2019 South Wales Megafinal

The 2019 Megafinal, part of the UK Chess Challenge, took place on Saturday, 18th May at St Teilo’s School, Cardiff. Over 220 students took part.

We sincerely thank all those who helped in so many ways to make this a success:

Prizew Winners:

  1st 2nd 3rd
Boys Under 7 Gruff Dafydd Jack Rees
Advik Samaiya
 
Girls Under 7 Amelie Caeser Lydia Thomas
Yuxin Wu
 
Boys Under 8 Govind Anandkumar Hasan Amar Jamie Lau Jones
Harvey Giordmaine
Aryan Pandit
Raphael Attridge
Girls Under 8 Alice Morris Lilia Daley Emma Kong
Boys Under 9 Tom Davies Cai Dafydd
Henry Goldsmith
Finn Osborne
 
Girls Under 9 Isabella Caeser
Isra Hussain
  Sophie Clarke
Boys Under 10 Joseph Elliott
Benjamin Jaberansari
Robert Sequira
Ayush Singh
   
Girls Under 10 Ava Choung Lara Omidvar Mia Jones
Boys Under 11 Yuxuan Wu Sarthak Nukalapati Evan Layton
Anshul Swamy
Girls Under 11 Ashika Shahameeran Tabitha Ryan Khushi Bagga
Nia Rathkey
Alice Todd
Boys Under 12 Alex Lawrence Rio Northey Milo Davies
Oliver Sapsford
Girls Under 12 Hiya Ray Zara Dhorne  
Boys Under 13 Harrison Postans Anish Choudhury Harri Gilbert
Girls Under 13 Lucy Taylor    
Boys Under 14 Tycho Twohig Jakob Jefferies
Rhys Matthews
 
Girls Under 14 Susanna Fraser    

We congratulate all the above and look forward to seeing them, together with the other qualifiers, at the Gigafinal later in the year.