Hampshire Junior Chess Association is running a Last Chance Saloon for the UK Chess Challenge on Saturday, April 6th at Basingstoke Chess Club. The entry fee will be £5.
This event is for children (primary and secondary aged) who have yet to qualify to the Megafinal stage of the Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge.
Entry Form is here : Last Chance Saloon : April 6th
The main organiser is Maha Chandar.
Megafinal Qualifying Tournament: Last Saloon Hampshire
Date: 6th April 2019 Time 10.30 AM
Closing date for the entries: 5th April
Entry Fees: £5.00 plus £2.00 on the day
Venue: Basingstoke Chess Club, Address: Upper Sherborne Rd, Basingstoke RG21 5TG
Bank: Lloyds
Account Name: HJCA,
Account number: 66611460
Sort code: 30-93-17
Ref: Child’s surname
email address: kidschess@hotmail.com
Frimley Junior Chess Club has entered the Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge for 2019.
All members of Frimley Junior chess club will take part during the Spring in this exciting tournament with an opportunity to qualify for the Hampshire or Surrey or Berkshire Megafinal (as appropriate) in April / May 2019.
John Upham, Co-Founder of Frimley Junior Chess Club
We wish all of our members the best of luck playing in any of the three UK Chess Challenge Gigafinals !
The ninth meeting of 2018 will take place on Sunday, April 8th at Frimley Village Hall from 9:30am until 12:30pm.
This week we start earlier at 9.30am and we will run a UK Chess Challenge tournament for all children who have not already qualified.
This is your chance to qualify to a MegaFinal of the UK Chess Challenge : there are many to chose from.
The hall owners have kindly allowed us to start at 9.30am so that we can fit in the tournament. Lots of fun prizes for all the children !
Hopefully there will be time for seven games for each child using a chess timer.
There will a trophy for the overall winner plus many other prizes for everyone taking part.
All the best,
John, Peter, Colin and Kim
We will not be meeting on Sunday, April 28th since most members will be competing at the Hampshire Megafinal.
Venue to be confirmed but should be in the Winchester area.
The ninth meeting of 2018 will take place on Sunday, April 8th at Frimley Village Hall from 9:30am until 12:30pm.
This week we start earlier at 9.30am and we will run a UK Chess Challenge tournament for all children who have not already qualified.
There will be no meeting on Sunday, July 23rd since it is the second of the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Southern Gigafinal.
Many of our members will be competing and John is official photographer
Young members of Frimley Junior Chess Club ventured East to Everest Community Academy in Basingstoke for the Hampshire Megafinal. The Megafinal follows the school / club stage in the world famous Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge.
Henry Blin competed in the Under 7 section scoring an excellent three wins, just one short needed to qualify to the next stage, the Gigafinal in Reading.
Sophia Blin entered the Under 8 section and scored a very impressive 4.5 points qualifying Sophia for the Gigafinal and title of Suprema !
Daniel Shek played in the Under 8 section and scored 5 wins out of six games securing the well earned title of Supremo. Daniel has just returned from Italy playing in the World Under 1700 Championships impressing all and sundry with his style of chess.
James Love (Under 11) went one better scoring six wins out of six games ! “It is difficult to argue with that” was a comment from one of the event organisers and they were right. James very deservedly won the title of Supremo and qualifies for the Gigafinal in Reading during the month of July.
Frimley Junior Chess Club can be rightly proud of its young members and their continuing chess success !