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".

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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.

 

 

Attacks on both sides of the board (Nov 4th)

Here is the game which we started playing from last time with attacks on both sides of the board. (We actually started at move 12 but here you can see how the master game went). In the final position it is mate in two when black night checks at d3.

34th Northamptonshire Junior Congress

Congratulations to Jamie and Jonathan - first and second in the under 16 section of the 34th Northamptonshire Junior Congress.   Also well done to Santos who qualified for the London Junior Chess Championships in the under 10 section.

The game by Judit Polgar

Here is the game by Judit Polgar where she has a violent attack on Blacks King. Well worth a good look. You can see what would have happened after 17 ...Rh8 by simply clicking on that move after the brackets and following it to the end before the closing bracket

Here's the game from Monday night on the demo board. The two main things to look at are the standard opening (a reversed Sicilian) and the attack that White generates on the king side against the weak squares around the Black king which his minor piecs just hop into !