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Cumbria Junior Chess Championships 2013

May 22, 2013 in Junior Chess, News, Results, Tournaments


Cumbria Junior Chess Championships 2013

chessSunday, May 19th saw this year’s instalment of the Cumbria Junior Chess Championship. With an excellent venue provided by Trinity School Carlisle (for which we were and are very grateful) the grey skies and threatening drizzle held no terrors as we had ample space for parents and players indoors.

A flurry of late arrivals brought the number of entries (71 in total) up to a similar level to last year’s competition, causing the organisers a few headaches in the process. This meant a later than wanted start and, subsequently, a very loose interpretation of the playing schedule that we advertised. All our timetables are generally to be considered works of fiction and this year was no exception. However we were able to run sections for U13, U15 and U18’s, for the first time in a number of years. Normally we’ve not had the numbers to avoid combining at least two of these competitions.

In the U9’s section Joshua Hudson (Long Marton Community School) was the clear winner with a score of 6/6: Reece Raphael (Kingmoor Junior School) was second with 4.5/6.

The U11’s was a highly competitive section. In second place, with 5/6 was last year’s winner of the section Miles Davis (Skelton School). The winner, with 6/6 was James Rocca (Hayton C of E school).

The U13 section winner was another of the Davis clan. Holden Davis (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School) scored 5/5 to clinch first place whilst the runner up in the U13 competition was Holly Gill (Kirby Kendal School) with 3.5/5.

In the U15 tournament first place went to Owen Ogden (Nelson Thomlinson School) with 5/5 and second position to Avran Millar (Trinity School) with 4/5.

The final results in the U18 competition left us with a bit of a dilemma. The winner was James Moreby (Royal Grammar School) with 4.5/5. The fact that James is still only 10 years old wasn’t a difficulty but as he lives and goes to school outside of Cumbria we couldn’t award him the U18 Cumbria Trophy, only the U18 Cumbria title. The Trophy went instead to second-placed Jason Maxwell (Trinity School)

with 4/5 points, though an honourable mention goes to Camas Miller who managed to draw against James in their game.

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Results:

Under 9 Section

Name

School (where known)

Score/6

 

Joshua Hudson

Long Marton

6

U9 Champion and Gold medallist

Reece Raphael

Kingmoor

4.5

Silver medallist

Elliott Addison

 

4

Silver medallist

Oliver James Hanning

Stanwix

4

Silver medallist

Finn Harrison

Lazonby

3.5

Bronze medallist

Joshua Morris

Stanwix

3.5

Bronze medallist

Toby Little

Stanwix

3

Bronze medallist

Kyle Whitaker

Kingmoor

3

Bronze medallist

Joe Woodruff

Stanwix

3

Bronze medallist

Dylan Oakey

Skelton

3

Bronze medallist

Thomas Shaw

 

3

Bronze medallist

Edward Thomas

Hunter Hall

2.5

 

James Clark

Stanwix

2.5

 

Bert Wilson

 

2

 

Jason Hogge

Kingmoor

2

 

Joseph Kirkhope

Stanwix

2

 

Luca Ferghali

St Monicas

1.5

 

Urslaan Raza

Stanwix

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under 11 Section

Name

School (where known)

Score/6

 

James Rocca

Hayton

6

U11 Champion and Gold medallist

Miles Davis

Skelton

5

Gold medallist

David Welch

Bolton

4

Silver medallist

James Corbishley

Grange over Sands

4

Silver medallist

Andy Irvine

Kendal

4

Silver medallist

Rory Ward

Stanwix

4

Silver medallist

Karsten Dever

Seascale

4

Silver medallist

Dominic Greenup

Kingmoor

3.5

Bronze medallist

Jacob Harmison

Kingmoor

3.5

Bronze medallist

Raza Adil

 

3.5

Bronze medallist

Seamus Edwards

Stanwix

3.5

Bronze medallist

Jack Crawford

Stanwix

3

Bronze medallist

Isaac Pullan

Kirkoswald

3

Bronze medallist

Matthew Athroll

Stanwix

3

Bronze medallist

Matthew Johnston

Stanwix

3

Bronze medallist

Will Clark

Stanwix

3

Bronze medallist

Ryan Hedley

Bolton

3

Bronze medallist

Guy Griffiths

 

3

Bronze medallist

Jacob Reid

Stanwix

2.5

 

Dylan Hill

Kendal

2.5

 

James Irvine

Kendal

2

 

Matthew Rogerson

Calthwaite

2

 

Lucy Wilcock

Bolton

2

 

Benjamin Gething

Kirkoswald

2

 

Daniel Bennett

Kirkoswald

1.5

 

Jennifer Walker

Cummersdale

1.5

 

Daniel Grantham

Belle Vue

1

 

Amy Queen

 

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under 13 Section

Name

School (where known)

Score/5

 

Holden Davis

QEGS

5

U13 Champion and Gold medallist

Holly Gill

Kirby Kendal

3.5

Silver medallist

Alex Raphael

Trinity

3

Bronze medallist

Jack Morris

Trinity

3

Bronze medallist

Logan Fairclough

 

3

Bronze medallist

Adam Barker

Trinity

2.5

Bronze medallist

Adam Long

Cockermouth

2

 

Joseph Pullan

QEGS

1.5

 

Cameron Hill

Kendal

1

 

Laura Feasey

Kirby Kendal

0.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under 15 Section

Name

School (where known)

Score/5

 

Owen Ogden

Nelson Thomlinson

5

U15 Champion and Gold medallist

Avran Millar

Trinity

4

Silver medallist

Thomas Johnston

Trinity

3

Bronze medallist

Lewis Jackson

Trinity

3

Bronze medallist

Harry Martindale

Austin Friars

3

Bronze medallist

Harvey Thompson

 

3

Bronze medallist

Jason Colville

Trinity

2

 

Luke Harris

Ulverston

1

 

Joe Lightford

Keswick

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under 18 Section

Name

School (where known)

Score/5

 

James Moreby

RGS

4.5

Under 18 Champion and Gold medallist

Jason Maxwell

Trinity

4

Trophy Winner and Silver medallist

Camus Millar

Trinity

3

Bronze medallist

Chris Royle

Trinity

2.5

Bronze medallist

Steven Barker

Trinity

1

 

Georgina Campbell

 

0

 

 

 

 

 

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Cumbria Chess AGM – Saturday 15th June at 2pm, Barrow

April 23, 2013 in News


VenueAgenda, 122nd AGM of the Cumbria Chess Association.

To be held at 2pm on Saturday 15th June 2013 at the British Legion Club, Holker St, Barrow.

  1. Apologies
  2. Presidents Address
  3. Minutes of the 2012 AGM (Number 121) and of the EGM held on 13/1/2013
  4. Correspondence
  5. Secretaries Report
  6. Treasurers Report
  7. Membership Secretaries Report
  8. League Controllers Report
  9. Grading Officers Report
  10. Junior Organisers Report
  11. Match Captain’s Report
  12. Correspondence Captains Report
  13. ECF Delegates Report
  14. NCCU Delegates Report
  15. Website Organisers Report
  16. Matters Arising;-

            Points for discussion;-

      Whether or not to continue entering a county team in the National Championships.

Confirm voting arrangements at AGMs (as discussed in this year’s EGM).  At present all current year Cumbria Chess members may vote at the AGM.  Issues were raised about possible proxy voting and postal or e.mail voting.

Follow up on the debate regarding ECF membership.

Do Cockermouth club wish to be re-admitted to the league for the 2013/2014 season?

Proposals:-

(1)     From Bill Hardwick (Carlisle) – that the ringing of a mobile telephone should not incur an automatic disqualification.  

  1. Prize Giving
  2. Election of Officers and Committee: President, Secretary, Treasurer, League Controller, Membership Secretary, Grading Officer, Junior Organiser, Assistant Junior Organisers (2), Match Captain, Assistant Match Captain, Correspondence Captain, Auditor, Press Officer, NCCU Delegates (2), ECF Delegate, Website Organiser.
  3. CountyChampionships – Date and Venue
  4. Next AGM – Date and Venue
  5. Any other business: 
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Cumbria Junior Chess Championship 2013

April 5, 2013 in News


chessSunday 19 May 2013

10.45 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Trinity School Strand Road, Carlisle, CA1 1JB

Download the entry form: –  

Chess – Junior championship – 2013 flyer v4

 

 

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Cumbria Individual Championships

March 19, 2013 in News


The 2013 Individual Championships were contested this weekend in Penrith.

crown-eamontI would like to post a few Thank You’s; firstly to Anna and Mike to provide the Crown Hotel in Eamont Bridge as a very fitting venue, to Dan and Kevin for their invaluable help and support on the weekend with pairings an general keeping of order. Also to a number of players for additional donations to the event (either deliberately or unwittingly because I didn’t have the correct change on the day) and lastly to all the players for their patience with the organisers and for making the Event what it is. I was particularly pleased to see a good number of players from the south of the County making the long trip.

Overall I personally feel it again was a great success. 

Congratulations go to our winners; it was a hard fought battle at the top of the open with the final result eventually  having to be decided by a tie break as David and Robert were tied on points and drew each other directly. This meant we had to wait literally for the last results to come in before having a confirmed Result.

David Phillips, being our new Cumbria Champion 

David McMath, outright winner of the Major Section 

and particularly Holden Davis Cumbrian winner of Greenhalgh Trophy

We believe Holden to be our youngest winner of this section yet, but we have hordes of Chess Historians scouring through the archives to confirm this and other noteworthy facts about this year’s results. Watch this space for further details. But either way it’s always good to see keen young talent coming through the ranks and being rewarded for their efforts.

The results are posted on the Tournaments page and you’ll also find a downloadable version posted there. 

I hope I haven’t introduced too many errors transcribing the results from paper into excel.

My Thanks go to all involved

Eggert

 

 

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The Horne Section – Chess

March 18, 2013 in Videos


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Chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen enters endgame for world title

March 11, 2013 in News


Chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen enters endgame for world title »

Norwegian 22-year-old grandmaster, labelled greatest ever player, hopes to take world championship at London tournament
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Cumbria Individual Championships Confirmed Players

February 26, 2013 in News, Tournaments


(Mostly) Confirmed Players 

last updated 12th March 2013 ( Eggert Früchtenicht )  

Date Name Club Grade Section Bye
27 Feb David Phillips Windermere 179 Open -
09 Mar John Kelly Carlisle Austin Friars 165 Open 1
19 Feb Ian Stone Cockermouth 164 Open 1
03 Mar Dave Siddall Carlisle Austin Friars 159 Open  
10 Mar Stephen Barnes Carlisle Austin Friars 158 Open -
26 Feb John Pallister Cockermouth 157 Open -
02 Mar Colin Bragg Windermere 157 Open 1
19 Feb Neil Jones Cockermouth 154 Open 1
05 Mar George Glover Carlisle Austin Friars 151 Open 2
09 Mar Paul Rivers Carlisle Austin Friars 151 Open 1
09 Feb George Horne Barrow 150 Open -
14 Feb Ian Mackay Carlisle Austin Friars 147 Open -
08 Mar Mark Houlsby Barrow 137 Open -
08 Mar Jonathan Rashleigh Kendal 149 Major 1
09 Feb Frank Whalley Barrow 142 Major -
02 Mar Andy McAtear Penrith 141 Major -
10 Mar Eggert Früchtenicht Penrith 141 Major -
14 Feb Trevor Blower Barrow 136 Major -
01 Mar James Moreby Jesmond 132 Major -
11 Mar James Taylor Cockermouth 129 Major  
11 Mar Richard McCann Workington ?  125 Major ?
09 Mar Dave Jackson Carlisle Austin Friars 119 Major -
25 Feb Chris Underhill Barrow 124 Minor -
01 Mar Kurt Moreby Jesmond 123 Minor -
15 Feb Bruce Wallace Carlisle Austin Friars 115 Minor -
05 Mar Bill Henderson Cockermouth 110 Minor 1
10 Mar Steven Larkin Tynedale 109 Minor -
05 Feb Bill Hardwick Carlisle Austin Friars 107 Minor -
09 Mar Gerry Rowan Penrith 105 Minor 4
01 Mar Peter Blackmore Cockermouth 101 Minor -
08 Mar Holden Davis Penrith 86 Minor  
08 Mar Peter Hanks Ulverston 66 Minor -
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CUMBRIA CHAMPIONSHIPS

February 6, 2013 in News, Tournaments


crown-eamontThe 2013 Open Cumbria Individual Chess Championships

Prize fund of over £500
5 Round Swiss:
Open, Major and Minor events

15th, 16th & 17th March 2013 at
The Crown Hotel
Eamont Bridge, Penrith
Tel: 01768 892 092

DOWNLOAD THE ENTRY FORM

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South Lakes Congress

January 12, 2013 in News, Tournaments


grange17th South Lakes Chess Congress,

7-9th June 2013

The Grand Hotel, Grange-over-Sands

Download the entry form - SLC2013 ent form

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