Burnaby’s Marlborough Elementary School unseated defending champions St. George’s Junior School from Vancouver to win the B.C. Elementary School Team Chess tournament last month.
Marlborough Grade 5 students Henry Yang, Lyndon Ho and Alex Wang joined Grade 6 students Brandon Chan and Mengyang Li to take on 12 other schools from across B.C. on May 15.
The local team amassed 16 point after five rounds to capture the main A section of the tournament.
Marlborough students have been honing their chess skills at local Burnaby Knightmare chess tournaments run by national tournament director Henry Chiu.
The local school began entering the provincial tournament three years ago, improving on its results every year.
The other Burnaby team entered in the A section of the provincial tournament was Taylor Park, which placed sixth.
