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Venue: Bishop Justus C of E
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GP 5 Dulwich College 2013/14
Our fifth GP was held on Sunday 2nd March at Dulwich College.
Beautiful sunshine welcomed everyone on arrival at this magnificent venue, steeped in history. It was great to see so many children coming along from so many different schools and counties, making this another hugely successful KJCA event.
Thank you to all the parents and children who kindly helped out on the day, any and as always all help is always much appreciated. It was great to see all the familiar faces as well as the new faces especially the friendly contingent from Holy Trinity School!
U9: 1st
Charlie Metcalfe (6 / 6), 2nd Huseyin Gueriane (5.5 / 6),
U11: 1st
Aryan Naryan (5.5 / 6), 2nd equal Ben Barton, Bridie O’Leary (5 / 6)
U14:
1st Francesco Bernardini (5.5 / 6), 2nd equal Ranesh Ratnesan, Alejandro
Ito-Aramendia, Eoin O’Leary (4/5)
U18: 1st
Freddie Hand (5 / 5), 2nd Anantha Anilkumar (3.5 / 5)
Primary School: King’s College School (57.8)
Secondary
School: St Olave's Grammar (68.0)
Full
cross tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/68
Current
leaders of the GP tables after this event are as follows:
U9: Ranesh
Ratnesan
U11: Ximan
Mao
U14: Anantha
Anilkumar
U18: Raunak
Rao
Primary
School: Dulwich Prep London
Secondary
School: St Olave's Grammar
Full
GP tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.
Many
thanks to Dulwich College for accommodating us and also a huge thank you
to all the many parents and children who helped on the day.
Please note: Our sixth GP, will be held on the Sunday April 13th 2014 at The Schools at Somerhill. As usual you can enter online and we hope to see many (if not all) of you there.

West of England Junior Chess Championships
Well done to all those Kent Juniors who travelled down to
Swindon to participate in the West of England Junior Chess Championships on the
22nd and 23rd February.
Kent was represented across all the age groups, from the
beginners and U8 championship through to the U16 Major section.
The best result of the weekend was achieved by Jacob Watson, who scored an excellent 5½
out of 6 in the U12 Challengers, winning the section outright.
Michael Green also
did very well in the U16 Major section and got the Grading prize. Girinath Haridas, Jessica Wen and Jackson Wen also competed in the older
sections.
Playing some quality games in the U12 Championship section
were Anantha Anilkumar, Francesco
Bernadini, Mikey Watson, Emily Green, Ximan Mao and Guarav Kocher.
Kent was represented in the U10 section by Freddie Nunn and Rajeiv Ratesan, and in the U9 by Ranesh
Ratesan and Navienaah Haridas. They all played very well. There was a special
mention for Navienaah at prize giving for her tactical gameplay and she received
the controller prize.
In the U8s, Robert
Akeya-Price, had a superb result with 4 ½ out of 6, and secured joint 2nd
place. Radha Ratnesan also did very well and was rewarded by jointly
winning the best girl prize.
See http://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/WiltshireWoEPrizes14.pdf
for a link to the prizegiving. (note: a number of our Kent players are being
shown as Surrey!)

Institute of Chess results
The results achieved at the KJCA's Institutue of Chess examination session held at Barming Primary School on Saturday 9th February 2014, are as listed below. The certificates will be presented during the afternoon of the KJCA GP5 tournament at Dulwich College on Sunday 2nd March 2014.
Level 5: Coach
– GM John Emms: 4 candidates
Merit:
Charlotte Wistow
Pass:
Nii-Akwei Carty Bing-Pappoe
Riya Parikh
Emily Wistow
Level 4: Coach
– GM Chris Ward: 15 candidates
Distinction:
Nikhil Chidipothu
Ximan Mao
Aurideep Nayak
Rajeiv Ratnesan
Ranesh Ratnesan
Jacob Watson
Mikey Watson
Merit:
Rikin Parikh
Aria Sharma
Rishi Sharma
Pass:
Sebastian Davies
Navieinaah Haridas
Dennis Ivin
Jacob Scarse
Isabelle Wistow
Level 3: Coaches
– WFM Ros Kieran and Matt Lunn:
20 candidates
Distinction:
Oliver
Dobson
Matthew Dubery
Oleg Gaidai
Huseyin Gueriane
Charlie Metcalfe
Anika Roy
Efe Shimwell
Jai Singh-Chaturvedi
Merit:
Charlotte Bruce
Frederick Donaldson
Alexander Levin
Costas Nomikos
Madhav Suraj
Pass:
Kimball Catling
Abishaik Gnanenthiran
Mason Graves-Brown
Shazia Khan-Bourne
Haris Nomikos
Suriya Velayudham
Rhea Rentala
Dhruv Madan (exam taken since Barming)
Level 2: Coach
– Robert Maguire: 14 candidates
100%:
Theodore Panchev
Shaylan Roy
Distinction:
Aditya Chaurasia
Xirui Mao
Tom Mortimer
Seth Pierce
Raakavi Rajaseelan
Joshua Taylor (exam taken since Barming)
Merit:
Ira Dubey
Gregory Ivin
Radha Ratnesan
Pass:
Sam Gardiner
Luca
Ricci
Michael
Stringer
Meenaxi
Suraj
Level 1: Coach
– James Maguire: 7 candidates
Distinction:
Maxim Catling
Nell Grabham
Sofia Winchester
Merit:
Arthur Hillard
Claire Holtgen
Anya Srivastava
Pass:
Joe Grabham

GP 4 Gravesend 2013/14
Our fourth GP was held on Saturday 15th February at Gravesend Grammar School and marks the half way point of the 2013/14 season. Please take a look at the GP tables to see how you are all doing.
Many braved the fierce storms to turn out in impressive numbers, making this another hugely successful KJCA event. Thank you to all the parents and children who kindly helped out on the day, any and all help is always much appreciated.
With 64 participants competing across four sections, the top two in each section were:
U8: 1st Anika Roy (6 / 6), 2nd Mason Graves-Brown (5 / 6),
U9: 1st equal Shaun Pasari and Thomas Gardner (4.5 / 6),
U11: 1st Bridie O'Leary (5.5 / 6), 2nd Rikin Parikh (4 / 6)
The U10s were mergerd into this section: 1st Ben Barton (4.5 / 6), 2nd equal Matthew Dubery and Alex Garfield (4 / 6)
U18: 1st Raunak Rao (5 / 5), 2nd Ximan Mao (4 / 5)
The U14s were merged into this section: 1st Ranesh Ratnesan (3.5 / 5), 2nd Jacob Watson, Zeeshan Kisat and Aurideep Nayak (3 / 5)
Primary School: Home Educated (58.2)
Secondary School: St Olave's Grammar (90.0)
Full cross tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/67
Current leaders of the GP tables after this event are as follows:
U9: Ranesh Ratnesan
U11: Kiran Shiatis
U14: Anantha Anilkumar
U18: Raunak Rao
Primary School: Dulwich Prep London
Secondary School: St Olave's Grammar
Full GP tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.
Many thanks to Gravesend Grammar for accommodating us and also a huge thank you to all the many parents and children who helped on the day.
Please note: Our fifth GP, will be held on the 2nd March 2014 at Dulwich College. As usual you can enter online and we hope to see many (if not all) of you there.
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My First Chess Tournament - by Roving Reporter Jamie Owen
Below is an article written by Jamie Owen (year 4 - St Thomas's, Sevenoaks) describing his first ever KJCA tournament:
I was in the U9 group in which there were 38 boys and girls from all parts of Kent. The helpful organisers showed us where to play the games. We had to play using the clock but that was easy to pick up. The played time of the game varied a lot. I lost the first two matches so it made me play harder because I wanted to win some matches. I felt worried when I came to the room where we play chess at my third match but I won! I then felt more confident and won the next three matches. In the end I came seventh. I was very pleased with my result. I recommend it to other children because it was really fun.