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Venue: Bishop Justus C of E
Event Type: Individual Tournament
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Venue: Sevenoaks School
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Kent Junior Newsround Update no. 6
Congratulations to two KJCA juniors; Conrad Allison and Jessica Wen:
Conrad Allison came joint first at the 9th Hampstead International Congress held on 21-22nd July 2013. Good luck also to Conrad who is expecting his A level results later this month. The crosstabs for this event may be found on the following link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25372250/hampstead%20congress/u2200%20200713/SMWSite/index.html. The Hampstead Congress link is: http://hampsteadchess.blogspot.co.uk/
Jessica Wen scored 100% to help England win the Gilbert Cup. This is a ‘four nations’ type event and was hosted by Wales this year. The full team and individual results may be found on the following link: http://www.glorneycupchess.org/jessica_gilbert.htm

Dates for your Diaries - 2013/14 Season
We are currently in
the process of finalising the locations for next year’s Grand Prixes and Training
days. In the meantime, below is a list of dates to put in your diaries:
Grand
Prixes:
GP 1 - 15th September 2013 (London Qualifier)
GP 2 - 3rd November 2013 (London Qualifier)
GP 3 - 1st February 2014
GP 4 - 15th February 2014 (KJCA Primary Championship)
GP 5 - 9th March 2014
GP 6 - 13th April 2014 (KJCA Secondary Championship)
GP 7 - 25th May 2014
GP 8 - 5th July 2014 (Grand Prix Final)
Friends
and Family: 8th December 2013
Coaching
days:
CD 1 - 13th October 2013
CD 2 - 23rd November 2013
CD 3 - 18th January 2014
CD 4 - 9th February 2014
ESPCA Inter-Association Championships:
U9 Zonal - 8th
March 2014
U11 Zonal -
15th March 2014
U11 Girls'
Final - 22nd March 2014
U9 Final -
26th April 2014
U11 Final -
10th May 2014
GP Final at Sevenoaks Primary School
This was the final GP of the 2012/13 season, held on Sunday 14th July 2013 at Sevenoaks Primary School, with many GP titles still in the balance and many trophies and medals to be awarded. The closest title was in the prestigious U18 section with just a 3.6 points gap between the top two, representing a mere half a point difference in the tournament result. This hard and closely fought battle between Conrad Allison and Rohan Bansal had been going on throughout the entire season and the finale itself did not disappoint; the result going down to the very last round and to virtually the very last game of the day. It was Conrad who won out in the end and many congratulations to him and to Rohan on a super season!
Also may we wish a fond
farewell to both Conrad Allison and Victor Jones who will no longer be
juniors next season and have represented Kent and played in the Kent Junior
Grand Prixes for many, many years. We wish them the best and hope to see them as
part of our coaching team in the years to come.
Congratulations to all
47 who attended this final; everyone settling down to pay some superb games of
chess, despite the scorching heat outside. The top two in each section were:
U9: 1st Giovanni Currah (6 /
6), 2nd Isaac Willats (5
/ 6),
U11: 1st Kiran Shiatis (5 / 6),
2nd Mikey
Watson (4.5 / 6),
U14: 1st Francesco
Bernardini (5 / 5), 2nd Joelle
Hakim (3.5 / 5),
U18: 1st Conrad Allison (4 /
5), 2nd equal Rohan
Bansal and Victor Jones (3.5 / 5).
Top Primary School: Sevenoaks Primary School
Top Secondary School: Trinity
Full cross tables can
be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/52
As mentioned above,
this event also settled the GP championships which had been running all season
long. The winners of the overall GP for 2012 / 13 are as follows:
U9: Kiran Shiatis with Mikey Watson second and Navieinnah Haridas as top overall girl. Alexander
Levin was top U8 and Navieinnah Haridas top U7. Congratulations also go to the
U9’s for winning the EPSCA county U9 final back in April this year (full report
can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/article/59)
U11: Anantha Anilkumar with Francesco Bernardini second and Emily Green as overall top girl.
Alejandro Ito-Aramendia was top U10. The team finished a very credible 5th
in the EPSCA county U11 event held in May and our young girls’ team came 8th
in their event.
U14: Alexander Selway with Joelle Hakim second and overall top girl. Alexander Selway was also
top U13 and Joelle Hakim top U12. Well done to our U13 open and minor teams who
did brilliantly well at the ECF county championships in June, finishing 4th
and 2nd respectively.
U18: Conrad Allison with Rohan Bansal second and top U15. Mary Scott was top overall girl and
James Maguire top U17. Congratulations to our U18 team who finished third at
the ECF county championships.
Primary School: Cumnor House with Dulwich College Junior second. It was fantastic seeing so many new
faces and new schools taking part throughout the season, with a special mention
to Crofton Junior, Sevenoaks Primary, Anthony Roper, Cheriton Primary, Cage
Green Primary and Edgebury Primary. It is through the coaches at these schools
which provide the talented youngsters which not only play in the KJCA Grand
Prixes, but also go on to represent Kent in the county championships and also
their country. Many of our young juniors have been selected to
represent England during the year, well done to Robert Akeya-Price, Jessica Wen, Girinath Haridas, Rohan Shiatis,
Anantha Anilkumar, Nevieinah Haridas and Rohan Bansal.
Secondary School: St Olave's Grammar with Dulwich College Senior second.
Full GP tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.
A big thank you to Sevenoaks Primary School for
accommodating us and providing such a superb venue for our final event of the
season.
A special thank you to:
·
Sue Maguire
for all her hard work throughout the season and for arranging each of the 8
events, our coaching days, the catering and everything else she does for the
KJCA.
·
Chris Ward GM for
his coaching expertise and team support throughout the year.
·
Anil Anilkumar,
our president and for bringing all the teams together in what has been another
winning season for Kent.
·
Our
friendly, hardworking, treasurer, tournament director and report writer Andrew Shiatis.
·
Our
communications manager Krishna Shiatis.
·
Neeraj Grover
for his web expertise and for setting up our KJCA internet club
·
And to all
the parents, helpers, team managers
who volunteer their time to help support the children and each of our events.
We hope you had fun at our events and that
you have a relaxing summer break. We look forward to seeing you all again next
season. We will post the dates of our GPs and coaching days on the KJCA and the
ECF websites as soon as possible.
KJCA

U13 Major Team finish a credible fourth in the 2013 ECF Jamboree
With the U13 Major team finishing 4th on 11 points, just 1 point behind third placed Surrey A at the ECF Jamboree on 30th June 2013, this meant that Kent was the only county to be within the top 5 across all 3 tournaments at this championship. This is a huge credit to the strength and depth that Kent has consistently maintained over the past 6 years.
The U13 Major team comprised;
Arul Gupta, Girinath Haridas, Alexander Selway, Francesco Bernardini, Anantha Anilkumar, Freddie Hand and Karthik Velayudham.
The team performed well in both the first and third rounds with 4 and 4.5 points out of 6, but a poor second round meant the team fell just short of a medal position.
Anil Anilkumar
Team Manager

U13 Minor Team take second place in the 2013 ECF Jamboree
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 30th June 2012.
Up against some very strong teams from 17 other counties, we were sitting in equal 4th place after round 1 with 4 points out of 6 and slipped to 5th 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