* Tiger Sharks Triumph! 2020 Chess Championships*
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:31 am
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https://www.englishchess.org.uk/tiger-sharks-triumph/
After this month’s results we can announce the winners of the Inaugural 2020 Chess Worldwide Championship – Tiger Sharks (UK)!
They took Stage 1 convincingly, defeating Financial Moscow in the last round back in March, though in the next three stages fell agonizingly short, either in the final or penultimate round. Stage 5 went differently, and their perseverance was rewarded as they bounced back with a convincing display against Petts Wood & Orpington, which took them back into the lead, with no other team able to match them!
Across all the stages they have an extremely impressive record — Played: 39; Won: 35; Lost: 4 — triumphing over 150 teams from clubs, schools, universities and national sides across the world!
Their squad was made up of the likes of titled players Peter Roberson, Tom Rendle, Ameet Ghasi, Bao Nghia and others, captained and organized by Ben Purton.
They will receive the Grand Portofino Trophy courtesy of our sponsors North East Trophies – https://www.netrophies.co.uk/portofino- ... trophy-cup – along with magazine subscriptions from Chess and Bridge.
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(Captain Ben Purton with the Portofino Trophy)
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Congratulations to them! They will be the team to beat next 2020-2021 season.
You can see the 100+ teams taking part for 2020-2021 Season and join them by emailing [email protected] and can view the fixtures here – https://results.scorchapp.co.uk/t/2020chess/standings/1.
Chess.com are very generously sponsoring the event, with $2000 going to the winning team!
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