Nykel Pe­ters dom­i­nat­ed the com­pe­ti­tion for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term by tak­ing the top po­si­tion in the In­ter­me­di­ate lev­el two cat­e­go­ry at the ninth in-house tour­na­ment of the Point Fortin Chess Cen­tre (PFCC), at the South West Re­gion­al In­door Sport­ing Are­na in Point Fortin held on No­vem­ber 16.

Gabriel­la Mait­land and Makay­la Joseph fought hard to at­tain sec­ond and third places, re­spec­tive­ly.

Pe­ters’ chess ac­com­plish­ments were not lim­it­ed to the in-house tour­na­ment as he ad­vances to the se­mi-fi­nals in the 18 years and un­der cat­e­go­ry along with Amand Bas­deo in the 12 years and un­der cat­e­go­ry, both from the St Patrick re­gion in the first-ever Mind­sports Tour­na­ment. Moni­fa Cor­rion al­so rep­re­sent­ed the Cen­tre at the re­cent­ly held Lynette Ram­per­sad Foun­da­tion Schools Ju­nior Chess Tour­na­ment.

As al­ways, there was fierce com­pe­ti­tion among par­tic­i­pants in all cat­e­gories, es­pe­cial­ly in the Novice A cat­e­go­ry with a record 19 par­tic­i­pants.

Josi­ah St Louis dom­i­nat­ed and took the top place in the Novice A cat­e­go­ry fol­lowed by Ssence Samuel and Keshon Do­gan. The top po­si­tion in Novice B was tak­en by Dar­i­on Ba­hadurs­ingh fol­lowed by Jabari Broad­belt and Abasi Alexan­der.

In the In­ter­me­di­ate lev­el one cat­e­go­ry, Nathaniel Clax­ton dom­i­nat­ed the cat­e­go­ry fol­lowed by Nicholai Bap­tiste and Mic­ah Fran­cis, who won first place in Novice B in the last in-house tour­na­ment.

Cer­tifi­cates of par­tic­i­pa­tion and per­fect at­ten­dance were al­so award­ed to 77 per cent of the par­tic­i­pants en­rolled for the term. Cen­tre co­or­di­na­tors Dr Jo-Anne Sewlal and Ray­mond Aaron thanked this term’s team of ded­i­cat­ed train­ers which in­clud­ed She­dron Collins, Lin­coln Joseph, Dirmid Nicholas, Frankie Per­me­ll, Franklyn Neck­les, Char­lene Mitchell, In­di­ra Sama­roo and new train­er, Danielle Small.

It was an event­ful term for PFCC with two of its stu­dents, Nicholai Bap­tiste and Zachary George, be­ing se­lect­ed to be part of this year's co­hort of At­lantic’s Point Fortin’s Finest Lead­er­ship De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme, which se­lects ten stu­dents from Point Fortin pri­ma­ry schools that scored the top ten high­est marks in the SEA ex­am each year.

The Cen­tre’s new term starts on Jan­u­ary 18 from 10 am to 12 noon and con­tin­ue every Sat­ur­day for eight weeks and are open to both chil­dren and adults. Reg­is­tra­tion for this pro­gramme ends on Feb­ru­ary 1. Train­ing is of­fered at the novice, in­ter­me­di­ate and ad­vanced lev­els.

In­ter­est­ed per­sons can con­tact PFCC co­or­di­na­tors, Dr Sewlal at 751-3438 or Aaron at 788-5251.