Author: Ken

Darlington Junior Tournament

As part of the Durham County Congress a Junior Tournament was held on Sunday 14th May. Here is a report by the organiser Keven Wilson:

We had 44 people playing in the event, divided into two sections.  There were two age categories in each section. These were the first three in each category:-

Age 7 – 8: 1, Tashil Lankapura, 2, Marco Balocco, 3, Henry Styles.

Age 9 – 10: 1, Daniel Sewart, 2, Can Sezen, 3, John Smith.

Age 11 – 13: 1, Sagar Patel; 2, Balin Li; 3, Jamie Wang.

Age 14 – 16: 1, Joe Eggbert, 2, Rhys Orton, 3, Riley Lambert-Cousins.

DCCA Individual Champions

The Durham County Individual Championships are decided on league results. This season’s winners of the four sections are:

Alan Sayers Trophy (County Champion) – David Mooney (South Shields)

Robin Horner Trophy (under 1950) – George Gazis (Durham City)

Terry Holmes Trophy (under 1750) – Daniel Turnbull (Peterlee)

William Bentley Trophy (under 1600) – Sanuel Greig (Thornaby)

The full results can be found here:

Individual-Championship-2022-23-Published-Results-1Download

DCCA Congress Results

Many thanks to Mick Riding, who again did a terrific job in organising the Durham County Congress, as well as the team of arbiters.

Mick has supplied the following report with the list of winners:

First off, great turn out again, I thoroughly enjoyed it and appreciate your support – same again next year please. 🙂

OPEN

David Walker, Tim Wall, Andrew Burnett, Jonathan Arnott and Chris Izod. Share =1 and £150 each.

Grading prizes Marcos Caso Huerta (U2000 sum of opponents tie break) and Andrew Swales (U1900) £50 each.

MAJOR

1st Srivathsan Sasikumar (£400), 2nd John Cawston, Royce Parker, Dave Patterson £117 each.

Grading prizes Kristaps Baumanis (U1750) and Stephen Holmes (U1600 sum of opponents tie break) £50 each.

MINOR

1st Joel Tofield-Brown, £400  2nd Danield Williams, £250, =3rd Rob Jarvis, Ryan Duff (£50 each). Aidin Breakley was also =3 but wins the U1400 rating prize.

Grading Prizes Ethan Tatters (U1550) £50 and Aidin Breakley (Unrated) £50 each.

The full results can be found here:

Open

https://chess-results.com/tnr765953.aspx?lan=1

Major

https://chess-results.com/tnr765954.aspx?lan=1

Minor

https://chess-results.com/tnr765955.aspx?lan=1

2023 EJCOA NATIONAL YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS

Tim Wall has sent details of the North East Zonal of the 2023 EJCOA National Youth Championships, to be held on Sunday June 18, 1pm-6pm, at Forest Hall Ex-Servicemen’s Institute, 26 Crescent Way North, Forest Hall NE12 8AR.

(Please note: this is NOT Forest Hall Social Club on Great Lime Road, Palmersville).

There are sections for: Under 8s, Under 10s, Under 12s, Under 14s, Under 16s, Under 18s & Under 20s.

Juniors will qualify from the North East Zonal to the EJCOA Youth Championships National Finals, which are in the form of 5-round FIDE-rated tournaments and include high-level coaching from experienced FIDE Trainers.

The EJCOA National Finals take place on 7-9 July at Nottingham High School.

(See this link for more details: https://ejcoa.co.uk/national-youth-championships )

Entry forms in Word and pdf formats are attached:

2023-EJCOA-North-East-Regional-Final-TW-150423Download
2023-EJCOA-North-East-Regional-Final-TW-150423Download

DCCA Junior Championships

A belated report on the Durham County Junior Championships, held in Coxhoe on 18th March.

Here is a list of the prizewinners, supplied by the main organiser Douglas Smith:

U-18: Luke Owen (4/5)

U-15: Xander Gray, Tom Hawkins, Riley Lambert-Cousins, Georgii Polonskyi (3/5)

U-13: Fedir Dyshliuk (5/5)

U-11: Elliot McDonald, Lleyton Rennie (4/5)

U-9: Daniel Sewart (4/5)

U-15 Girls: Jessica Sewart (0.5/5)

Secondary Runners-up: Bailin Li, Jamie Wang (4/5, also both U-13)

Primary Winners: Yannick Haniffa, Aditya Jadhav (4/5)