First Kent GP 2012/13 season

The first GP of the season (also a London Junior Qualifier) was held on Sunday 16th September at Colfe's Prep School (Horn Park Lane, London, SE12 8AW) with 69 participants competing across five sections. 

Section winners were: U8: Robert Akeya-Price (6 / 6), U10: Robert Dybowski and Danyal Warsop (5 / 6), U12: Jackson Wen (5.5 / 6), U14: Alexander Selway and Owen Messere (4.5 / 5) and  U18: Rohan Bansal (5 / 5).

Details on the remaining GPs and training days will follow shortly.

William Jones and Callum Kilpatrick competing in the World Juniors in Greece....

Best of luck to William Jones and Callum Kilpatrick (two of our Kent Juniors from the not too distant past) who are both currently playing at the World Junior Chess Championships in Athens, Greece. They are part of a strong England contingent looking to gain valuable experience.

Two Juniors from Kent Crowned British Junior Chess Champions 2012!

Congratulations to all our children who traveled all the way to North Shields to participate in the British Chess Championships this year. Everyone played super chess and it was great to see that so many made the journey. Next year the British will be held in Torquay and we hope to see lots of our juniors playing and hopefully some more titles to add to our increasing tally.

Kent Juniors Selected to Represent England in the European Youth Chess Championships in Prague!

Congratulations to some of our top juniors who have been selected to represent England at the Europeans. They are Patrick Smith (U16s), Rohan Shiatis (U14s), Conor Murphy (U14s), Arul Gupta (U12s), Girinath Haridas (U12s). The tournament runs from the 16^th August until 26^th August and you can follow their progress on the following link:

http://www.eycc2012.eu/

We wish them all the best and hopefully we can publish some of their best games here!

An exciting day at the Kent Grand Prix Final!

On Sunday July 1^st, 76 brave juniors came along to do battle at the GP final in Sevenoaks. It was a very exciting day as there were overall GP prizes at stake as well as section results.

Once the dust had settled after the day of chess and GP scores were tallied, we were able to unveil our Overall Kent GP 2011-2012 Champions. They were as follow:

U9 Kent GP Champion 2011-2012 : Kiran Shiatis (123.4 points)

Detailed results on http://www.kjca.org/GPTable/view/1

U11 Kent GP Champion 2011 – 2012: Jackson Wen (130.6 points)

Detailed results on http://www.kjca.org/GPTable/view/2

U14 Kent GP Champion 2011 – 2012: Patrick Smith (152.9 points)

Detailed results on http://www.kjca.org/GPTable/view/3

U18 Kent GP Champion 2011 – 2012: Duncan Bell (176.1 points)

Detailed results on http://www.kjca.org/GPTable/view/4

All the sections were hard fought and final results for the day's tournaments being as follows:

U9: 1^st Tobias Albrecht, 2^nd Mikey Watson, 3^rd equal Sachin Wadhwani and Ryan Malik

U11: 1^st Harry Houllion and Alex Sheerin, 3^rd equal Ronit Nair and Nii-Akwei Carty Bing-Pappoe

U14: 1^st Owen Messere, 2^nd equal Jackson Wen, Jessica Wen and Lucy Ayliffe

U18: 1^st Duncan Bell, 2^nd equal Rohan Bansal and Patrick Smith.

Congratulations to all the children who played such super chess. A big thank you to all our wonderful volunteers in particular Martha Gilbert for catering, Sue Maguire for all her work throughout the year, Michael Gilbert for running it all, our arbiters for the day Andrew Shiatis, Luca Bernardini, Anil Anilkumar and Rajadurai Haridas and to Sevenoaks School for the wonderful facilities on the day.