There are 6 tournaments that make up an annual Sussex Junior Chess Grand Prix (GP), similar to the one in motor racing. Results in each of the constituent Grand Prix tournaments earn points towards the overall Grand Prix. These points are accumulated for all eligible participants.
The 6 grand prix tournaments for 2022-2023 are:
GP1 Crowborough Saturday 17th September 2022
GP2 Worth Saturday 15th October 2022
GP3 Eastbourne November 2022 tbc
GP4 Hastings Monday 2nd January 2023
GP5 Horsham Sunday 5th February 2023
GP6 Worthing May 2023 tbc
At the last one of the season, which this season will be in May, age group prizes are awarded for performance over the season. The best four individual grand prix scores for each player are totalled. Players needs to have attended a minimum of three Grand Prix events to be eligible.
Additionally, special grand prix loyalty medals are awarded to all players who have attended at least 5 of the Grand Prix events.
Full Grand Prix Rules:

Grand Prix Placings After GP4 Hastings
Name | Age Group | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
Euan Burnside | U7 | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | 8 | ||
Spriha Punjabi | U7 | – | 4 | – | 3 | 7 | ||
George Brown | U7 | – | 2 | – | 3 | 5 | ||
Mark Shchepinov | U7 | 3 | – | 1 | – | 4 | ||
Rhiannon Page | U7 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | ||
Magnus Gomez | U8 | 3.5 | 5 | 3.5 | 4 | 16 | ||
Josiah Mckie | U8 | 3.5 | 6 | 2.5 | – | 12 | ||
Rutva Mittal | U8 | 1.5 | 2 | 3 | – | 6.5 | ||
Bodhana Sivanandan | U8 | – | – | – | 6 | 6 | ||
Saiarya Arun | U8 | 5 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
Clark Walsh | U8 | 2 | 1 | – | 1.5 | 4.5 | ||
Krish Gandhi | U8 | – | – | – | 4.5 | 4.5 | ||
Leon Ishida Peigne | U8 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
Derik Kruger | U8 | Q | – | – | 2 | 2 | ||
Zerting Wang | U8 | – | – | 0.5 | – | 0.5 | ||
Jolin Brown | U8 | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | ||
Layth Ahmad | U9 | 3.5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13.5 | ||
Akshay Kai Subramanian | U9 | 3.5 | 3 | – | 6 | 12.5 | ||
Nathanael Waller | U9 | – | 3 | 5 | 2.5 | 10.5 | ||
Nicholas Bhattacharyya | U9 | – | 3 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 10 | ||
Jinzhe Yang | U9 | 4.5 | – | – | 2.5 | 7 | ||
Hongqi Zhang | U9 | – | – | 4 | – | 4 | ||
Zeel Shah | U9 | 1 | 1.5 | 1 | – | 3.5 | ||
Maria Bhattacharyya | U9 | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | ||
Kaelen Patel | U9 | 2.5 | – | – | – | 2.5 | ||
William Wilkinson | U9 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | ||
Eliza Blin | U9 | – | 1.5 | – | – | 1.5 | ||
James Wang | U10 | – | 5.5 | 4 | 6 | 15.5 | ||
Hal Gomez | U10 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 14.5 | ||
Samuel Merchant | U10 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 13.5 | ||
Sidhanth Pai | U10 | – | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | ||
Isabella Walsh | U10 | 5 | 3 | – | 2 | 10 | ||
Samuel Shah | U10 | 4 | 3 | – | 3 | 10 | ||
Aidan Burnside | U10 | 2.5 | 4 | 2 | – | 8.5 | ||
Vahin Karthick Vairavan | U10 | 3.5 | 2 | 3 | – | 8.5 | ||
Aidan Redway | U10 | – | – | 4.5 | 2 | 6.5 | ||
Harry Morter | U10 | – | – | 1.5 | 3.5 | 5 | ||
Shrey Soni | U10 | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | ||
Andrew Xue | U10 | – | 3 | – | – | 3 | ||
Gabriella Massey | U10 | – | 3 | – | – | 3 | ||
Gemma Cuthbertson | U10 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 3 | ||
Rahul Leo Thomas | U10 | – | 3 | – | – | 3 | ||
Dylan Mullett | U10 | 2.5 | – | – | – | 2.5 | ||
Noel Ishida Peigne | U10 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
Theo Neghza | U10 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||
John Brown | U11 | 3 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 5 | 16 | ||
Aditya Gupta | U11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | ||
Rose Burgess | U11 | – | 3 | 3.5 | 3 | 9.5 | ||
Anh Nguyen | U11 | Q | Q | 5 | 3.5 | 8.5 | ||
Jake Marshall | U11 | 2.5 | – | 3 | 3 | 8.5 | ||
Charles Adams | U11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 8 | ||
Joshua Tolhurst | U11 | – | – | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||
Edward Nethercot | U11 | 3.5 | 3 | – | – | 6.5 | ||
Preesh Gandhi | U11 | – | – | – | 5 | 5 | ||
Marcy Page | U11 | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | ||
Arjun Prasanna | U11 | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | ||
Samuel Devine | U11 | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | ||
Tom Hammond | U11 | – | 3 | – | – | 3 | ||
Eileen Mommsen | U11 | – | – | – | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
Lucas Ma | U11 | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | ||
Maja Trifunovic | U11 | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | ||
Sammy Scott | U11 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | ||
Luke Chapman | U12 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 16.5 | ||
George Tagg | U12 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 5 | 2 | 15 | ||
Mathias Keiller | U12 | 3.5 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | 15 | ||
Luke Freeman | U12 | 3.5 | 5 | 2.5 | – | 11 | ||
Cyrus Fong | U12 | 2.5 | 3 | 2 | 2.5 | 10 | ||
Liam Finlay | U12 | 2.5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9.5 | ||
Nayan Keats Rastogi | U12 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3 | – | 9 | ||
Ashwin Jain | U12 | 4 | 1 | 2.5 | – | 7.5 | ||
Benjamin Collins | U12 | 2 | 2 | 1.5 | 2 | 7.5 | ||
Emil Gazala | U12 | – | 3 | 3 | – | 6 | ||
Niamh Grace | U12 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 5 | ||
Rupert Marsden | U12 | – | 5 | – | – | 5 | ||
Antony Dane | U12 | – | 4 | – | – | 4 | ||
Henri Blin | U12 | Q | 4 | – | – | 4 | ||
James Dane | U12 | – | 3.5 | – | – | 3.5 | ||
Aryan Gohil | U12 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
James Beecroft | U12 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
Nicholas Deacon | U12 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
Bradley Marchant | U12 | – | – | – | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
Azaan Khan | U12 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
Cai Salmons | U12 | 0 | – | 0.5 | – | 0.5 | ||
James Fisher | U12 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
Freya Pinna-Chapman | U13 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | ||
Igor Aleksandrov | U13 | 4.5 | 5 | 2 | 3.5 | 15 | ||
Cillian Nagy | U13 | 4 | 2.5 | 5 | 3 | 14.5 | ||
Ryan Martin | U13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3.5 | 13.5 | ||
Zebadiah Taylor | U13 | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | 11 | ||
Ann Tagg | U13 | 2 | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 9.5 | ||
Ernest Saunders | U13 | 3 | 4 | 2.5 | – | 9.5 | ||
Hiroto Motokawa | U13 | 3.5 | – | 0 | 4 | 7.5 | ||
Yoting Wang | U13 | 3 | – | 3.5 | – | 6.5 | ||
Ashton Gadiot | U13 | 2.5 | – | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | ||
Charlie Wannasin Bell | U13 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | – | 5.5 | ||
Marco Ortolani | U13 | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | ||
Vishal Leo Thomas | U13 | – | 3.5 | – | – | 3.5 | ||
Luke Cuthbertson | U13 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 3 | ||
Risha JIthendra | U13 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
Eliza Hochstetler | U13 | – | – | – | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
Keeley Sallis | U13 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
Thomas Baker | U13 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||
Matthew Collins | U14 | 4.5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15.5 | ||
Sebastian Merchant | U14 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 3 | 15 | ||
Alise Petersone | U14 | 3 | 3.5 | – | 2.5 | 9 | ||
Rafi Salmons | U14 | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Adam Rafael Holmes | U14 | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | – | 4.5 | ||
Matthew Deacon | U14 | 1.5 | 3 | – | – | 4.5 | ||
Oliver Stockham | U14 | Q | – | 4.5 | – | 4.5 | ||
Davi Diniz Afonso | U14 | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | ||
Yijun Wang | U14 | – | – | – | 3.5 | 3.5 | ||
Edie Stacy | U14 | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | ||
Josh Sharma | U14 | – | 3 | – | – | 3 | ||
Marcus Mommsen | U14 | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | ||
Henry Scott | U14 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | ||
Brenda Mow | U14 | – | – | – | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
Donovan Barton | U14 | – | – | – | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
Louis Buckland | U15 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3.5 | 15.5 | ||
Elena Currah | U15 | 3.5 | 3 | 5 | 3.5 | 15 | ||
Alexander Lebedev | U15 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 3 | 13 | ||
Tia Rudwick | U15 | – | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 12.5 | ||
Cameron Cooper | U15 | 3 | 4 | 3.5 | – | 10.5 | ||
George Adams | U15 | 3 | – | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||
Hayden Leeson | U15 | 2.5 | 3 | 2.5 | – | 8 | ||
Charles Walters | U15 | – | 1.5 | – | – | 1.5 | ||
Jacob Wynn | U16 | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | 2 | 11.5 | ||
Kilian Teschke-Panah | U16 | 3 | 2.5 | – | 4 | 9.5 | ||
Annamalai Nachiappan | U16 | – | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||
Ted Filby | U16 | 4.5 | – | 3 | – | 7.5 | ||
Tegen Baker | U16 | – | 2.5 | – | 4 | 6.5 | ||
Arjun Kolani | U16 | 5 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
Sherwin Wang | U16 | – | – | – | 5 | 5 | ||
Benjamin Pearce | U16 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
Raina Jithendra | U16 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
Cesare Masset | U16 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||
Henry Adams | U17 | 5 | 4 | 5.5 | 4 | 18.5 | ||
Tadeusz Tompsett | U17 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | ||
Elizabeth Finn | U17 | 2 | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | 11.5 | ||
Thomas Martin | U17 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 1.5 | 8.5 | ||
Daniel Donaghy | U17 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
Jonathan Britnell | U18 | 4 | 5.5 | – | 3.5 | 13 | ||
Daniel Longley | U18 | 3.5 | – | 4 | 4.5 | 12 | ||
Polina Shchepinova | U18 | 4 | 3 | 4 | – | 11 | ||
Nico Smith | U18 | – | 3 | 2 | – | 5 | ||
Alec Hedger | U18 | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | ||
Oliver Christian | U18 | – | – | 3 | – | 3 | ||
Oliver Manchester | U18 | – | – | – | 2.5 | 2.5 |