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 2023-2024 are:
GP1 Crowborough Saturday 17th September 2023
GP2 Worth Saturday 15th October 2023
GP3 Eastbourne Sunday November 26th 2023
GP4 Hastings 1st January 2024
GP5 Horsham Sunday 4th February 2024
GP6 Worthing Saturday 18th May 2024
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 GP5 Horsham
| U7 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Spriha Punjabi | 3 | 3 | – | 3.5 | 4 | – | 13.5 |
| Henry Munroe | – | – | 3 | 3 | 4.5 | – | 10.5 |
| Oleksandr Chornyi | – | – | 2 | – | 3.5 | – | 5.5 |
| Mivaan Jhanwar | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Nithila Prabhu | – | – | – | – | 0 | – | 0 |
| U8 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Timmy Nguyen | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | – | – | 17 |
| Mark Shchepinov | 3.5 | 3 | 3 | – | 4.5 | – | 14 |
| George Brown | 2.5 | 4 | 2 | 3.5 | – | – | 12 |
| Euan Burnside | 3.5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 10.5 |
| Advik Saxena | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Arthur Ashcroft | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Blake Kim | – | 3 | – | – | 0 | – | 3 |
| Serik Thomas | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Neo Williams | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Ella Clark | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Eylul Hacikurt | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Aavir Jandu | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Petra Petersone | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| U9 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Noah Pearson | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | – | 16 |
| Darcy Grayson | – | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | – | 13 |
| Magnus Gomez | 2.5 | 4 | Q | 4 | – | – | 10.5 |
| Rutva Mittal | 5 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 9 |
| Eszter Geczi | – | – | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | – | 8.5 |
| Joshua Gedge | – | – | – | 5.5 | 1.5 | – | 7 |
| Ansh Sharma | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | – | 7 |
| Nikolas Kornelakis | 1 | 1.5 | 2.5 | – | 2 | – | 7 |
| Oluwatoyin Osunlana | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Daniel Dupuis | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| Ethan Cheng | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Thomas Bastow | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Aidian Wai | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| U10 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Nathanael Waller | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4.5 | 6 | – | 19.5 |
| Nicholas Bhattacharyya | 4 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 1.5 | – | – | 15.5 |
| Jinzhe Yang | 3.5 | 3 | 2.5 | – | 3.5 | – | 12.5 |
| Lola Finlay | 3.5 | 3 | – | – | 5.5 | – | 12 |
| Benjamin Carter | – | 3.5 | – | 4 | 2.5 | – | 10 |
| Maria Bhattacharyya | 4.5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 8.5 |
| Hongqi Zhang | – | 2.5 | 4.5 | – | – | – | 7 |
| Layth Ahmad | 3 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| Kai Subramanian | 3 | – | – | – | 3 | – | 6 |
| Samuel Lin | 2 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Reyansh Saxena | – | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Isaac Bucknell | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Gabrielle Bermingham | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| Jaxson Foster | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Eliza Blin | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Udayraj Dutta | – | 1.5 | – | – | – | – | 1.5 |
| Matthew Winder | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| U11 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Iaroslav Sinkevich | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | – | 15.5 |
| Gemma Cuthbertson | 4 | 2 | 3.5 | – | 4 | – | 13.5 |
| Harry Morter | 3 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 0.5 | – | 13 |
| Samuel Merchant | 1 | 5.5 | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | – | 13 |
| Sidhanth Pai | 3 | 4.5 | Q | 4.5 | – | – | 12 |
| Samuel Shah | 2.5 | 3 | Q | 4 | 2 | – | 11.5 |
| Theodore Ennos | – | – | 4 | 4 | 3 | – | 11 |
| Hal Gomez | 3 | 4.5 | Q | 2.5 | – | – | 10 |
| Alex Martynson | – | – | 3 | 3.5 | – | – | 6.5 |
| Zacharius Carthew | – | – | – | 3.5 | 3 | – | 6.5 |
| Makar Hrytsenko | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Isabella Walsh | 2 | 2 | 1.5 | – | – | – | 5.5 |
| Aidan Burnside | 2.5 | 0 | – | 2.5 | – | – | 5 |
| Arseniy Ryabokon | – | – | 4.5 | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Jonah Montagnon | – | – | – | – | 4.5 | – | 4.5 |
| Kai Beattie | – | – | – | – | 4.5 | – | 4.5 |
| Alex Owen Martynson | – | – | – | – | 3.5 | – | 3.5 |
| Michael Taylor | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| Siteng Cao | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| Gabriella Massey | – | – | – | – | 2.5 | – | 2.5 |
| Chester Cheung | – | – | – | – | 2.5 | – | 2.5 |
| Henry Hodgson | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 2 |
| Baxter Elam-Sains | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Pranav Khurana | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Michael Kwok | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| Theo Neghza | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Louis Bayjou | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 |
| Viaan Mehta | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| U12 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| James Ratcliffe | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5.5 | 3.5 | – | 18 |
| Arthur Kendall | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 3 | – | 15.5 |
| Joshua Tolhurst | – | 3.5 | 3 | 4 | 3.5 | – | 14 |
| Anh Nguyen | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | – | – | – | 11.5 |
| James Patrick Marsh | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | 3 | – | 11 |
| Rose Burgess | 2.5 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | – | 11 |
| John Brown | 3.5 | – | 3 | – | 3.5 | – | 10 |
| Raul Misquita Rodrigues | – | – | 2.5 | 3 | 3.5 | – | 9 |
| Charles Adams | 2 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | – | 7 |
| Aditya Gupta | 2 | – | 3 | – | – | – | 5 |
| Arjun Prasanna | 2.5 | – | – | 2.5 | – | – | 5 |
| Edward Nethercot | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Vaibhav Jayakumar | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| Samuel Zingerman | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Hana Ahmad | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Lucas Spellman-Welsh | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Shanaya Solanki | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| U13 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Luke Freeman | 4 | 4.5 | 4 | 3.5 | 4.5 | – | 17 |
| Mathias Keiller | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | – | 15 |
| Luke Chapman | 3.5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4.5 | – | 15 |
| Liam Finlay | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3.5 | 2.5 | – | 13.5 |
| Shravan Karthi Prabhu | 2 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 4 | – | 12.5 |
| Cyrus Fong | 4 | 4 | – | 3 | – | – | 11 |
| Kacper Bresinski | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | – | 11 |
| Benjamin Collins | 3.5 | 2 | 2 | – | 1.5 | – | 9 |
| Edgar Pack | – | – | 3.5 | – | 4.5 | – | 8 |
| Emil Gazala | – | – | 2.5 | – | 3 | – | 5.5 |
| Adam Sefton | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Jonathon Lin | 1.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Kanishka Suriarachchi | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Rupert Marsden | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Nayan Keats Rastogi | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| George Tagg | – | 1.5 | Q | – | 1 | – | 2.5 |
| Charlie Gooding | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Henri Blin | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Daniel Winder | 0 | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| Cosmo Trott | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| Brij Chauhan | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| Dakkshh Dawda | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Mylon Ashok | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| U14 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Cillian Nagy | 4 | 3 | 5 | – | 4.5 | – | 16.5 |
| Freya Pinna-Chapman | 5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 2 | – | 15 |
| Isaac Oakes | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4.5 | – | 14.5 |
| Igor Aleksandrov | 5.5 | 2.5 | 3.5 | – | 3 | – | 14.5 |
| Zebediah Taylor | 5.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 14 |
| Daniel Marshall | – | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | – | 11 |
| Luke Cuthbertson | 2.5 | 3 | 2 | – | 2.5 | – | 10 |
| Charlie Wannasin Bell | 2 | 3 | – | – | 2 | – | 7 |
| Yoting Wang | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 4 |
| Ernest Saunders | 1.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Marco Ortolani | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Risha JIthendra | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Leonid Popov | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Ryan Martin | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Jacob Martin | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
| Khang Luong | – | – | 2.5 | – | – | – | 2.5 |
| Ann Tagg | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| Gray Keira | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| U15 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Sebastian Merchant | 3.5 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 4 | 6 | – | 18 |
| Leon Sazkissyan | 4 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 3 | 3 | – | 17 |
| Albert Eldridge | 2 | 4 | 2.5 | 5 | 3 | – | 14.5 |
| Matthew Collins | 3 | 3.5 | 2 | – | 4 | – | 12.5 |
| Rafi Salmons | 2 | – | 2 | – | 3 | – | 7 |
| Edie Stacy | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | – | 6 |
| Alexander McVey | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| Josh Sharma | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Oliver Stockham | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Alise Petersone | – | – | – | – | 3.5 | – | 3.5 |
| Adam Rafael Holmes | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Kit Blades | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Moksha Suriarachchi | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Chae Wai | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Sophia Blin | – | – | – | 0.5 | – | – | 0.5 |
| U16 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Louis Buckland | 4 | 6 | 4.5 | – | 3 | – | 17.5 |
| George Adams | 3.5 | – | 5.5 | – | – | – | 9 |
| Ale Gerini | – | – | – | 4 | 3.5 | – | 7.5 |
| Charles Godwin | 3.5 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| Elena Currah | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Tia Rudwick | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 4 |
| Alexander Lebedev | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Theo Trott | – | – | – | – | 3.5 | – | 3.5 |
| Linh Luong | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | 3 |
| Lucy Hopkirk | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| U17 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Ben Crosby | 4 | – | – | – | 2.5 | – | 6.5 |
| Max Dinley | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Jacob Wynn | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Peter Crosby | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Tegen Baker | 0 | – | – | – | 2.5 | – | 2.5 |
| Raina Jithendra | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
| U18 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Henry Adams | 4.5 | – | – | 5 | 5.5 | – | 15 |
| Tadeusz Tompsett | 4 | 4 | 2.5 | – | 4 | – | 14.5 |
| Elizabeth Finn | 3.5 | – | 2.5 | 3 | 4 | – | 13 |
| James Le Patourel | 4 | – | 4 | – | – | – | 8 |
| Teddy Harding | 4 | – | 4 | – | – | – | 8 |
| Luka Chijiutomi-Ghosh | – | – | 4.5 | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Patrick Flamman | 4 | – | 0 | – | – | – | 4 |
| Daniel Donaghy | – | – | – | 3.5 | – | – | 3.5 |
| Silas Embleton | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Thomas W Martin | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |