London Junior Chess Championships
What?
PARENTAL SUPPORT IN JUNIOR CHESS HIGHLIGHTED ON TV
The Hale family- Sue, Michael, Katie, Peter and Stephanie were asked
to take part in filming for a TV documentary looking at whether high achieving
children involved in various activities had parents who were supportive and
encouraging or just pushy! They agreed to take part to publicise the benefits
of chess and in particular the positive effects that participation in
competitive junior chess has had on their lives.At the Hales' request a
donation was made to St John's Church, Glastonbury and to the Somerset Junior
Chess Association. They were filmed for two days in December, one at home in
Somerset and one on the last day of the London Junior Chess
Championship Finals. The programme with the controversial title Pushy
Parents ? will be shown on ITV1 on Monday 21st June at 8.30p.m (same time as
Euro 2004 so footy fans will have to programme the video!) Any feedback may be
directed to suehale@ChessmatesUK.net
The London Junior Chess Championships started with the London Boys
Championships in 1924 and in December it celebrated its 73rd event.
The entry form came out on 23rd July and is
here as a Microsoft Word
document (143kB)
A quiz was provided this year to help the parents while away the time
while their children were playing. A copy of the quiz is
here. (MS Word 68kB)... and here
are the answers (MS Word 83kB)
The London Christmas Chess Congress runs alongside the London Juniors.
The entry form for this is here (MS Word 145kB)
. The following letters have been sent to all the competitors at the
second weekend. letter 1(MS Word
30kB), letter 2(MS Word 27kB),
questionnaire (MS Word 35kB)
The crosstables for the Major and
Minor Tournaments of the London Christmas
Congress are now available. The crosstables for the
U12 Major and Minor crosstables have more grading
information.
When?
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2003
Click on section headings for the cross-tables.
|
Under 10
Minor |
Under 10
Major |
Under 14
Minor |
Under 14
Major |
| 2001 |
101 entrants |
94 entrants |
38 entrants |
46 entrants |
| 2002 |
83 entrants |
94 entrants |
39 entrants |
40 entrants |
| 2003 |
91 entrants |
87 entrants |
42 entrants |
44 entrants |
| 2003 EVENT WINNERS |
1st Joshua Pineda 6½/7
(Trophy
Winner) |
1stYang Fan Zhou 6½/7
(Trophy
winner) |
1st William Taylor 5½/6
(Trophy
winner) |
1st Thomas Pym 5/6
(Trophy Winner) |
| 2003 RUNNERS UP |
2nd=Luke Burroughs,
Liam Raybould,
Hisham
Zaman 6/7 |
2nd=Andrew Willis,
Charlie Hierons 6/7
4th=
Robert Darby,
Jack Harding,
Thomas
Middleton,
Nnamdi Obiekwe 5½/7 |
2nd Oisin Benson 5/6
3rd=
Avinoam Baruch,
Giles Ip,
Andrew Winchcombe 4½/6,
|
2nd=Joe Fraser,
Ankush Khandelwal,
Vedantha
Kumar,
Subin Sen,
James Snowden,
Sam Stanley 4½/6 |
| 2003 LONDON CHAMPIONS |
|
Yang Fan Zhou
(Trophy) |
|
Vedantha Kumar
(Trophy) (on tiebreak) |
| 2003 LONDON GIRLS CHAMPIONS |
|
Sabrina Barr 3½/7
(Trophy) (on tiebreak) |
|
Chantal Sirisena 3½/6
(Trophy) |
| 2003 SCCU CHAMPIONS |
|
Under 9
Yang-Fan Zhou
(Trophy)
|
|
Under 14
Vedantha Kumar
(Trophy) (on
tiebreak) |
| 2003 SCCU GIRLS CHAMPIONS |
|
Under 9 Stephanie Hale
(Trophy) |
|
Under 14Chantal Sirisena (Trophy) |
| 2003 LEADING GIRLS |
Caroline Foster 4½/7
(Trophy winner) |
Sabrina Barr,
Fay Birch 3½/7
(Trophy each) |
Zoe Geidelberg 3½/6
(Trophy winner) |
Chantal Sirisena,
Amisha Parmar 3½/6
(Trophy
each) |
| 2003 OTHER CHAMPIONS |
|
Best Under 9 Yang-Fan Zhou
(Trophy winner) |
|
Best Under 13 Ankush Khandelwal,
Subin Sen
(Trophy each) |
Sunday 28th, Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th December 2003
Second Weekend Results. Apologies if there are any remaining errors.
Click on section headings for the cross-tables.
|
Under 8 |
Under 12 Minor |
Under 12 Major |
Under 16 |
FIDE RATED
Open |
| 2001 |
47 entrants |
63 entrants |
82 entrants |
35 entrants |
24 entrants |
| 2002 |
58 entrants |
65 entrants |
101 entrants |
29 entrants |
44 entrants |
| 2003 |
50 entrants |
69 entrants |
104 entrants |
28 entrants |
36 entrants |
| 2003 EVENT WINNERS |
1st= James Abrams,
Briony Brock,
Dan
Levit,
Nathan Taylor 6/7
(Trophy Each) |
1st Richard Waite 7½/9
(Trophy
Winner) |
1st Callum Kilpatrick 8/9
(Trophy Winner) |
1st Dana Hawrami 5/6
(Trophy Winner) |
1st Rafe Martyn 5½/6
(Trophy
Winner) |
| 2003 RUNNERS UP |
|
2nd= Akash Jain,
Bryan Koh 7/9 |
2nd Kishan Lakhani 7½/9
4th= Lewis Martin,
Ravi
Sharda 7/9 |
2nd= Joseff Thomas,
Charlie Fry
4½/6
4th=
Similan Anandajeyarajah,
Martin Cheung,
Sam Cloake,
Peter Constantinou,
Jamie Yardley 4/6 |
2nd= Lawrence Trent,
Ben Ogunshula,
Chris Dorrington
4½/6 |
| 2003 LONDON CHAMPIONS |
Dan Levit |
|
Callum Kilpatrick
(Trophy Winner) |
Dana Hawrami
(Trophy Winner) |
Under 18
Lawrence Trent
(Trophy Winner) |
| 2003 LONDON GIRLS CHAMPIONS |
not awarded |
|
Sheila Dines 5½/9
(Trophy Winner) |
not awarded |
not awarded |
| 2003 SCCU CHAMPIONS |
|
|
Under 11
Saravanan Sathyanandha
(Trophy
Winner) |
|
Under 18
Lawrence Trent
(Trophy Winner) |
| 2003 SCCU GIRLS CHAMPIONS |
|
|
Under 11
Sheila Dines
(Trophy Winner) |
|
Under 18
Naomi Miller
(Trophy Winner) |
| 2003 LEADING GIRLS |
Briony Brock
(Trophy Winner) |
Fay Birch,
Megan Owens 6/9
(Trophy each) |
Katie Hale,
Sheila Dines,
Alexandra Torregrosa-Jones
5½/9
(Trophy each) |
|
|
| 2003 OTHER CHAMPIONS |
Best Under 7
James Bowler,
Hugo
Davis,
Ezra Kirk 5/7
(Trophy each) |
|
Best Under 11
Saravanan Sathyanandha,
Craig
Whitfield 6½/9
(Trophy each) |
|
Under 21
Rafe Martyn
(Trophy Winner) |
Where?
Qualifiers
Qualification is required for the U8, U10 and U12. These are the
29 qualifying events which
are taking place between September and December.
- Latest news. The Hampshire Qualifier is on November 1st, not November
8th as previously given The Barnet & Finchley qualifier is now cancelled.
The qualifying events page now shows the
winners of more of the qualifiers to date
Some of the qualifiers are now
listed.
Finals
University of Westminster
Harrow
Campus
Northwick Park
Harrow
HA1 3TP
020 7911 5978
Who?
Who has entered?
As entries are received, they will be added here
(Last year's entries
here)
Who has qualified?
As results come in from the qualifying tournaments, they will be added
here.
Who has played before?
Complete cross-tables are here for
2002,
2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997 , 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992.
If you wish to make any comments about the championships or this
website, please contact webmaster@ljcc.co.uk.