Yorkshire Chess Association Year Book

2017-2018

 

Contents

Calendar of Events – Results/Reports

 

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Accuracy of club information &

Yearbook: further copies &

YCA Honorary Life Members &

Yorkshire Individual Championship 2018

Message from the President

Officers 2017-18

Annual Fees

County Match Fees & Petrol Allowance

Junior Contacts

YCA League Match Venues

Secretaries of Competing Clubs

Match Correspondents ‑ Woodhouse Cup

Match Correspondents ‑ IM Brown

Match Correspondents ‑ Silver Rook

YCA League Fixtures 2017-2018

ECF Game Fee Changes &c

Joining the ECF

Standard-play Grading Trends 2002-17

Notes on the YCA Grading List

Results Graded July 2016 to June 2017

YCA Grading List

Yorkshire Junior Reports

Correspondence Chess Report

U-160 Captain’s Message

2016-17 League Tables & Match Results

County Match Result Summary

English County Finals 2017

English County Championship 1921

Recent Winners of YCA Events

Constitution and Rules

YCA League Rules

Index to Rules

Individual Championship Rules

Contact Details Index

Event Calendar 2017-18

 

15/01/2018

Yorkshire Junior Rapidplay Tournament

Saturday 13th January 2018

Prizewinner Photos

 

Miscellaneous Photos

 

The event was organised by The White Rose Junior Chess Academy, which is a part of The Yorkshire Chess Association.

 

The tournament was held at Wigginton Primary School just outside York, and was opened by Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, who gave a short speech in which she told us of her interest in chess, harking back to when, as a teenager, she played for her school.  She even played a short demonstration game with a few of the junior competitors, which was enjoyed and appreciated by the audience of parents and juniors who looked on.

 

We had an overall total of 52 juniors competing in 3 sections: 16 in the Open, 20 in the Minor, and 16 in the Novice.

 

All sections comprised 5 rounds, run on the Swiss system.  Clocks were used in the Open, (15 mins. for each player), but not in the other sections.

 

Games in all three sections were scored as follows:  Win=3pts,  Draw=2pts,  Loss=1pt.

 

TABLE OF RESULTS

(underlined names are links to photographs)

 

OPEN

 

PLACE

NAME

AGE

POINTS

SCHOOL

1st

Max Parkhouse

11

14

King James

2nd

Zak Farley

14

13

Wolfreton

3rd

Aditya Krishnan

12

13

QEGS

4th

Ben McDonnell

17

11

Ampleforth

5th

Lucas Whitehead

10

11

Fishergate

6th=

Quinto Reyes

17

11

Ampleforth

6th=

Raf Owens

14

11

Ampleforth

8th

Joshini Jeyaprakash

13

10

Crossley Heath

9th=

Bradley Triffitt

13

9

King James

9th

Philipp Schwarzenberg

15

9

Ampleforth

9th=

Johannes Heitmann

16

9

Ampleforth

9th=

Oliver Myers

16

9

Ampleforth

13th=

Hal Towneley

16

8

Ampleforth

13th=

Philip Striegel

16

8

Ampleforth

15th

Ludwig Henckel

17

7

Ampleforth

16th

Clem Hirst

14

7

Ampleforth

NB. Joshini Jeyaprakash was the only player to take a point off the winner!

 

CONTROLLER/ARBITER

Phill Beckett

ASSISTANT ARBITER

David Barren

 

 

MINOR

 

PLACE

NAME

AGE

POINTS

SCHOOL

1st

Andrew Wilson

10

14

Ecclesall

2nd

Byron Lindley

11

13

QEGS

3rd=

Renjay Chong

11

12

Caister Grammar

3rd=

Renyi Chong

8

12

Caister Primary

3rd=

Oscar Orr

11

12

Carleton High

3rd=

Andrew Carden

11

12

Fishergate

7th=

Luke Furlong

13

11

St John Fisher

7th=

Amy Oxborough

13

11

Joseph Rowntree

7th=

Jamie Clarke

11

11

Tadcaster Grammar

10th=

Matthew Andronovici

10

10

QEGS

10th=

Nicholas Carden

9

10

Fishergate

12th=

Patrik Krajci

7

9

SASCA

12th=

Joe Furlong

12

9

St John Fisher

12th=

Jacob O’Donnell

11

9

Westbourne Juniors

12th=

Annabel Davenport

10

9

Wigginton

16th=

Holly Dukes

10

8

Wigginton

16th=

Neve Gallafant

9

8

Wigginton

16th=

Jacob Westmoreland

8

8

Holmfirth

19th

Harvey Banks

9

7

AYJS

20th=

Alicia Forde

11

5

Wigginton

NB. Nicholas Carden was the only player to take a point off the winner!

 

CONTROLLER/ARBITER

Noel Stewart

ASSISTANT ARBITER

Dan Staples

(Chess in Schools & Communities)

 

 

NOVICE

 

PLACE

NAME

AGE

POINTS

SCHOOL

1st

Japhet Cashdan

9

14

Fishergate

2nd

Tom Keast

9

13

Wigginton

3rd

Toby Clarke

8

13

Copmanthorpe

4th

Daniel Meredith

7

12

Copmanthorpe

5th

Ellie Triffitt

9

11

Tockwith

6th

Natasha Pointon

7

11

Yarm

7th=

William Eyre

8

11

Clifton

7th=

Adam Foster

8

11

Wigginton

9th=

Isobelle Foster

8

10

Wigginton

9th=

Jose Rodriguez

8

10

Millfield

11th=

Harry Tomlin

10

9

Copmanthorpe

11th=

Matthew Westmoreland

8

9

Holmfirth

13th=

Peter Foster

10

8

Riccall

13th=

Samuel Brett

9

8

Wigginton

15th

Caden Gallafant

7

6

Wigginton

16th=

Alexander Bradley

7

5

Clifton

NB. Tom Keast was the only player to take a point off the winner!

 

CONTROLLER/ARBITER

Peter Cloudsdale

ASSISTANT

Olivia Westmoreland   (age 10!!)

 

Isobelle Foster won a prize for “good chess performance”.

 

 

Two chess training/coaching sessions were provided between rounds by Peter Cloudsdale and Noel Stewart.

 

Photographs were taken by David Mills, (there was also a photographer from York Press, see report on York Press website) and Phill Beckett kindly provided all the chess sets, and clocks.

 

Special thanks are due to the head teacher of Wigginton Primary School, Mr. Paul Laycock, for hosting the venue and being there on the day.

 

Thanks also to the Wigginton PTA, who supplied the refreshments.

 

Warm thanks also to The Chess & Bridge Shop in London for providing some of the book prizes.

 

Finally, thanks to all who helped make this such a resounding success.

 

All the juniors received chess pens and chess badges, and all were given certificates at the end-of-tournament prize-giving ceremony.

 

For me, this was the highlight of the day.  All the parents and organisers clapping as the junior players came forward to accept their certificates and prizes.  Smiles on every face at the end of a rewarding day of chess, played in good spirit.

 

Noel Stewart