The first outing for our new 2021 Under-11 squad was an inter-club friendly with St. Albans Early Knights which took place on Monday 26th January 2021 on the popular online platform, Lichess. Thanks to Matt Ball of St.Albans for making this match possible and congratulations to St. Albans on their 24-18 victory. The format was …
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The ECF recently organised the inaugural Online British Championships, featuring a bewildering array of events. Congratulations to Max Wilton and Arjun Kolani – the new British Online Under 16 and Under 14 Blitz Champions respectively. Arjun was also second in the Major Open. Our President, GM David Howell also won the recent Hastings Online championships
Crowborough Chess Club juniors, supported by several Sussex Juniors and Worthing Knights players have been competing in a fortnightly online Worldwide Junior tournament. Despite the competing attractions of the British Online Championships their tenacity has paid off resulting in a top of the table finish today (19th December). Any Sussex juniors are welcome to join …
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Crowborough Chess Club juniors, supported by several Sussex Juniors and Worthing Knights players have been competing in a fortnightly online Worldwide Junior tournament. After several weeks placing 4th in their division against teams from all over the world their persistence paid off on 7th November when they secured a place on the podium when they …
Following last Sundays pioneering event, this afternoon 10 more SJC juniors representing Crowborough online club and East Grinstead Bookshop had the opportunity to play over the board chess at an historic venue. Representing EGB: Cillian Nagy, Ann Tagg, Luke Freeman, George Tagg, Aidan BurnsideRepresenting Crowborough: Daniel Donaghy, Joseph Johnson, Rafe Chapman, Sorcha Chapman, Gregory DaCostaThe match …
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Congratulations to ex-Sussex junior FM Rhys Cumming who has just taken his first step towards the International Master title. Rhys, who captains our Sussex Martlets teams in the 4NCL chess league, came third in an over the board tournament in Portugal, earning his first IM Norm.
We will be running the Sussex Closed Girls Championships and the Sussex Closed U9/11/13/18 Championships online during November. The girls’ event will be held on Saturday 14th November using the Lichess.org platform. There will be an entry fee of £3 per player. The U9/11/13/18 Championship will be on Saturday 28th November on the Tournelo chess …
On Sunday 26th October East Grinstead Bookshop Chess Club challenged Crowborough Juniors to a friendly 5 board match. The match took place across the board in 2 seperate rooms. This was one of the first such matches played in this country since the lockdown in March. Each board was separated by a perspex screen and players were …
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Crowborough Chess Club and the Worthing Knights Junior Chess Club both have online offerings which they are opening up to any Sussex Junior Chess player: Worthing Knights Online tournaments SJC Coach David Graham is running online tournaments on Thursdays; 5:15 – 6:45pm. These are free and you can join in for as long as you …
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Congratulations to Arjun Kolani – runner up in the Terafinal Under 14 section. Following the national cancellations of over the board chess due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK Chess Challenge organisers moved swiftly to adapt the format – moving the Megafinals and Gigafinals online using the Lichess platform. The season came to its conclusion …
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