2nd Orpington Junior Tournament and Training Day Entries

There's still time to enter the 2nd OJTATD (Orpington Junior Tournament and Training) here.

Entries so far are below. Please enter as soon as possible once you know you intend for your child to play. This helps to plan and ensure nobody has to be turned away. We now have 38 entries. Strength refers to ECF grade of Institute of Chess level.

First name	Surname	School	Age	Strength
Scarlet	Watson	Sevenoaks Primary	7	17
Ievan	Premachandran		7	22
George	Buckles-Motts	Charterhouse Square School	9	36
Vy	Varma	The Granville School	10	51
Amit Aryan	Sanka	Warren Road Primary School	8	63
Vincent	Rocero	St. Olaves Grammar School	11	66
Yong Gui	Wang	Warren Road Primary School	10	93
Marius	Kobler	Solefield	11	102
Shlok	Verma	Tubbenden Primary	8	142
Joseph	Ballard	Trinity School, Sevenoaks	15	120 est
Ameya	Athawale	St. Olaves Grammar School	12	60 est
Sophia	Wang	Warren road	8	Leve1 1
Emily	Ashcroft	St Helens Montessori School	6	Level 1
Ezra	Banton	DPL	9	Level 1
Isabelle	Ellison	The Granville School	8	Level 1
Georgina	Stopford	The Granville School	7	Level 1
Gabriella-Grace	Nelson	St Joseph	9	Level 1
Gabriel	Doyle	Holy Innocents RC Primary School	8	Level 1
Patrick	Doyle	Holy Innocents RC Primary School	6	Level 1
Mimi	Cliff	The Granville School	8	Level 1
Marius	Kobler	Solefield	11	Level 1
Dhyan	Barot	Kilmorie primary school	9	Level 2
Alexander Mila Tasia	Tarashev Nahornnaya Nahornnaya	The New Beacon The Granville School The Granville School	9 6 7	Level 1 Level 1 Level 1
Bright	Lan	Crofton Junior	11	Level 2
Danny	Leys Richardson	St Thomas' Catholic Primary School	9	Level 2
Sophia	Wang	Warren Road Primary School	9	Level 2
Theodore	Panchev	The Skinners'	12	Level 2
Oluwadamilola	Eesuola	St Michael	8	Level 2
Alexandar	Stefanov	Holland Park school	11	level 2
Julia	Jukes	St Thomas’s Catholic Primary	8	level 2
Ivan	Ovchinnikov	Dulwich College	8	level 2
Krisha	Kamat	Allington primary school	8	Level 3
Keanu	Kumar	Pointers	10	level 3
Kyle	Karaman	The Judd School	13	level 3
Michael	Bosman	Cranmore school	8	level 3?
Cyrus	Buckman	St Dunstan's College Junior School	9	Level 4
Arjun	Jadhav	Eltham college	11	Level 4

England Junior Slays International Giant

England Junior, Aditya Verma, 14, defeated International Grandmaster and former British Champion Chris Ward in a Simul this Friday night.

Chris in thought with (Left to right) Hamit, Kieran, Mikey and Jacob pondering in the background.

The victorious Aditya (behind Harry)

The Simultaneous Exhibition lasted an astonishing four-and-a-half hours and did not finish until the early hours of Saturday morning at Petts Wood and Orpington Chess club.

One of the last games to finish was played by an eight-year-old who has only recently taken up the game. He fought off tiredness to take Chris to a (sadly-losing) king and pawn endgame. It would be improper to reveal the age of our most mature member, but it was especially impressive that his game length exceeded his age in years.

No fewer than seven of the line-up that faced Chris had international experience representing their country and it showed.

"There were no easy games,"  explained Chris as he rushed to the end of his Salsa session. At one point during the event he asked Aditya's younger brother, who just returned from the European Youth Championships with a fantastic 7/9, for help to overcome his sibling.

Unfortunately for Chris, "it got complicated and I was lucky", explained Aditya modestly.

Trevor Baldwin, who has been a member for as long as anyone can remember, also scored a draw against Chris. Apart from that, he defeated us all.

Nevertheless the strong showing from Kent Junior players and ex-Kent Juniors shows the strength of the Kent setup. The Chief Coach is none other than Chris Ward himself!

We are very grateful to Chris for taking part in this event, enthusing young people about chess and for his still formidable result. He is an inspiration to us all.

The full line-up of those who took part is below. The next event in Orpington will be the Orpington Junior Tournament and Training day, on the Friday of the half-term break (October 27th). One of the prizes for the best performance will be a place at next year's simul.

For more information and pictures, email conradchesscamp@gmail.com.

Aditya Verma                    187

Harry Dixon                      184

Jean-Baptiste Jugand        177

Hamit Soyel                      171

Kiran Shiatis                     168

Mikey Watson                   168

Jacob Watson                    167

Conrad Allison                  154

Raunak Rao                       151

John Cook                         146

Trevor Baldwin                 145

Shlok Verma                     130

Martin Zissell                    117

Michael Mc Naughton       116

Neil McQuillan                  110

Ansh Batura                      108

Huseyin Gueriane              92

David Fox                           94

Lev Mann                         75

Yifan Luo                          75

1st Orpington Tournament and Training Day Results

Below are the results for the 1st Orpington Junior Tournament and Training day. Congratulations to everyone who took part and to Amherst school for winning the school prize.

Final Standings  - Bishops

  Place    Name                                                                  Rtg                          Age                Score 

1       MERRIMAN, James	131	8	4
2-4    COATES, Dominic	103	11	3
ANDERTON, George	71	11	3
RALPH, Simon	67	11	3
5-7    DAVIES, Iris	76	10	2.5
THOMAS, Heard	48	10	2.5
KARAMAN, Kyle	88	12	2.5
8-11  METHA, Shaurya	8	2	2
FORRESTER, Ben	71	11	2
BRETT, Toby	11	2	2
MERCER, Samantha	62	11	2
12-14  VARMA, Vaidehi	103	11	1.5
PETERS, Luke	71	11	`1.5
SANKA, Amit Aryan	67	11	1.5
15-17   CHOUDHARY, Shrey	76	10	1
PETERS, Karl	48	10	1

Final Standings  - Bishops

  Place    Name                                                                  Rtg                          Age                Score 

1       BUCKLES-MOTTS, George		8	4
2-3    KANSAL, Satvik		10	3
JAJODIA, Rhea		7	3
4-5     MAKHIJA, Yash	31	9	2.5
LI, Ming		8	2.5
6-10  PASARI, Rohan	28	6	2
POTHAPREGADA, Aryan		7	2
COOK, Oliver		7	2
WATSON, Scarlett	13	6	2
ANTHONY, Ashan		8	2
11-12 SEN, Kunaal		7	1
DAVIES, Violet		7	1
13    SHUKLA, Shaurya		8	0

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