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KJCA GP6 2019-20 (Crosstabs)
Venue: Bishop Justus C of E
Event Type: Individual Tournament
KJCA GP5 2019-20 (Crosstabs)
Venue: Sevenoaks School
Event Type: Individual Tournament
KJCA GP4 2019-20 (Crosstabs)
Venue: The Cornwallis Academy
Event Type: Individual Tournament
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Terrific turnout and quality chess at GP2
KJCA GP2 was held at Bishop Justus School on Sunday 21st October 2018.
As our
second London Junior Chess Championships (LJCC) qualifier
of the season, we had a very high number of entrants with strong competition
across the U8, U10 and U12 sections.
The prizewinners were as follows:
U8: 1st Sam Sundar (5/6 and tie break
23.5 ) 2nd Fabian
Brasch (5/6 and tie break 21), 3rd Emily Ashcroft (5/6 and tie
break 20.5)
Qualifying for the LJCC U8: Lucas Oprea (also on
5/6 and getting the 4th place medal), Louka Yiasoumi, David
Cazac, Yiwen Ding and Fillipos Aktselis.
U10: 1st Raffi French (5.5/6 and tie break 23.5), 2nd Anuj Venkatesh (5.5/6 and
tie break 22.5), 3rd Patrick Damodaran (5/6)
Also
qualifying for the LJCC U10 Major: Devansch Strivastava,
Nicas Lialiovici and Rohan Pesari.
Qualifying for the LJCC U10 Minor: Kabir Ghosh, Reuben
Bruce, Bhavik More, Amar Adatia, Vivan Obi, Aaran Avril, Sophia Wang, Laith
Harb, Andy He, Ryan Nguyen, Arman Tengayev, Nikita Phillips, Violet Davies,
Maxim Demin and Tarun Ganesh.
U12: 1st Sanjit Selva Kumar, (6/6) 2nd Yong Gui Wang (5/6 and tie break 22), 3rd Danny Oprea (5/6 and tie break 19.5).
Qualifying for the LJCC U12 Minor: Harry
Chauhan, Amit Aryan Sanka, Teo Sauders, Mark Ludden, Amelia Rees, Tom Heard and
Aayush Dewangan.
The U18 Minor and U18 Major were merged on this occasion,
however separate prizes were awarded as follows:
U18 Minor: 1st Roxolana Chaban
(3.5/5) 2nd equal Artemiy
Shkuratovskyi, Lev Mann and Thomas Crawley-Boevey (3/5)
U18 Major: 1st equal Jacob Watson
and Mikey Watson (4.5/5), 3nd Eoin Moore (4/5)
The full crosstabs are at: http://www.kjca.org/result/189
It was a fantastic turnout and the tournament ran very
smoothly. Well
done to everyone who came along and competed. We hope everyone enjoyed both some great
chess games and spending time with your friends.
As
always lots of thanks for all those volunteers who give up their time to ensure
we are able to put on these tournaments. Including:
Control & Arbiting team: Jo Wildman (ECF NA), Gary Dorman
and Tom Moore.
Results team: Ben Luo, Deepak More and Gary Titmuss.
GM Chris Ward for coming
along to the tournament and his continued support, advice and encouragement to
our Kent junior players and their families.
KJCA Secretary: Kathryn Woodward for booking and
liaising with the venue, ordering the trophies and medals all other administration
work behind the scenes and support throughout the day.
KJCA
Treasurer: Emma Holmes for overseeing all the finances and payments and support
in the playing hall on the day.
Equipment
Manager: Guy Barton – for bringing along all the
chess equipment, setting up and then taking away and storing at the end of the
day.
Tournament
Registration: Gary
Dorman and Orla Dorman - for smooth check-in of all the players and dealing
with queries and communications from parents and carers.
KJCA is run by volunteers to develop chess opportunities for children and
young people in Kent and South East London. We are
always looking for helpers and
it is great to see some new faces supporting our work, please do get in touch
if you would like to help out.
Finally, thanks go to Bishop
Justus School for use of the fantastic venue. Also to the school catering team
for providing good quality refreshments and the caretaker for his help and support
on the day.

Fun and pizzas at the Friends & Family Tournament 2018
The KJCA Friends & Family tournament was held on Sunday 14th October 2018 at Sevenoaks Primary School.
Hosted by GM Chris Ward,
the event was a great combination of quality chess, friendships and tasty pizzas.
With five rounds of chess and the pairings arranged by GM Chris, there were lots of tense battles, fun games and inter-generational clashes.
This tournament is a team effort – with the best ‘adult’ score (age 14 and over) added to the best junior score (under 14). Teams compete for the KJCA Friends & Family trophy which goes back over twenty years.
To add to the excitement, three of the higher graded players - Mikey Watson, Jacob Watson and Patrick Burns played two rounds against the outstanding skills of GM John Emms.
The best scoring junior on the day was Declan Dorman
The best scoring adult (14+) was Mikey
Watson
There was a close competition for the overall trophy and it went down to a tense last game.
However, the winners of the Friends & Family trophy for 2018 was the Dorman Family.
Congratulations to Gary, Jenny, Orla and Declan for their great chess on the day.
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such a fun event and a great introduction to new players and parents.
The success of the day was down to GM
Chris Ward for expertly hosting the tournament and GM John Emms for playing, adding
up the final scores and his overall support for the event.
Thanks also go to all our KJCA volunteers who work in the background to ensure that events and tournaments can go ahead and that the day runs smoothly.
Finally, thanks also go to Sevenoaks Primary school for use of their fantastic new school venue.

Off to a great start with GP1 at Tonbridge Grammar
Our first GP of the new season was held at Tonbridge Grammar School on Saturday 29th September 2018.
As a London
Junior Chess Championships (LJCC) qualifier we had lots of strong competitors across the younger sections of U8, U10 and U12.
It was also great to see lots of our older players entering
the popular U18 Minor and U18 Major sections which included some high level,
quality chess games.
The prizewinners in each section were:
U8: 1st Bhavik More (5.5/6 and tie break 21.5) 2nd David Cazac (5.5/6 and tie break 20.5), 3rd Joshua Moisey (4/6 and tie break 23.5)
Qualifying
for the LJCC U8: Max French, Johani Hackman and Lucas Oprea
U10: 1st Makariy Shkuratovskyi (5/6 and tie break 23.5), 2nd Teo Saunders (5/6 and tie break 22.5), 3rd Lavinia Fear (4/6 and tie break 22.5)
Also
qualifying for the LJCC U10 Major: Oli Garrett,
Amelia Rees, Leo Chatterjee, Florian Brasch and Ruairi Isaacs.
Qualifying for the LJCC U10 Minor: Raffi French, Max Bell, Andy Lin, Devansh Strivastava, Amar Adatia and
Roshan Rao
U12: 1st Tashika Aurora, (5.5/6) 2nd Lev Mann (5.5/6), 3rd Lucas Downing (4.5/6 and tie break 23.5). Also qualifying for the LJCC U12 Major: Anwen
Song and Shauyra Metha
Qualifying
for the LJCC U12 Minor: Sen Patel, Mateusz Bazan, Ethan Bingzuan Li, Artemy Shkuratovskyi, Danny Oprea, Lucian Cox,
Tom Heard, Yifan Luo and Nicas Lialiovici
U18 Minor: 1st Eoin Moore (5/5), 2nd Roxolana
Chaban (4/5), 3rd
equal Atticus Fear, Yong Gui Wang,
Lorcan Pritchard and George Anderton (3/5)
U18 Major: 1st Shreyas Royal (4.5/5), 2nd Logan Fear (4/5) 3rd : Jacob
Watson (3.5/5),
The full crosstabs can be seen at: http://www.kjca.org/result/188
Well done to
everyone who played, from experienced England and county players to those at
their very first chess tournament. We hope everyone enjoyed both some great
chess games and spending time with your friends.
It always takes
a lot of time and willing volunteers to put on a large chess tournament. Extra thanks to everyone who ensured that our GP1 tournament took
place successfully and ran smoothly including:
Control & Arbiting team: Jo Wildman (ECF NA), Rejean Dupuis (ECF NA), John Merriman, Mikhail Sedykh, Andrew Bruce and Gary Dorman.
Results team: Ben Luo, Deepak More and Gary Titmuss.
GM Chris Ward and GM John Emms for coming to the tournament, help in the playing hall, prizegiving and all their continued support, advice and encouragement to our Kent junior players and their families.
KJCA Secretary: Kathryn Woodward for
booking and liaising with the venue, ordering the trophies and medals all other
administration work behind the scenes and support throughout the day.
KJCA Treasurer: Emma Holmes for overseeing
all the finances and payments and support in the playing hall on the day.
Equipment Manager: Guy
Barton – for bringing along all the chess equipment, setting up and then
taking away and storing at the end of the day.
Tournament Registration: Gary Dorman and Orla Dorman - for smooth check-in of all the players and dealing with quieries and communications from parents and carers.
KJCA is run by volunteers to develop chess opportunities for children and
young people in Kent and South East London. We are always looking
for helpers and it is great to see some new faces supporting our
work, please do get in touch if you would like to help out.
Finally,
thanks go to Tonbridge Grammar
School for use of the fantastic school venue and also to all the school
catering team for providing good quality refreshments and the caretaker for his support on the day.

All set for the new season - GP1 at Tonbridge Grammar on Saturday 29th September
The first GP tournament of the new season will be held this Saturday, 29th September, at Tonbridge girls' grammar school.
This event is also a LJCC qualifier for U8, U10 and U12.
For our older players we have the popular U18 minor and U18 major section.
Please go to: http://www.kjca.org/event/188 to register.
If you plan to come along, please register before 7pm the day before the tournament (Friday 28th).
We are delighted to again have Tonbridge girls' grammar as the venue for this tournament. Please ensure that you and all young players are respectful of the school venue, grounds and equipment at all times.
Catering will be provided by the school catering staff in the IBarn, this is located just opposite the playground. Please consume food in the IBarn and do not take food into the playing hall. There will be a selection of hot and cold drinks, snacks, sandwiches and sweet treats for sale. Please try and support the catering facilities as all profits go directly to the school. The school has asked that no takeaways should be ordered onto the school grounds and your rubbish must be taken away.
Please also note that there is limited parking available at the school and that we need to be respectful of local residents if finding alternative spaces.
Looking forward to welcoming all our young chess players to the new season.

KJCA AGM - Sunday 7th October at Sevenoaks Primary school
Kent Junior Chess Association, Annual General Meeting
At: Sevenoaks Primary School, Bradbourne Park Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3LB
We are pleased to announce that the KJCA AGM will be held at 1.30pm on Sunday 7th October 2018. This will be during our coaching day 1 which is being held at Sevenoaks Primary School.
The KJCA is run by a voluntary committee and relies on the dedication of parents and volunteers.
If you are able to give some of your time, even if it is just for a few hours at the various KJCA events, it is very much appreciated and will help us to provide chess opportunities for children and young people.
Please do let us know on secretary@kjca.org or come along to the AGM to find out more.