Archive
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Sections: Under 7, Under 9, Under 11. Under 14, Under 18. Open to all junior players U18, resident in the UK. Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Trophy for the highest scoring Barnet player. Entry is free!
You can now register online for the BJC Individual Championships on 26 January 2020, at: www.qlinkuk.com/bjc/championships
BJC teams had a great year in 2019 and would like to congratulate all children and parents who contributed to this success!
BJC would like to give a big thank you to Grandmaster Jonathan Hawkins for giving his time to the teams this season.
29 teams participated in this year’s Championships overall, and after adding all the points for all three Finals and two Zone stage competitions, Barnet finished 3rd in the Country. We have won the Grand Prix 5 times in 6 years.
Finishing 4th Place in the toughest Zone stage behind Richmond, Kent and Essex and qualifying to the Finals, this team showed promise for the future. We knew the Finals would be very tough, so after some extra training, tournament practice and hard work, we were delighted when the Under 9 Team secured joint 1st Place in the Finals with Richmond. Congratulations to William, Lior, Florian, Louis, Benjamin, Ivan, Thomas, Connor, Riya, Ankita, Julie, Sanjay, Emma, Leon, Ishaan, Cali, Aryan, Aden and Avyya!!!! We have won this title 4 times in the last 8 years: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2019.
Congratulations Aadi, Adam, Aden, Anton, Daniel, Deniz, Fin, Francesco, George, Kazu, Kyrylo, Krrish, Louis Sil., Louis Sal., Luca, Narita, Rian, Riya, Sanjay, Siddhi, Sivasatyan, Taisei, Tristan and William! Our Under 11 Team came under pressure as we were missing some of our strongest players. Despite having some very young players, the team finished 4th in the Zonals and 4th in the Finals. A very respectable result! Well done to all! We have won this title in: 2012, 2015, 2016.
Congratulations to George, Taisei and Siva for qualifying to the England Junior Squad Team through the EPSCA Junior Squad Trials in April.
2021
Due to the pandemic, OTB
chess was cancelled and Barnet were represented virtually,
on Lichess, in the 2021 Under 11 Association Zone Team Battle on 20th March.
Forty players entered
for Barnet and we had two fantastic teams, out of the fifteen that
entered, and came first and sixth.
The May final took a
different format, and each team nominated a board 1, a board 2 etc up to board
20, who played each other in a Swiss-style tournament.
Again, both Barnet
teams dominated, this time coming first and second overall.
2020
The EPSCA
tournament was cancelled after the zone stage.
2017 & 2018
Barnet Under 9
team third in zonal
On Saturday 10 March the Barnet U9 team travelled to
Orleans Park School in Richmond, to participate in the Epsca u9 zone
stage of the National Association Championships. Our thanks and congratulations
to our hosts Richmond on their success. Barnet finished third and won bronze
medals. We have qualified to the finals in April. Thanks to parents for their
support.
Habs and
Devonshire House triumph
Congratulations to Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' and
Devonshire House, winners of the BJC League Divisions 1 and 2 respectively.
More details and all the scores to follow.
Results from
Barnet Individual Championships 21 January 2018
Habs and ASL
lead
After a close first round, Haberdashers'
Aske's Boys' scored 7.5 out of 8 and drew clear in round 2 of
Division 1 of the BJC league. The Hall and NLCS are joint second but the
gap is already 4 points. In Division 2, ASL (American School in
London) produced two excellent rounds to take the early lead with St Paul's NW7
and Devonshire house just one point behind. The scores are all here. There are 8 teams contesting Division 1 and 22 in
Division 2. Sadly there is no room for any new teams at the second
meeting on 24 January 2018.
Results from
Barnet Girls' Individual 12 Feb 2017
2015 & 2016
Habs and Coldfall take
early leads
Over 200 children from 29 schools gathered for the
first meeting of the 2016-17 BJC Primary Schools League. After two rounds,
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' are leading Division 1, two points clear
of hosts North London Collegiate with Highgate a further two and a half points
behind. Coldfall lead Division 2, one point clear of The American
School in London who are just half a point ahead of St Paul's NWE. All the
scores are here.
Results from 30
October tournament
Trophy winners
Under 12 results
Under 10 results
Under 8 results
Under 11 team
retain national championship
Our Under 11 team successfully defended their EPSCA
Under 11 Inter-Association Championship with a superb performance at the final
in High Wycombe. 2 points behind Kent after two rounds, our players gained a
maximum 20 out of 20 in the last round to pip them by 1 point! Congratulations
to all of the team and their managers! Results here.
Training 1 May
28 children enjoyed a great day of training and
tournament play. Here are the results.
Over 200 children
at Barnet Junior Championships
Highgate School was packed out for our 2016
Individual Championships. All the results are here.
Under 9 team gain
second place in national final
As well as being an important anniversary, Saturday
23 April was another great day for Barnet Junior Chess. Our Under 9 team gained
second place in the national final. Kent are the champions this year!
Congratulations to all of the Barnet team and thanks to manager,
Angela Eyton, and all the parents who helped.
Barnet girls are
national champions!
The Barnet girls Under 11 team retained the
national championship, winning the national final by 4 clear points on Saturday
16 April in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. Nottinghamshire were second and Sussex
third. Congratulations to all the girls and to team manager, Angela Eyton!
Full results are here.
Girls' Individual
Championships, 13 March
The Barnet Junior Girls' Individual Championships
was held at St Paul's CE Primary School, NW7 on Sunday 13 March. The results
are here.
High quality
training with the British Champion
The photo shows British Champion Jonathan Hawkins
and some of the keen and talented children at our November training session.
The day was a great success. Here are the results of the tournament.
Autumn
Championship Results
Our qualifying tournament for the London Junior Chess Championships was
a great success. Here
are the results. Good luck to all those who have qualified for the London
finals in December.
British Champion
to lead our November training
Our new-look training sessions got off to a great
start on Sunday 11 October with 26 youngsters enjoying high quality coaching
led by Nick Pert and competitive play with graded games. Here are the final scores from the tournament. We are
delighted that Grandmaster Jonathan Hawkins, British Champion 2014 and 2015,
will be leading our next training day on Saturday 7 November. You can enter online here! The
rest of the dates are on the calendar.
North Bridge House
and NLCS triumphant
North Bridge House School won the Under 9 Jamboree
and North London Collegiate school won the Under 11 Girls Jamboree held at
Brookland Junior School on Thursday 18 June. In Russell Fell's final match
before retiring as manager of North Bridge House chess, his team ran away with
the Under 9 event winning by 2.5 points from second placed North London
Collegiate who were just half a point ahead of hosts Brookland who took bronze.
The girls' event was a clear win for North London Collegiate who scored a
maximum 12 points out of 12. St Paul's NW3 were second and Channing third.
Barnet completes
the set with Under 11 Title
Wow! In the final instalment of county chess there
has been yet another amazing day! On 9 May the Barnet under 11 team travelled
to Nottingham for the Under 11 national finals. It was great to have so many of
our long term players on the coach we had hired to get us all there.
There was expectation in the air and our team had been looking promising
for a number of months. 16 teams with 24 players each and a few
hundred games of chess would decide who would be crowned national champions.
After the first round we had scored 15/20 and we
were in joint first place with Kent, Wey Valley and Oxford. We knew
that we would have to improve on this solid round to pull away from the pack.
Round 2 came and we managed to score 17.5/20 - an excellent score. We nervously
looked to see how many points the other teams had managed. Our rivals from the
zone, Kent, had also managed 17.5/20; it was like the zone all over again! The
final round came and another 15.5/20 left us waiting anxiously to see our final
placement. It all came down to the last couple of games where we discovered
that Kent had also managed 15.5/20! In the qualifying zone we had managed
49/60, the same as Kent (we then won that day on tie break), now in the final
we had scored 48/60 - equal with Kent again! 120 games for each team and our
score remained identical - The closest final I have ever seen! Everybody went
in search to see what the tie break rules were - the titled was to be shared! A
fair result and our congratulations to Kent as well.
This meant we had played and won all 5 of our EPSCA
county events this year. the Under 9 Zone, The Under 11 Zone, The Under 9
final, The Girls final and the Under 11 final. In doing so we had also
completed the treble, only the second county to ever do so. We had also managed
to achieve the perfect score of 60/60 to win the Audio Grand Prix which
measures the best over all county for the year.
Congratulations to all our players and my thanks to
all their hard work over numerous years.
Results in detail are here.
Report by Tony Niccoli, Under 11 Team Manager
Clean Sweep for
Barnet
Barnet teams have won all three national titles -
the national girls' Under 11 team championship, the national Under 9 team
championships and the national Under 11 team championships. All
of these competitions are organised by EPSCA (English Primary Schools'
Chess Association). The girls' event was held on 18
April in Gloucestershire and the Barnet team (pictured above) gained
31.5 points out of 36 in the three round competition with Kent 2.5 points
behind in second place. Our Under 9 team followed this up on 25 April with
victory in their final held in Northampton. They finished with 30.5 points out
of 36, comfortably ahead of Cambridgeshire who were second with 28
points! On 9 May our Under 11 team completed the set for us, sharing the title
of National Champions with Kent! Detailed results are here.
Thrilling Under 11
East Zone won by Barnet!
The zone stage of the EPSCA Inter-Association Under
11 Team Championships took place on Saturday 21 March in Northampton. We took
26 players to take part against 9 other counties. After the first round there
was just half a point separating the top three teams, it didn't look like it
could get any closer but it was just about to...! By the end of
the day we had managed to score a magnificent 49 points out of
60! However a strong Kent team also managed to score a mighty 49! It
was tie break time and this was to be decided on the number of wins, where the
team with more wins would take home the gold medals. Barnet had managed 47 wins
and 4 draws, Kent had managed 46 wins and 6 draws - so Barnet won on
tie break! A great performance by the team and we very much look forward to the
finals on 9 May in Nottingham.
Barnet Under 9
team wins East Zone
The Zone stage of the EPSCA Inter-Association Under
9 Team Championships took place on Saturday 14 March
at Twickenham Preparatory School.
It was an exciting day; Hertfordshire were leading after the first and second
rounds, but a tough final round saw the BJC team sneak ahead to win
the Gold medals. We are through to the Finals, taking place in
Northampton on 25 April.
My thanks to Peter Sowray and the Richmond hosts for a well
run and enjoyable afternoon of good chess. All the results are here.
We hear that Sussex and Nottingham won their zones so we know who to watch out
for in the Finals!The under 9 team will be meeting with GM Hawkins to
prepare for the Finals on 12th April at the BJC training day.
BJC teams ready
for national stages
The EPSCA Inter-Association Championships kick off
on 14 March with the Under 9 zone. Then it's the Under 11 zone the week after
and the Girls' Under 11 Final just after the Easter holidays. The teams have
been selected and all of them have 'warmed up' with practice matches. The
girls' team won a five-county
match, two Barnet Under 9 teams came 4th and 5th in a 9
team practice match and our Under 11 team won a four-county
match. Good luck to all our teams in the challenges ahead!
BJC Girls'
Individual Championships
The event was a great success. Here are the cross
tables:
Under
9 cross table
Under
11 cross table
Congratulations to:
Sarah Weersing (Under 14 event
winner), Ruriko Ojima (top Barnet Under 14 and top Middlesex
Under 14), Anaya Popat (Under 11 event winner and top Middlesex Under
11), Anisha Sawhney (top Barnet Under 11), Ralitza Vanguelova (Under
9 event winner and top Middlesex Under 9), Jacqui Sanitt (top Barnet
Under 9) and Jolanda Herrgott (Under 7 event winner and top Middlesex
Under 7).
North London Collegiate won the prize for top school.
BJC Individual
Championships
This was a great day at Highgate Junior School.
There was a massive attendance. Results
available here. More details soon.
The Hall and St
Andrew's lead the way
After rounds 3 and 4 of the BJC league, held
at North London Collegiate School on 21 January, The Hall continue to dominate
Division 1 but Heathside have moved into second place. In Division 2
the lead keeps changing hands and St Andrew's are now just one point clear of
Kerem. Read
more...
2014
BJC Autumn
Championships
The BJC Autumn Tournament was held for the first
time at Highgate Junior School, which proved to be a first-class forum for
children, parents and organisers.
AND it was a beautiful warm autumnal day so that the changing hues of the beech
trees were shown off to best extent.
The 156 children participating played excellent chess, (and some first-class
football as a side-line!)
All
the results are here but credit must go to
Anton Drel & Suriya Velayudham who tied on 5.5 out
of 6 in the Under 8 section, James Hartman with a perfect 6 out of 6 to win the
Under 10 section outright and Tai Remus Elliott who finished half a point clear
on 5.5 in the Under 12 section. The Under 14 section was a very unusual family
affair with twin brothers Gabriel and Reuben Balouka-Myers and brother and
sister George and Elizabeth Ivanov all finishing joint top on 4.5 out of 6!
There was also an impromptu parents event, with no fewer than 26
competitors. This was won by newcomer Mr. Joe Monk (who turned out to be an
ex-Hampshire player) scoring 5/5. He was closely followed by Sam Dias and
Patrick Burns. The International element was shown off by French star
Claire Nozieres (3/5). Saad Ali (4/4) missed a round but showed great
flair in his victories.
Online entry for
BJC training days
Our online entry
system is now up and running. You can book for any of our training
days this season and pay by card using NoChex. No registration or
membership is needed. Dates of our training days: 7 December, 11 January, 1
February, 1 March, 12 April, 3 May, 7 June. More details are on the PDF entry form.
Under 11 team
placed fourth in national final
On the 10th May the Under 11 team arrived by coach for
the Under 11 EPSCA county finals in Northampton. Our aim was to match the under
9's triumph of winning a few weeks earlier and be crowned national champions.
We took 23 players who had a long hard fought out day. It was all to play for
going into the last round and eventually we finished with a very commendable
41.5 points out of 60. We came in 4th place out of the 17 that had already
qualified to be there. Congratulations to Sussex who won the event. Full
results can be found here.
There was one last piece of good news before our
coach journey home. The Audio Chess Grand Prix measures the average results
from the EPSCA Under 11 team, the Under 9 team and the Girls Under 11 team
during the qualifiers and finals. And guess what? Barnet had come equal first
and hold the trophy yet again. This concluded a very successful year for Barnet
in the EPSCA county events. Bring on 2015!
Barnet players
selected for England team
Congratulations to Jason Covey on being selected
for England! He joins Dominic Klingher (selected last year) as a
member of the EPSCA England Under 11 team.
Barnet wins
national Under 9 title!
Our Under 9 team achieved a spectacular victory at
the EPSCA Inter-Association Under 9 Team Final in Nottingham on Saturday 26
April. Competing against 16 other finalists from all over the country, the
Barnet players had won 23 out of their 24 games after the first two rounds!
Another 8.5 points in the last round was easily enough to achieve a clear win,
3.5 points ahead of local rivals Hertfordshire who were second. Congratulations
to all our players: Aaravamudhan Balaji, Nicolai Woltery,
Remy Rushbrooke, Louis Pike, Ezra Brass, Luca van der Lubbe, Noah Shapiro,
Elias Gelain-Sohn, Victor Mikheev, Oliver Shaw, Benji Chesworth,
Max Marcuson, Han-Sen Choong, Raffy Balouka-Myers, Toby Balouka-Myers,
Elias Rosenthal, Evan McDermid, Anisha Sawhney and Yubo Choong. The
full results are here.
Training day to
have special over 130 section?
April�s training day was another success with 31
children having teaching from Grand Master Nick Pert and International Master
Vaidyanathan Ravikumar. The photo shows the pair playing a Double Simul at the
end of the day to the delight of the pupils.
BJC is considering running a Special Section for our very talented pupils with
a Grading of over 130 at our Training day on June 1st � we would
value feedback on this idea.
Just a reminder � BJC always welcomes children from both Barnet and other
Boroughs at our Training days.
Robin Vicary
Girls Under 11
team third in the nation
Congratulations to our Girls Under 11 who took the
bronze medals in a tightly contested final held on Saturday 22 March at Didcot Girls
School in Oxfordshire! Link
to full results.
Under 11 team
triumphs at Chingford
Our Under 11 team qualified for the EPSCA
Inter-Association final in style, winning the East zone on 15 March by 4.5
clear points. Congratulations to all the children who played and we
wish them good luck in the final to be held on Saturday 10 May. Link
to full results.
Under 9 team
qualify for the final
It was a successful day for our Under 9 team as
they finished in second place at the Under 9 East zone and qualified for the
Under 9 Inter-Association final to be held on Saturday 26 April. Kent, who
hosted the zone, won with 25 points and the Barnet team was just 2 points
behind. Link to full results.
Akiva triumph
in Under 9 Jamboree
In a marvellous afternoon's chess enjoyed
by nearly 150 children the young stars of Akiva School carried away
the gold medals in the annual BJC Under 9 team jamboree. Their team of 8
dominated the event from the start, dropping only 2.5 points out of 24. Host
school Brookland Junior won the silver medals and the girls of North
London Collegiate School took bronze. Read more...
Girls Individual
Championships, 9 February
There was an excellent attendance at the Girls'
Individual event held at St Paul's CE Primary School, NW7 on Sunday 9
February. There was some superb chess played, not only by the girls but also by
parents who played in a special adult section!
Meytal Cohen won the Under 11 section and is
also Barnet Champion and Middlesex Champion.
Anum Sheikh won the Under 9 section (Barnet and Middlesex Champion:
Jacqueline Sanitt).
Amelia Pike won the Under 7 section and is also the Middlesex Champion (Barnet
Champion: Jolanda Herrgott)
The schools' prize was won by Channing with an impressive 19 points.
The photo above shows the
impromptu Adults� tournament held while the girls were playing - no
fewer than 16 grown-ups volunteered! We played a 4 round Blitz tournament with
a surprisingly high standard. The continuing chorus of groans and witty
comments enlivened the competition. In the end the youngest adult, Luka Sugita,
crushed all his opponents with a perfect 4/4.
The Hall - league
champions!
In yet another twist to the battle for the Barnet
League, The Hall overtook Coldfall to become Division 1 champions for
2013-14. Brookland edged out Garden Suburb as the top Barnet school. St Paul's
NW3 and St Paul's NW7 won their Division 2 matches again and could
not be separated - they drew their head to head match and so share the Division
2 championship. There were trophies for the winning schools, individual gold,
silver and bronze medals for all placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd and BJC badges for all
the other children. Final results...
Individual
Championships on 19 January
Our flagship event, the BJC Individual
Championships, was held at Channing Junior School on Sunday 19 January. This
very strong event attracted 180 competitors from all over London and beyond.
Congratulations to all the section winners: Savin Dias (Under 7),
Remy Rushbrooke (Under 9), Alexander Jamieson &
Alfie Onlsow (Under 11), Oren Levene (Under 12)
and Hajane Ambakumar (Under 16). More
prize-winners and links to cross-tables...
(Above) - One of the happy trophy-winners. More
photos...
Under 11 Team
start the season with a win!
On Saturday 30th November, the Under 11 Barnet team
travelled to Berkshire to take part in a match against teams from
Berkshire, Hants and Bucks. This friendly was an all play
all jamboree style event.
We had in attendance 20 players and one reserve. In the first round we scored
13.5 points, which was a great start and there were some wonderful performances
in the team. The 2nd round was even better with a score of 15 points. By this
point we were sure none of the other counties could catch us, which was proven
when the players scored another 14 points in the last round. This gave a total
of 42.5 points and we ran away clear winners.
Congratulations to those all who took part in a very well organised friendly.
We even had some players playing for their county for the first
time. So a big well done to all players.
Coldfall take
the lead in Barnet league
A fantastic evening of chess
saw Coldfall take the lead in BJC Primary Schools League Division 1
whilst St Paul's NW3 and St Paul's NW7 are neck and neck in Division 2. Seven
teams of 12 played in jamboree pairings in Division 1, whilst eight teams of 8
battled it out head to head in Division 2. Coldfall gained
17.5 points in the two rounds to move from fourth to first in Division 1. In Division
2 St Paul's NW3 and St Paul's NW3 both won two matches to remain level at the
top of the table. The final meeting will see the last round of games and prizes
for all on Wednesday 12 February 2014.
2013
150 Children play
in season's first league meeting
14 schools sent teams to our first league meeting
of the season held at North London Collegiate School on 13 November. Seven
teams of 12 played in jamboree pairings in Division 1, whilst eight teams of 8
battled it out head to head in Division 2. After two hours of intense
concentration the scores were very close. Brookland lead Division 1 on 15
points just half a point ahead of The Hall. In Division 2 three teams - St
Paul's NW7, St Paul's NW3 and Dollis - are locked at the top of the table, all
of them having won one match and drawn one. We expect plenty more excitement at
the second meeting on Wednesday 15 January 2014. Results so far...
Bumper attendance
at Autumn Tournament
The second BJC
Autumn tournament was held at Channing Junior School and proved to be
an enormous hit! We had 200 children playing chess, an increase of 80 compared
to last year. This despite the continuous rain from 8am to 4pm!
The playing hall was magnificent but due to the
vast numbers and the fact that the weather was appalling so everyone was
indoors, the rest of the accommodation was very over-crowded. We will improve
this for our next tournament there.
The chess played was of a very high standard and the winners of each section
were:
Under 14 - Reuben Balouka-Myers
Under 12 - Gautam Jain
Under 10 - Max Miller
Under 8 - Ezra Brass
Click
here for all the results.
We are all particularly delighted that there were large numbers of children
present who had never played in a tournament before. One of our aims as an
organisation is to spread chess throughout the Borough of Barnet and we can see
that this strategic aim is being fulfilled.
Robin Vicary (Chair, BJC)
Grandmaster Nick
Pert to lead December training
After leading the highly successful and popular training
session on 3 November we are delighted to report that Grandmaster Nick Pert
will again be our star coach at our next training session of the season on Sunday 8 December
at St Paul's Primary School, NW7. Nick has been an active grandmaster for the
past 10 years, is a 3-time British Under 21 champion and was World Under 18
Champion. He is currently the national head coach and trains many of England's
leading junior players. Our coaching sessions are fully supervised.
Barnet hosts EPSCA
England Girls Match
44 of the top England Under 11 girls played in the
annual EPSCA match hosted by St Paul's Primary School, NW7. Barnet was
represented by 4 of the winning 'Knights' team. Read more on the EPSCA website.
Channing wins
Girls Under 11 Jamboree
BJC's Girls Under 11 Jamboree was won by the home
team in a keenly fought competition at Channing Junior School on 19 June. The
Channing girls came from behind to beat the girls from North London Collegiate
in a thrilling last round. Results are here.
Barnet Under Elevens
second in the nation
The Barnet team made a magnificent effort to retain
its status as number 1 in the U.K., on a rainy 11th May in Nottingham for
the EPSCA Inter-Association Under 11 Final - just failing at
the post, beaten by a classy Sussex team.
At the end of the first round Barnet were in third place behind Sussex and Wey
Valley despite scoring 15.5/20. Excellent chess was being played with very few
errors and many first class attacking games.
The second round was also good with another 15.5/20 but Sussex and Wey Valley
were scoring well and pulling ahead so it looked like third place. But the boys
somehow found the determination to play a wonderful third round, with only two
losses across the whole team, pulling back on both the higher teams,
overhauling Wey Valley and putting themselves into second place.
Final scores were � Sussex 51, Barnet 47.5, Wey Valley 46. Full
details of scores.
The Squad � George Ivanov, Oren Levene, Federico Rocco,
Gabriel Balouka-Myers, Reuben Balouka-Myers, Ethan Sanitt,
Leo Sanitt, Oscar Pollack, Jason Covey, Max DeLorenzo, Devin Karia,
William Lovell, Tej Shah, Devansh Marwaha, Max Fairclough,
Zachary Potel, Jacob Goldberg, Adam Vogel, Adam Rosenthal, Joshua Wong, Arnav
Varma, Charlie Sprung, Alex Richards, Raffy Balouka-Myers,
Toby Balouka-Myers
Report by Robin Vicary
Barnet Under Nines
- third, just half a point off first place
In a thrilling EPSCA Under 9 team final the Barnet
team was edged out by the smallest of margins, scoring 26.5 points, just half a
point behind joint champions Wey Valley and Kent. Congratulations to all
of our team! The event was held at Wycombe High School on 27th April and
the results are here.
The photo below shows the team on the stage with their trophies.
Barnet hosts EPSCA
National Under 11 Girls' Team Final
Report by Angela Eyton, BJC Girls' Under 11
Team Manager
Barnet Girls' Under 11 team came 4th in the EPSCA National Under 11 Girls' Team
Championships on Saturday 20 April.
200 girls from 13 teams from around the country gathered at Channing School in
Highgate to battle it out for the title of National Girls' Team Champions. 44
Reserves competed in the Reserves competition, 8 winning medals.
Congratulations to Wey Valley for taking the title from reigning Champions
Sussex. It was a pleasure to present the trophy and I was pleased to have a
quick chance to polish the plaque from our win in 2010. Barnet gave some extra
awards - the best game prize was won by Helen Archer-Lock from Berkshire and
the prizes for the tidiest team room went to Oxford. A special mention to the
girls who won all three of their matches: Nikita Nunes, Lara Mallin,
Emily Bramah, Mukampikai Satheeswaran, Maya Gardi. Thank
you to all the teams who made the jounrney to take part, we look
forward to hosting the National Championships again in 2016. BJC would like to
thank Channing School for their use of their fantastic facilities and to
Charlie Fleetwood for his help as Assistant Manager on the day. All the results
from the day are here.
The photograph below shows the Barnet Girls team
enjoying a rare bit of April sunshine!
Under 11 team wins
East Zone
The Barnet under 11 team has won again! This time
we travelled up to Northampton on 16th March to compete against 8 other
counties. The Barnet team comprises 20 players plus reserves and they
put in another spectacular performance. At first we were a little
worried, knowing that we would be missing several of our strongest players for
the finals, due to the World Schools Championships. We took the difficult
decision not to invite them for the zone. Luckily for us our strength in depth
certainly proved just how strong Barnet Junior Chess really is. After the first
round we had won 18 games and drawn 2 from the 20 available. An incredible 19
points out of 20. By the end of the day we had finished on 52.5/60
and comfortably finished some 8.5 points ahead of Kent in second place.
We have big hopes for the finals on 11th May but
know that we will face tough opposition. Can we repeat last year�s victory? We
certainly hope so!
Full results can be found on the EPSCA
website.
Brookland
victorious at Under 9 jamboree
Brookland Junior School's team emerged as champions
from Barnet's largest ever Under 9 jamboree. On a superb
afternoon's chess the host school's team scored a superb 22 points
out of 24 to clinch the title. Second place went to Martin Primary and third to
The Hall. Full
results...
Under 9 team wins
East Zone
Our Under 9 team won the Midlands and East zone on
9th March by a large margin. Barnet finished top with 30.5 points out of 30,
9.5 points ahead of second placed Essex. The team goes forward to the final on
27th April. We wish them a great day! A spreadsheet giving detailed results can
be found on the EPSCA website.
Under 9 Team in
Berkshire
For a number of years Berkshire have
hosted an Under 9 friendly match to help teams prepare for the EPSCA team
championships. We are very grateful to them for inviting us back this year. We
took a team of 12 players plus 3 reserves to Tywford for a match
against Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. This year we
decided to leave behind some of our stronger players and give the lower end of
our team a real workout. Barnet were leading after the first two rounds but by
the time the third, and final, round was finish we were in second place a point
behind Berkshire. Congratulations to them. The Barnet team played
very well and I am sure it will help in building good team spirit for
our upcoming zone on Saturday 9th March. Full results for the day can be
found here
BJC Individual
Championships enjoyed by all!
Despite the wintry weather there was a superb
turnout at the BJC Individual Championships held at Woodhouse College on 20th
January 2013. Read
about the trophy winners and results...
And it wasn't just the children putting their chess to the test. 24 parents put
themselves through the rigours of a 6 round rapidplay too!
The joint winners were George Spentzos, Jixin Yang and
Alex Virin.
Full
results...
Schools league -
final meeting
Thursday 30th January saw a thrilling day's chess
hosted by Woodhouse College, Finchley. The first part of the afternoon saw
the culmination of the Barnet Secondary Schools league. After two keenly fought
semi-finals, North London Collegiate pipped Merchant Taylor's 3.5 - 2.5 in a
pulsating final. The last three games went into the final minutes of the 30
minutes each allowed. The third and fourth place playoff was also a 3.5 - 2.5
result with hosts Woodhouse College taking the bronze medals. This was followed
by the arrival of about 150 primary school children for their final league
meeting. Again, many games went right down to the wire. In Division 1, Garden
Suburb, who had led throughout, continued to dominate and emerged as
worthy Barnet Champion school. Heathside claimed second place with
Brookland third. Division 2 was decided on tiebreak with Coldfall the
champion school and North London Collegiate second. Scores and
results...
2012
Under 11
team match
Our match against Berkshire and Buckinghamshire
resulted in a convincing victory for Barnet. Tony Niccoli, our Under 11
manager reports, "On Saturday 1st December the Under 11 Barnet team
travelled to Reading to take part in a 3 team county friendly match.
Our opposition for the day was Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, with teams
consisting of 20 players plus reserves. Whilst only a friendly match and with
several strong players missing we were still keen to put in a good
performance and the players did not disappoint. Our defending national
champions finished on a very impressive 50 out of 60 with Berkshire and
Buckinghamshire finishing on 20 out of 60 each. A resounding victory. This
bodes well for our upcoming zone on 16th March, but we know we will still have
to train hard to repeat last years performance." Here are all the scores.
Under 9 team wins
by 13 points!
Barnet�s Under 9 team scored a spectacular victory
in their Under 9 zone held in Essex on Saturday 10th March. They scored a
superb 31.5 out of 36 points, an amazing 13 points ahead of second placed Kent.
The team will now be looking forward to the national final on Saturday 28th
April in Northampton. Results
EPSCA Girls' Under
11 Inter-Association Final
The EPSCA Girls� Under 11 Inter-Association Final
took place in Nottingham on 24th March and a somewhat weakened Barnet team
finished 8th. Although this does not match our amazing achievement last year
when we were national girls champions it is still very creditable. Team manager
Angela Eyton is justifiably very proud of our young team � most will
still be eligible next year when we look forward to hosting the event in
Barnet.
First BJC Fun Day
The first BJC FunDay held on 22nd April
was a great success.
Eleven children new to chess received coaching from Angela Eyton �
and couldn�t get enough of it. In the end an exhausted Angela had to send the
kids away � they would have stayed all night so keen were they!
The rest of the 50-odd attendees were some of Barnet�s most experienced junior
players. They provided visiting chess super-star Nevil Chan from Chess in the
Schools and Communities stiff opposition in the Simul that he played with them.
After a marathon 2 hour sessions, a number of the games looked drawn
to the enormous credit of the team. �Barnet�s future in chess looks excellent�
enthused Nevil.
There were also chess competitions and puzzles, a raffle and bookstall.
Three tournaments during the afternoon were fiercely competed with the Exchange
Tournament providing the kids with a glimpse of a different and unusual form of
the game.
Adults vs Kids tournament resulted in a number of sad-faced grown-ups!
Finally it was Joshua Altman�s 8th birthday and Angela baked him a lovely
�chess� cake, which he generously shared with everyone.
A great day left us happy , but a bit exhausted!
Robin Vicary
Akiva and Fitzjohn's win Under 9 jamboree,
Channing win Girls' Under 11... more
Brookland and Heathside joint Barnet
league champions... more
Under 11s triumph
at EPSCA final!
Our under 11 team has matched the achievement of
our younger under 9 players and won the English Primary Schools Inter-Association
Under 11 trophy. This is the first time we have won this title.
Fifteen teams assembled in Northampton to battle it out on Saturday 12th May.
With a reserve pressed into action at the last moment the team did well to gain
14.5 points out of 20 in the first round - putting us in second place with
local rivals Hertfordshire in the lead! Fifteen minutes into the second
round reinforcements arrived to help the team to a magnificent 17 out of
20. We were now in first place and the pressure was on for the third and
final round! The children responded with determination and brilliance
to gain another wonderful score of 18 out of 20 bringing our total to 49.5.
Victory was ours!
Many congratulations to all the players, coaches (Angela Eyton and
Tony Niccoli) and thanks to all the parents, especially Mr Lewis
who brought his son to the event at very short notice for round 2!
Winning the U11 and U9 Zones and Finals together with the Girls results means
Barnet has also won the Audio Chess Grand Prix.
EPSCA Under 11 Inter-Association Final Results
Under 9 team wins
national final!
On a bleak Saturday in April, the Barnet Under 9
team carried away the English Primary schools trophy just beating the
Sussex team by 1.5 points. Our wonderful team scored 30 points out of a maximum
of 36 � a truly stunning feat. There were in fact only 2 defeats over the 36
Boards.
The team was led by example on the Number 1 Board by David Xu who scored a 3/3
score against some of the strongest players in the country. And all
of this despite being without Joshua Altman, playing for an England team
in Rumania!
The coaches (Angela Eyton and Tony Niccoli) must be
congratulated on their marvellous efforts. Finally let's not forget
those dedicated parents who braved the motorway spray and ghastly conditions to
take their children to the tournament!
EPSCA Under 9 Inter-Association Final Results
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