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A large team of 35 children competed for Leicestershire in the 4 Counties Invitational event against Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire in Rugby on Sunday 26th November. This year there was also an U18 section in addition to U11s, U11 Girls … Continue reading →

Leicestershire’s top U11 players put on a very good showing in the Saturday U11 event at Ilkley which also functions as an U11 England Trials qualifier. Daniel Chen won the section with 4.5/6 and Rakym Serik (playing Daniel in the … Continue reading →

Rakhym Serik won the Kings section with a near perfect score of 3.5/4, whilst Anant Kapoor did achieve a straight 5 wins out of 5 to win the Rooks section, with Noor Datoo continuing his rapid improvement to finish 2nd= … Continue reading →

Umar Syed finished 5th= on 4.5/6 and Jason Lv 11th= on 3.5/6 in the U12 section at the Kent Junior Grand Prix Congress recently. The event was a qualifier for the London Junior Championships in December so with those performances … Continue reading →

The ‘Atkins’ last took place a few years ago as a weekend Standardplay congress but was revived this year as a one day Rapidplay event with Open, U165, U140, U115 and Junior U80 sections that took place on Sunday 15th … Continue reading →

Lindsay Pyun took the silver medal in the U9 Girls Joshua Tang also took silver in the U8s with 3.5 pts out of 5. Kareem Patel and Khaalid Patel both scored 2 points in the U11 & U9 Boys respectively. … Continue reading →

At the LRCA charity quickplay season-opener, George Worrow-Goodwin received the George Winterton trophy as Best Junior Team Player of the year, while Matthew Lo was awarded the John Robinson Trophy as Most Improved Player of the Year. It was good … Continue reading →

Joseph Ward-Langman and David Collyer were well in contention going into the final round in the recent Leamington Spa Rapidplay U110 section on 10th September, each eventually finishing on 4/6. Aarav Sinha also played in the Junior Section at the … Continue reading →

Sasha Kerbel, Anant Kapoor and Alex Shen were the winners of the Kings, Rooks and Knights sections respectively of Leicester Junior Chess Club’s first mini-rapidplay competition of the season. The competitions were all close with Sasha Kerbel scoring 3pts out … Continue reading →

The Terafinal section is for Northern and Southern Gigafinal age group winners, whereas the Challenger sections are for age group runners up in those competitions Terafinal 38th Daniel Chen 2pts Challengers A 5th Shyam Modi 4.5pts (same score as 2nd) 30th … Continue reading →