Marosz was close to the medal zone, ultimately earning 4 points and a high 8th place.
It is worth mentioning that from November 2nd to 9th, Krzyś Bernas will compete for promotion to the Polish Junior Championships final at the semifinals in Jelenia Góra. Given the starting list, which is full of players with I and II categories, the fight will be extremely tough, but we believe that our player will return „victorious” this time as well, hopefully achieving the norm for the I category.
As if that weren’t enough, Regent participated for the 3rd time in Szachowy Konik („The Chess Knight”), a national chess problem-solving competition. Thirteen of our students—11 boys and our two best female chess players, Maja Nicpoń and Natalka Berbeć—took part across five age categories.
Solving 30 problems in 60 minutes is quite an accomplishment! For those curious, we have included an example problem from the Pawn category in the photo gallery. These are the kinds of challenges our youngest chess players are solving.
We are eagerly awaiting the official results of this competition and are quietly hoping for results as magnificent as last time!
