WA School in Australian Team School Finals

The Australian Schools' Team Championships were held at various venues across Australia on 4th and 5th December.

WA was represented by the winners of the 2021 CAWA Schools Chess League: Perth Modern School in the Secondary Open and Secondary Girls' divisions, Oberthur Primary School in the Primary Open division, and Nedlands Primary School in the Primary Girls' division.

The Secondary Open team from Perth Modern School (Chas Underwood, Christopher Manasseh, Ben Hurst, Alex Pimenov) scored 6.5/20, finishing 4th out of 6 teams.

The Secondary Girls' team from Perth Modern School (Anouhska Gupta, Heidi Gstaettner, Victoria Chai, Sophie Sadekova, Paula Gruber, Jasmine Wu) scored 7/20, finishing 5th out of 6 teams.

Our Primary Open team from Oberthur Primary School (Oscar Gao, Angus Chen, Francis Lopez, Adam Chung) scored 8.5/20 to finish 4th out of 6 teams.

The WA Primary Girls' team from Nedlands Primary School (Nithuli Liyanage, Olivia Hou, Yonje Lee, Sherry Yan, Emma Chong) scored 5.5/20 to finish 5th out of 6 teams.

Read the full report by Andrew Hardegen on the CAWA website here: http://www.cawa.org.au/2021results/2021ASTC.html

All the games from the tournaments can be found here:

https://livechess.aunz.net/astc/