The Under 9 County Championship season reached its finale yesterday with 14 teams from 11 counties playing a 5-round swiss tournament over 12 boards, with a separate tournament for the ‘rising stars’. Team Manager Mike Forster was very pleased with the results, commenting Over the top 12 boards two thirds of the team attained rating …
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Sussex Junior Chess are working towards holding a full season of chess events from September, subject to the national picture. Provisionally, the first date for your diaries is Saturday 18th September for the Crowborough tournament – the first in our grand prix series. Please be aware that covid restrictions may mean that our events look …
The folk of East Grinstead Bookshop Chess Club proved themselves to be both pioneering and hardy – as far as we know the first club in Sussex to offer outdoor, post-lockdown, socially distanced, over the board chess…..albeit in unseasonally chilly temperatures. A mix of seasoned campaigners and enthusiastic juniors braved the cold last Sunday – …
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Headline Results: 1st – Barnet – 46 2nd – Sussex – 42.5 3rd – Berkshire – 32 Congratulations to our Under 11 Girls and Gareth Rees their coach for a tremendous result in the national final today. Not only were they second overall in a very closely fought match, but our rising stars took 1st, …
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Many thanks to St.Albans and Matt Ball for making this match possible. Back in January St.Albans won 24-18 but this time, strengthened by the addition of our top under 9s, we turned things around with a 26-18 win. The format was a 22 board match, 2 games against the same opponent, time control 20 mins …
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Today saw our Under 11s compete in the latest online event organised by Barnet in place of the usual EPSCA over the board inter-county championships. The format was a fast and furious team battle – great fun, but not always the best thing for developing chess technique! Team Coach Dave Graham commented: “A terrific effort …
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Today saw our Under 9s compete in the latest online event organised by Barnet in place of the usual EPSCA over the board inter-county championships. The format was a fast and furious team battle – great fun, but not always the best thing for developing chess technique! Team manager Mike Forster was pleased with the …
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Many thanks to Angela Eyton and Barnet Junior Chess for organising a series of online inter-County events mirroring the over the board competitions run by EPSCA in normal seasons. In normal years Sussex Junior Chess select squads to represent Sussex in the prestigious EPSCA inter-County Championships. Typically each squad will have a friendly match against …
Sussex Under-11s vs She Plays to Win, Staffordshire, & Suffolk Thanks to Tim Kent and Edmund Player (Suffolk), Jonathan Blackburn (Staffordshire) and IM Lorin D’Costa (SPTW) for making this match possible. Congratulations to She Plays to Win Team for their victory, but we ran them close! In round 1 we were paired against Suffolk and …
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Thank you to IM Lorin D’Costa for making this match possible and congratulations to the She Plays to Win Team on a resounding victory. The format was a 28-board match, 2 games against the same opponent, time control 25 mins plus 5 secondss increment. We were up against some of the best girls in the …
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