Harrison College “A” team won the 2025 Secondary School Under 20 team chess championship which was played at their school at Crumpton Street over the last weekend.

Harrison College “A” edged out the number one seed Queen’s College “A” by a mere one and a half game points as the former scored 26.5 points, while the later garnered 25.

Harrison College’ s “A” team of Mileke Sinckler, Aaron Jaikaran, Charis Stuart, Joseph Yeung-Chou and Melvin Terence won all their 6 matches, and none was more important than the head-to-head clash with Queen’s College “A” in round three.

In this match, Kolij “A” edged the Queen’s College “A” team 3 – 2 in a very tense affair. On board one, Mileke Sinckler upset the higher rated Chanon Reifer-Belle in a tough battle, while the other victory for them came on board 5, where Melvin Terence defeated Loki Clarke. Loki’s brother Noah won for Queen’s College “A” on board three from Charis Stuart, while the other two matches ended in draws.

After this match Harrison College “A” held a very slim one-point lead and to secure the title they would have to rely on no slip ups and another team taking some valuable points away from the Queen’s College “A” team. As such would happen in that the Combermere “A” team would take a vital 2 points from Harrison College “A” team in their round 5 match-up. The heroes for Combermere “A” were Leshay Springer and Nathan Griffith who won their games even though the team eventually went down 2 – 3.

Combermere “A” eventually came third on 19 points while Queen’s College “B” came fourth on 15 ½ points in the dozen team field.

The outstanding players were Mileke Sinckler and Melvin Terence who won all their games. Noah Clarke won all his games as well. Aaron Jaikaran and Joseph Yeung-Chou scored 5 ½ points from their 6 games, as well as Amari Blackett form Queen’s College also scored 5 ½ on board 4.

The top 5 finishers were

Rank.   Team              Points

1    Harrison College A      26,5     

2    Queens College A       25        

3    Combermere A         19         

4    Lester Vaughn A        16,5      

5    Harrison College B      16 

 

The next event on the Barbados Chess Federation calendar is the 2025 Under 8 – 18 Youth Championships at the St. Leonard’s Secondary school over the weekend of April 5 – 6 beginning at 9. 00 a.m.