GP 3 – The Judd School – 2014/15
Our third GP of the 2014/15 season attracted another excellent turn out with a superb 101 players across 4 sections. The event was held on Sunday 18th January 2015 at the beautiful, historic school of The Judd School in Tonbridge, West Kent.
Congratulations to all the players, there were some hard fought battles across
all sections and the whole day was conducted in a very sporting atmosphere.
Special congratulations go in
particular to the top three and prize winners in each section:
U9: 1st Ciaran
Brightley-Davies (5.5/6), 2nd Jai Singh Chaturvedi (5/6), 3rd
equal on points Elena Currah and James Merriman (4.5/6) with Elena winning
the third place trophy on the performance tie breaker.
U11: 1st Mahuaa
Verma (6/6), 2nd Efe Shimwell (5/6), 3rd equal on points Ben Barton,
Orla Dorman, Justus Genthe and Sasmit Neogi
(4.5/6), with Justus winning
the third place trophy on the performance tie breaker.
U14: 1st Aurideep
Nayak (4.5/5), 2nd Bobby Akeya-Price (4/5) and 3rd equal
on points Aryan Narayan and Alex Thompson (3.5/6), with Aryan winning the third place trophy on
the performance tie breaker.
U18: 1st equal
Rohan Bansal, Rohan Shiatis and Anantha Anilkumar (4/5). A close fought contest across the whole section
and it was great to see so many players coming back to our tournament and
continuing their love of chess.
Top performing school groups were:
Primary: Claremont Primary
School (61.0)
Secondary: St Olave’s School (66.8)
Full cross tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/95
Current leaders of the GP tables after this event are as follows:
U9: Jai Singh
Chaturvedi
U11: Kiran
Shiatis
U14: Jacob Watson
U18: Rohan Shiatis
Primary: Claremont
Primary School
Secondary: St
Olave’s Grammar
Full GP tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.
Many thanks to The Judd School for accommodating us and for letting us use their
beautiful school and also to all our volunteers.
Please note: GP 4 will be held at Gravesend Grammar on Sunday 8th February
2015. We hope to see many of you there once again.
Please also note: our coaching
days which are run by our very own GM Chris Ward. The third of these
will be held on Saturday 31st January at Sevenoaks Primary School.
You can book online at the following link: http://www.kjca.org/Event. For more information
please visit our website on the following link: http://www.kjca.org/article/157
Best
wishes