Results from the 6th Simon Bartlett Memorial Congress, Torquay 2025: Minor: Our top U14 and U18 players showed well: Shreyas Pasupulety 4/5 (1st); Ben Darlington & Daniel Smith 3½/5 (tied for 2nd-4th with another player). Jack Amos from our U11 squad also played — hope you enjoyed it! Inter: Suhayl Abdalla 3½/5 (tie for 2nd-3rd);…
The chess sets we use in tournaments are all of the Staunton design. This design was introduced by the famous games company Jaques in 1859, and has become the standard for all serious chess play. It’s a design classic. The shapes for the pieces are all big, clear and sit on a plinth, nicely supported…
Congratulations to the several Devon juniors who won prizes in the Minor U1600 section: 2= Wills Piran 4 Abdalla Suhayl 4= Smith Jack 3,5 Paul Aritra Jack Wills (3) Jamie Glasson (2.5) and Freddie Powis (1.5) also competed strongly in this section. Caleb Caleshu did very well to wrest two points from the field in the Open…
This inagural event (as far as we know) was attended by 6 pairs of contestants on Saturday 4th June at the end of half-term. 6th (and best performance by team one of who had never played Exchange chess before) Charles Brock and Oscar Brooks-Feller3rd= (best performance by team who hadn’t met before) Michael Hodgkinson & Fletcher…
With a 4-2 victory over Taunton School, Torquay Boys’ Grammar School have won though to the finals of the National Schools’ Chess competition. Our congratulations to them and our best wishes for the national stage of the event!
Pengxiao Zhu and Viacheslav Ovcharenko both played for the SW England U14 Team against Wales on Sunday 26th May. The SWE Team won the U14 by a wide margin but the U11 event was very close. Well done to all taking part and many thanks to the organisers for making everything happen.
