DJCA events coming up

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Sat 05-Jul-25 3rd Plymouth Schools Chess Tournament

Plymouth College (Sports Hall), Ford Park Road, PL4 6RN

FREE ENTRY -- Open to students from all Plymouth Schools -- ENTRIES WILL BE RESTRICTED TO 100

Events marked DJCA are organised by DJCA; other local junior (and adult) events may be listed.

See also: https://devonjuniorchess.co.uk/content/calendar (all events in Google calendar format)
See also: 2024-25 https://devonjuniorchess.co.uk/content/draft-local-chess-calendar-adult
See also: SW junior events https://www.englishchess.org.uk/events/list/?tribe_eventcategory%5B0%5D=...

Welcome

Welcome to Devon Junior Chess Association

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About us

The Association is a small committee of volunteers who organise and promote junior chess in the county. It runs tournaments and coaching days for players of all abilities from those who are new to competitive chess right through to those who play at County level. Players from the age of 7 through to those in their teens take part in the events and come from the many schools and the junior clubs that exist in the county. The Association selects and runs Devon County teams at U18, U14, U11 and U9 levels.

There are also events for over 11s run on behalf of the Devon County Chess Association which includes the County Under-14 team.

We depend on volunteers to make our events run smoothly -- can you help us out one day?

Scholar's Mate

What counts as a good idea in chess?

A good idea in chess is any idea that your opponent doesn't now how to meet... and for some levels of chess Scholar’s Mate is a good idea.

In fact, Scholar’s Mate featured in the first game of chess I ever played in a chess club! Sadly I got checkmated…

If you don't know Scholar’s Mate (also known as the 'four-move checkmate'), it goes like this:

Meanwhile, way down South...

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Submitted by DrDave on

Results from the 6th Simon Bartlett Memorial Congress, Torquay 2025:

Minor: Our top U14 and U18 players showed well: Shreyas Pasupulety 4/5 (1st); Ben Darlington & Daniel Smith 3½/5 (tied for 2nd-4th with another player).  Jack Amos from our U11 squad also played -- hope you enjoyed it!

Inter: Suhayl Abdalla 3½/5 (tie for 2nd-3rd); Mac Holland 3/5; Varnika Neralla 2/5

Major: Jack Wills 3/5

...while Ananya Nerella with awesome poise jumped into the deep end of the Open!

Devon juniors' success at LJCC centenary

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The London Junior Chess Championships were founded 100 years ago, and in their centenary event Devon juniors had some notable success.

Congratulations to Swetha Narayanan who scored a very creditable 5/7 in the huge U8 section, winning a prize.

And very well done to Pengxiao Zhu, who as an U13 player won the U16 trophy on tie-break with 5/6 and no losses, beating a 2100-rated player in the last round.

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Devon Juniors in the mix

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Some excellent performances from Devon Juniors in the 56th Torbay Congress (Hope I haven't missed anyone!):

Open section: Caleb Caleshu 3½/5 and shared 3rd place, half a point behind the winner

Major: Jack Wills 2½/5

Intermediate: Mac Holland 4/5 shared 2nd place on tie-break; Suhayl Abdalla 3½/5; Jamie Glasson 2½/5; Shreyas Pasupalety 2/5

Foundation: Ronit Randhawa 4/5 3rd place on tie-break; Joe Forty 3½/5 5th; Rhys Hammond 1½/5

Ex-juniors Nathan Mills and Ben Sturt also featured in the lists

 

 

Devon Juniors play for SW England against Wales

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Pengxiao Zhu and Viacheslav Ovcharenko both played for the SW England U14 Team against Wales on Sunday 26th May.

The SWE Team won the U14 by a wide margin but the U11 event was very close.

Well done to all taking part and many thanks to the organisers for making everything happen.

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Contact

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David Regis, 71 Mary Street, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9HQ  

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