Congratulations to our U13 minor team for a fantastic second place in the ECF County Championship held at Haberdasher’s Aske’s Boys’ School on 30^th June 2012.

Up against some very strong teams from 17 other counties, we were sitting in equal 4^th place after round 1 with 4 points out of 6 and slipped to 5^th after round 2 with 3 points out of 6.

Our illustrious team of juniors were up for the battle in the third and final round and where other teams began to falter in the hot afternoon sun, our team battled on strongly, churning out win after win after win and scoring a brilliant 6 points out of 6.

It was enough to catapult the team up into second place with 13 points overall, ahead of Sussex on the tie breaker, but not quite enough to overtake Northamptonshire who were first with 15.5 points.

Full results can be found on: http://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-u13-u18-report-results/

The team in board order were:

Emily Green

Kiran Shiatis

Mikey Watson

Ximan Mao

Naviennah Haridas

Bobby Akeya-Price

Jacob Watson

A special thanks to Anil for arranging the event and getting the U13 team together.

Andrew Shiatis

A strong under-18 team competed in this year’s tournament, still retaining many players from the previous year. We had a promising first round of 9.5/12, after which we stood in first place. However, we were not so fortunate in the second (final) round, with a score of 7.5/12, leaving us in third place. This was still a significant achievement, given that 13 teams competed within this age group, so congratulations to all.

Full results can be found on: http://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-u13-u18-report-results/

The team (in board order) was as follows:

Tony Rao

Team Manager

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The seventh GP of the 2012/13 season was held on Sunday 26th May 2013 at Sutton Valence with 56 participants competing across four sections.

Congratulations to all who attended with some excellent games being played at all levels. The top two for each section were:

U9: 1^st Navieinaah Haridas (6 / 6), 2nd Sri Nivasan  Loganathan (5 / 6),

U11: 1^st equal Harry Armstrong and Alejandro Ito-Aramendia (5 / 6),

U14: 1^st Alexander Selway (5 / 5), 2^nd Freddie Hand (4 / 5),

U18: 1^st Rohan Bansal (4 / 5), 2^nd Conrad Allison (3.5 / 5).

Top Primary School: Crofton Junior

Top Secondary School: Sevenoaks

Full cross tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/51

Current leaders of the GP tables after seven events are as follows:

U9: Kiran Shiatis

U11: Anantha Anilkumar

U14: Alexander Selway

U18: Conrad Allison

Primary School: Cumnor House

Secondary School: St Olave's Grammar

Full GP tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.

Many thanks to Sutton Valence for accommodating us and also a big thank you to all the parents who helped before and on the day.

Please note: The date of our final GP will most likely be held on July 14th rather than the 7th. As usual you can enter online and we hope to see many of you there for the final GP of the season where as well as the event winners, our overall Kent GP winners will be crowned.

KJCA