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All event results 2016-2026

October 22, 2017 - June 22, 2026

Date Results
Saturday, December 9, 2017 – 09:30 Devon Junior Chess Championships 2017 Prize-winners U9 championship 1st Cameron Owens * 2nd Max Kaye * 3rd= Bailey Owens (Best U8), Oliver Tagg, Owen Ye * Best Girl Serena Bovey U9 Team champions Kingsbridge CPS U11 Championship 1st Toby Page * 2nd= Benjamin Bacon, Joshua Keay (Best U10) * Best Girl Eleanor Wang U11 Team champions Exeter Junior School U15 Championship 1st James Gibb * 2nd= Oliver Bacon & Kieran Raine * Best girl Niranjana Narayanan U18 Championship 1st Vignesh Ramesh * 2nd= Leif Hafsted & Isaac Kennedy- Bruyneels
Saturday, January 13, 2018 – 10:30 Wales and West of England Junior County Team Jamboree Many congratulations to the U11s who came second in their section. Well done to Roman Mokhovik and Tom Lewis for a fantastic 3/3 performance in the U11 and U14 teams respectively. U14s 1 Gibbs, James 0 2 Bacon, Oliver 0 3 Raine, Kieran ½ 4 Cash, Zak 0 5 McMullan, Evan ½ 6 Wilson, Quillan 0 7 Virdee, Surinder 1 8 Ng, Nathan 1 9 Bracey, Tom 2 10 Lewis, Tom 3 Total 8/30 R1 Narayanan, Niranjana 0 R2 Harrison, Myles 1 R3 Sachdeva, Robin 0 Board 10 was played by Tom in Round 1, then Niranjana, then Myles. U11s 1 Toby Page 1 2 Benny Bacon 1½ 3 Josh Keay 1 4 Caleb Caleshu 2 5 Aarv Paul 2 6 Freddie Sansbury 0 7 Devrim Phaneuf 1 8 Matthew Earle 2 9 Alfie Sequiera 1½ 10 Matthew Roberts 2 11 Roman Mokhovik 3 12 Shay Grant 0 13 Suhayl Abdalla 2 14 Henry Batty 1½ 15 Raghav Sachdeva 1 16 Max Kaye 0 Total 21½/48
Saturday, April 28, 2018 – 09:30 Devon Junior/Mallison Trust U18 Invitational Tournament 2018 Group 1: Kieran & Evan 2½/3

Group 2: Niranjana and Nathan 2/3

A triumphant return to competitive play by Mr.B on 3/3!
Saturday, March 17, 2018 – 09:30 Devon Spring Tournament This tournament had to be abandoned after four rounds due to worsening weather conditions.

Cross tables for the four rounds that were completed are detailed in the files below

U9

1st: Max KAYE 3.5/4

2nd-4th: Bailey OWENS, Cameron OWENS, Penxiou ZHU 3/4

U11

1st-2nd: Caleb CALESHU, Devrim PHANEUF 3.5/4

3rd: Benny BACON 3/4

4th: Alfie SEQUIERA 2.5/4

U18/U14

1st: Isaac KENNEDY-BRUYNEELS 4/4

2nd-5th: Connor Fitzpatrick, Oliver Mortimer, Oliver Zaffiro, Tom Lewis 3/4
Saturday, October 6, 2018 – 09:15 Devon ‘Riviera’ Junior Open Tournament Sat 6th Oct 2018 U9 Section  1st=: Pengxiao Zhu & Bailey Owens; 3rd: Balthasar Ebbutt; Best Girl: Seha Konara; Best U8: Pengxiao Zhu

U11 Section 1st: Caleb Caleshu; 2nd=: Joshua Keay & Roman Mokhovik; Best Girl: Emma Rovenska

U14 Section 1st: Nathan Ng; 2nd=: Benny Bacon & Bradley Holland; Best Girl: Niranjana Narayanan; Best U13: Benny Bacon

U18 Section 1st: Nicky Bacon; 2nd: Isaac Kennedy-Bruyneels; 3rd=: Ollie Bacon & Michael Hodgkinson
Sunday, November 18, 2018 – 09:15 2nd TORQUAY BOYS’ GRAMMAR SCHOOL JUNIOR OPEN TOURNAMENT U7 1st: Seha Konara

U8 1st: Pengxiao Zhu; 2nd: Timothy Clarkson

U9 1st: Bailey Owens; 2nd=: Benjamin Ledwidge & Serena Bovey

U10 1st: Cameron Owens; 2nd=: Luke Giddings & Oscar Los

U11 1st: Caleb Caleshu; 2nd: Joshua Keay; 3rd: Einar Bonnevier

U12 1st: Alfie Sequiera; 2nd=: Suhayl Abdalla & Aarv Paul

U13 1st=: Tom Bracey, Thomas Leyman & Niranjana Narayanan

U14 1st: Tom Lewis; 2nd: Bradley Holland

U15 1st=: Jack Baxter & Myles Harrison

U18 1st: Isaac Kennedy-Bruyneels; 2nd: Ben Sturt; 3rd: Oliver Mortimer
Saturday, March 16, 2019 – 09:15 Devon Open Spring Tournament 2019 U9:
1st= Timothy Clarkson, Benjamin Ledwidge 5/6;
3rd= Serena Bovey, Oscar Wallace 4/6;U11
1st Penxiao Zhu 5/6,
2nd Caleb Caleshu 4½/6;
3rd Roman Mokhovic 4/6;

U14
1st Bradley Holland 5/6,
2nd= Aritra Paul, Nathan Ng, Ben Bracey 4½/6
Sunday, December 9, 2018 – 09:15 Devon Junior Chess Championships 2018 The Devon Junior Chess Championships concluded yesterday.

For the first time in a long while we held the event in Exeter, in the hope of being more accessible to players around the county.  We would like to thank very much West Exe School for hosting the event in their splendid building, and of course Ashford’s for their support.

50 young chess players came to contest the places from schools across Devon.

Four separate individual competitions were held — under 9s, under 11s, under 15s and under 18s.  For some, it was their first tournament, while others have been playing for perhaps a decade already.  Trophies were awarded for the top three in each division, as well as Best Girl and extra age prizes (best under-8 in the U9s, for example).  Three of the sections had outright winners, but there was a remarkable three-way tie for first place in the U15s, featuring two players who were also the U14 age group winners.

The competition includes the Schools Team Competition, which this year was won by Exeter Junior School.

Each round was fiercely and sportingly contested, and the standard of the best games was a great credit to the skill and concentration of the players.

I would like to add a note of thanks to all who helped make the event run smoothly, a real team effort.

Prizewinners:

U9 Championship

1st & Best U8 Pengxiao Zhu : 2nd Bailey Owens; 3rd= Sebastian Burnside, Shreyas Pasupulety, Oscar Wallace : Best Girl Scarlett Burnside

U11 Championship

1st Caleb Caleshu : 2nd= Einar Bonnevier, Joshua Keay; Roman Mokhovik, Emma Rovenska : Best U10 & Best Girl Emma Rovenska

U15 Championship

1st= Ollie Bacon, Charlie Hill, Niranjana Narayanan ; Best U13s: Charlie Hill and Niranjana Narayanan; Best Girl : Niranjana Narayanan ; Joint Best U12: Suhayl Abdalla, Aarv Paul

U18 Championship

1st Isaac Kennedy-Bruyneels : 2nd Vigneshwar Ramesh : 3rd= Nicky Bacon & Ben Sturt

Schools Team Competition

U9 winners: Exeter Junior School
Sunday, May 12, 2019 – 09:15 Devon Last Chance Saloon 2019 (Megafinal qualifier) 1st Jamie Glasson 20/21. 2nd Pengxiao Zhu 19/21, 3rd Caleb Caleshu 18/21

Qualifying:

Caleb Caleshu
Jamie Glasson
Benjamin Ledwidge
Rose Batty
Shreyas Pasupulety
Pengxiao Zhu
Sunday, June 9, 2019 – 09:15 Devon Delancey UK Chess Challenge Megafinal Results from the UK Chess Challenage Devon Megafinal are

  • Scarlett Burnside            U7 Suprema
  • Shreyas Pasupulety        U7 Supremo
  • Shambavi Hariharan        U8 Suprema
  • Pengxiao Zhu                 U8 Supremo
  • Serena Bovey                 U9 Suprema
  • Ben Ledwidge                U9 Supremo
  • Lara Omidvar                 U10 Suprema
  • James Glasson              U10 Supremo
  • Caleb Caleshu                U11 Supremo
  • Aarv Paul                       U12 Supremo
  • Niranjana Narayanan       U13 Suprema
  • Nathan Ng                      U13 Supremo
  • Chirag Hosdurga             U14 Supremo
  • James Gibbs                  U15 Supremo
  • Oliver Mortimer               U16 Supremo
  • Lily Kearney                   U17 Suprema
  • Nicholas Bacon              U18 Supremo
Saturday, October 5, 2019 – 09:30 DJCA Riviera tournament Sat 5th Oct 2019 U9 1st Shreyas Pasupulety 6 pts * 2nd= Scarlet Burnside & Sebastian Burnside 4 pts

U11 1st Pengxiao Zhu 6 pts * 2nd Jamie Glasson 4 pts * 3rd Emma Rovenska 3.5 pts

U14 1st= Benny Bacon & Niranjana Narayanan 4.5 pts * 3rd= Caleb Caleshu & Toby Page 4pts

U18  1st Nicky Bacon 6pts * 2nd Ollie Bacon 3.5 pts * 3rd Aritra Paul 2.5 pts

 
Saturday, March 14, 2020 – 09:30 DJCA Devon Individual Championships and Schools Competition 2019-20 Prizewinners:

U9: 1st= Fallan Grant, Tejosh Paul; Best Girl Elicia Ng

U11: 1st Gethin Rees-Lee

U13: 1st Pengxiao Zhu, 2nd Caleb Caleshu, 3rd= Suhayl Abdalla, Jamie Glasson, Raghav Sachdeva

U15: 1st Niranjana Narayanan, 2nd= Charlie Hill, Nathan Ng, Aritra Paul

U18: 1st Oliver Mortimer, 2nd Evan MacMullan

Full tournament charts:

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 TOT POS
Under 9s
2 Fallan Grant 5 1 bye 2 6 2 3 3 4 3 4 4 1st=
w w w b b
3 Elicia Ng 4 0 5 0 bye 1 2 1 6 1½ 5 1½ Best girl
w b b w w
4 Tejosh Paul 3 1 6 1 5 2 bye 3 2 4 2 4 1st=
b b w w w
5 Isaac Simmons 2 0 3 1 4 1 6 1 bye 2 3 3
b w b b w
Under 11s
6 Gethin Rees-Lee bye 1 4 2 2 3 5 4 3 4 1/2 bye 5 1/2 1st
w b w b
Under 13s
1 Suhayl Abdalla 9 0 14 1 4 2 10 2 bye 3 13 4 3rd=
b w b w b
3 Caleb Caleshu 12 1 13 1 10 2 9 2 1/2 6 3 1/2 7 4 1/2 2nd
b w b w b w
4 Owen Eccles 6 1 9 1 1 1 14 2 10 2 5 2
b w w b b w
5 Yokesh Ganesan 15 0 bye 1 12 1 6 1 11 2 4 3
w b w b b
6 Ivan Gerasimenko 4 0 7 0 11 1 5 2 3 2 bye 3
w b w b w
7 Jamie Glasson 14 1 6 2 9 3 12 4 15 4 3 4 3rd=
b w b w w b
9 Aarv Paul 1 1 4 2 7 2 3 2 1/2 13 3 1/2 15 3 1/2
w b w b w b
10 Devrim Phaneuf bye 1 15 1 1/2 3 1 1/2 1 2 1/2 4 3 1/2 12 3 1/2
b w b w w
11 Logan Richardson 13 0 12 0 6 0 bye 1 5 1 14 2
b w b 5 b
12 Raghav Sachdeva 3 0 11 1 5 2 15 2 14 3 10 4 3rd=
w b w b w b
13 Alfie Sequeira 11 1 3 2 15 2 1/2 7 2 1/2 9 2 1/2 1 2 1/2
w b w b b w
14 Daniel Tobin 7 0 1 0 bye 1 4 1 12 1 11 1
w b w b w
15 Pengxiao Zhu 5 1 10 1 1/2 13 2 12 3 7 4 9 5 1st
b w b w b w
Under 15s
1 Charlie Hill 8 0 7 1 2 2 3 3 4 3 5 3 2nd=
w b w b w b
2 Luke Honey 7 0 6 1 1 1 8 1 3 1 4 1
w b b w w b
3 Niranjana Narayanan 6 1 5 2 7 3 1 3 2 4 8 4 1/2 1st &
best girl
w b b w b w
5 Nathan Ng 4 0 3 0 8 1 6 2 7 2 1 3 2nd=
w b b w b w
6 Louis Niles 3 0 2 0 4 0 5 0 8 0 7 0
b w b w b w
7 Aritra Paul 2 1 1 1 3 1 4 1 5 2 6 3 2nd=
b w w b w b
Under 18s
8 Evan McMullan 1 1 4 2 5 2 2 3 6 4 3 4 1/2 2nd
b w w b w b
4 Oliver Mortimer 5 1 8 1 6 2 7 3 1 4 2 5 1st
w b b w b w
Sunday, February 2, 2020 – 09:45 3RD TORQUAY BOYS’ GRAMMAR SCHOOL JUNIOR OPEN Under 9 Winners

Timothy Clarkson

Oscar Wallace

 

Best U8   Sebastian Burnside

 

Under 10 Winner 

Benjamin Ledwidge

U11 Winner

Jamie Glasson

 

U12 Winners

Yokesh Ganesan

Raghav Sachdeva

 

U13 Winner

Aarv Paul

 

U15 Winner

Bradley Holland

 

U18 Winner

Caleb Caleshu
Saturday, January 11, 2020 – 20:30 Wales/West Junior Team Jamboree A tough day at the office for the U18s who all played their hearts out for poor rewards (6/18), but well done the U14s for coming joint second to the mighty Glamorgan team (16/30).

Many thanks to players, parents, supporters and volunteers, and thanks to Ian Eustis, Kevin Staveley and colleagues for another fine event.
Sunday, March 1, 2020 – 14:00 U14 squad post-jamboree review Chess isn’t the most important thing in the world nor is getting better the only goal in playing.  But if you do want to get better, how is this to be done?

  1. Step 1: what are your strengths and weaknesses as a player?
    1. Make a list of all the things a chessplayer needs to do (or avoid) to play well
    2. Look at the feedback from your games
    3. Look through the list of ‘tips’ from the booklet — what are you good at, what don’t make sense?
    4. What are the three most important things you could work on?
  2. Step 2: what is going to help?
    • I can’t make you a better player in an afternoon but I can tell you what will make you a better player!
    • We had available:
      1. openings booklets (including those listed on the secret webpage)
      2. tactics tests
      3. ‘paranoid’ tactics tests (where the result wasn’t known and you may fall into a trap)
      4. positional puzzles
      5. endgame puzzles
    • There’s more where they came from!

On the day, the sorts of things we decided to look at were:

  1. playing White against ‘dodging’ (if not dodgy) defences — half-open games and Indian defences
    • I recommend you pick systems that fit together — resulting in positions that have similar themes or at least ‘feel’ similar
    • We looked at how to play for and against an IQP
  2. Spotting tactics and avoiding blunders
    • Three sorts of puzzles are helpful:
      1. Puzzles that are a little bit hard for you — to extend your range and imagination
      2. Puzzles that are easy for you — to improve your speed at spotting simple tactics
      3. Paranoid puzzles — where you don’t know the ‘right’ outcome
        • These include the Hit/Miss/Trap collections from me
        • Practical Chess Exercises by Ray Cheng
    • You can also do exercises that improve your sight of the board
      1. like the 8 Queens puzzle
      2. I have 12 more examples as part of the card pack 52 different things to do than play chess
  3. Lastly, play, write your moves down, and review the game afterwards
    1. Review with yourself
    2. Review with a friend
    3. Review with a computer
    4. Send me the moves for comment — I will always do this for you
Saturday, March 20, 2021 – 09:30 DJCA Devon Junior Championships 2020-21 U9 champion: Shreyas Pasupalety (Girls’ Champion: Scarlett Burnside)

U11 champion:  Elizabeth Ward (and Girls’ Champion!)

U13 champion: Pengxiao Zhu

U15 champion: Jun Li Yeap

U18 champion: Luke Honey (Girls’ Champion: Niranjana Narayanan)

Sorry some of the sections were less than 6 rounds – Lichess couldn’t cope (and I think the U18s actually broke it)
Saturday, May 1, 2021 – 14:00 MayDay Junior Team Battle Devon juniors took part in an exciting all-comers team battle on Saturday 1st May on the lichess.org website, where we were outnumbered but not outclassed!

The teams from Devon, Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset played for two hours.  The lead swapped hands rapidly in the first period of the match (faster than a countefeit note, someone remarked), but after the first half-hour Devon had built up a commanding lead of over 10 points ahead of their closest rival.  The scores for the top 6 players counted, so although other counties had longer team sheets, Devon’s quick win rate pushed them ahead and kept them there for most of the remainder of the battle.

Final scores and individual results (and all games): https://lichess.org/tournament/ZhmQxxcI
Saturday, July 17, 2021 – 14:00 County Junior Team Battle Hampshire, fielding a strong team, settled into an early lead and pulled away steadily all afternoon.  Devon came a creditable second thanks to some star performances from Luke, Niranjana, JunYi, Jake, Tom, Toby, Shreyas and Tejas.  All the other teams had at least one 2000+ rated player, while our top ranked team member was Luke started on less than 1800 (and he was unlucky to miss wins against the top two boards of Hampshire). Thanks to everyone that played and I hope you all enjoyed the event.

Saturday Afternoon Event Team Battle

1 Hampshire Junior Chess Association ReturnOfTheDyu 67+39+35+28+25+20+16+10 240
2 Devon Junior Chess Association Luke_Honey 44+26+26+19+17+16+14+13 175
3 Dorset Junior Chess chessmonkey_durban 28+22+20+18+18+17+7+4 134
4 Berkshire Junior Chess Krishkeshari 24+14+12+11+11+11+10+9 102

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Devon Junior Chess Association

Players 13
Average rating 1518
Average performance 1536
Average score 16
Team page
1 Luke_Honey 1812 44
2 junliyeap 1803 26
3 JakeBratram 1788 26
4 theyta-ta 1674 19
5 GumballThunder 1472 17
6 nnarayanan 1608 16
7 Toby_ChessWizard123 1525 14
8 Chess_Dragon19 1525 13
9 YokeshGanesan 1553 10
10 williamnova897 1389 6
11 PrawnCocktail 1151 3
12 Zeynabbagirli 937 2
Sunday, October 17, 2021 – 09:45 4th TORQUAY BOYS’ GRAMMAR SCHOOL JUNIOR OPEN U18: 1st Luke Honey

U15: 1st Pengxiao Zhu

U14: 1st Josh Keay

There were also prizes for U12
Saturday, December 4, 2021 – 09:30 DJCA Devon Individual Championships and Schools Competition 2021 U9 1st Adrian Pratt; 2nd Harvey Montgomery; 3rd Bence Medway

U11 1st Peter Pratt 5/6; 2nd Sebastian Burnside 4½; 3rd Angela Kunwar 4 (Best Girl)

U13: 1st= Jamie Glasson & Aladair Marr 5/6; 3rd= Joe Forty, Edward Hill & Daniel Smith; Best Girl Cassia Bridgewater 3/6

U15: 1st= 4½/6 Suhayl Abdalla, Devrim Phaneuf & Alfie Sequiera

U18 1st Caleb Caleshu 5/6; 2nd Luke Honey 4½ ; 3rd Charlie Hill 4 ; Best Girl Niranjana Narayanan 3/6
Monday, February 21, 2022 – 21:15 Abbey School Half Term Chess Day Mon 21st Feb 2022 U13

 

1= Oliver Cafaro, Jamie Glasson, George McNally

 

4= Cassia Bridgewater, Alastair Marr

 

U11

 

1st Sebastian Burnside

2nd Scarlett Burnside

3rd Fallan Grant

 

U9

 

1st Harry Carter

2nd = Michael Mulhearn, William Tagg

 
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 – 14:00 ECF JUNIOR TEAM CHESS CHALLENGE 2022 Under 18

1st Exeter School A   12.5

2nd Devonport High  11

3rd TBGS B 10.5

4th TBGS A  9.5

5th TBGS C   9

6th Colyton 8.5

7th Dawlish 7.5

8th Marine Academy A 7

9th Exeter School C 6.5

10th Exeter School B 6

11th Marine B 2

 

Under 13 Junior Team Challenge

1st TBGS A  14

2nd TBGS B 9.5

3rd Devonport High 9

4th Marine Academy 8.5

5th =  Axe Valley A  8

Axe Valley C  8

Colyton A      8

Colyton B      8

9th Axe Valley B  6
Sunday, October 16, 2022 – 09:45 5th TORQUAY BOYS’ GRAMMAR SCHOOL JUNIOR OPEN U18

1st Luke Honey 5/5

2= Guillaume Beaudoin Pope, Aritra Paul & Suhayl Abdalla 3/5

U15

1st Jack Wills 4/5

2nd Josh Keay, Tejas Pasupulety 3/5

U14

1st Jamie Glasson 4/5

2nd Alasdair Marr 3/5

U13

1st Daniel Smith 5/5

2nd Ben Darlington 3.5/5

3rd Reg Darragh 3/5

U12

1st=  Peter Pratt, Mark Chia Tzen Lian 4.5/5

3= Tim Clarkson, Harold Shepherd, Tejosh Paul 3/5

U11

1st Shreyas Pasupulety 4/5 

3= Scarlett Burnside, Sebastian Burnside 3/5

U10

1st George Willett 4/5

2nd Beatrix Bondarescu, Angela Kunwar 3/5

U9

1st Adrian Pratt 4/5   

2nd Harvey Montgomery 3/5

 
Saturday, November 5, 2022 – 09:15 DJCA Novice Tournament 2022 A (Plymouth) 1st Beatrice Horton-Dewinh 4/4

2nd Bea Bondarescu

3rd Ruby Jeffery
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 09:15 DJCA Novice Tournament 2022 B (East Devon) 1st Kieran Wheeler 4½/5

2nd Bethany Scott 3½/5

3rd= Amelia Conn, Archie Wheeler 3/5

Top U8: Toby Conn
Saturday, February 25, 2023 – 09:15 DJCA Open Spring Tournament 2023 U9 1st AD Pratt 6/6; 2nd Archie Wheeler; 5/6 3rd Mihir Powari 4/6; 3+/6 Frazier Symes, Gethin Hopkins, Sophia Fesler (best girl)

U11 1st= Yuan Li, Angela Kunwar (best girl) 5/6; 3rd Shreyas Pasupalety 4.5/6; 3+/6 Scarlett Burnside, Sebastian Burnside, Archie Cooling, Buckley Gorski-Bryant, Harry Harper (4/6), Joshua Simmons, Kieran Wheeler (4/6), George Willett, Zebedee Windsor

U13 1st Daniel Smith 5/6; 2nd Jope Forty 4.5/6; 3rd= Ben Darlington, Oscar Liu, John Petsios 4/6; 3+/6 Ruben Arnold, Jacob Beringer, Miles Cousins, Tejosh Paul, Victor Trifan

U15 1st Jack Wills 6/6; 2nd Evan Harvey 4/6; 3rd= Edward Hill, Alasdair Marr 3.5/6; Tejas Pasupalety 3/6

U18 All-play-all double-round 1st Guillaume Beaudoin-Pope 5/6; 2nd Jack Smith 4/6
Saturday, January 14, 2023 – 11:00 Wales & SW Junior Jamboree Results and games

http://devonjuniorchess.co.uk/content/devon-u14-chess-team
Saturday, December 3, 2022 – 09:30 DJCA Devon Individual Championships and Schools Competition 2022-23 U9

1 AD Pratt 6/6
2 Alfie McGeever 5/6
3 Harry Carter 4/6
Best girl Ruby Jeffrey 3/6

U11

1 Shreyas Pasupalety 6/6
2 George Willett 5/6
3 Isaac Ridge, Yuan Li, Angela Kunwar (best girl) 4/6

U13

1= Daniel Smith, Lucian Horton-Dewing 5/6
3= Ben Darlington, Joe Forty 4/6

U15

1= Harvey Cooper, Toby Ralph 5/6
3= Jack Wills, Ben Wotton 4½/5

U18

1 Luke Honey 5/6
2 Caleb Caleshu 4½/6
3= Guillaume Beaudoin-Pope , Miles Howell, Aritra Paul, Jun Li Yeap 3½/6

U9/U11 Team Competition winners: Home-educated team.

 
Saturday, June 24, 2023 – 09:15 Plymouth Summer Junior Chess Competition 2023

Under 18

Final Ranking after 6 Rounds

Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts.
1 3 Hall, Callum ENG 0 5,5
2 5 Prettyjohns, Alex ENG 0 4
3 1 Cooper, Archie ENG 0 4

Under 15

Final Ranking after 6 Rounds

Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts.
1 7 Tillon, Vlad ENG 0 6
2 5 Sleight, Oliver ENG 0 5
3 4 Sivrev, Bozhidar ENG 0 4
4 3 Pover, Theo ENG 0 4

Under 13

Final Ranking after 6 Rounds

Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts.
1 6 Shivane, Neel ENG 0 5,5
10 Trenam-Nash, James ENG 0 5,5
3 11 Trifan, Victor ENG 0 3,5
4 2 Jino, Joel ENG 0 3,5
5 1 Curtis, Orson ENG 0 3,5

Under 11

Final Ranking after 6 Rounds

Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts.
1 11 Kunwar, Angela ENG 0 6
2 1 Allen, James ENG 0 5
3 8 Gorski-Bryant, Buckley ENG 0 4

Under 9

Swetha Narayanan finished 1st, Alisha Perera & Piran Dreyer joint 2nd.
Sunday, October 15, 2023 – 09:30 DJCA Riviera tournament Sun 15th Oct 2023 U8/U10: 1st Mihir Powari 6/7, 2nd Rudraneel Roychoudhury, 3rd (1st U8) Swetha Narayanan (Best Girl).

Achievement certificate: Danish Alam, Jack Sweeting 4½/6

U12: 1st= Yuan Liu, George Willett 4/6, 3rd James Allen 3½/6, special prisze Vincent Dong 6/6

Achievement certificate: Scarlett Burnside, Buckley Gorsky-Bryant, Jaisal Jino, Flynn Margrie, Shreyas Pasupalety 3/6

U14: 1st Viacheslav Ovcharenko 6/6. 2nd= Ben Darlington, Daniel Smith 5/6

Achievement certificate: Oscar Liu, John Petsios 4/6, Bilal Anam, Archie Cound, Orson Curtis, Lucian Horton-Dewing, Alexander Slade 3/6

U16/U18: 1st Dylan Ayre (Best U16) 5/6, 2nd Toby Ralph 4½/6. 3rd= Vincent Gu, Niranjana Narayanan (Best Girl) 4/6

Achievement certificate: Suhayl Abdalla, Guillaume Beaudoin-Pope 3½/6, Javis Chu 3/6
Saturday, December 2, 2023 – 09:30 DJCA Devon Individual Championships and Schools Competition 2023

Devon Champions

  • U09: 1st Toby Conn 6/6; 2nd Swetha Narayanan (best girl) 5; 3rd Todd Sargent 4½
    • High achievers: Piran Dreyer 4/6; Alfred Wapshott, Jack Earl-Bayliss 3½; Agnes Collard, Joe Fu, Sam McLaren 3/6
  • U11: 1st= Angela Kunwar (best girl), Adrian Pratt, George Willett 5/6
    • High achievers: William Baker, Harry Carter, Harry Earl-Bayliss, Buckley Gorski-Bryant 4/6, Wilfred Collard 3½, Declan Forward, Beatrice Horton-Dewing 3
  • U13: 1st Shreyas Pasupalety 5½/6; 2nd Vincent Dong 5; 3rd Oscar Pocknell 4½
    • High achievers: James Allen, Yuan Li Sebastian Burnside 4, Rohan Mishra 3½, Mirza Bayrak, Benjamin Bones, Jaisal Jino, Scarlett Burnside (best girl) 3
  • U15: 1st Dylan Ayre 5½/6; 2nd Daniel Smith 4½; 3rd= Ben Darlington, Joe Forty, Jamie Glasson, John Petsios, Toby Ralph 4
    • High achievers: Finn Choules, Joel Jino, Alasdair Marr, Oliver Morton, Ronit Randhawa, Evan Harvey 3
  • U18: 1st Pengxiao Zhu 5½/6; 2nd Caleb Caleshu; 3rd Jack Wills 5
    • High achievers: Josh Keay 3½, Suhayl Abdalla, Anne-Marie Gregory (best girl) 3

School Team Competitions:

U09: 1st Exeter School

U11: 1st Ilsham PS; 2nd Decoy CPS

U18: 1st Torquay BGS ‘A’ 19½ points; 2nd= Devonport HSB, Colyton GS 18 points
Saturday, January 13, 2024 – 11:00 Wales & SW Junior Jamboree 2024 (DJCA vs the rest!) U14: 3rd of 7 teams (bronze medals)

U18A: 1st of 6 teams (gold)

U18B: 4th of 6 teams (pretty good!  As well as taking enough points off the U18A to embarrass them, but not so many they didn’t finish first…)

Results and games (wait a month after the event!)

http://devonjuniorchess.co.uk/content/devon-u14-chess-team

 
Sunday, February 4, 2024 – 09:45 6th Torquay Boys’ Grammar School Junior Open 2024 U10

1st AD Pratt 7/7

2nd Swetha Narayanan 5/7

3rd = Bethany Scott, Mihir Powari & Ted Weston 4/6.

 

U12 1st =Yuan Liu & Shreyas Pasupulety 5/6

3=   James Allen & George Willett 4/6

 

U14 1st Viacheslav Ovcharenko 5/5

2nd Ronit Randhawa 4/5

3= Ben Darlington, Joe Forty, John Petsios & Daniel Smith 3.5/5

Best Y8 Adam (Mac) Holland 3/5

 

U16 /18

1st Finn Sellar 5/5

2nd Jack Wills 4/5

3rd Jamie Glasson 3/5

 
Sunday, March 24, 2024 – 09:15 Bovey Tracey Chess Weekend 2024: DJCA Sunday U12 Under10/under 08: 1st Advir Saxena 6/6, 2nd Swetha Narayanan (best U8) 5/6, 3rd Harvey Montgomery 4/6, Bence Medway & Bethany Scott (3/6)

Under 12: 1st Reynash Saxena 6/6, 2nd Shreyas Pasupalety 5/6, 3rd Yuan Liu 4/6, George Willett 3½/6, Sebastian Burnside, Angela Kunwar, Josh Jaye & James Allen 3/6

Nice to see my Pottery Barn Bean Bag chess set get an airing!
Saturday, March 23, 2024 – 09:30 Bovey Tracey Chess Weekend: adult & 12-18 rapidplay Full results:
Maestros https://chess-results.com/tnr912578.aspx?lan=1&art=4
Improvers https://chess-results.com/tnr912582.aspx?lan=1&art=4Local juniors Viacheslav Ovcharenko (1½/6), Jack Wills (3/6) and Harvey Cooper (4th= 4/6) were brave enough to take on the top section, well done to all and Harvey came ahead of a horde of higher-rated opponents

In the Improvers, Joe Forty (2nd 5/6) had the tournament of his life, with Ronit Randawa (4th= 4/6) also among the prizes, and in the pack were Rhys Hamond (3½/6), Ruben Arnold (3½/6), Daniel Smith (3/6), Jamie Glasson (3/6), Reuben Medhurst (2½/6), Tomas Makuta (2/6) and Orson Curtis (2/6).  Well done to all — gave the adult players a fright!

Event organisation by Freddie Sugden (Devon U14 team 2008)
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 – 13:45 Inter-School Challenge 2024

 
Sunday, April 6, 2025 – 09:15 Bovey Tracey Chess Weekend 2025: DJCA Sunday U12 BOVEY TRACEY CHESS WEEKENDER

RESULTS

SATURDAY RAPIDPLAY

U14 Yuan Liu

U16 Joe Forty

U18 Jack Wills

 

SUNDAY

U08

1st: Joshua van Aswegen 4½/7 2nd= Hugo Lees & Edward Milner 4/7

U10

1st: Todd Sergeant 6½/7 2nd: Piran Dreyer 4/7

U12

1st: Angela Kunwar 5/6*; 2nd: Swetha Narayanan 5/6 *; 3rd: James Darlington 4½/7 *; 4th George Willett 4½/7 *

* on tie-break

 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 – 09:45 7th Torquay Boys’ Grammar School Junior Open 2025 U10: 1st Swetha Narayanan 6/6; 2nd Andy Davies 5/6; 3rd* Ben Keay 4/6; 4th* Piran Dyer 4/6 ; Achievement certificate: Blake Pursglove 3½/6

U12: 1st Angela Kunwar 6/6; 2nd George Willett 5/6; 3rd* Jack Amos 4½/6; 4th* Winter Chapman 4½/6; Achievement certificates: Elio Chait, James Darlington, Bran Elliott, Declan Forward, Buckley Gorski-Bryant, Toma Makuta, James Pilgrim, Bethany Scott, JT Turney, Jacob Zheng

U14: 1st* Ananya Nerella 4/5; 2nd* Shreyas Pasupulety 4/5; 3rd* Varnika Nerella 4/5; 4th* Yuan Liu 4/5; Achievement certificates: James Allen, Sebastian Burnside, Milo Kaye, Oscar Pocknell, Luchian Stoian,

U18: 1st Dylan Ayre 4½/6; 2nd Jack Wills 4/6; 3rd Joe Forty 3½/6; 4th* Neel Shivane 3/6; Achievement certificates: Sergjohn Santos

* on tie-break
Sunday, October 6, 2024 – 09:30 DJCA Riviera tournament Sun 6th Oct 2024 U08: 1st 6/6 Swetha Narayanan, 2nd 3/6 Joshua van Anwegen 3rd 3/6 Edward Milner

U10: 1st 5/6 Ben Keay, 2nd 3½ Leo Jones, 3rd 3½ Henry Pilgrim, 4th 3½ Alexander Platten

U12: 1st 6/6 AD Pratt, 2nd 5/6 George Willett, 3rd 4/6 Angela Kunwar, 4th 4/6 Jonathan Turney

U14: 1st 4½/6 Mac Holland, 2nd Oscar Pocknell 4/6, 3rd 4/6 Shreyas Pasupalety, 4th 4/6 Harry Edge

U16/18: 1st 4½/6 Dylan Ayre, 2nd 4/6 Javis Chu, 3rd 4/6 Vincent Dong, 4th 3½/6 Daniel Smith

Certificates were awarded to all scoring 3/6 or better, well done!

Thanks to all for coming, special thanks to all our helpers.
Saturday, March 1, 2025 – 09:15 DJCA Open Spring Tournament 2025 U08: 1st Anish Iyengar 6/7; 2nd Akshay Iyengar 4/7; 3rd Joshua van Aswegen 3/7

U10:  1st Henry Kilroy 5½/7; 2nd Hector Gardner 5/7; 3rd Todd Sargent 2½/7

U12:  1st George Willett 6½/7; 2nd Kacper Filpczyk 4½/7; 3rd Tomas Makuta 4/7*

U14:  1st Yuan Liu 4½/6; 2nd Shuhao Zhang 4/6; 3rd Oscar Holder 3/6

U16:  1st Dylan Ayre 6½/7; 2nd Viacheslav Ovcharenko 6/7; 3rd Reuben Medhurst 4½/7

U18:  1st Javis Chu 5/7; 2nd Katherine Huxtable 1/7

* on tie-break
Saturday, December 7, 2024 – 09:30 DJCA Devon Individual Championships and Schools Competition 2024-25 U9: 1st Joshua van Aswegen 5/6; 2nd Piran Dreyer 4½/6; 3rd Alexander Platten 4/6; 4th on tiebreak Jack Earl-Bayliss 3½/6; Achievement certificates Hugo Lees 3½, Todd Sergeant 3½, George Pilgrim 3½, Zayn Sheikh 3.

U11: 1st Adrian Pratt 6/6; 2nd (and Best Girl) Bethany Scott 5/6; 3rd on tiebreak Jack Amos 4/6; 4th on tiebreak Harvey Montgomery 4/6; Achievement certificates Ben Keay, Wlliam Wales, Bence Medway all 4/6; Jing Ye Qu 3½, Andy Davies 3½; Kasper Filipczyk 3, Jayden Wang 3, Henry Pilgrim 3.

U13: 1st and Best Girl Ananya Nerella 6/6; 2nd Yuan Liu 4½/6; 3rd on tiebreak James Allen 4/6; 4th on tiebreak Varnika Nerella 4/6; Achievement certificates Mirza Bayrak 4; Angela Kunwar 3½, George Willett 3½, Jacob Zheng 3½; Kaiden Mackay 3, Luchian Stoian 3.

U15: 1st Mac Holland 6/6; 2nd on tiebreak Oscar Pocknell 4/6; 3rd on tiebreak Ronit Randhawa 4/6; 4th on tiebreak Joe Forty 3½/6; Achievement certificates Ben Darlington 3½; Ruben Arnold, Harry Edge, Milo Kaye, Tejosh Paul all 3.

U18: 1st Suhayl Abdalla 6/6; 2nd Toby Ralph 4/6; 3rd Jamie Glasson 2½/6; 4th Ed List 2/6; Best Girl Aparajita Ashwin.

Schools Team Competitions:

U9: Abbey

U11: Ilsham

Secondary: TBGS A
Friday, February 14, 2025 – 14:00 2025 ECF Schools Team Challenge @ TBGS
TEAM CHALLENGE U18
Rd 1 Rd2 Rd 3 Rd4 Position
Devonport A 2 6 8½ 10½ 2*
Exeter Mathematics A 4 5½ 7 9½ 5
Exeter Mathematics B 0 2½ 6½ 10½ 3*
Stover A 0 0 1½ 5½ 8=
Stover B 0 4 5½ 5½ 8=
Stover C 4 4½ 7 7 7
TBGS A 4 6½ 10½ 12½ 1
TBGS B 2 3½ 6 10 4
TBGS C 4 7½ 7½ 9 6
* on tie break

 

TEAM CHALLENGE U13
Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd3 Rd4 Position
Devonport A 4 5 9 10 3
Devonport B 0½ 2½ 5½ 9½ 4
Exeter A 3½ 6½ 8½ 12½ 2
Exeter B 0 4 5 7 5
Exeter C 4 4 4 6 6=
TBGS A 4 8 10 13 1
TBGS B 0 2 6 6 6=
PRIMARY TEAM CHALLENGE
Rd1 Rd2 Rd3 Rd4 Position
Abbey A 4 6 10 14 1
Abbey B 2½ 6½ 6½ 7½ 5=
Bradley Barton 0½ 2½ 4½ 4½ 7
Broadclyst 1½ 5½ 6½ 10½ 3
Chudleigh A 3½ 3½ 7½ 7½ 4
Chudleigh B 0½ 0½ 2½ 5½ 5=
Oreston 0 2 2 3 8
Westclyst 3½ 5½ 8½ 11½ 2
Saturday, April 25, 2026 – 09:30 Bovey Tracey Chess Weekend 2026: adult & 12-18 rapidplay Full results: see
Maestros: https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1390613.aspx?lan=1&art=4&SNode=S0
Improvers: https://s1.chess-results.com/tnr1390735.aspx?lan=1&art=4&SNode=S0Improvers rating prize: George Wyatt (U12)

There were three junior prizes awarded:

U18:Joe Forty (Maestros)

U16: Ben Darlington (Improvers)

U14: Swetha Narayanan (Improvers)

Event organisation by Freddie Sugden (Devon U14 team 2008)

Also placed: Lawrence Stegink (Devon U14 chess team 2008)
Sunday, October 5, 2025 – 09:30 DJCA Riviera tournament Sun 5th Oct 2025 U8/U10:

1st: Todd Sargent 6/7; 2nd: Josh van Aswegen 5½/7; 3rd: Edward Milner* 4½/7; 4th: Zayd Sami* 4½/7

U12:

1st: Swetha Narayanan 6/6; 2nd: George Wyatt* 4/6; 3rd: Bethany Scott* 4/6; 4th: Guilherme Serrano* 4/6

U14:

1st: Shreyas Pasupalety 6/6; 2nd: James Allen* 4/6; 3rd: George Willett* 4/6; 4th: Isaac Simmons 3½/6

U16/U18:

1st: Joe Forty** 5/6+1; 2nd: Dan Smith** 5/6+0; 3rd: Reuben Medhurst 3/6

* After a tie-break

** After a playoff (all tie-breaks still tied!)
Saturday, November 29, 2025 – 09:30 DJCA Devon Individual Championships and Schools Competition 2025 U9: 1st Madhav Abhilash 5/6; 2nd Edward Miler 4/6; 3rd Oliver White 4/6; 4th Zayd Sami 4/6.  Special prize: Edward Luff 5/6.

U11: 1st Ben Keay 5/6; 2nd Toby Conn 4½/6; 3rd Jayden Wang 4/6; 4th Robert Peacock 4/6

U13: 1st George Willett 5/6; 2nd Adrian Pratt 5/6; 3rd Swetha Narayanan 4½/6; 4th Angela Hunwar 4½/6

U15: 1st= James Allen, Oscar Pocknell, Shreyas Pasupalety all 4½/6; 4th Yuan Liu 4/6

U18: 1st Joe Forty 5/6; 2nd Dan Smith 5/6; 3rd John Petsios 4/6; 4th Toby Ralph 4/6

 
Sunday, February 1, 2026 – 09:45 8th Torquay Boys’ Grammar School Junior Open 2026 U10: 1st Todd Sargent 6/7; 2nd* Ethan Stewart 5/7; 3rd* Hugo Lees 5/7

U12: 1st* George Wyatt 4½/5; 2nd* AD Pratt 4½/5; 3rd Sofia Daysh 4/5

U14: 1st: Shreyas Pasupalety 4½/5; 2nd* Swetha Narayanan 3½/5; 3rd* George Willett 3½/5; 4th* Yuan Liu 3½/5

U18: 1st: Ben Darlington 4½/5; 2nd* Joe Forty 3½/5; 3rd* Jack Wills 3½/5

* Tie-break applied
Sunday, March 8, 2026 – 09:15 DJCA Open Spring Tournament 2026 U08: 1st: Josh van Aswegen 6/6; 2nd= Hugo Lees & Bertie Willett 3/6

U10: 1st: Akshay Iyengar 6/6; 2nd:* Piran Dreyer 5/6; 3rd:* Todd Sargent 5/6

U12: 1st: George Wyatt 5/6; 2nd: Moaaz Fakhouri 4½/6; 3rd:* Sofia Daysh 3/6. Achievement certificates: Robert Peacock & Avin Gunawardana 3/6

U14: 1st: Shreyas Pasupalety 5/6; 2nd:* Yuan Liu 4/6; 3rd:* George Willett 4/6.  Achievement certificates: Buckley Gorski-Bryant & Isaac Simmonds 3½/6; Angela Kunwar, Nathanael Haywood & Oscar Holder 3/6.

U16/U18: 1st: Daniel Smith 5½/6; 2nd: Devanshu Sinha 4½/6.  Achievement certificates: Joshua Clarke 3/6 and Reuben Medhurst 3/6

* Tie-break applied

Full results:

U12 Swiss wall chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oaTZguWw6ohWS0lmovXPlb3Iv7caCud-…

U14 Swiss wall chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jwuhZb-PsTxiGEMVj_pa3mfa29S0Do2V…

All-play-all sections: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K3kINU34VNWZf1YHEpZG3lC2V_0KXcsq…

 
Sunday, April 26, 2026 – 09:15 Bovey Tracey Chess Weekend 2026: DJCA Sunday U12 U08 and U10 Swiss: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17imHguYm6R32Gmy2TrwSVZ1_UPMm6ev4…

U12 Swiss: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LbaOS5vz52o0HlGNyD5fFsrD0vDfV3xJ…

U08: 1st George Barns 4/6* ; 2nd Malachi Speight 4/6*; 3rd Bertie Willett 2/6

U10: 1st Todd Sargent 5/6; 2nd Zayd Sami 4/6; 3rd Reuben Woodhouse 3/6

U12; 1st Sofia Daysh 5/6; 2nd Swetha Narayanan 4.5/6; 3rd Angela Kunwar 4/6.  Achievement certificates: Viggo Page, Mihir Powari, Daniel Saju, Guilherme Serrano, George Wyatt all 3.5/6; Robert Peacock, William Wales 3/6.

Quite a tournament for the U12 girls, who shut the boys out of the prize list completely.  Well done!

 
Sunday, June 21, 2026 – 09:30 DJCA Summer Fun Event 2026 Well, as if it matters:

1st: George Wyatt 6/7; 2nd: Bethany Scott  5.5.7; 3rd/4th: Andy Davies/Sebastian Burnside

 

Advaith Sebastian Andy Piran Zayd Bethany George BYE
Advaith x 0 0 1 0  1/2 0 1 2 1/2
Sebastian 1 x 0 1 1 0 0 1 4
Andy 1 1 x  1/2  1/2 1 0 1 5
Piran 0 0  1/2 x 1 0 0 1 2 1/2
Zayd 1 0  1/2 0 x 0 0 1 2 1/2
Bethany  1/2 1 0 1 1 x 1 1 5 1/2
George 1 1 1 1 1 0 x 1 6
BYE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 0

 
Friday, March 13, 2026 – 14:00 Schools Team Chess Challenge U13 / U19 @ TBGS 20260314_164443.jpg
Sunday, October 18, 2026 – 09:30 DJCA Riviera tournament Sun 18th Oct 2026 Prizewinners and achievers:

U08: 1st Dylan Buckley (3/7)

U10: 1st Malachi Speight (7/7!); 2nd Zayd Sami (6/7); 3rd Bertie WIllett (5/7); Achievers: Hugo Lees (4/7).

U12: 1st Daniel Saju (5/6*); 2nd Leo Jones (5/6*); 3rd Avin Gunawardana (4/6); 4th Harry Clapham (3.5/6*). Achievers: Andy Davies (3.5/6).

U14: 1st Swetha Narayanan (4.5/6*); 2nd George WIllett (4.5/6*); 3rd James Darlington (4.5/6*); 4th Samuel Arbuckle (4/6). Achievers: Nicholas Arbuckle, Cameron Davies, Guilherme Serrano, George Wyatt, Boris Yotov all (3/6).

U16: 1st Yuan Liu (3/6)

U18: 1st Ben Darlington (4.5/6); 2nd Raphael Zerna (4/6); 3rd Reuben Medhurst (3.5/6); Achievers: Sebastian Burnside (3/6).

* Tie-break applied

New results summary pages (all sections): https://djca-tournament-results.nuttygrass16.chatgpt.site/ (Many thanks Hugo!)

U08/U10: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F0PvkTp-BfpQ45uRDmESvccQl0qg33rh…

U12: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LfElbs3eA23BXqjK4fr6fLf-BbcaxWt3…

U14: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iqYYoh8R-fX61eK5op-jcbewJg2Dknge…

U16/U18: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F0PvkTp-BfpQ45uRDmESvccQl0qg33rh…
Saturday, June 19, 2027 – 09:30 TBC DJCA Summer Fun Event 2027 Well, as if it matters:

1st: George Wyatt 6/7; 2nd: Bethany Scott  5.5.7; 3rd/4th: Andy Davies/Sebastian Burnside

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