Hampshire Juniors will be playing in the English Primary Schools Chess Association Finals – the Under-9 and Under-11 events. Chandler’s Ford Junior Chess Club organiser and Hampshire Juniors Team Leader Maha Chandar reports.
National Association Under 9 Team Championship Finals 2021
The English Primary Schools Chess Association – EPSCA – are unable to arrange these tournaments this year, but Barnet Junior Chess are arranging the series of online events for EPSCA.
The National Association Under 9 Team Championship Finals 2021 will be held on Saturday 24 April at 2pm. The format is a 5-round Swiss, in which games each Round have a time control of 10 minutes per player per game plus a 5-second increment per move. That time control is a rapid-play pace of game. There will be 5 minutes between Rounds. The tournament is divided by Board: that is, all the Board 1 players from each Team in one section, Board 2 from each team in the next and so on, and there is a Reserves section. The tournament is set up on lichess.org: see the overall tournament link: National Association U9 Finals.
Reserve places are unlimited. It will just be run as an open swiss with prizes for the top 3 places.
There will be 12 in the team for U9 and 20 for U11 with medals for the highest scoring players on each board as well as Gold, Silver, and Bronze for the winning teams.
Under-11 Finals 8th May
Hampshire Juniors will also be participating in the National Association Under 11 Finals on Saturday 8th May 2021 at 2pm.
Team Battle 1st May
Hampshire Juniors have a Team in the 3-County Team Battle on 1st May. The 3 Counties are Hampshire, Dorset, and Berkshire. See Tournament page on lichess.
Delancey UK Chess Challenge
Looking further ahead there is the Delancey UK Chess Challenge for young chess players to look forward to.
registration for the Delancey UK Chess Challenge is now open.
Dates for the two Megafinal weekends are:
- 12th and 13th June
- 26th and 27th June
Dates for the two gigafinal weekends are:
- 3rd and 4th July
- 17th and 18th July
The Terafinal is set to take place over the board in October.