Leicestershire’s juniors had a good haul of results at the recent local UK Schools Chess Challenge Megafinals (county based) with 14 age group section winners (Supremos/Supremos) along with 11 additional qualifiers for the regional stages (Gigafinals) which take place in July. Particularly notable was Sophie Mehta’s 6/6 score in a competitive U9 section at the Northants & Leicestershire megafinal along with Lindsay Pyun’s winning 5.5pts score in winning the U10s. and Jason Lv’s unbeaten 5/6 winning score in the U12s which placed him 2nd out of the entire U18 section
The full lists of winners and qualifiers are as follows:
Northants & Leicestershire Megafinal
Supremos: Sam Wakelin (U7), Jason Lv (U12) – Supremas: Emily Dyer (U7), Catharine LV (U8), Sophie Mehta (U9), Lindsay Pyun (U10), Anika Khare (U13)
Qualifiers: Alex Shen (U9), Madhav Eradi (U9), Noor Datoo (U10)
Derby Megafinal:
Supremos: Alex Cimurs (U10), Aryan Ankolekar (U11), Daniel Chen (U12) Supremas: Olivia Chen (U8)
Qualifiers: Aarav Sinha (U10), Henry Powell (U12)
Nottingham Megafinal:
Supremos: Joshua Tang (U9), Tom Brown (U18) Supremas: Sophia Hilmi (U9)
Qualifiers: Conor Morris (U7), Arooj Mahajan (U9), Evan Miles (U10), Michel Kula (U10), Jacob Miles (U10), Ben Samworth (U11)