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The primary goal at Northern Star is to encourage regular involvement with chess tournaments in local schools, and thus providing a focus which enables children to pursue continued improvement in their chess skills.
By recognising the unique diversity of a local area, we have a number of strategies to enhance flexibility so we can better support and accommodate school requirements.
Many schools have chess as an important part of their repertoire of extracurricular programs. Northern Star enables schools to offer a chess program which caters for any year and skill level. Prospective parents are often impressed when they learn that the chess program on offer includes all year levels, starting from the very young (prep) and not just the higher year levels or exclusive to the top players as is the general perception.
Some schools find that the less competitive focus of the Northern Star tournaments provide an introductory experience of chess tournaments in an encouraging and reassuring environment. While involvement in the Zonal tournaments provide more challenge for the serious junior players to qualify for higher level (State and National) competitions.
The Northern Star chess tournament experience inspires children to improve, supporting and encouraging them to progress in confidence and skills for tournaments in the wider chess community.
