Upcoming Chess Dates

Below are the dates for some upcoming chess events. Details and entry forms for the EJCA events at www.ejca.co.uk.

 

 

30^th October – Brentwood Rapidplay (adults and juniors). Free entry for Essex Juniors! Details via www.brentwoodchess.com.

 

6^th November – 2^nd EJCA Coaching Day at Writtle (near Chelmsford).

 

13^th November – 3^rd Brentwood Train and Play Christmas Special (includes a Simultaneous Challenge Match). Hosted by IM and British Rapidplay Champion Richard Pert. Details and entry form via richpert@hotmail.com or chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com.

 

20^th November – Basildon Rapidplay (2^nd EJCA Grand Prix event and LJCC Qualifier)

 

27^th November – Woodbridge Junior Chess Open (LJCC Qualifier). Details via www.woodbridgechess.wordpress.com

 

4^th December – 3^rd EJCA Coaching Day.

 

Best Wishes

Robin
chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com

2nd Brentwood Train and Play

Today was the 2^nd Brentwood Train and Play. This unique event combines group coaching with a team tournament. It was a great event with the juniors producing some battling chess and fully engaging with the coaching to make it fun for everyone involved.

The competition was won by the all-girls Team Judit Polgar. It was great to see so many girls playing to such a high standard and bodes well for the Essex Girls Team this season. Sarah Weersing was Player-Manager with her sister Abbey as Captain. Special thanks to Jenny, Findlay and Tristan for their fine captaincy of the other teams.

 

 Tristan and Jenny battling it out on Board One

 

 Adam and Lucy mid-battle. It would eventually be a draw.

 

 Purba, Zoe, Nina, Findlay and Adhvaith who all scored 3/3 for their teams.

 



The victorious Team Judit Polger

 

Best Wishes

Robin
chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com

CJCC 11th October 2016

With the younger half of the club this week we had a team competition. Alice, Tom, Jake and Olga captained 4 evenly matched teams which eventually finished with Jake’s team beating Olga’s 13-11 in the final.

Congratulations to the winning team of Jake, Anna, Angelina, David, Bertie and Harresh. Congratulations also to Jixuan Li (pictured below) who followed up his tournament debut at the weekend with two victories for Olga’s team to move with Alex to the top of the ladder.

Thank you to Leon (also pictured below) for doing a great job recording all the results and looking after the ladder.

 

                                 Sophie playing Harresh in the foreground watched by Adam.

                                      Tommy looking at the camera while playing Keyan Ye.

Olga in play against Alice on the top board in the first match.

 

 

 

                         Victorious captain Jake in play against (unpictured) Tom in the first match.

 

Best Wishes

Robin
chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com

Chelmsford EJCA Tournament 8th October

Saturday 8^th October saw the Essex Junior Chess Association Grand Prix tournament in Chelmsford. It was great to see so many past and present CJCC players taking part.

Pride of place for CJCC went to our 3 trophy winners – Harry, Olga and Nina. Harry scored 6/6 in the U8s to beat Olga (5/6) into 2^nd place. Nina also scored 5/6 to finish 2^nd in the U10s. KEGS player Ryan Smith who attends the adult club in Chelmsford won the U18 Minor with 5.5/6. This was particularly impressive because Ryan was lower graded than all 6 of his opponents!

Altogether there were 28 current CJCC or Chelmsford Chess Club players taking part. Most of these players can be very proud of the chess they produced. I’d like to give a special mention to Josh who did the two things I most like to see – had great fun on and off the board and played at the very limit of his ability.

Full results will appear at www.ejca.co.uk

Best Wishes

Robin
chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com

October Chess

CJCC has split as last season into 2 separate clubs based on age with each half meeting fortnightly. The dates up to half-term are below

 4^th October – Older Half

11^th October – Younger Half
18^th October – Older Half and Josh’s Birthday Celebration Day.

We’ll be closed half-term week and reopen on 1^st November with the younger half.

 

We've also started 2 ladder tournaments where you move up for winning games, teaching chess skills, demonstrating a new skill or solving puzzles. Positions are fluid but after Week 1 Lucas and Illamaaran lead the younger half and Nina and Alice the older.

 Below are the dates for a number of upcoming chess events. If you would like further details of any of them please get in touch. Don’t leave it too long before entering – the Brentwood ones in particular will quickly become fully booked. Like Christmas these events will be here before you know it.

8^th October – EJCA tournament in Chelmsford (entry form at www.ejca.co.uk)

16^th October – 2^nd Brentwood Train and Play (entry form below)

6^th November – 2^nd EJCA Coaching Day at Writtle (near Chelmsford)

13^th November – 3^rd Brentwood Train and Play (with special simultaneous challenge)
20^th November – Basildon Rapidplay (2^nd EJCA Grand Prix event)
4^th December – 3^rd EJCA Coaching Day

Best Wishes

Robin
chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com

1st Brentwood Train and Play

Today (Sunday 11^th September) was the 1^st Brentwood Train and Play which saw a number of CJCC players take part. This was a new event combining coaching sessions with a team competition that was organised jointly by me and British Rapidplay Champion IM Richard Pert. CJCC parent Russell White and English Chess Federation coach Tim Woolgar completed the coaching team.

Team Bobby Fischer (our youngest team) won the team prize by a single point. They were managed by former British junior champion Aditya Verma and over half the team played in the British U8s or U9s Championships in the summer.

The next Train and Play event will be on Sunday 16^th October. The first one reached full capacity so if you wish to enter the next one please email me for an entry form.

 

 

Best Wishes

Robin
chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com

Week One (and future dates)

CJCC met back on 6^th September and it was lovely to see so many players there. Photos from Week One below. From next week we’ll split the club by age to make the numbers sensible and give more structure and coaching to the chess.

These boundaries are fluid. If particularly Year 5s want to come to the younger week and Year 4s to the older one that is fine. If you have siblings bring them both to whichever is most convenient and if you can only come occasionally pop along when you can.

So dates up to half-term …

13^th September – Younger Group (Years 1-4)

20^th September – Older Group (Years 5-8)
27^th September – Younger Group
4^th October – Older Group
11^th October – Younger Group
18^th October – Older Group

We’ll be closed half-term (25^th October) then reopen on 1^st November with the younger group.

Best Wishes

Robin
chelmsfordjuniorchess@gmail.com