Results from the 6th Simon Bartlett Memorial Congress, Torquay 2025:
Minor: Our top U14 and U18 players showed well: Shreyas Pasupulety 4/5 (1st); Ben Darlington & Daniel Smith 3½/5 (tied for 2nd-4th with another player). Jack Amos from our U11 squad also played -- hope you enjoyed it!
Inter: Suhayl Abdalla 3½/5 (tie for 2nd-3rd); Mac Holland 3/5; Varnika Neralla 2/5
Major: Jack Wills 3/5
...while Ananya Nerella with awesome poise jumped into the deep end of the Open!
The London Junior Chess Championships were founded 100 years ago, and in their centenary event Devon juniors had some notable success.
Congratulations to Swetha Narayanan who scored a very creditable 5/7 in the huge U8 section, winning a prize.
And very well done to Pengxiao Zhu, who as an U13 player won the U16 trophy on tie-break with 5/6 and no losses, beating a 2100-rated player in the last round.
We thought we'd do the trophies differently this year. We'll offer prizes for 1st/2nd/3rd as before (and maybe 4th) but we won't share places, and instead use tie-breaks. This will mean the prize-giving should follow much more quickly after the last game is played (because Mr Onions won't have to sort how many trophies get which labels), but it does mean we will be awarding fewer prizes.
(We'll still be doing girls' prizes if we have more than one girl enter a section and where they meet a minimum score.)
In last Sunday's Devon County chess match for all ages, Devon juniors were selected: Caleb Caleshu, Jack Wills and Harvey Cooper. Congratulations to all.
