GP Final at Sevenoaks Primary School
This was the final GP of the 2012/13 season, held on Sunday 14th July 2013 at Sevenoaks Primary School, with many GP titles still in the balance and many trophies and medals to be awarded. The closest title was in the prestigious U18 section with just a 3.6 points gap between the top two, representing a mere half a point difference in the tournament result. This hard and closely fought battle between Conrad Allison and Rohan Bansal had been going on throughout the entire season and the finale itself did not disappoint; the result going down to the very last round and to virtually the very last game of the day. It was Conrad who won out in the end and many congratulations to him and to Rohan on a super season!
Also may we wish a fond
farewell to both Conrad Allison and Victor Jones who will no longer be
juniors next season and have represented Kent and played in the Kent Junior
Grand Prixes for many, many years. We wish them the best and hope to see them as
part of our coaching team in the years to come.
Congratulations to all
47 who attended this final; everyone settling down to pay some superb games of
chess, despite the scorching heat outside. The top two in each section were:
U9: 1st Giovanni Currah (6 /
6), 2nd Isaac Willats (5
/ 6),
U11: 1st Kiran Shiatis (5 / 6),
2nd Mikey
Watson (4.5 / 6),
U14: 1st Francesco
Bernardini (5 / 5), 2nd Joelle
Hakim (3.5 / 5),
U18: 1st Conrad Allison (4 /
5), 2nd equal Rohan
Bansal and Victor Jones (3.5 / 5).
Top Primary School: Sevenoaks Primary School
Top Secondary School: Trinity
Full cross tables can
be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/52
As mentioned above,
this event also settled the GP championships which had been running all season
long. The winners of the overall GP for 2012 / 13 are as follows:
U9: Kiran Shiatis with Mikey Watson second and Navieinnah Haridas as top overall girl. Alexander
Levin was top U8 and Navieinnah Haridas top U7. Congratulations also go to the
U9’s for winning the EPSCA county U9 final back in April this year (full report
can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/article/59)
U11: Anantha Anilkumar with Francesco Bernardini second and Emily Green as overall top girl.
Alejandro Ito-Aramendia was top U10. The team finished a very credible 5th
in the EPSCA county U11 event held in May and our young girls’ team came 8th
in their event.
U14: Alexander Selway with Joelle Hakim second and overall top girl. Alexander Selway was also
top U13 and Joelle Hakim top U12. Well done to our U13 open and minor teams who
did brilliantly well at the ECF county championships in June, finishing 4th
and 2nd respectively.
U18: Conrad Allison with Rohan Bansal second and top U15. Mary Scott was top overall girl and
James Maguire top U17. Congratulations to our U18 team who finished third at
the ECF county championships.
Primary School: Cumnor House with Dulwich College Junior second. It was fantastic seeing so many new
faces and new schools taking part throughout the season, with a special mention
to Crofton Junior, Sevenoaks Primary, Anthony Roper, Cheriton Primary, Cage
Green Primary and Edgebury Primary. It is through the coaches at these schools
which provide the talented youngsters which not only play in the KJCA Grand
Prixes, but also go on to represent Kent in the county championships and also
their country. Many of our young juniors have been selected to
represent England during the year, well done to Robert Akeya-Price, Jessica Wen, Girinath Haridas, Rohan Shiatis,
Anantha Anilkumar, Nevieinah Haridas and Rohan Bansal.
Secondary School: St Olave's Grammar with Dulwich College Senior second.
Full GP tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.
A big thank you to Sevenoaks Primary School for
accommodating us and providing such a superb venue for our final event of the
season.
A special thank you to:
·
Sue Maguire
for all her hard work throughout the season and for arranging each of the 8
events, our coaching days, the catering and everything else she does for the
KJCA.
·
Chris Ward GM for
his coaching expertise and team support throughout the year.
·
Anil Anilkumar,
our president and for bringing all the teams together in what has been another
winning season for Kent.
·
Our
friendly, hardworking, treasurer, tournament director and report writer Andrew Shiatis.
·
Our
communications manager Krishna Shiatis.
·
Neeraj Grover
for his web expertise and for setting up our KJCA internet club
·
And to all
the parents, helpers, team managers
who volunteer their time to help support the children and each of our events.
We hope you had fun at our events and that
you have a relaxing summer break. We look forward to seeing you all again next
season. We will post the dates of our GPs and coaching days on the KJCA and the
ECF websites as soon as possible.
KJCA
