Category: Chess
Strategic Thinking for Chess Success
Copthorne Prep has built up a formidable reputation as a school for excellence in chess, with pupils being taught strategic thinking skills and emotional intelligence from a very young age. Our success in this area is well documented not least because as a school we dominate the local chess scene with players who represent their…
Checkmate
Our chess team excels again! Playing against Ardingly and Brambletye in a primary jamboree, we won all twelve points. Supported by our chess scholar and head girl, Amelie, the children played some excellent chess! Well done to our chess players!
Chess delight
We were delighted to send two teams to compete in the finals of two Sussex chess championships – the Butler Cup and the Primary Cup. It was very intense with our pupils playing three matches against four other schools. Many of the matches were very close and the concentration and tension in the air were…
Our incredible chess players
27th April 2022 Did you know that Copthorne Prep holds all five of the top school primary cup trophies (U7, U8, U9, U11 & U11 girls) and we currently have four national champions? Our pupils continued their dedication and hard work over the weekend. The Sussex U9 team played in the EPSCA 2022 national final…
Another successful term of chess
Copthorne Prep Chess Club With the worst of the winter weather behind us, the preliminary phase of EPSCA inter-county competition got underway on Saturday 5 February with the Sussex U9 team playing against some of the top counties in an event held at Orleans Park School in Twickenham. Our opponents included title favourites Richmond who…
Chess Update
The colourful and warm late spring followed by glorious weather in the summer provided many chess parents with a welcome respite from the tedium of traversing the country in pursuit of the many EPSCA National Finals, Delancey Terafinals and England final saloon qualifiers and play-off that feature so heavily in normal times as the season…