A Few Photos

 A few photos here from the older half of the club today.

Don't forget - no club next week! Back on 16th November.

Best Wishes

Robin Slade (chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com)

EJCA Autumn Tournament

It was great to see so many from CJCC playing in the Essex Junior Chess Association tournament in Chelmsford on Sunday. 

I made it 30 regular CJCC players plus quite a few occasional or former players.

Some made their tournament debut which was especially nice to see.

Melinda's Wilde's photo gallery can be found here but below are some photos featuring our players.

https://www.essexjuniorchess.co.uk/gallery/ejca-autumn-gp-2024

Thomas on the right in the U8s up against joint-winner Alex.

Sushant (who helps at CJCC for his Duke of Edinburgh) looking serious

Vishnu going for a birds-eye view.

Jacob - joint U8 winner - also won a cake for sportsmanship

Joshua was joint winner in the U10s.

George and Jora were joint winners in the U18 Minor

George chose to play the U18 Open and was rewarded with the Rating Prize

All the prizewinners including Digby, Jacob, Joshua, George (x2), Grace and Jora from CJCC

Next up - She Plays To Win at Brentwood School on Saturday 9th November (which is why there is no club that day).

Robin Slade (chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com)

Upcoming Club Dates

Chelmsford Junior Chess Club Dates:

Ahead of Christmas, we are closed on Sat 9th Nov and Sat 7th Dec. We are open all the other Saturdays.

Our final date ahead of the Christmas break will be Sat 21st Dec. This will be our Christmas Celebration day complete with Christmas buffet.

After Christmas, we will reopen on Sat 11th January.

Best Wishes

Robin (chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com)

A great chess weekend

What a great weekend of chess that was. Saturday saw a full junior club.

On Sunday, I took some Brentwood School students up to London for the Global Chess League where we met Misha from CJCC and a couple of other Essex juniors.

https://globalchessleague.com/

What a fabulous chance to see some of the world's strongest chess players playing in person.

High-Tech playing arena just a few feet from our seats.

Misha with chess legend Hikaru Nakamura

Nakamura vs Carlsen - the world's top two players produced an amazing game.

Misha with GM Valentina Gunina (twice Women's World Blitz Champion).

Photos from today and keeping in touch

We had a full club today. Thank you to Thomas, Tekshan and George for the chess they shared on the big board. This is a good way for students to practice their presentation skills.

Wale with a birds-eye view against Veer

Danny finishing the game in the right way against Kalindi

There are two WhatsApp groups to help you stay in touch with upcoming chess as well as a live google document link.

CJCC - https://chat.whatsapp.com/FuhlWovOarpLKAi50AWoqM

Essex Juniors - https://chat.whatsapp.com/K88AtRj8QxkDGq8kTxh9tI

Google Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-F8SAJkWRhlj01L4FwNFkfCeIj16YKNJ7WM4H-eckf4/edit?usp=sharing

We will be open every Saturday now until missing a week on 9th November.

Best Wishes

Robin (chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com)

Brentwood Rapid Play Sat 24th August

CJCC is closed on Saturday 24th August because of the 3rd Brentwood Bank Holiday Rapid Play.

This friendly, ECF-rated tournament is open to adults and juniors.

All the details and online entry via https://britishchess.co.uk/events/

I look forward to seeing our CJCC players performing there. There is prize money and trophies up for grabs.

CJCC will reopen on Saturday 31st August. 

There are WhatsApp groups to help parents stay in touch with across and board and online junior chess. Please email me for the links.

Good Luck!

Robin Slade (chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com)

Older Members, Gigafinal and WhatsApp Group

 We are lucky at CJCC to have some of our older players willing to come along to help run the club. 

Here are Nithilan, Anna and (playing Wale) Joshua O.

Standing on the far right playing Digby is anothe Joshua (we had 4 Joshua's at the club today!). 

Joshua B was our top scorer at last weekend's Southern Gigafinal (700 players across 2 days) and qualified for the Terafinal Challengers with 5/7 in the U8s.

Good luck to Sushant in the Under 16 British Championships next week.

I've set up a WhatsApp Group for Chelmsford Junior Chess Club. This should help parents stay in touch with club news and events. Please email me for the link.

Best Wishes

Robin

chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com