Welsh Junior Championships – The Cathedral School, Cardiff – this weekend

During this weekend at the Junior Championships  We ask all players not to shake hands at the beginning or end of games Throughout the Chanpionships there will be hand wipes available and would encourage all players to use these before games (and during games if necessary). The only refreshments on sale will be tea. coffee, […]

Taking on the Giants

Here is a report on Castell Nedd Juniors in the recent Welsh Junior Championships.

 

BCET awards notice to be published

  We are inviting nominations for the BCET Awards 2025 which are for Junior Schools (including Colleges and other education establishments) and junior clubs in the United Kingdom. The award to Schools and Junior Chess Clubs, are for those which have shown outstanding achievements or enthusiasm in chess. We are looking for a citation […]

2025 Dragon League

  The new Dragon League was a hectic mass of organised chaos! With a record 24 of Castell Nedd’s junior members, 2 new players, and (with a slight slip up in fixtures that saw four guest teams arriving to take part in the league instead of three) 14 guests coming along to take part in […]

2025 World Schools Championship Serbia 19th-29th March

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2024 Welsh Junior Rapidplay Results

U. 14

1st Emma Kong 5 2nd David Belochkin 4 3rd Elija Daniel and Victoria Halstian 3

U. 12

1st James Choung 4.5 2nd to 4th Toby Reckless, Rowan Ridge and Adam Sarwar 4

U.10

1st Raga Mandadapu 4.5 2nd to 3rd Sam Addison and Kadalardsan Balaji 4

U.8

1st to 3rd Ishaan Manugonda, […]

Castell Nedd’s Halloween 2024 Pizza Night

Another big success for Castell Nedd Chess Club! Last week, ghosts and ghouls took to the chessboards for the club’s annual pizza night, this time with a Halloween theme. Throughout the evening, kids enjoyed both chess and themed activities, playing “Splat the Spider” and tossing hoops onto witches’ hats between games. The room was decorated […]

Pembrokeshire Junior chess event

 

What another fantastic Chess tournament here at Redhill Prep!

Well done to all the children who took part there were some excellent games played.

14 schools from across Pembrokeshire and beyond were represented today proving this game remains ever popular!

Here are the medal winners:

1st place- Gold Medal: Samuel Addison 2nd place- Silver […]

Castell Nedd Junior Chess Olympics

The Chess Olympics was a massive success for the large number of  juniors who attended, battling to see who the best variant player was. Introduced to King of the Hill, Three Checks  and Losing Chess, even the weaker players had a chance to outdo the stronger. Phoebe Evans defeated one of the adults to show […]

Junior Rapidplay Ratings Uplift

Some of you will know that on 1st March 2024, FIDE gave an uplift to players at the lower end of their rating list, with no player now receiving a FIDE rating of under 1400, and players between 1000 and 2000 being uplifted to between 1400 and 2000.

FIDE ratings are accepted as the ‘gold […]

2024 European Schools Tournament

EXPRESSION  OF INTEREST

To all parents of junior players

The European Schools Tournament will be held in Limerick University in the Republic of Ireland from May 30th to June 8,th 2024.

This is an individual tournament, second in importance only to the European Youth Championship. It travels around Europe each year and will […]