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- Leicestershire Junior Championships – Saturday 7th December
- Primary Schools Competition – 15th November
- Leicestershire Success in Midlands Intercounty Teams tournament!
- Leicestershire EJCOA zonal – 17th February
- May 2023 Rapidplay
- Under 9 County Finals
- April Rapidplay 2023
- Leicestershire Under 9 team qualify for the national EPSCA finals!
- Warwickshire Junior Team League
- December Rapidplay
- Rapidplay – Saturday 9th October 21
- Leicestershire Online Rapidplay – Saturday 1st May
- Leicestershire Junior Online Championships – Saturday 20th February
- Leicestershire Juniors Closed Online Championship – Saturday 20th February
- 2020 Leicestershire Junior Awards
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September Mini-Rapidplay
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
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UK Chess Challenge Terafinal Results
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
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UK Schools Chess Challenge Gigafinal Results
Leicester Juniors achieved some excellent results at the Northern and Southern Gigafinals (the regional stage of the UK Schools Chess Challenge on the weekends of the 15th/16th July and 22nd/23rd July respectively. In the Northern Gigafinal Daniel Chen won the U10A Boys section, whilst Anika … Continue reading
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Leicesterhire U100 team wins National Title
Leicestershire convincingly won their National U100 final against Warwickshire 8½ – 3½ at the Trident Centre, Warwick on Saturday. It’s the first time Leicestershire have won the title in this section since the the competition began in 1995/96 which is … Continue reading
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U100 team win National Semi Final
The County U100 team beat Surrey convincingly 7½ – 4½ in the National Semifinal on Saturday at Brogborough in Bedfordshire. They will now contest the final on July 1st against Warwickshire, who perhaps surprisingly knocked out Notts in a close … Continue reading
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U100 team win National Quarter Final
The County U100 team qualified for the National Semifinals in fine style by beating Lancashire 8-4 in the their quarterfinal. The foundation of the victory was laid by a particularly strong performance from the top boards with 6 points scored … Continue reading
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Leicestershire Juniors Megafinal Results
The UK Schools Chess Challenge Megafinal (for those qualifying from schools in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire) took place on the 13th May at Wellingborough School. Those U11s scoring 4pts (or more) and those over 11s achieving at least 3.5 pts qualified … Continue reading
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Leicestershire win Div2 at J4NCL 3rd weekend
At the final J4NCL weekend of the season, we played one team in Div 1 and one in Div 2. Leicester Blues managed to win Div 2 despite an inauspicious start which saw the team comprehensively beaten in the first … Continue reading
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Leicestershire 2nd in 4 Counties U130
Leicestershire hosted the twice yearly 4 Counties U130 U18 competition between Yorks, Notts, Lincs and Leics at Leicester Grammar School on the 26th March. Having won the competition at Notts High School back in November the Leicestershire team had something … Continue reading
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Leicestershire Junior Congress 2017
The Leicestershire Junior Congress (incorporating the County Championships) took place on Sunday 5th March at Leicester Grammar School with 50 entrants in the Open section and 38 in the Minor Section. Unlike previous years the sections were divided by playing … Continue reading
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