Chess Zonals at our School

"Sports has the power to change the world...it has the power to inspire. It has a power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to the youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope where once there was only despair. Its more powerful than the government in breaking down racial barriers."

The Indian School has always believed in the overall development of a student. It has always emphasised on including co-curricular activities in their development programme. To boost this, regular coaching is also carried out within the School premises.

Recently, School hosted the Chess Zonals 2016, an inter-school tournament which included all categories for boys and girls i.e. sub-junior, junior, and senior. This knock out-based tournament started on 25th July and the finals were held on 28th July, 2016. 23 schools participated in the girls categories and 19 schools in the boys categories.

Our School boys qualified upto the finals in all three categories. The Indian School Boys Junior Team was declared the winner of the tournament after beating Amity, Pushp Vihar in the finals while the sub-junior and senior teams were declared first runners up! The Indian School Girls team was declared first runners up in the sub-junior category and second runners up in the junior category.

The students who participated in the different categories are as follows:

JUNIOR BOYS (WINNERS) 1. Aansh Gupta - X-C 2. Aditya Sharma - X-B 3. Anirudh Chhikara - X-B

SUB. JUNIOR BOYS (2nd POSITION) 1. Udit Sanghi - VIII-A 2. Auro Sankalp - VII-C 3. Angad Singh Chugh - VIII-A

SENIOR BOYS (2nd POSITION) 1. Shirsh Kumar - XI-C 2. Aryan Kakkar - XI-C 3. Sarvam Narang - XII-C

JUNIOR GIRLS (2nd POSITION) 1. Gauri Awasthi - IX-D 2. Divita Anand - IX-D 3. Mehar Saxena - IX-D

SUB. JUNIOR GIRLS (3rd POSITION) 1. Nayantara - VIII-B 2. Aadya Sharma - VI-A 3. Vani Bhardwaj - VII-C

SENIOR GIRLS (PARTICIPATION) 1. Bhavika Sharma - XI-E 2. Harshini - XII-C 3. Jasmine Wadhwa - XII-B