Since 1992 chess in our school has experienced a meteoric rise in success and popularity. We won our first ever Chess trophy - The Post-Primary School Div.4 League Championship - in our first year (1992-93) by beating off opposition from six other schools. This was a great achievement for a team with little experience at competition level. Success followed again in the 94/95 season when, following a tough series of matches, we topped the Division 3 table. We earned our promotion an the next season saw three teams entering at Division 2,3 and 4 levels.

The Chess Club is run along the following lines:

• 5 players + 1 sub per team.
• 5 games are played concurrently on boards 1-5.
• 1 point is scored for a win, a half point for a draw and 0 for a loss.

Chess has been dominated in recent years by Christians College and Douglas Community School (and C.S.N are always hard to beat) However, we are assembling a strong player base and hope to soon challenge for top honours in Division 1.