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 January 2024 tbc
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 GP2 Worth
Age Group | Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
U7 | Spriha Punjabi | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U7 | Mivaan Jhanwar | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
U7 | Andrei Popov | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U8 | Timmy Nguyen | 3 | 5 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
U8 | George Brown | 2.5 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U8 | Mark Shchepinov | 3.5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U8 | Advik Saxena | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U8 | Euan Burnside | 3.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 5.5 |
U8 | Arthur Ashcroft | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U8 | Blake Kim | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U8 | Serik Thomas | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U8 | Mikhail Popov | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U9 | Rutva Mittal | 5 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 9 |
U9 | Magnus Gomez | 2.5 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U9 | Oluwatoyin Osunlana | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U9 | Daniel Dupuis | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
U9 | Noah Pearson | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 5 |
U9 | Darcy Grayson | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U9 | Nikolas Kornelakis | 1 | 1.5 | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
U10 | Nicholas Bhattacharyya | 4 | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 8.5 |
U10 | Nathanael Waller | 3 | 5 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
U10 | Maria Bhattacharyya | 4.5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 7.5 |
U10 | Layth Ahmad | 3 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
U10 | Jinzhe Yang | 3.5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U10 | Lola Finlay | 3.5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U10 | Reyansh Saxena | – | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
U10 | Samuel Lin | 2 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
U10 | Isaac Bucknell | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
U10 | Benjamin Carter | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U10 | Kai Subramanian | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U10 | Hongqi Zhang | – | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
U10 | Jaxson Foster | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U10 | Udayraj Dutta | – | 1.5 | – | – | – | – | 1.5 |
U10 | Gabrielle Bermingham | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U10 | Matthew Winder | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U11 | Iaroslav Sinkevich | 4.5 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
U11 | Hal Gomez | 3 | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 7.5 |
U11 | Sidhanth Pai | 3 | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 7.5 |
U11 | Harry Morter | 3 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U11 | Samuel Merchant | 1 | 5.5 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U11 | Gemma Cuthbertson | 4 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U11 | Makar Hrytsenko | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U11 | Samuel Shah | 2.5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 5.5 |
U11 | Isabella Walsh | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
U11 | Aidan Burnside | 2.5 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
U11 | Theo Neghza | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
U11 | Viaan Mehta | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U12 | James Ratcliffe | 5 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 9 |
U12 | Arthur Kendall | 3.5 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
U12 | James Patrick Marsh | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U12 | Rose Burgess | 2.5 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U12 | Charles Adams | 2 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
U12 | John Brown | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U12 | Joshua Tolhurst | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U12 | Anh Nguyen | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U12 | Edward Nethercot | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U12 | Arjun Prasanna | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
U12 | Hana Ahmad | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U12 | Lucas Spellman-Welsh | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U12 | Shanaya Solanki | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U12 | Benjamin philips | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U13 | Mathias Keiller | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | 10 |
U13 | Luke Freeman | 4 | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 8.5 |
U13 | Cyrus Fong | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
U13 | Liam Finlay | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U13 | Benjamin Collins | 3.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 5.5 |
U13 | Shravan Karthi Prabhu | 2 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 5.5 |
U13 | Luke Chapman | 3.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 5.5 |
U13 | Adam Sefton | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
U13 | Kacper Bresinski | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
U13 | Jonathon Lin | 1.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U13 | Kanishka Suriarachchi | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U13 | Rupert Marsden | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U13 | George Tagg | – | 1.5 | – | – | – | – | 1.5 |
U13 | Mylon Ashok | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
U13 | Daniel Winder | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U13 | Emil Gazala | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U14 | Freya Pinna-Chapman | 5 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 8.5 |
U14 | Igor Aleksandrov | 5.5 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
U14 | Zebediah Taylor | 5.5 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
U14 | Cillian Nagy | 4 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
U14 | Isaac Oakes | 3 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
U14 | Luke Cuthbertson | 2.5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 5.5 |
U14 | Charlie Wannasin Bell | 2 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 5 |
U14 | Ernest Saunders | 1.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U14 | Marco Ortolani | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U14 | Risha JIthendra | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U14 | Leonid Popov | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U14 | Ryan Martin | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U14 | Jacob Martin | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
U14 | Daniel Marshall | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U15 | Leon Sazkissyan | 4 | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 8.5 |
U15 | Matthew Collins | 3 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 6.5 |
U15 | Albert Eldridge | 2 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U15 | Sebastian Merchant | 3.5 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
U15 | Alexander McVey | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 5 |
U15 | Josh Sharma | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U15 | Adam Rafael holmes | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U15 | Moksha Suriarachchi | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U15 | Rafi Salmons | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U15 | Alise Petersone | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U16 | Louis Buckland | 4 | 6 | – | – | – | – | 10 |
U16 | Charles Godwin | 3.5 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
U16 | Alexander Lebedev | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U16 | George Adams | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
U16 | Elena Currah | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U16 | Elijah Green | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U17 | Max Dinley | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
U17 | Jacob Wynn | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
U17 | Peter Crosby | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
U17 | Tegen Baker | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
U18 | Tadeusz Tompsett | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
U18 | James Le Patourel | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
U18 | Patrick Flamman | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
U18 | Teddy Harding | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
U18 | Silas Embleton | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
U18 | Thomas W Martin | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |