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22nd-24th | Dyfed Congress | Fishguard Bay Hotel
Quay Road,
Goodwick SA640BT | Entry Form (English .pdf)
Entry Form (Welsh .pdf)
Entry Form (English .docx)
Entry Form (Welsh .docx)
Entries @ 17/2/19 |
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9th | West Wales Open Rapidplay A O Jones | Upper Killay Recreation Hall,
Gower Road
Upper Killay
Swansea SA27HP | Entry Form (.doc)
Entry Form (.pdf)
Entrirrs @ 18/2/19 |
9th | Welsh Primary Schools Championships | Bishop Hedley High School,
Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil | Entry Form |
10th | WCPL | Bishop Hedley High School,
Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil | |
16th-17th | Welsh Junior Championships
(U16, 13, 11, 9) | Cathedral School,
Cardiff Road,
Llandaff, Cardiff
CF52YH | Entry Form |
23rd | Welsh Rapidplay Championships>
| Pencoed Miners Welfare Hall,
Heol-y-Groes,
Pencoed,
Bridgend CF355PE | Entry Form |
24th | Welsh Blitz Championships>
| Pencoed Miners Welfare Hall,
Heol-y-Groes,
Pencoed,
Bridgend CF355PE | Entry Form |
30th | Chess event for Secondary School players | Whitchurch Rugby Club,
Samuels Crescent,
Cardiff CF14 2TH | For Entry Form contact
welshsecondarychess@gmail.com |
The WCU are currently seeking to fill a new post of Zone Membership Secretary. The requiremens of the post can be viewed here.
Anyone interested? Please contact the Membership Secretary (email: membershipsecretary@welshchessunion.uk)
THe newsletter can be viewed here.
WELSH UNDER 14 CHAMPIONSHIP 1st Hiya Ray 2nd = Harrison Postans, Neil Stevenson, Madeleine Smith
WELSH UNDER 12 CHAMPIONSHIP 1st Ethan Chung 2nd Daniel Chung 3rd Yuxuan Wu
WELSH UNDER 10 CHAMPIONSHIP 1st Tom Davies 2nd Benjamin Jaberansari 3rd Govind Anandkumar
WELSH UNDER 8 CHAMPIONSHIP 1st = Hassan Amar and James Choung 3rd = Gruff Dafydd and Harvey Giordmaine
WELSH UNDER 10 MAJOR 1st Dylan Haddow 2nd Ben Morecombe
Entries are still being taken for these Championships. You can find the entry form here
Entries to 8/2/19:
UNDER !4 CHAMPIONSHIP Joel Chung, Harrison Postans, Alex Lawrence, Hiya Ray, Madeleine Smith, Tycho Twohig, Anish Choudhury, Neil Stevenson
UNDER 12 CHAMPIONSHIP Bence Szakmany, Daniel Chung, Rio Northey, Milo Davies, Ethan Chung, Jonathan Davies, Arnan Kulkani, Ashika Shahameeran, Bradley Parfitt, Yuxuan Wu, Sarthak Nukalapati, Tabitha Ryan, Ali Amar, Anshul Swamy, Khushi Bagga
UNDER 10 CHAMPIONSHIP Tom Davies, Ben Jaberansari, Ayush Singh, Robert Sequira, Evan Lewis, Govind Anandkumar, Isabella Caeser, Aaryan Pndit
UNDER 8 CHAMPIONSHIP Hassan Amar, Lydia Thomas, Harvey Giordmaine, Gruff Dafydd, James Choung, Amelie Caeser
UNDER !0 MAJOR Keeley Maunder, Rafaul Karim
The ECU Newsletter can be viewed here.
Once again held at Cardiff County Hall and supported by both Cardiff City Council and the Rotary Club of Cardiff Bay the Championships were held on 3rdFebruary, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first Championships in 1989. We are extremely grateful to Cardiff City Council and the Rotary Club of Cardiff Bay for their continued support of these Championships – support which has been on-going since the first event 30 years ago.
We are also very grateful to the large number of volunteers who give of their time so readily to support these Championships.
A large number of players took part with the trophies presented by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Cllr Dianne Rees. We thank her for her presence with us at this ceremony.
PRIZE WINNERS
OPEN: 1st= Ethan Chung and Hiya Ray 3rd Callum Smith
UNDER 15: 1st Duncan MacDonald 2nd = James Bridle and Callum Penny
UNDER 13 1st = Ellison Smith and Anish Choudhury 3rd = Pahul Ahluwalia and Krishna Lee
UNDER 11 1st Henry Townsend 2nd = Joseff Roberts and Ashika Shahameeran
UNDER 10 1st = Benjamin Jaberansari and Timur Ramzan 3rd = Jack Neale and Robert Sequira
UNDER 9 1st = Isabella Caeser and Sebastian Hoccom 3rd Finn Osborne
UNDER 8 1st Gonind Anandkumar 2nd Haban Amar 3rd= James Choung, Csege Hanczar, Jamie Lau-Jones, Christopher Mitias, Aaryan Pandi
All games from Rounds 1-3 are now available on the games page.
The 2019 Welsh Girls’ Championships were held at Ysgol Gymraeg Caerffili on 26th January.
The lower age groups were paired as one large group with the following prizewinners:
U8: 1st Nona Roberts,
2nd Lydia Thomas
3rd Amelie Caesar
U9: 1st Vivien Townsend
2nd Gwennan Evans
U10: 1st Isabella Caesar
2nd Sophie Clark
3rd Mia Jones
Isabella had the remarkable achievement of becoming Welsh Champion in two different disciplines on the same day, as she became a Welsh swimming champion in the morning and by claiming byes in the chess, and then winning the 3 games she managed to arrive for in the afternoon, she scored enough to win the U10 chess title.
The other two groups were Swiss events
U11: 1st= Tabitha Ryan, Ashika Shahameeran
3rd Ava Choung
U12: 1st= Alice Potter, Gabriella Watkins
3rd Kirby Paul
U14 Champion Hiya Ray (only entrant)
A boys’ Starters’ event was held at the same time with the prizewinners:
1st Andras Potts
2nd Kelley Maunder
3rd Benjy Hill
The winners were:
Starters’ (7 player all-play-all)
1st= Tom Griffiths and Jamie Lau-Jones 6/7,
3rd Nathaniel Ekemani 5/7
Major (6 round Swiss)
1st= Hassan Amar and Govind Anandkumar 5,
3rd Robert Sequeira 4.5 (18 entered)
Premier (6 round Swiss)
1st Daniel Seymour 5.5,
2nd Ahmed Bilal 5,
3rd Anshul Swamy 4.5 (20 entered)
The newsletter can be viewed here.
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