Junior Congress 3 Results

At Llandaff, Cardiff on 24th July, the Junior Raptdplay Congress 3 took place.

The results were as follows:

Open  1st Ethan Chung 6/6   2nd Anish Choudhury 4  3rd Bence Szakmany  2   Premier   1st Alex Lawrence  4.5/5   2nd   Oliver Sapsford  4   3rd  Andy Wang 3.5   Major 1st  Govind Anandkumar […]

First Rank Edition 16

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First Rank Edition 15

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Strong performances in the 2018 NYCA in Kenilworth

On Saturday, November 3rd a team from South Wales came second to perennial winners Sussex in the Under 16 section of the National Youth Chess Association inter county competition in Kenilworth. Our team of eight scored 18.5 points out of 24 and the bottom five players all scored 100% three out of three.

The final […]

First Rank All Editions @ 2/11/2018

These are newsletters for Chess in Schools in Europe.

Edition 1 Edition 8 Edition 2 Edition 9 Edition 3 Edition 10 Edition 4 Edition 11 Edition 5 Edition 12 Edition 6 Edition 13 (including an interview with Sarah Kett) Edition 7 Edition 14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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World Youth Championships 2018

The World Youth Chess Championships 2018 are taking place in Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece from October 20th to 30th. The Welsh representatives are Hugo Fowler in the U16 Open and Ifan Rathbone-Jones in the U14 Open. The boys arrived on the 19th after an early start to catch pre dawn flights.

There are over 630 […]

2nd Junior Congress Results

The results of the 2nd Junior Congress were as follows:

Open: 1st Ethan Chung 4/6             =2nd Ellison Smith and Callum Smith 3/6

Premier: =1st Anshul Swamy and Andy Wang 4/5                  =3rd  Harri Gilbert and William Roberts

Major: =1st Rio Northey and […]

Reminder: Chess event for Secondary School players on Saturday 15 September

On Saturday 15 September there will be afternoon of fast-paced, light-hearted chess for secondary school players all standards. This will be held at Whitchurch Rugby club, the home of North Cardiff chess club, from 2-5 p.m. (the full address is Whitchurch Rugby Sports & Social Club, Samuels Crescent, Velindre Road, Cardiff, CF14 2TH).

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Glorney Gilbert International Tournament 2018

The tournament was held this year in the University of West Scotland in Paisley, near Glasgow. The tournament hall was large, comfortable and air conditioned, with an adjacent coffee bar, although the lack of team rooms was a slight handicap.

The Netherlands entered four teams and so, for the first time for many years we […]

Chess event for Secondary School players on Saturday 15 September

On Saturday 15 September there will be afternoon of fast-paced, light-hearted chess for secondary school players all standards. This will be held at Whitchurch Rugby club, the home of North Cardiff chess club, from 2-5 p.m. (the full address is Whitchurch Rugby Sports & Social Club, Samuels Crescent, Velindre Road, Cardiff, CF14 2TH).

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