Welsh Chess Union (Undeb Gwyddbwyll Cymru)

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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

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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 3^rdFebruary, celebrating the 30^th 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:             
1^st=        Ethan Chung and Hiya Ray
3^rd         Callum Smith

UNDER 15:      
1^st         Duncan MacDonald
2^nd =     James Bridle and Callum Penny

UNDER 13       
1^st =      Ellison Smith and Anish Choudhury
3^rd =     Pahul Ahluwalia and Krishna Lee

UNDER 11       
1^st         Henry Townsend
2^nd =     Joseff Roberts and Ashika Shahameeran

UNDER 10       
1^st =      Benjamin Jaberansari and Timur Ramzan
3^rd =      Jack Neale and Robert Sequira

UNDER 9         
1^st =      Isabella Caeser and Sebastian Hoccom
3^rd        Finn Osborne

UNDER 8         
1^st        Gonind Anandkumar
2^nd       Haban Amar                        
3^rd=      James Choung, Csege Hanczar, Jamie Lau-Jones, Christopher Mitias, Aaryan Pandi

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

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