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Belated news from the World Cadets Tournament held in Santiago in Spain during November.
Hiya Ray was the only Welsh player to take part, playing in the Girls U12 Championship. She was given financial support with a bursary from the WCU. These bursaries are to support players whose rating suggests they have a good chance of scoring 50% or more in individual World Championship events.
Hiya should be congratulated on her performance in this event where she scored 6/11, her opposition including 4 WCMs and a WFM, against who she scored 2 wins. Her FIDE rating has gone up by 91 points as a result of the event. Hiya is the first Welsh junior to have been supported with such a bursary, and it is very encouraging that she achieved the target score the junior committee would have wished. The hope is that other players will reach high enough ratings to justify support in future, and by entering with such financial support, will bring Wales further success from these events.
The annual quadrangular tournament was held in Liverpool on 8th-9th December.
Wales best placing was 2nd in the U16, 2.5 game points behind the winners Scotland. The U14 team finished 3rd, but were only beaten by the winners Scotland. The U12 competition was very close with Wales in last place, but only 3 game points behind the winners, North of England.
The individual Welsh scores (in board order) were as follows:
U16: Chirag Guha 1/3, Ifan Rathbone-Jones 1/3, Anton Petkov 2.5/3, Caspian Fowler .5/3 Rachel McIntosh 1.5/2, Merlin Davies 2/2, David McIntosh .5/2
U14: Neil Stevenson 1/3, Ellison Smith 2/3, Harrison Postans 1/3, Robert Goodwin 1.5/3, Joel Chung 3/3, Tycho Twohig 1.5/3, Anish Choudhury 2/3, Maximus Pento .5/3, Ben Barnes 1.5/3, Rio Northey 0/2 default 1/1
U12: Daniel Chung 0/3, Bence Szakmany 1.5/3, Yuxuan Wu 1.5/3, Milo Davies 1/3 Tom Davies .5/3, Ashika Shahameeran 2/3, Rhys Matthews .5/3, Oliver Sapsford 2/3, Anshul Swamy 1.5/2, Alex Lawrence 1/2 default 2/2
The Junior Rapidplay Championships were played on Saturday 15th December at Bishop Hedley school in Merthyr.
The prizewinners were:-
U8 Championship (7 players) Joint champions: Aaryan Pandit and Hasan Amar
3rd= Govind Anandkumar, James Choung, Gruff Dafydd
U10 Championship (9 players) Champion: Tom Davies
2nd Evan Lewis
3rd= Wangsu Xu, Isabella Caesar, Henry Goldsmith
U12 Championship (21 players) Joint Champions: Daniel Chung and Bence Szakmany
3rd Alex Lawrence
U14 Championship (5 players) Champion: Madeleine Smith
2nd= Joel Chung and Ellison Smith
Sad news has reached us that Bill Flew has passed away.
Bill was a regular player in Upper killay and initialy a captain of the second team before becoming the first team captain.
He started playing in the league for Pennard in the 1970’s, before moving away to the Midlands.
He retured to West Wales in the 2000’s. He often reminded us about the fixture arrangements in thr Midlands at our AGM.
He was a very friendly person and liked it when his opponent played PQ4. He will be sadly missed.
The Welsh Chess Union woul like to express our condolences to Bill’s family and friends at this very sad time.
Bill Flew’s funeral is on Mon 17 Dec with a service at Saint Mary’s Church Pennard at 2.30 pm followed by 4 pm at Llanelli Crematorium and back to Pennard Golf Club at 5.30 pm.
The games from Rounds 1 and 2 are now downloadable from the Games page.
Playing at home on Sat 1st of December 2018, St John emerged as the victors in this 5 round Swiss tournament.
The six teams that took part in this competition were: Dell, Rhydypennau A and B, Ysgol y Wern, St John and Broadfield primary who travelled from Swindon.
With scores tied at 8 points each St john snatched victory from Broadfield on tie break with half a game point ahead of Broadfield. Rhydypennau A took third place. It was a very tight and highly contested tournament all the way through with the final result being decided on the last match played.
The finals will take place at Uppingham on the 4th and 5th of July.
The final results were as follows:
| Teams |
Total Game Points |
Total Match Points |
| St John’s |
24.5 |
8 |
| Brookfield |
24 |
8 |
| Rhydyprennau A |
19 |
7 |
| The Dell |
10.5 |
5 |
| Ysgol Y Wern |
7 |
2 |
| Rhydyprennau B |
5 |
0 |
At a recent Management Board meeting, it was decided that the 2019 WCU AGM will be held on Sunday 7th April 2019.
The venue has yet to be decided.
420 children representing 40 teams took part in this competition. The event relies on the generous time given up by volunteers, many of whom have attended each year, and all are thanked for their support of this event.
The event was organised in two sections with the prize winners as follows:
DIVISION 1 1st: St John’s College, Cardiff
2nd: Rhydypenau Primary School, Cardiff
3rd: Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd
DIVISION 2 1st: Roath Park Primary School, Cardiff
2nd: Cwrt Rawlin Primary School, Cardiff
3rd: = Bryn Deri Primary School, Cardiff
Shirenewton Primary School, Chepstow
The trophies were presented by the Welsh Chess Union Patron, Lord Greg Mostyn, who spent a significant part of the day at the event watching the young people in play.
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