Simon Bartlett memorial congress 2025

Wales and West of England Junior JamboreePlay through all the games on this page.Click […] to see the list of games.

The London Junior Chess Championships were founded 100 years ago, and in their centenary event Devon juniors had some notable success. Congratulations to Swetha Narayanan who scored a very creditable 5/7 in the huge U8 section, winning a prize. And very well done to Pengxiao Zhu, who as an U13 player won the U16 trophy…

I’ve been trying to find and follow the progress of Devon juniors in this year’s Championships, but please email me if I’ve missed anyone. I spotted Luke Honey and Reece Whittington having a go in the strong 9-round Major Open, scoring 5 and 3.5 respectively.  A tough week in the office!  (For context, the winner…

The event dates and qualification rules for the UK Chess Challenge 2022have been announced. https://www.delanceyukschoolschesschallenge.com/2022-dates-and-overview The UK Chess Challenge is the largest chess competition in the world,with (pre-COVID) more than 100,000 children taking part in schools andelsewhere each year.  There are different stages to the competition:school, Megafinal, Gigafinal and Terafinal. The Megafinals in 2022 are…

Many congratulations to all those Devon juniors who have qualified for the Gigafinal — forgive me, I couldn’t work out a complete list, because of the complicated rules — but special mention should be made of Caleb Caleshu, who scored 6/6 in his section!

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!