Breaking News - Success for Kent Juniors at the European Schools' Chess Championships 2016

Congratulations to Kent juniors, Shreyas Royal, Shlok Verma and Charlie Metcalfe for their fantastic results at the European Schools Chess Championships 2016 held in Halkidiki, Greece over the last ten days.

The championships finished today (Saturday 25th June) and the three Kent players did very well.

In the U7 boys section, Shreyas achieved overall second place and a silver trophy with a very impressive score of 7/9

Shlok played in the same section and came 5th overall with 5.5/9.

Charlie played in the U11 boys section and finished with a strong 4.5/9.

These are fantastic results for all three players at their first international tournament representing England Juniors.

Also, well done to all the young chess players representing England from different parts of the country, to the coaches who travelled with the team and also to Simon Metcalfe for all his hard work as Head of Delegation.

More details to follow when Simon and the boys return from Greece.