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KJCA GP6 2019-20 (Crosstabs)
Venue: Bishop Justus C of E
Event Type: Individual Tournament
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Venue: Sevenoaks School
Event Type: Individual Tournament
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Venue: The Cornwallis Academy
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Institute of Chess exam results - February 2019
Well done to everyone who took the Institute of Chess exams at CD4 on Sunday 24th February 2019.
The results are listed below and we have certificates for all, which will be available during the afternoon of the KJCA GP7 tournament at Chislehurst Girls School.
Thanks to all our chess coaches who worked hard on the KJCA coaching programme this season.
These were, Head coach GM Chris Ward, GM John Emms, Adam Bukojemski, Alexis Harakis, William Jones, Chris Rice, Jacob Watson and Mikey Watson.
Level 5:
Distinction: Egor Chernyshov, Yifan Luo, Ryan Nguyen, Oliver Poulter
Merit: Kyle Karaman
Level 4:
Distinction: Mateusz Bazan, Zeno Burns, Andy Lin, Oscar Nowatschek, Noah U-King-Im
Merit: George Allen, Raffi French, Ankit Gaekwad, Oli Garrett, Mark Hodovanets, Reuben Moisey,
Aneesh Sagar Teo Saunders
Pass: Mitullesh Engarshal, Joshua Moisey
Level 3:
Distinction: Felix Coker, Ethan D’Souza, Sean Duffy, Joshua Hayhoe, Rhea Jajodia, Dehong Kong,
Andy Lin, Alex Mo, Reece Morris, Advait Pangare, Roshan Rao, Lucas Rosselli, Pavan Sai Yalamanchi,
Ryan Yuan
Merit: Max French, Johani Hackman, Casper Nowatschek, Leon Pussella
Level 2:
Distinction: Rohan Akkineni, Enzo Almasi, Tarun Ganesh, Alex Gao, Ethan Hayhoe, Yixiang Li, Anthony Lin,
Peter Ou, Mahit Reddy, Krish Shunmugam, Jayiith Sivasubramaniam, Maja Trifunovic, Luna Yi
Level 1:
Distinction: Tiago Almasi, Evelyn Nguyen
Next season’s coaching days will begin again in the autumn. Details and registration will be available on this website soon. We hope you will take the opportunity to move up to the next Level.

GP6 at Hayesbrooke school on Sunday 3rd March
The KJCA GP6 tournament 2018-19 was held on Sunday 3rd March at Hayesbrook school in Tonbridge.
It was great to see a strong turnout with over 120 children and young people across four sections, U9, U11, U18 minor and U18 major. The prizewinners in each section were:

2nd ECF SE Girls’ Rapidplay Championship - Sunday 25th November at Chislehurst school for girls
Sections
U8, U10, U12, U14, U15-U18
The winners of each age group receive the title of ECF South East Girls’ Rapidplay Champion 2018
- Trophy and Title for first place in each age group. Medals and prizes for seconds and third place
- Swiss Tournament (all players play every round)
- ECF Rapidplay graded
- Time control – all moves in 20 mins plus 10 secs per move
- Refreshments will be available for purchase
- ECF Junior Silver membership or higher is recommended for all players to play in the event. For those players who have never held ECF membership before, one year’s free Junior Silver membership is available via the online membership system here – https://ecf.azolve.com (choose Junior Silver and the £5.00 fee will be discounted at the point of payment.
- There will be a girl players only social room available between games with access to free light refreshments and social activities
- Chief Arbiter & Controller – Jo Wildman, ECF NA, Emma Holmes KJCA, and other team TBC

Opening move for Shreyas at round seven of the World Championships
Kent junior player, Shreyas Royal, was honoured to be asked to take the opening ceremonial move at round seven of the World Championship match between defending champion, Magnus Carlsen, and challenger, Fabiano Caruana.