35th Northamptonshire Junior Congress

The 35th Northamptonshire Junior Congress takes place on Saturday 22nd November at the Malcolm Arnold Academy (NN2 6JW) just 40 minutes drive from Rugby.   You can download an entry form from the Northants Junior Chess Calendar page here.  Instead of putting your school on the form, put "Rugby Junior Chess Club" and lets see if we can turn up in force :).

£7.50 Entry fee for entries by 15th November or £10 for entries after this date.

Something sweet for the juniors ...

Congratulations to Julien Carrouche who won his match in the Divisional Cup last night.

Wishing all Juniors a great season and here is a video which might make you smile (it reminds me of white and dark chocolate, yum). Remember that to keep in touch with posts on the Junior or main Rugby Chess Club blog you can add your email address. You will then get an email every time we update. Next meeting is next Monday (3rd November) so look out for Bob's email for information about what he has planned.

Well done at the Mega final !!

Well done to all our entrants at Sundays Megafinal at Arden School !
I have been waiting for the official results to come out but can't delay any longer. There is no particular order to this list - they are just the list I used to keep track during the day !

Julien Carrouche Under 13 Supremo
Jason Adams,
Henry Adams,
Shivi Ravi - Under 17 Suprema
Kieran Roberts,
Jamie Kearney - Under 14 Supremo,
Andrew Smith - Under 16 Supremo,
William Kendall - Under 12 Supremo,
Victor Hartas Moody,
Santos Coffey,
Charlie Kendall,
Sanin Jacob Salvio
With 5 age group winners you have done really well!
I am not sure about the Giga final qualifiers as I wasn't able to get the last round results properly but hopefully this will become clear very soon.
Once again well done everyone !! Bob

UK Chess Challenge 2014 - dates

The 2014 Warwickshire Megafinal will be at Arden School, Knowle on Sunday 11 May 2014.

The Northern Gigafinal will be at Wright Robinson College, Gorton, Manchester on Saturday 5 July 2014 for U7-U10 and Sunday 6July 2014 for U11-U18.

The Terafinal will be a two day event, at Loughborough Grammar School.on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August, 2014.

(Giga and Tera final dates published here) 

New Warwickshire Chess Champions

Congratulations to William Kendell who now holds the title "Under 12 Warwickshire Chess Champion" having won today with a perfect score of 6/6.

Also a big "Well Done" to Jason Adams who took second place, just behind William and winning a gold medal.

And another big "Well Done" to Charlie Kendell, playing in his first tournament in the Under 8 section, and taking second place and winning a gold medal.

Also congratulations to Jamie Kearney, who came away from the intermediate section of the Warwickshire Chess Championship with the title "Under 16 Warwickshire Chess Champion".

chess joke

Congratulations to Shivi

Very well done Shivi Ravi who recently became the English Chess Federation U18 Girls’ National Champion. She won 3 of her 5 matches.

We understand from the Rugby School website that Shivi will now represent England in the World Schools or European Schools Championships.

Further coverage of the English Girls Championships is given on the ECF site (with a photo of Shiv accepted her award), http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/english-girls-championships/



What a fantastic acheievement for Shivi. Wishing her every success for 2014.