Copthorne Success – U7 Closed Championship
The season closed on a high note in beautiful mid-Sussex sunshine with a bumper entry of 50 children to the U7 Closed Championship event held at Fonthill Lodge. Seven school teams entered (Balcombe, Broadwater, Copthorne Prep, Dorset House, Fonthill Lodge, Great Walstead, and Lindfield). Behaviour...
Worthing welcomes Copthorne Chess Team
Members of the Copthorne Chess Team travelled to Worthing last Saturday to compete in the 14th Worthing Open Junior Chess Tournament. Over 60 children aged 7-17 took part and as you would expect Copthorne not only won plenty of silverware but more players from Copthorne took part that any other Sussex...
Copthorne Chess Team
The Copthorne Chess Team travelled to Cuckfield last Saturday to take part int he UK Land Chess Challenge Megafinal. In 2009 2,000 schools entered the challenge and some 7,500 children qualified for the regional Megafinals.  The Cuckfield Megafinal attracted over 350 children from Sussex schoolsages...
Copthorne made up almost 1/4 of the Sussex Girls Team in National Final
On Saturday 17th April. Four Copthorne Prep girls represented Sussex in the Under 11 Girls National Finals in Barnet.  50 counties had entered the tournament and 12 counties had made it through to the final. The Sussex team got off to a tricky start with one of the top players stuck in the USA and...
IAPS Chess Tournament
The sun came out and shone down on the Sussex players in Godalming at the 38th IAPS National Championships last week. This was a national event for independent schools and children were aged 6-13. The tournament was held in the beautiful setting of Aldro School. Mr Archer has to be congratulated...
Copthorne School Chess Teams
This has been a successful week for the school chess teams as both A and B teams have got through to the third and final round of the West Sussex U11 school’s competition which began last term. The A team spent Thursday afternoon at Great Walstead where Copthorne faced three other schools. Although...
Copthorne Chess travel to Eastbourne
Copthorne chess players travelled this weekend to Eastbourne to compete in the 14th Eastbourne Open Junior Chess Tournament.  Over 75 players from all over Sussex attended with Copthorne being represented by Freya & Amalia Finnegan, Daniel Gooda, Josh Higgs, Ben Kinnear, Peter Kinnear, Andrew...
Great success for Sussex Girls U11 chess team at the ’4-Counties Match – 17th January 2010 – Reading’.
The Sussex team won convincingly against strong opposition with four Copthorne girls playing: Serena Bhargava, Amalia Finnegan, Freya Finnegan, Yelena Finnegan. Freya was one of three Sussex players scoring a maximum 3 wins out of 3 with Amalia and Yelena each winning 1 out of 2 only days after their...
