GP 7 – Sutton Valance – 2014/15
Our seventh GP of the 2014/15 season once again attracted a fantastic turnout of 84 players participating across 4 sections. The event was held on Sunday 24th May 2015 within the beautiful grounds of Sutton Valance Senior School in the heart of the Kent countryside.
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 function and run such tournaments.
Pictures are courtesy of Vijay. Many of these have once again been published on our facebook
page at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/kentjuniorchess.
Congratulations to
all the children who played at GP 7. Special congratulations go in particular
to the top three and prize winners in each section:
U9:
1st equal Dominic Coates and Logan Fear (5.5/6),
3rd Shahjahon Saidmurodov (5/6), the
first place trophy going to Logan on the performance tie breaker.
U11: 1st Thomas
Crawley-Bovey (5/6), 2nd equal Charlotte Bruce, Siddharth
Soni, Atticus Fear (4.5/6) with Atticus winning the second place
trophy and Siddharth the third place trophy on the performance tie breaker.
U14: 1st Eoin
O’Leary (5/5), 2nd Adit Bhavesh
(4/5) and 3rd equal Annalise Hansen
and Alex Thompson (3.5/5), Alex winning
the third place trophy on the performance tie breaker.
U18: 1st
equal Rohan Shiatis (4.5/5),
2nd Ximan Mao (4/5)
and 3rd equal Kiran Shiatis and Anantha Anilkumar (3.5/5).
Top performing
school groups were:
Primary: Claremont
Primary School (55.3)
Secondary: St
Olaves Grammar (59.6)
Full cross tables
can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/100
Our next Grand Prix,
GP 8, which is on 28th June is not only a standalone tournament with our
customary prizes for each section, but is also the final GP of the 2014/15 season
with many other prizes to be awarded. If you have been to at least four GPs
during the season and play at our GP final you will qualify for an award based
on your position in our GP tables. For further details and to enter this event please
use the following link: http://www.kjca.org/event/101
It is extremely close
in both the primary age group sections going into the final. In the U9 section,
just 5.5 points separate the top five players and first and second are only
separated by 0.4 points. The top two in the U11 section who have been battling
it out all season, are only separated by just 3.6 points, and the two primary
schools are only separated by 0.2 points with third and fourth places only a
few points behind. So everything is still to play for at our final event.
Current leaders of
the GP tables after this event are as follows:
U9: Yong
Gui Wang
U11: Ximan
Mao
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 Sutton
Valance for accommodating us and for letting us use their beautiful school, and
once again a big thanks you to all our volunteers.
We hope to see many
of you at our GP final on June 28th.
Best wishes
KJCA