Category Archives: Chess

Congratulations to James for winning the ‘best game’ prize in the annual chess simultaneous display against our expert coach, Mr Steve Law. Mr Law reckoned it to be one of, if not the most, impressive games he has played in...

Our Chess team were in action yesterday against Aldwickbury in what proved to be an incredibly tight match. One result going against us and Mr Phillips would have lost his smile 14-16, you can’t get much closer than that! Well...

The Chess team were in action again, this time it was our first Chess fixture against Edgegrove. There were a number of relatively new players on the team and competition was fierce. In the end the Lockers Park experience showed...

It was great to see the Chess team in action for the first time in 2019, this time against Aldwickbury. There were several players representing Lockers Park for the first time so there was an air of anticipation and a...

Each summer term, Steve Law, a County Chess player comes to Lockers Park to take on 16 boys at chess – all at the same time. Since Mr Law started coaching the Lockers Park team things have got much harder...

Lockers Park is really an all round school – sport, music, art, technology are all regarded as important things. Recently Chess has also joined this list and competition to be on the Chess team is fierce. The team is now...

Over the Christmas holidays a team of 12 Lockers boys went to Aldro School for a chess competition. They did very well. Congratulations to Karan who is now the National Prep School Rapidplay Champion. The team also did very well...

Over the last couple of years Chess has really taken off at Lockers with the boys competing in a variety of competitions. The last time we played Aldwickbury they managed to beat us, but several of better players were absent...

Twenty boys took part and it was fully an hour before the first players started to drop off – a far cry from the five minutes we had in years gone by before chess became such an item at Lockers....

The last time we played Aldwickbury at chess it was a rather one sided affair with the Lockers team dominating. It was a much closer thing this time. I suspect that our chess maestro, Mr Phillips, may rue the day...