Is chess a sport ?

Interesting article here : http://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/blog/guest-blog/06-08-2015/question-sport

Northern Gigafinal -Thr 2015

Four of the five 'contenders' who succeeded at the Warwick Megafinal travelled to Manchester last Sunday to play in the Gigafinal, two of them for the first time. All four did well and three (pictured) qualified for the TeraFinal Challengers Competition. It was a long journey (or in one case a short journey but a short night also) and a hot humid building, so congratulations on some strong wins and staying the course.

L to R: Jamie Kearney, Robbie Cockell and Rhys Davies (click on photo for close up)

 Thank you to Phil for the detailed results ...

Julien 

W v Edward Bach 1-0; Moby Wells v B 1-0; W v Gregor King 1-0; W v James Dessent 0-1; Robert McLean v B 1-0; Adair Cole v B 0-1

Jamie

W v Chris Marshall 1-0; John Hayton v B 0-1; W v Holden Davis 0-1; W v Vamsi Pratapa 1-0; Simeon Bott v B 1-0; W v Harshith Chakka 1-0

Rhys

W v Alexander J Cartlidge 0-1; Adam Malik v B 1-0; Bye; Jonny Dowie v B 0.5-0.5; W v Haydn; Godfrey 0-1; Laura X Smith v B 0-1

Robbie

Dominic MW Taylor v B 0-1; W v Dmitri Whitmore 0.5-0.5; Robert Oxley v B 1-0; W v Emilia O'Reilly 1-0; Benjamin Fuller v B 1-0; W v Charlie Watson 0-1

Warwickshire Megafinal 2015

Seven club members took part in the 2015 UK Chess Challenge Warwickshire Megafinal at the Trident Centre, Warwick on 10 May 2015 scoring an impressive total of 28.5 points between them, and this despite the club's scoring opportunities being hampered when on three occasions club members were pitted one against another.

Well done to Robbie Cockell (U18 Supremo), Rhys Davies (U18 Gigafinal qualifier), Jamie Kearney (U15 Supremo) and William Kendell (U12 Supremo) pictured with their prize books and silverware.  Well done also to Julien Carrouche (U14 Gigafinal qualifier 4,5pts ) and to Charlie Kendell (U9 Gigafinal qualifier 4pts) and Zak Fernandes-Coffey (U8 3pts).

Best of luck at the Northern Gigafinal in Manchester (map) on 12 July (more details here)

ps  Full results of the Warwickshire Megafinal are now available here.

[Updated 24May2015 - correction to Charlie Kendell's result (4 pts instead of 3pts) and full results have now been published at the link above.]

Warwickshire Junior Chess Congress 2015

The Warwickshire Junior Chess Congress will be held on Saturday 28^th Feb (for under 8 and under 12) and Sunday 1^st March (for under 10 and under 14) at the Trident Centre in Warwick.

Under 16 and under 18 players will play both days.

More details and an entry form can be found at the tournament website: http://congress.warwickshirechess.org/

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