Sussex Closed U8 Championship, 26th October 2019, Chailey School

Headline Results: 1st Aditya Gupta 4½ 2nd Samuel Merchant (on tie break) 4 3rd Edward Nethercot 4 Top Girl Ella Bartholomew 4   School Team: 1st Copthorne Prep 11 2nd Ardingly Prep 8½ Arbiter’s Awards: Rory Ashcroft, Eliza Blin, Toby Goldman, Anna Tustin Crosstable: Pos Name Grade 1 2 3 4 5 A B T1 …

Worth Grand Prix, 19th October 2019

Headline Results: Under 8 1st Samuel Merchant   5 (on progressives) 2nd Aditya Gupta   5 3rd Edward Nethercot 4 (on progressives) Top Girl Isabella Walsh 3½ Under 10 1st Austin Mitchell  6 2nd Nicholas Deacon    5 (on progressives) 3rd Cillian Nagy 5 Top Girl Violet Davies  4 (on progressives) Under 12 1st Matthew Deacon 6 …

British Chess Championships 26th July – 4th August, Torquay

We have 2 Sussex Champions! Congratulations to Calum Salmons – Under 16 Champion with 5.5/7; and Polina Shchepinova 3rd= and Under 14 Girl Champion with 5/7. Also Will Graham, 1st= in the Under 2050; Matthew Britnell 1st= in the Under 1900; Matthew Howell 1st= in the Under 1750; and Matt Payne 1st= in the Blitz. …

Glorney Gilbert International 21st – 24th July, Dundalk

Congratulations to Arjun Kolani and Cassie Graham who were both selected to represent England in the annual Glorney-Gilbert International. The event comprises a team round robin in 4 sections – The Glorney Cup (Under 18), the Gilbert Cup (U18 Girls), the Robinson Cup (Under 14) and the Stokes Cup (Under 12). The nations taking part …

Uckfield & Burgess Hill Academy Events 24th & 25th July – POSTPONED

Brian Stockham writes: ” I am afraid I am having to cancel the Academy events this week, or hopefully rather postpone it.  I have been having a problem with circulating group emails for some months and am in my eighth week of liaising with BT to solve the problem. Unfortunately just advertising the events on …

Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge Gigafinals 2019

Congratulations to our 5 Terafinalists – Seha Konara, Jonathan Britnell, Sophie Rees, Lilya Stewart and Thomas Finn….and to the many more who qualified for the Challengers. Good luck in the next stage. Those scoring 3.5 points or more at the Megafinals in the Spring qualified for the third stage of the challenge – the regional …