With the U13 Major team finishing 4th on 11 points, just 1 point behind third placed Surrey A at the ECF Jamboree on 30th June 2013, this meant that Kent was the only county to be within the top 5 across all 3 tournaments at this championship. This is a huge credit to the strength and depth that Kent has consistently maintained over the past 6 years.

The U13 Major team comprised;

Arul Gupta, Girinath Haridas, Alexander Selway, Francesco Bernardini, Anantha Anilkumar, Freddie Hand and Karthik Velayudham.

The team performed well in both the first and third rounds with 4 and 4.5 points out of 6, but a poor second round meant the team fell just short of a medal position.

Anil Anilkumar

Team Manager

Congratulations to our U13 minor team for a fantastic second place in the ECF County Championship held at Haberdasher’s Aske’s Boys’ School on 30^th June 2012.

Up against some very strong teams from 17 other counties, we were sitting in equal 4^th place after round 1 with 4 points out of 6 and slipped to 5^th after round 2 with 3 points out of 6.

Our illustrious team of juniors were up for the battle in the third and final round and where other teams began to falter in the hot afternoon sun, our team battled on strongly, churning out win after win after win and scoring a brilliant 6 points out of 6.

It was enough to catapult the team up into second place with 13 points overall, ahead of Sussex on the tie breaker, but not quite enough to overtake Northamptonshire who were first with 15.5 points.

Full results can be found on: http://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-u13-u18-report-results/

The team in board order were:

Emily Green

Kiran Shiatis

Mikey Watson

Ximan Mao

Naviennah Haridas

Bobby Akeya-Price

Jacob Watson

A special thanks to Anil for arranging the event and getting the U13 team together.

Andrew Shiatis

A strong under-18 team competed in this year’s tournament, still retaining many players from the previous year. We had a promising first round of 9.5/12, after which we stood in first place. However, we were not so fortunate in the second (final) round, with a score of 7.5/12, leaving us in third place. This was still a significant achievement, given that 13 teams competed within this age group, so congratulations to all.

Full results can be found on: http://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-u13-u18-report-results/

The team (in board order) was as follows:

Tony Rao

Team Manager

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