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Forthcoming Events - Saffron Walden GP - 23 June 2013

Added by commTrevor on Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The next Essex Grand Prix event is on Sunday, 23rd June 2013 at the R A Butler School, Saffron Walden. 

The entry form is available via this website - just click view tournaments and you will reach the correct page.

There are sections for juniors of all ages - cash prizes for the u18 section and trophies for the other sections.

News Round-up

Added by commTrevor on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Essex Megafinal 2013

Following the Megafinal held in Basildon on 11/12 May there were 79 qualifiers for the Gigafinal from 46 different schools. 

Once again, fantastic organisation by Arnold Lutton and his team over the two days.  A full list of results is available on the Chess Challenge website http://www.ukchesschallenge.com/MFResults13/EssexMFResults2013.pdf

English Youth Champions

Essex Juniors at Southend Easter Congress

Added by commTrevor on Friday, April 5, 2013

 

Four Essex juniors took part in the Southend Easter Congress which was held from 29 March to 1 April 2013.

In the 7 round (four day) Southend Open there were the following scores –

Adam Taylor (Colchester) 3.5 - including a draw with FM David Haydon and tournament performance rating of 177;

Gorak Rajesh (Colchester RGS) 3 – winner of the Essex Minor Trophy awarded to the Essex player who had the best score in the Southend Open Tournament and is graded under 160 (tournament performance rating 145); and

Under 11's 2013 Eastern Zone

Added by admin on Friday, April 5, 2013

The under 11s played in the EPSCA Zonal at The Malcolm Arnold Academy, Trinity Avenue, Northampton on 16th March 2013.

Under 11s at the EPSCA Zonal

The zonal was expanded this year with nine teams chasing six qualification slots for the finals in May. The teams were Barnet, Birmingham, Cambridge, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Richmond and Suffolk.  As ever a good performance would be required.

South Woodham Ferrers Grand Prix - 3 March 2013

Added by commTrevor on Friday, March 8, 2013

71 players competed over four sections.  The prize winners were as follows -

Under 18 - 1st Aditya Verma 5/5; = 2nd Siddharrth Chandrasekaran & Daniel Gallagher 3; u120 Grading Prize Partha Mulay 2

Under 14 - 1st (on tie break) Ethan Thrower 5/6; 2nd Devdoot Barman 5; 3rd (on tie break) Edward McCallum 4.

Under 11 - 1st Elliot Cocks 6/6; 2nd (on tie break) Toby Spaxman 5;  3rd Atul Sooraj 5

Under 9 - 1st (on tie break) Krishna Karthikeyan 5/6; 2nd Justus Genthe 5  3rd (on tie break) Sri Nivasan Loganathan 4