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09/07/2022

Delancey UK Chess Challenge Northern Megafinal

Day 1: Under 8s and Under 10s

 

The Northern Megafinal is being held on Saturday 9th July and Sunday 10th July, 2022, at Wright Robinson College, Abbey Hey Lane, Gorton, Manchester.  The under 8s and under 10s play on the Saturday, and the under 12s, under 14s and under 18s play on the Sunday.  Some age groups were split into two groups, each supplying qualifiers for the Terafinal (ultimate final) on 15-16th October at Blenheim Place.  There are 7 rounds in each section.  The playing schedule for each section is:

 

Round

Start

1

10.00

2

11.15

3

12.15

Grab some lunch

4

13.45

5

14.45

6

15.45

7

16.45

 

The time control is 15 minutes per game with 10 seconds added per move played.

 

There were 15 Yorkshire players in action on day 1, in the under 8s and under 10s, top 3 star performers being:

Samiksha Yerabati who finished outright 1st with 7 out of 7 in the U-10 Girls,

Maksym Kryshtafor who finished outright 1st with 6˝ out of 7 in the U-8A Boys, and

Srivathsan Sasikumar who finished 1st-3rd= with 6 out of 7 in the U-10B Boys.

 

All (unless some have been missed) Yorkshire players’ final totals etc were as follows:

 

 

 

Score in each Round

 

 

 

Section

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Total

Place

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benedict Pitel

U-10

Boys A

1

1

1

1

0

1

0

5

4th-10th=

Eben Harbertson

U-10

Boys A

0

0

0

1

˝

0

0

1˝

38th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Srivathsan Sasikumar

U-10

Boys B

1

1

0

1

1

1

1

6

1st-3rd=

Rehan Kumar

U-10

Boys B

1

0

0

1

0

1

1

4

12th-21st=

Joshua Badri

U-10

Boys B

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

3

24th-34th=

Dewan Harbertson

U-10

Boys B

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

44th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samiksha Yerabati

U-10

Girls

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

7

1st

Aashita Roychowdhury

U-10

Girls

1

˝

1

1

0

˝

1

5

2nd-3rd=

Hana Al-Azami

U-10

Girls

1

0

0

1

1

˝

1

4˝

4th-5th=

Sienna Xu

U-10

Girls

1

˝

1

˝

0

0

1

4

6th-8th=

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maksym Kryshtafor

U-8

Boys A

1

˝

1

1

1

1

1

6˝

1st

Milo Kimberger

U-8

Boys A

1

0

1

0

1

1

0

4

9th-14th=

Divith Jerome

U-8

Boys A

1

0

0

0

1

1

0

3

20th‑25th=

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max Duemma Wrigley

U-8

Boys B

1

0

1

1

0

1

1

5

3rd-6th=

Dominik Pitel

U-8

Boys B

1

0

0

1

˝

1

1

4˝

7th

 

There were arguably a further 10 “Yorkshire” players in the U-8s and U-10s (and 3 in the U-14 and U12 age groups playing on Sunday).  These are from Yarm School, which hosted a Teesside Megafinal this year in parallel with the one at York.  This is a massive turnout from a single school.  Yarm, then in the North Riding of Yorkshire, became part of newly created Cleveland in 1974, but in 1996 Cleveland was abolished under the Banham Review.  Nevertheless, Cleveland Chess Association persisted as a county CA within the NCCU, and hence Yarm, now in North Yorkshire, is still in Cleveland for chess purposes.