The event has been booked for 10th and 11th
December next year when we all look forward to
renewing our friendly rivalry.
Junior Chess
Quadrangular 2010
- Peter Purland
The John Robinson Grand Prix
The annual event involving teams of 26 (6 under 16,
10 under 14 and 10 under 12s) from Scotland, Wales
Northern England and the English Midlands took
place at Greenbank School on the weekend of 11\12
December. Three of the teams were bedevilled by the
late cry off problem (the weather has led to much illness) but Scotland had many reserves so everyone got
a game.
Please note all scores are adjusted to be as if out of 6.
Only scores of over 50% count. Any mistakes? Please
contact the ECF Junior Director
John Robinson Under 10 Grand Prix 2011 (Born 01 or 02)
Name
British
Joseph Allin
Anantha Anilkumar
Adam Averbukh 3.5
Jamie Blackburn
Jacob Boswell
Harry Chathli
Max Elliott
Charles Grayson
Harry Grieve
Arul Gupta
4.5
Girinath Haridas
Oliver Hsieh
George Ivanov
Gautam Jain
Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 3.5
Thomas Kolya
Tharshan Kuhendiran
Keir Maclean
Shobhin Manocha
Gorak Rajesh
Luke Remus-Elliott
Sailesh Sitaram
Edward Stevenson
Brian Tarhon
Jackson Wen
Haotian Wu
Aditya Yanamandra
Anthony Zhang 3.5
Zheming Zhang 4
The Saturday rounds were North v Scotland and
Midlands v Wales followed by North v Midlands and
Scotland v Wales. Unfortunately the Midlands had only
3 U16s (4 on Sunday), Wales had 4 and North had 5 (4
on Sunday) so Scotland were favourites for this and
ended the day on 9 points, one ahead of North with
Wales 3rd and Midlands fourth. At U14 level the
North, despite not having three of their England players still had a very impressive line up and, despite only
having 9 players won both matches 7½ -2½. They
were followed by Midlands 10, Scotland 8 and Wales 7.
At U12 level Midlands were the pre-tournament
favourites and, despite one of their top boards moving
up to U14, led the tournament with 14½ from
Scotland 11, North 10½ and Wales 4. In the final
round on Sunday morning the Midlands gave the Scots
a hard game but went down 4-2 whilst Wales beat
North 3-1 (2 DD) to leave the final table Scotland,
North, Wales, Midlands.
The North continued their winning ways at U14 beating Wales 8-1 (one DD) whilst Midlands beat Scotland
7-3 leaving North winners followed by Midlands,
Scotland and Wales. The U12 event was the closest
with North piling on the agony for the Welsh youngsters whilst Scotland gave Midlands a real scare. In the
end North won 9-1 but Midlands scored the 5½ points
they needed to clinch the championship by the closest
of margins from the North with Scotland 3rd and
Wales 4th.
London
3.5
3.5
4
3.5
3.5
3.5
4.5
3.5
4
5
4
4.5
3.5
4.5
3.5
4
4.5
3.5
3.5
5
4
4.5
3.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4
4.5
Yateley
John Robinson Under 12 Grand Prix 2011 (Born 99 or 00)
The closeness of the competition is shown by the fact
that only 5 players (who played 3 games) got 3\3,
Jamie Underwood of Scotland, Sam Hayman, Andrew
Horton, James Walsh and Matthew Walsh all from
North. Matthew has the incredible statistic of having
played for the last three years and won 9\9.
7
Name
British
Ned Ashcroft
4.5
Michael Ashworth
Judd Bennett
3.5
William ClaridgeHansen
4
Harry Croasdale 4
Michael Fletcher 3.5
Yasmin Giles
4
Coby Graff
4
Ravi Haria
5
Joshua Higgs
Ethan Horsfall 3.5
Hector Huser
Tarun Jina
Raphael Kalid
4
Ashwin Kalyana 5
Cosima Keen
London
3.5
4.5
4
4.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
4.5
4.5
Yateley