2023 – 24 Grand Prix

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 GroupNameGP1GP2GP3GP4GP5GP6Score
U7Spriha Punjabi336
U7Mivaan Jhanwar11
U7Andrei Popov0
U8Timmy Nguyen358
U8George Brown2.546.5
U8Mark Shchepinov3.536.5
U8Advik Saxena66
U8Euan Burnside3.525.5
U8Arthur Ashcroft3.53.5
U8Blake Kim33
U8Serik Thomas33
U8Mikhail Popov0
U9Rutva Mittal549
U9Magnus Gomez2.546.5
U9Oluwatoyin Osunlana336
U9Daniel Dupuis55
U9Noah Pearson325
U9Darcy Grayson33
U9Nikolas Kornelakis11.52.5
U10Nicholas Bhattacharyya44.58.5
U10Nathanael Waller358
U10Maria Bhattacharyya4.537.5
U10Layth Ahmad347
U10Jinzhe Yang3.536.5
U10Lola Finlay3.536.5
U10Reyansh Saxena4.54.5
U10Samuel Lin22.54.5
U10Isaac Bucknell44
U10Benjamin Carter3.53.5
U10Kai Subramanian33
U10Hongqi Zhang2.52.5
U10Jaxson Foster22
U10Udayraj Dutta1.51.5
U10Gabrielle Bermingham00
U10Matthew Winder00
U11Iaroslav Sinkevich4.53.58
U11Hal Gomez34.57.5
U11Sidhanth Pai34.57.5
U11Harry Morter33.56.5
U11Samuel Merchant15.56.5
U11Gemma Cuthbertson426
U11Makar Hrytsenko66
U11Samuel Shah2.535.5
U11Isabella Walsh224
U11Aidan Burnside2.502.5
U11Theo Neghza11
U11Viaan Mehta00
U12James Ratcliffe549
U12Arthur Kendall3.53.57
U12James Patrick Marsh336
U12Rose Burgess2.53.56
U12Charles Adams22.54.5
U12John Brown3.53.5
U12Joshua Tolhurst3.53.5
U12Anh Nguyen3.53.5
U12Edward Nethercot33
U12Arjun Prasanna2.52.5
U12Hana Ahmad22
U12Lucas Spellman-Welsh22
U12Shanaya Solanki22
U12Benjamin philips0
U13Mathias Keiller5510
U13Luke Freeman44.58.5
U13Cyrus Fong448
U13Liam Finlay336
U13Benjamin Collins3.525.5
U13Shravan Karthi Prabhu23.55.5
U13Luke Chapman3.525.5
U13Adam Sefton4.54.5
U13Kacper Bresinski224
U13Jonathon Lin1.523.5
U13Kanishka Suriarachchi33
U13Rupert Marsden33
U13George Tagg1.51.5
U13Mylon Ashok11
U13Daniel Winder00
U13Emil Gazala0
U14Freya Pinna-Chapman53.58.5
U14Igor Aleksandrov5.52.58
U14Zebediah Taylor5.52.58
U14Cillian Nagy437
U14Isaac Oakes347
U14Luke Cuthbertson2.535.5
U14Charlie Wannasin Bell235
U14Ernest Saunders1.523.5
U14Marco Ortolani3.53.5
U14Risha JIthendra3.53.5
U14Leonid Popov33
U14Ryan Martin33
U14Jacob Martin2.52.5
U14Daniel Marshall22
U15Leon Sazkissyan44.58.5
U15Matthew Collins33.56.5
U15Albert Eldridge246
U15Sebastian Merchant3.52.56
U15Alexander McVey55
U15Josh Sharma3.53.5
U15Adam Rafael holmes213
U15Moksha Suriarachchi22
U15Rafi Salmons22
U15Alise Petersone0
U16Louis Buckland4610
U16Charles Godwin3.53.57
U16Alexander Lebedev3.53.5
U16George Adams3.53.5
U16Elena Currah33
U16Elijah Green0
U17Max Dinley4.54.5
U17Jacob Wynn44
U17Peter Crosby33
U17Tegen Baker00
U18Tadeusz Tompsett448
U18James Le Patourel44
U18Patrick Flamman44
U18Teddy Harding44
U18Silas Embleton22
U18Thomas W Martin22