It has been announced that this event will be ECF Rapidplay graded this year.
Well done to all those who took part in this adult event, gaining valuable experience along the way. The next Suffolk adult event is the
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Mr Gordon is the top seed in the Open section!!
Mr Hunt has a blog!
Mr Hunt has set up a blog to keep the students at Woodbridge updated on progress during his sabattical
Chess Clubs are moving!
The 2011-12 academic year sees Woodbridge Senior Chess Club move to Mondays. Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons will be the Abbey sessions, and Wednesday will see Queens House. Contact Mr Gordon for further details.
Trinity Term
Encouraging results in the Uk Chess Gigafinal
Results from our students at the Northern Gigafinal can be seen here
Anna York-Andersen qualified for the Terafinal, Whilst Alex Rolph and James Phelan both played well to score 4/6 in the Under 10 section. Hugo Kelleway scored 4/6, Campion Mitchell-Cotts scored 3.5 and Felix Kibble 2.5 in the Under 11 section. Albert Xu got 4/6 in the Under 12's and his sister Cathy scored 5/6 to finish 2nd in the Under 9 girls.
Grandmaster Stephen Gordon to take over at Woodbridge!
Former English chess champion Stephen Gordon will take over from Mr Hunt for a year, as of September 2011 whilst he takes a sabbatical. All enquiries to sgordon@woodbridge.suffolk.sch.uk
Suffolk Megafinal 2011
A beautiful sunny day saw the 2011 UK Chess Challenge megafinal at Woodbridge School. Results can be found here
Berkeley Chess Exchange Cancelled
Unfortunately our American exchange has had to be be put on hold. We still hope to pay our American friends a visit in 2012
Lent Term news
Woodbridge win Suffolk Under 13 Championship
Congratulations to Albert Xu, William Read, Thomas Lowe and Alexander Craggs who beat Orwell Park 3-1 on Tuesday 22 March to win the Suffolk under 13 title.
Suffolk Junior Open is a great success
Well done to all those who participated in this years Suffolk Junior Open.
Results can be found here by clicking here
Woodbridge and Abbey winners were Cavan Fawcett (Under 10) Felix Kibble (Under 11) Hugo Davis (Under 14) Artem Emelyanov (Under 15) Arkaidy Stepanyan (Under 17) and Anna York Andersen (Under 18)
Albert Xu wins Mileham Shield
Congratulations to Albert who defeated William Read in an excellent Mileham Shield final. The game was watched by 90+ year 7's. We are hoping Albert will annotate the game
shortly for woodbridgechess.
Woodbridge through to county under 13 final
We defeated Stowmarket middle school 4-0 in our semi-final on Tuesday 15 February. Team was: Xu (c), Read, Lowe, Craggs.
Abbey Under 11's qualify for EPSCA Semi-finals
A big congratulations to our Under 11 teams who both qualified for the semi-final stages of the competition, to be held at Pontins, Camber Sands on June 25-26.
Berkeley Chess Exchange
Good progress is being made in our planned chess exchange with the Berkeley chess school. Provisional dates for our guests visit are July 5-12 2011, and we now have 10 students signed up!
More to follow shortly.
Suffolk Junior Open date change
Don't forget the Suffolk Junior Open has been moved to Sunday 13 March.
Michaelmas Term News
Woodbridge Junior Open results available
A really nice day, with some good chess. Click here for crosstables and results
Mileham Shield 2010 about to begin!
Lots of excitement within Year 7 this week, with the start of the Mileham Shield next week. Who will emulate last years winner Luke Cerely to become champion, out of a field of almost 100?
Woodbridge Junior Entry form now online
Download the entry form as a PDF document here or as a word document here
Woodbridge-Berkeley chess exchange
So far we have interest from 10 students and families in this exchange programme, set to commence July 2011- come on, lets get at least another 5!.
London Chess Classic
We are going to the London Chess Classic on Wednesday 8 December. We will take a minibus load down, departing 8am and returning 8pm. Anyone interested see Mr Hunt or Dr Wharam.
Trinity Term News
Suffolk Megafinal results
Woodbridge School hosted the Suffolk Megafinal on Sunday May 9th, to great success. 125 competitors took part, and some excellent chess was played. Full results
can be found here
American Chess exchange? Students wanted!
Opportunity of a lifetime? Contact has been made with the Berkeley Chess school, California regarding a possible exchange programme starting July 2011. If you are interested contact me for more information.
Suffolk Megafinal nearly upon us
Next weekend will see the Suffolk Megafinal at Woodbridge School. Join us on the Sunday for some exciting chess!
Woodbridge finish adult league season
We finished second equal in this years Suffolk league division two. Hopefully this will be enough to see us promoted
Woodbridge regain schools Under 16 title
Congratulations to Nikolay Lastochkin, Johnathan Keable, Hugo Davis and Daniel Such who won back the schools under 16 title, beating County Upper school 2.5-1.5 in the final.
Lent Term News
Luke Cerely wins Mileham shield!
Congratulations to Luke Cerely who beat Matthew Rickard to become Year 7 Mileham shield champion in a very hard fought game.
Norwich 4 Woodbridge 2
Sadly Norwich again defeated us in the regional final of the National schools championship. It went right to the wire, with the score standing at 3-2 to Norwich with one game going.
A win would have seen us through on board count after excellent wins for Nikolay and Patrick, but in a time scramble we lost the match.
National schools championships
We have once again made the final of the East Anglian region of the National schools championships. We will play Norwich School in the final.
Suffolk Junior Open 2010
Suffolk Junior Open entry form is now available to download. Click here to download it.
Tony Miles Chess Scholarship
This is awarded once a year to an outstanding candidate who has a commitment to Woodbridge Chess and desire to improve to national or international level. Please
contact Mr Hunt for further details.
Calendar updated
All Suffolk adult league fixtures are now available, as well as dates for scholarship interviews, Suffolk Junior Open and Suffolk Megafinal.
Michaelmas Term News
London Junior Championships
Hugo Davis (Under 14) Hugo Kelleway, Ethan Buege and Campion Mitchell-Cotts (Under 10 minor) took part at the London Junior championships on the weekend of 12-13 December. Hugo K was top scorer with 4/7. Crosstables and further information can be found at the London Juniors website
Woodbridge 5-1 King Edward VII
We won 5-1 in the first round of the national schools championship. Team was 1. York-Andersen, 2. Stevens 3. Lastochkin 4. Gaffney 5. Keable 6. Such
Junior 4NCL
The weekend of November 28-29 saw the first round of the Junior 4NCL 2009-10. The highlights included Ed's 3/3 on board 1 and Patrick's fine victory over James Foster. You can read a report via this link, which includes tables from the first weekend
Woodbridge Junior Open
The Woodbridge Junior Open took place on Sunday 15 November. Full results can be found here
Summer Term news
All England Girls Gold Finals
Click here for a report on the National Girls Finals, held at Woodbridge School.
Suffolk are National Champions!
Congratulations to the Suffolk Under 125 County team who have become national champions! Absolutely fantastic
for Suffolk chess. Find out more at Tim Lunn's excellent new Suffolk chess blog . The winning team
included Woodbridge's own Anna Egorova.
Woodbridge's third England international!!!
Summer term is traditionally the quietest, with the adult league season having drawn to a close. However there have been some excellent results recently.
Well done to Anna Egorova, who has just finished representing England at the Faber Cup in Glasgow. Her England team finished second in the event. See more at the tournament homepage
UK Chess Challenge success
Well done to all those from the school and the Suffolk area who competed in the Northern Gigafinals at Failsworth on the weekend of July 18-19. Ethan Buege (Under 8) and Edward Venmore-Rowland (Under 17) finished 2nd in their respective National age groups
and therefore qualified for the challengers section of the Terafinal. Anna Egorova went one better and won her section (Under 16 girls) and therefore will compete for the title of Strat and the frist prize of £2000 at the Terafinal.
County champions
Woodbridge 'A' defeated Woodbridge 'B' on board count to win the Suffolk Under 13 title.
Daniel Such 1-0 Hugo Davis
Laurence Porter 1-0 Denis Pekel
Balazs Liptay-Wagner 0-1 Charles Mitchell-Thurston
Robert Johnson 0-1 Dominic Crane
Woodbridge Under 16's lose in final
Sadly our weakened Under 16 team lost to County Upper, Sudbury in the final of the Suffolk Under 16 competition
Photo gallery from Junior 4NCl now available
A photo selection from the Junior 4NCL, where we finished =2nd behind Wellington College
Woodbridge 'B' through to Under 13 Final
Woodbridge beat Debenham High School away on Monday night to reach the final of the Suffolk Under 13 competition.
There they will meet the winners of the other semi-final, between Woodbridge 'A' and All Saints school, to be played on Wednesday evening.
Congratulations to Daniel Such, Laurence Porter, Balazs Liptay-Wagner and Robert Johnson for getting through.
Ipswich 'D' 1.5 Woodbridge 2.5
A good victory in the adult league. Especially pleasing was Callum's first win in the adult league and Johnathan's excellent draw.
1. K.Woodcock (103) 0-1 A. Hunt (226)
2. P.Mortensen (81) 0.5 J.Keable (47)
3. M.Spalding (71) 1-0 D.Such
4. S.Moss (47) 0-1 C.Bennell
Suffolk Junior Open results now available
Sorry for the delay!. Find the full results here
Junior 4NCL, Second weekend
The second weekend of the junior 4NCL saw the school finish second equal overall, behind Wellington College. Congratulations
to Edward, Anna, Patrick and Sam who all played their part in this great result
Woodbridge to host All England Girls Gold Finals
I am delighted to report that Woodbridge School will be hosting the All England Girls
Gold Finals, featuring the best girl chess players from across the country. The date is set for Sunday June 21. Visit
