2026 Junior Chess Championship
The Staffordshire Junior Chess Championship will be held on Saturday 21st November at the same venue as last season, Painsley Catholic College, Cheadle, Staffordshire, ST10 1LH. Full entry forms and payment details will be available in September. As in previous years there will be sections for boys and girls and different age ranges.
2025 Junior Chess Championship
For further details and an entry form please see this link, the Staffordshire Junior Chess Website, or contact Jonathon Blackburn.
2024 Staffordshire Junior Championship
The 2024 Staffordshire Junior Championship will be held on Sunday 1st December at Stafford Grammar School, Burton Manor Road, Stafford, ST18 9AT. It will be 6 rounds of rapid play with not only cash prizes but the opportunity to become the County Champion at each age group. The entry fee is £15.
New Website and Staffordshire Junior Championship Results
The results of the 2023 Staffordshire Junior Championship are on the new Staffordshire Junior website.
National Youth Championships
On the 4th November 2023 Staffordshire sent 3
teams to the National Youth Championships in Oxford. We were represented in all
3 sections Under 12, Under 14 and Under 18. Thanks go to the Jays Travel &
Daughter minibuses who transported most of the players as well as a number of
travelling parents. This was one of the biggest contingents to play in such an
event for a long time.
Our Under 12 side was very much a development
team as most had hardly played many tournaments and the results showed. We knew
this before going and the majority will still be eligible next year, so we have
time to improve.
The Under 14 team had mostly started playing
pre-covid and were much more experienced, and we had some new exciting
additions. With a resounding 6/6 in the last round, we managed to shoot up the
rankings and come joint 4th which is an amazing achievement. Isaac Stanley
scored 3/3 on board 2 as the team's top performer.
The stars of the show were the Under 18 team
where we were very strong, we even turned up with a reserve to permit team
rotation. Our top 2 boards Dylan & Joe took the brunt of the opposing
team's best players and allowed Stephen & Sean to mop up the middle order.
Momin, Julian & Rhys did great jobs on the lower boards and if you include
the reserve match Rhys came away with 3/3.
With 2 teams running away with it at the top,
we went into the last round joint 4th with a team half a point ahead of us,
both those teams scored badly in the last round as we picked up 4 points to
overtake them and come away with 3rd and a trophy for each player! Well done to
the Under 18's in this national event!
Our top performance though goes to a 'junior'
who isn't going to be a junior much longer playing on board 4 scoring 3/3 was
Sean Tavener... we wish him well as he moves on to adult life! Before he does
though we might see all of these players fight it out in the Staffordshire
junior championships on November 19th.
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