Chess Club
Wilsons school also runs a successful chess club, which runs at lunchtimes. This is distinct from the team, which in 2008 it won the plate in the national cup. It runs several chess teams, and in 2010 it got through to the final four in the National Cup for the first time. It contains several players who play for England in their age groups and annually runs the British Land UK chess tournament. Wilsons runs the largest secondary school chess club in the UK, with the number of players entering it's ladder (239) having overtaken the number of people in the next largest club- the ccf.
The school also runs chess tournaments including individual, form (for house) and inter school events. This is not counting County matches which may be played in the school.
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