EJCOA National Youth Championships
EAST KENT ZONAL 2024

A qualification event for the National Youth Championships (Nottingham, July 2024)

Sunday 11th February 2024, 10:45am - 4:30pm
Barham Village Hall, Valley Road, Barham, Canterbury, Kent CT4 6NX

Photographer: Jon Hunt

RESULTS

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Players whose names appear above in bold have qualified for the FIDE-rated EJCOA National Youth Championships at Nottingham High School, Waverley Mount, Nottingham NG7 4ED on 5th-7th July 2024.
See the EJCOA website for more details.

EAST KENT JUNIOR CHESS CONGRESS

Saturday 21st October 2023
Barham Village Hall, Valley Road, Barham, Canterbury, Kent CT4 6NX

Photographer: Jon Hunt

A total of 45 players entered the 1st East Kent Junior Chess Congress, playing in four sections. It was perfect chess-playing weather - very wet - and Barham’s beautifully renovated and enlarged community hall fitted the bill perfectly.

The U18 Major, which was a five-round all-play-all, finished in a dead heat between George Allen, who took 2nd place in June’s Megafinal U18s, and Thomas Baldwin, a talented but unrated player from Ashford, after they won the rest of their games but drew against one another. The play-off was in fact a Canterbury school derby, since both George and Thomas attend grammars in the city. Thomas had the white pieces for the rematch, but it wasn’t enough, and George secured a dramatic victory at the second attempt to lift the 1st place East Kent trophy.

In the U18 Minor, The King’s School Canterbury was well represented, with Milo Downing from the junior school winning on 5 points out of 6, and Hanshuo Zhang from the senior school taking 2nd place on 4.5 points. Students from Sandwich, Broadstairs and Folkestone featured in a three-way tie for 3rd on 4 points and couldn’t be separated by “direct encounter” as each of them beat one and lost to the other! The Buchholz tie-break system was able to separate them, however, and Sandwich’s Daniel Watkins took the final trophy.

In the U12 and U10/U8 sections, there were a number of out-of-area players vying for LJCC qualification places, but the U12 section was nevertheless won by a local player, the formidable Makar Hrytsenko, with an outstanding score of 5.5 points out of 6. Two fine up-and-coming local juniors, Laurence Cross and Andrew Pierson, took the other East Kent trophies and also qualified for the U12 Minor Championship in London. With too few U10 and U8 East Kent players entered, the 1st place East Kent trophies were made open to the entire field, and two out-of-area players carried them off, both scoring an excellent 5 points out of 6, Srishwan Pasula (U10) and Ronak Sandhu (U8). Ronak’s performance was all the more impressive because it qualified him not only for the U8 Championship but also for the U10 Major.

Sandwich Chess Club is only a small club, but we are committed to our junior programme and to holding these tournaments which give younger chess players in the region access to major championships and national competition. If you think that you might like to join our volunteer team for future events, please contact us. We would like to express our gratitude to our generous sponsors, the Kent Museum of the Moving Image in Deal. Our next scheduled events are the East Kent zonal for the National Youth Championships (Sunday 11th February 2024 at Barham) and the East Kent Megafinal for the UK Schools Chess Challenge (Saturday 4th May 2024 at Barton Court Grammar School, Canterbury CT1 1PH).

RESULTS

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Players with LJCC categories in brackets after their names have qualified for the London Junior Chess Championships in December 2023. See the LJCC website for more details.

EJCOA National Youth Championships
EAST KENT ZONAL 2024

Sunday 12th March 2023
Woodnesborough Village Hall, Elmwood Park, Off The Street, Woodnesborough, Sandwich CT13 0FB

RESULTS

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Players whose names appear above in bold have qualified for the FIDE-rated EJCOA National Youth Championships at Nottingham High School, Waverley Mount, Nottingham NG7 4ED on 7th-9th July 2023.
See the EJCOA website for more details.

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