JUNIOR NEWS

home SCCU U14/90 SCCU U18 Jamborees Yateley Manor Schools

updated 18.7.09 JUNIOR NEWS

KENT JUNIOR: GRAND PRIX FINAL EVENT at Tunbridge Wells, 28th June 2009
Under 18 (12 pl) 1 William Jones 167 (Lewisham CC) 4/5; 2-3 Anthony Gregory 137, Michael Turner 109 (both Maidstone CC) 3½; 4-7 Sheila Dines 151 (West Wickham), Robert Maguire 134 (Beckenham & Bromley CC), Lyall Bayliss 133 (4NCL KJCA Kings), Alastair Thomas 62 (Sittingbourne) 3...
Under 14 (19 pl) 1 Victor Jones 171 (Lewisham CC) 5/5; 2-5 Jasdeep Gahir 119 (Lewisham CC), Adam Taylor 110 (Ashtead CC), Gautham Reddiar 94 (Beckenham & Bromley CC), Conrad Allison 51 (West Wickham) 3½; 6-9 Raunak Rao 88 (Beckenham & Bromley CC), Alex Tse 69 (Petts Wood), William Graham 33 (Worthing CC), Harry O’Connor (Tunbridge Wells) 3...
Under 11 (26 pl) 1 Conor Murphy 73 (Charlton CC) 5½/6; 2 Raphael Kalid 88 (Anerley) 5; 3-4 Alexei Davis 91 (Lewisham CC), Oliver Petrick 58 (Sevenoaks CC) 4½; 5-8 Patrick Smith 65 (Westerham), Yasmin Giles 65 (Lewisham CC), Hector Huser 59 (Balham), Elizabeth Elgar 41 (Westerham) 4; 9-10 Rohan Bansal 59 (Lewisham CC), Daniel Reidy 20 (Maidstone) 3½...
Under 9 (36 pl) 1-2 Rohan Shiatis 97 (Beckenham & Bromley CC), Alex Selway 38 (Bromley) 5½/6; 3-5 Daniel Muir 70 (Coulsdon CC), Daniel Carstairs 5 (Petts Wood & Orpington CC), Joshua Higgs (Turners Hill) 4½; 8-13 James Meredith 40 (Dulwich), David Liu 4 (Crawley), Francesco Bernardini 3 (Bromley), Zakary Warsop (Herne Hill), Michael Stockham (Uckfield CC), Zeeshan Kisat (Sevenoaks) 4; 14-16 Angharad Jones (Dulwich), Anthony Scott (Tunbridge Wells), Arul Gupta (Bromley) 3½

KENT JUNIOR CA: GRAND PRIX 2008-9
incorporated 8 events. Total prize fund £1650
Under 18 William Jones (Beths Grammar, Bexley, Lewisham CC)
Under 14 Victor Jones (Beths Grammar, Bexley, Lewisham CC)
Under 11 Raphael Kalid (Rosemead Prep, Dulwich)
Under 9 Rohan Shiatis (Estcots Primary, East Grinstead, Beckenham & Bromley CC)
Secondary Schools St Olave's Grammar, Orpington
Primary Schools Eltham College Junior School

KENT JUNIOR: SUTTON VALENCE 31st May 2009
Under 18 (6 pl) 1-2 Sheila Dines 151 (Croydon), William Jones 167 (Lewisham CC) 4½/5...
Under 14 (17 pl) 1 Victor Jones 171 (Lewisham CC) 5/5; 2 Rohan Shiatis 97 (Beckenham CC) 4; 3 Owen Messere 55 (Eltham College) 3½; 4-8 Conor Murphy 73 (Eltham College), Justin Brown 76 (Beckenham CC), Oliver Petrick 58 (Sevenoaks CC), Alexei Davis 91 (Lewisham CC), Conrad Allison 51 (St Olaves GS) 3...
Under 11 (29 pl) 1 Vedant Podar 6/6; 2-3 Mano Sathyamurthy 43 (Whitstable), Elizabeth Elgar 41 (Sevenoaks) 5; 4-7 Daniel Muir 70 (Surrey), Robert Wang 50 (Dulwich Coll Prep School), Daniel Heraghty 30 (Dulwich), Thomas Morton 29 (Bromley) 4...
Under 9 (23 pl) 1 Alexander Selway 38 (Eltham College) 6/6; 2 Zara Hussain 15 (Sevenoaks) 4½; 3-8 Hasan Rahij 5 (Bexleyheath), Andrew Smailes (Surrey), Francesco Bernardini 3 (Bromley), Rohan Datta 20 (Tonbridge), Sachin Balaji, Arul Gupta (both Eltham College) 4...

EPSCA UNDER 9 INTER-ASSOCIATION FINAL at Northampton, 25th April 2009
Teams of 12, three rounds, all moves in 40 minutes
1 Kent 27½/36; 2 Notts 24½; 3 (tie-break) Wey Valley 23½; 4 Barnet 23½; 5 Herts 21; 6 Berks 20½; 7 Sussex 18; 8 Staffs 17½; 9 Yorks 15½; 10 Cheshire & N Wales 14; 11 Essex 13½; 12 Lincs 13; 13 Hants 11½; 14 Richmond 8½
Results Peter Bayliss

WILSON'S CHESS FESTIVAL at Wilson's School (Surrey), Thursday 16th April 2009
Under 18 (33 pl) 1 Sam Porter 91 (Trinity) 7/7; 2 Nathan Heal 70 (Wilson's) 5½ ; 3-5 Daniel Kliger 87 (KCS Wimbledon), Rhian Wade 42 (St Dunstan's, Sutton), Thomas Ward (Wallington CGS) 6...
Results Neill Cooper

SURREY JUNIOR CONGRESS 13th April 2009
120 played
Under 12 1 Simon Leung 4½/5; 2-4 Nishant Bommayya, Matthew Cooke, Nicholas Jelicic 4; 5-6 Jonathan Eales, Lawrence Lee 3½...
Under 10 1st Robert Pitman 4½/5; 2-3 Daniel Al-Hariri, Vincent Lee 4; 4-5 Lewis Lou, Victoria Sit 3½...
Under 9 1 Aloysius Lip (Birmingham) 5/5; 2-4 Oliver Scanlon, Prashast Vir, Guy Woodhouse 4; 5-6 Joshua Higgs, Yang-Jian Zhou 3½...
Under 8 1 Aditya Yanamandra 5/5; 2-4 Tharshan Kuhendiran, Chandler Scheurkogel, Andrew Smailes 4...
Under 7 1 Shota Noonan 5/5; 2 Sam McConnell 4; 3-6 Paul Carden, Markus Endler, Janvi Jariwala, Arya Nagwani 3½...
Results Susan Lalic

KENT JUNIOR: TONBRIDGE 4th April 2009
Under 18/16 (11 pl) 1 William EG Jones 167 (Lewisham CC) 4½/5; 2-4 Victor Jones 171 (Lewisham CC), Sheila Dines 151 (Croydon), Robert Maguire 134 (Croydon) 3½...
Under 14 (12 pl) 1 Raphael Kalid 88 (SE20) 4½/5; 2-3 Justin Brown 76 (Beckenham CC), Rohan Shiatis 97 (Beckenham CC) 3½...
Under 12 (25 pl) 1-2 Nicholas Clanchy 120 (Lewisham CC), Raunak Rao 88 (Lewisham CC) 5/6; 3-4 Patrick Smith 65 (Sevenoaks), Oliver Petrick 58 (Sevenoaks CC); 5-8 Folarin Ogunshola 27 (Ashford), Hector Huser 159 (SW17), Mano Sathyamurthy 43 (Herne Bay CC), Charlie Keen 41 (East Sussex) 4...
Under 10 (23 pl) 1 Cosima Keen 43 (East Sussex) 6/6; 2 Thomas Morton 29 (Lewisham CC) 4½; 3-6 Alexander Selway 38 (Bromley), Rachel Smith (Sevenoaks), Arul Gupta (Bromley), Christopher Button 17 (Weald of Kent CC) 4...
Under 8 (10 pl) 1 Andrew Smailes (Weybridge) 6/6; 2 Michael Petrick (Sevenoaks) 5; 3 Francesco Bernardini 4 (Bromley)...
Results Kevin Messere, Richard Haddrell

EPSCA GIRLS U11 INTER-ASSOCIATION FINAL at Bolton, 28th March 2009
Teams of 12, three rounds, all moves in 50 minutes
1 Kent 28/36; 2 Wey Valley 26½; 3 Manchester 22½; 4 Notts 21½; 5 Liverpool 20½; 6 Sussex 20; 7 Oxon 19; 8 Oldham 16; 9 Barnet 15½; 10 Berks 13½; 11 Yorks 9; 12 Lincs 4
Results Peter Bayliss

ECF JUNIOR COUNTIES TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS at Heanor, 28th February 2009
Under 18 1 Kent 17/24; 2 Surrey 16; 3 Notts 15; 4-5 Norfolk, Sussex 10½; 6 Northants 3
Under 18 Minor U90 1 Staffs 11/12; 2 Surrey 9; 3 Kent 8½; 4 Lincs 8; 5 Leics 6½; 6 Notts 4½; 7-8 Kent Girls, Norfolk 3; 9 Derbys 1½
Under 18 Girls 1 Kent; no other entries, and Kent Girls played in the U18 Minor instead
Under 13 (10 pl) 1 Kent 22½/24; 2 Sussex 19; 3 Berks 16½; 4 Herts 13½; 5 Notts 13; 6 Cheshire & N Wales A 12; 7 Cheshire & N Wales B 8½; 8-10 Northants, Norfolk, Leics 5
Under 13 Minor did not occur
Under 13 Girls 1 Kent 14½/24; 2 Sussex 9½. No other entries
Results Neill Cooper, Peter Bayliss

WILSON'S CHESS FESTIVAL at Wilson's School, Surrey, 11 October 2008
Under 18 Major (13 pl) 1 Jasper Tambini 127 (Claremont School Esher) 5/5; 2 Christopher Dunne 114 (Kingston GS) 4; 3-6 Philip Knott 79, Keith Barker 95. Adam Taylor 89 (all Wilson’s), Sam Porter 90 (Trinity School) 3...
Under 18 Minor (25 pl) 1 James Nash 25, Owen Wright 11 (both Wilson’s) 4½/5; 3-5 Alex Rolls, Pavan Murali, Rahul Shah (all Wilson's) 4...
Under 11 (9 pl) 1 Theo Bibby (Whyteleafe) 4½/5; 2-3 Daniel Al-Hariri (Auriol Epsom), Luke Gonsalves (Homefield) 4...
Results Neill Cooper

NYCA U18 / U14 Team Championships 4th October 2008
See the NYCA's new website at http://www.nyca.org.uk

RUSSELL TROPHY JAMBOREE at Wilson’s School, 12th September 2008
Rate of play: all moves in 40 minutes
First Section 1 Hampton 12; 2 Wilson's 10; 3 Whitgift 8½; 4 RGS Guildford 7½
Second Section 1 Reigate GS 10½; 2 Kingston GS 9; 3 Sutton Grammar 8½; 4 Trinity 7; 5 Wallington County GS 5½; 6 Emanuel 1½
The teams were split into sections in round 2 on the basis of their first-round scores.
Results Neill Cooper

Earlier material is in the Archive.