Terrific turnout and quality chess at GP2
KJCA GP2 was held at Bishop Justus School on Sunday 21st October 2018.
As our
second London Junior Chess Championships (LJCC) qualifier
of the season, we had a very high number of entrants with strong competition
across the U8, U10 and U12 sections.
The prizewinners were as follows:
U8: 1st Sam Sundar (5/6 and tie break
23.5 ) 2nd Fabian
Brasch (5/6 and tie break 21), 3rd Emily Ashcroft (5/6 and tie
break 20.5)
Qualifying for the LJCC U8: Lucas Oprea (also on
5/6 and getting the 4th place medal), Louka Yiasoumi, David
Cazac, Yiwen Ding and Fillipos Aktselis.
U10: 1st Raffi French (5.5/6 and tie break 23.5), 2nd Anuj Venkatesh (5.5/6 and
tie break 22.5), 3rd Patrick Damodaran (5/6)
Also
qualifying for the LJCC U10 Major: Devansch Strivastava,
Nicas Lialiovici and Rohan Pesari.
Qualifying for the LJCC U10 Minor: Kabir Ghosh, Reuben
Bruce, Bhavik More, Amar Adatia, Vivan Obi, Aaran Avril, Sophia Wang, Laith
Harb, Andy He, Ryan Nguyen, Arman Tengayev, Nikita Phillips, Violet Davies,
Maxim Demin and Tarun Ganesh.
U12: 1st Sanjit Selva Kumar, (6/6) 2nd Yong Gui Wang (5/6 and tie break 22), 3rd Danny Oprea (5/6 and tie break 19.5).
Qualifying for the LJCC U12 Minor: Harry
Chauhan, Amit Aryan Sanka, Teo Sauders, Mark Ludden, Amelia Rees, Tom Heard and
Aayush Dewangan.
The U18 Minor and U18 Major were merged on this occasion,
however separate prizes were awarded as follows:
U18 Minor: 1st Roxolana Chaban
(3.5/5) 2nd equal Artemiy
Shkuratovskyi, Lev Mann and Thomas Crawley-Boevey (3/5)
U18 Major: 1st equal Jacob Watson
and Mikey Watson (4.5/5), 3nd Eoin Moore (4/5)
The full
crosstabs are at: http://www.kjca.org/result/189
It was a fantastic turnout and the tournament ran very
smoothly. Well
done to everyone who came along and competed. We hope everyone enjoyed both some great
chess games and spending time with your friends.
As
always lots of thanks for all those volunteers who give up their time to ensure
we are able to put on these tournaments. Including:
Control & Arbiting team: Jo Wildman (ECF NA), Gary Dorman
and Tom Moore.
Results team: Ben Luo, Deepak More and Gary Titmuss.
GM Chris Ward for coming
along to the tournament and his continued support, advice and encouragement to
our Kent junior players and their families.
KJCA Secretary: Kathryn Woodward for booking and
liaising with the venue, ordering the trophies and medals all other administration
work behind the scenes and support throughout the day.
KJCA
Treasurer: Emma Holmes for overseeing all the finances and payments and support
in the playing hall on the day.
Equipment
Manager: Guy Barton – for bringing along all the
chess equipment, setting up and then taking away and storing at the end of the
day.
Tournament
Registration: Gary
Dorman and Orla Dorman - for smooth check-in of all the players and dealing
with queries and communications from parents and carers.
KJCA is run by volunteers to develop chess opportunities for children and
young people in Kent and South East London. We are
always looking for helpers and
it is great to see some new faces supporting our work, please do get in touch
if you would like to help out.
Finally, thanks go to Bishop
Justus School for use of the fantastic venue. Also to the school catering team
for providing good quality refreshments and the caretaker for his help and support
on the day.
