Future Tournaments

Congratulations to Nina (5/6 in the U9s) and Findlay (4.5/6 in the U11s) for their prizewinning performances at Colchester on Sunday. Good to see Stewart, Josh, Sebastian, Jerry, Harry and Max from our junior club also playing. Well done to all of you for your efforts.

Three tournaments coming up…

14^th/15^th May is the Megafinal which quite a few of our club players have qualified for.

22^nd May – for those in Year 6 and below  - is the 1^st Brentwood Junior Tournament. I’ll email out entry forms next week.

26^th June – the final EJCA tournament at Saffron Walden.

 

We missed out on a potential new member this week when they discovered we met in Chelmsford, Essex, UK rather than Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA. Good to know the blog reached out across the Atlantic.

Photo below of Josh enjoying his game against Tolu.

 

 

Best Wishes
Robin

Pictures from 19th April

It was the younger players this week. Ollie (our club champion) kindly came along to challenge 6 of the players to a simultaneous match. Due to a combination of some good chess (nice checkmate Max) and incessant chatter the younger players surprisingly managed to win more games than Ollie. Hopefully he’ll recover in time for his birthday tomorrow.

Good luck to our players taking part in the junior tournament in Colchester on Sunday. Below are some photos from today.

 

Best Wishes

Robin

chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com

 

 Olga, Erin and Nina - one half of Ollie's opposition.

 Tom and Alex with Leon. Missing is Max who was suddenly camera shy.

Francesca keen to show off her chess piece modelling with Sophie.

 

 Vera vs Ilamaaran in the foreground.



Bertie in the front, Cody playing Henney behind.

 

Easter chess

A couple of quieter weeks down the club over the Easter holidays but still enough juniors to devour all the chocolates and marshmallow chickens. This week Scott Shelley kindly came along to help out. Scott is one of the strongest Essex juniors but is a little too old and much too tall for our club. He took on 6 of our players in a simultaneous match. Congratulations to Francesca (helped for the finish by Nina) for managing a draw after over an hour's play.

Josh, Leon and Tom resorted to hiding all Leon’s pieces under haribo packets – something frowned upon at the top level of chess – in an effort to confuse Scott.

 

Cody, Izzy and Matthew also took part in a simultaneous challenge – this time against Stewart. Matthew (right) did very well to win as Stewart (standing) is one of our strongest players.

 

Below are the dates for April and May.

April 12^th – Older Half

April 19^th – Younger Half

April 26^th – Older Half

May 3^rd – Younger Half

May 10^th – Older Half

May 17^th – Younger Half

May 24^th – Older Half

May 31^st – Half Term (closed)

Best Wishes

Robin