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 GP6 Worthing
| U7 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Spriha Punjabi | 3 | 3 | – | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 15 |
| Henry Munroe | – | – | 3 | 3 | 4.5 | 3 | 13.5 |
| Oleksandr Chornyi | – | – | 2 | – | 3.5 | 2 | 7.5 |
| Artem Dodukh | – | – | – | – | – | 5 | 5 |
| Oliver Forbes-Lopez | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| Mivaan Jhanwar | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Rogan Zampieri | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 2 | 14 |
| George Brown | 2.5 | 4 | 2 | 3.5 | – | 3 | 13 |
| Euan Burnside | 3.5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | – | 2 | 10.5 |
| Advik Saxena | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Neo Williams | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Blake Kim | – | 3 | – | – | 0 | 1.5 | 4.5 |
| Aavir Jandu | – | – | 1 | – | – | 3 | 4 |
| Ella Clark | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Arthur Ashcroft | – | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Serik Thomas | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Eylul Hacikurt | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Petra Petersone | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| U9 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Noah Pearson | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| Darcy Grayson | – | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| Ansh Sharma | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| Magnus Gomez | 2.5 | 4 | Q | 4 | – | – | 10.5 |
| Rutva Mittal | 5 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 9 |
| Eszter Geczi | – | – | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | – | 8.5 |
| Oluwatoyin Osunlana | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | 2.5 | 8.5 |
| Nikolas Kornelakis | 1 | 1.5 | 2.5 | – | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Joshua Gedge | – | – | – | 5.5 | 1.5 | – | 7 |
| Daniel Dupuis | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| Ethan Cheng | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Alistair Gochban | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 |
| Hudson Robinson | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Alfie Webb | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Leon Taylor | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Kenzo Carter | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| Thomas Bastow | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Dexter France | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Aidian Wai | – | – | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| U10 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Nathanael Waller | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4.5 | 6 | 3 | 19.5 |
| Nicholas Bhattacharyya | 4 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 1.5 | – | – | 15.5 |
| Benjamin Carter | – | 3.5 | – | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | 14 |
| Jinzhe Yang | 3.5 | 3 | 2.5 | – | 3.5 | 3.5 | 13.5 |
| Lola Finlay | 3.5 | 3 | – | – | 5.5 | 1 | 13 |
| 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 |
| Eliza Blin | – | – | – | 2 | – | 3 | 5 |
| Samuel Lin | 2 | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Gabrielle Bermingham | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 1.5 | 4.5 |
| Reyansh Saxena | – | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Isaac Bucknell | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Zachary Rohvarger | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 |
| Jaxson Foster | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Udayraj Dutta | – | 1.5 | – | – | – | – | 1.5 |
| Samiar Ahrar | – | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Jude Hodges | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Winder | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| U11 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Sidhanth Pai | 3 | 4.5 | Q | 4.5 | – | 4 | 16 |
| Iaroslav Sinkevich | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | 3 | 15.5 |
| Theodore Ennos | – | – | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4.5 | 15.5 |
| Gemma Cuthbertson | 4 | 2 | 3.5 | – | 4 | 3.5 | 15 |
| Samuel Merchant | 1 | 5.5 | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| Alex Martynson | – | – | 3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 13.5 |
| Harry Morter | 3 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 13.5 |
| Samuel Shah | 2.5 | 3 | Q | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12.5 |
| Zacharius Carthew | – | – | – | 3.5 | 3 | 4.5 | 11 |
| Hal Gomez | 3 | 4.5 | Q | 2.5 | – | – | 10 |
| Makar Hrytsenko | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Michael Taylor | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2.5 | 5.5 |
| Isabella Walsh | 2 | 2 | 1.5 | – | – | – | 5.5 |
| Aidan Burnside | 2.5 | 0 | – | 2.5 | – | 0 | 5 |
| Arseniy Ryabokon | – | – | 4.5 | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Jonah Montagnon | – | – | – | – | 4.5 | – | 4.5 |
| Kai Beattie | – | – | – | – | 4.5 | – | 4.5 |
| Rahul Leo thomas | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Thomas Gait | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Tianyi Zhang | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Allan Gochban | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 |
| Andrew Xue | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 |
| Sebastian Serrano | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Siteng Cao | – | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Jacob Delacour | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Gabriella Massey | – | – | – | – | 2.5 | – | 2.5 |
| Chester Cheung | – | – | – | – | 2.5 | – | 2.5 |
| Aidan Redway | – | – | – | – | – | 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 |
| Embla Daniels | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 2.5 | 18 |
| Arthur Kendall | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 15.5 |
| Joshua Tolhurst | – | 3.5 | 3 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 14.5 |
| James Patrick Marsh | 3 | 3 | 2 | – | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Anh Nguyen | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | – | – | – | 11.5 |
| Rose Burgess | 2.5 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 11.5 |
| Raul Misquita Rodrigues | – | – | 2.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 2 | 11 |
| John Brown | 3.5 | – | 3 | – | 3.5 | – | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jake Marshall | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Arthur Portelli | – | – | – | – | – | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Samuel Zingerman | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Hana Ahmad | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Lucas Spellman-Welsh | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Shanaya Solanki | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Jathan Harenburg | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| U13 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Luke Chapman | 3.5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 18.5 |
| Luke Freeman | 4 | 4.5 | 4 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 17.5 |
| Mathias Keiller | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2.5 | 15.5 |
| Liam Finlay | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 14 |
| Shravan Karthi Prabhu | 2 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| Edgar Pack | – | – | 3.5 | – | 4.5 | 4.5 | 12.5 |
| Kacper Bresinski | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Cyrus Fong | 4 | 4 | – | 3 | – | – | 11 |
| Benjamin Collins | 3.5 | 2 | 2 | – | 1.5 | 1.5 | 9 |
| Emil Gazala | – | – | 2.5 | – | 3 | 2 | 7.5 |
| Brij Chauhan | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | 4 | 5.5 |
| George Tagg | – | 1.5 | Q | – | 1 | 2 | 4.5 |
| Adam Sefton | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Jonathon Lin | 1.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Cosmo Trott | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | 2 | 3.5 |
| Dakkshh Dawda | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Kanishka Suriarachchi | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Rupert Marsden | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Nayan Keats Rastogi | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Joel Brook | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Layton Creber | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Charlie Gooding | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Henri Blin | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Angharad Fraser Jenkins | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| Daniel Winder | 0 | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| Mylon Ashok | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Richard Gochban | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| U14 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Cillian Nagy | 4 | 3 | 5 | – | 4.5 | 5.5 | 19 |
| Isaac Oakes | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 16 |
| Igor Aleksandrov | 5.5 | 2.5 | 3.5 | – | 3 | 3.5 | 15.5 |
| Freya Pinna-Chapman | 5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 2 | 1.5 | 15 |
| Zebediah Taylor | 5.5 | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | – | 2 | 14 |
| Daniel Marshall | – | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| Luke Cuthbertson | 2.5 | 3 | 2 | – | 2.5 | 2 | 10 |
| Marco Ortolani | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 5 | 8.5 |
| Charlie Wannasin Bell | 2 | 3 | – | – | 2 | – | 7 |
| Ann Tagg | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | 4 | 5.5 |
| Yoting Wang | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 4 |
| Vishal Leo thomas | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 |
| Ernest Saunders | 1.5 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 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 |
| Gray Keira | – | – | – | – | 1.5 | – | 1.5 |
| U15 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Leon Sazkissyan | 4 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 19 |
| Sebastian Merchant | 3.5 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| Albert Eldridge | 2 | 4 | 2.5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| Matthew Collins | 3 | 3.5 | 2 | – | 4 | – | 12.5 |
| Edie Stacy | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| Rafi Salmons | 2 | – | 2 | – | 3 | – | 7 |
| 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 |
| Frank Ludlow | – | – | – | – | – | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 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 |
| Ale Gerini | – | – | – | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | 11.5 |
| George Adams | 3.5 | – | 5.5 | – | – | – | 9 |
| Charles Godwin | 3.5 | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| Theo Trott | – | – | – | – | 3.5 | 2.5 | 6 |
| Elena Currah | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Tia Rudwick | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 4 |
| Alexander Lebedev | 3.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 3.5 |
| Linh Luong | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | 3 |
| Emmylou Crozer | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| Lucy Hopkirk | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| U17 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Jacob Wynn | 4 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 7 |
| Ben Crosby | 4 | – | – | – | 2.5 | – | 6.5 |
| Tegen Baker | 0 | – | – | – | 2.5 | 4 | 6.5 |
| Max Dinley | 4.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 4.5 |
| Peter Crosby | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Raina Jithendra | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | – | 2.5 |
| U18 Scores | |||||||
| Name | GP1 | GP2 | GP3 | GP4 | GP5 | GP6 | Score |
| Tadeusz Tompsett | 4 | 4 | 2.5 | – | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| Henry Adams | 4.5 | – | – | 5 | 5.5 | – | 15 |
| 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 |