Last week Harry Ryder, Jasper Rui, Olllie Crowe, Charlie Ryder, Parker Melksham, Dale Paton and Lachlan Hargreaves went to a Chess tournament at St Mary's Young and played seven rounds of chess.  There were students from Tumut, Canberra, Young and Gundagai.  The students were very talented and overall it was a very fun day.  William from Young used a special moved called "castling" castling is a special chess move involving both the king and one rook allowing them to move simultaneously in a single turn. Its the only time two pieces are moved at once.  The king moves two squares either towards the rook (king-side or queen side) the rook then hops over the king to the adjacent square. 

Written by Jasper and Ollie