GP 6 – Schools at Somerhill – 2014/15
Our sixth GP
of the 2014/15 season attracted a fantastic turnout of 90 players participating
across 4 sections. The event was held on Sunday 19th April 2015 at
the picturesque setting of The Schools at Somerhill.
First of
all a special mention and thank you to all the parents and children who
volunteered their time to help out at the event – without your help and support
we would not be able to run such well attended GPs.
A big thank you to Vijay who took many excellent pictures on the day, many of which can be seen on our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/#!/kentjuniorchess.
Congratulations
to all the children who played at GP 6. The whole day was conducted in a fun
and very strong sporting-like atmosphere.
Special
congratulations go in particular to the top three and prize winners in each
section:
U9: 1st Jai Singh Chaturvedi (5.5/6), 2nd equal
Dominic Coates and Logan Fear (5/6), the second place
trophy going to Logan and the third place trophy going to Dominic on the
performance tie breaker.
U11: 1st Alex Garfield (5.5/6), 2nd equal David Dallakyan, James Merriman and Adit
Bhavesh (5/6) with Adit winning the second place trophy on the performance
tie breaker. David and James though could not be separated in third place
through the performance tie breaker and both receive third place trophies.
U14 (which
was merged with the U18s on the day): 1st equal were Charlie Metcalfe, Nikhil Chidipothu, Mahuaa Verma and Aurideep Nayak
(3/5), Charlie winning the first place trophy, Aurideep the second place trophy
and Mahuaa the third place trophy on the performance tie breaker.
U18: 1st equal
Rohan Shiatis and Alejandro Ito-Aramendia (4.5/5), 3rd
equal Kiran Shiatis and Ximan Mao (4/5).
Top
performing school groups were:
Primary: Home Educated (Primary School) (69.3)
Secondary: St Andrews (48)
Full cross
tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/99.
It could
not be closer in the primary age group sections. In the U9 section just 15 and
a half points separate the top nine players and first and second are currently only
separated by 0.4 points. The top in the U11 section are only separated by 1.6
points and the two primary schools are only separated by 0.2 points.
Current
leaders of the GP tables after this event are as follows:
U9: Yong Gui Wang
U11: Kiran Shiatis
U14: Anantha Anilkumar
U18: Rohan Shiatis
Primary: Home Educated (Primary School)
Secondary: St Olave’s Grammar
Full GP
tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.
Many thanks
to The Schools at Somerhill for accommodating us and for letting us use their
beautiful school, and once again a big thanks you to all our volunteers.
Please
note: GP 7 will be held at Sutton Valance on Sunday 24th May 2015.
We hope to see many of you there once again.
Best wishes
KJCA