11th Teesside Individual Chess Championships: Report

It is a certainly a busy time here on Teesside, with so many big events happening that it is keeping us all very busy.

Today brought the 11th Teesside Individual Chess Championships, which saw players from primary schools from all over Teesside assemble at Yarm Preparatory School for five tough rounds of chess.

Teesside titles were on the line in three sections: Under-7, Under-9 and Under-11.

81 players entered the tournament and we were very pleased to be able to use the new Yarm Preparatory School hall, which is a magnificent venue.

There were lots of excellent games and all of the children worked extremely hard throughout the day.

When you are the last two to finish...!

Results

Under-7

=1st on 4/5 and sharing the Teesside Boys' Title: Joseph Hartill and Matthew Hartill, both of St. Therese of Lisieux Primary School. (Is this the first time a pair of brothers has shared first place in one of our events? It is highly likely!)

3rd: 3.5/5 Arya Jafari (Yarm School)

Girls' Champion: Shanaya Chauhan (Yarm School), with 2/5

3/5: Azaan Sharif

2/5: Alden Kelly (Throston)

1.5/5: Mehrsana Sekhavati (Throston)

Under-9

1st with 5/5 and Teesside Boy's Champion: Dara Jafari (Yarm School)

2nd: 4.5/5 Daniel Shavit (Yarm School)

Girls' Champion with 4/5: Scarlett Yang (Yarm School)

=3rd with 4/5: Bradley Murphy (Holy Trinity Rosehill), Tashil Lankapura (Green Lane), Jayden Wang (Yarm School), Paari Muthukrishnan (Yarm School).

3.5/5: Hudson Raine (Holy Trinity Rosehill), Agam Vats (Yarm School), Ladislav Kosa (Mill Lane)

3/5: Edward Williams (Yarm), Austin Oman (Yarm), Harrison Vanek (Yarm School), Harrison Gurney (Yarm School), Hugo Kelly (Yarm School), Lewis Hough (Holy Trinity Rosehill), Daniel Degnan (Holy Trinity Rosehill)

2.5/5: Nevan Susewhewage (St. Alphonsus), Phoebe Campbell (Throston), Noah Mulloy (Billingham South), Toby Donnelly (Whale Hill), Poppy Binns (Whale Hill), Max Skelton (Whale Hill), Paulina Roy Choudhury (Barley Field), Noah Speight (Yarm)

2/5: Gowrie Prashantha (Yarm School), Zoeya Altaf (Yarm School), Edie Thompson (Yarm School), Zoyaa Soni (Yarm School), Asher Ejimofor (Billingham South), Louis Swales (Billingham South), Florence Foster (Preston), Oscar Allen (Throston)

1.5/5: Thomas Howard (Yarm School), Isabelle Robins (Billingham South)

1/5: Aria Ward (The Village Primary School), Violet Carre (The Village Primary School), Daniel Topliss (Fairfield), Samuel Thompson (Whale Hill), Arian Ladhar (Yarm School)

0/5: Mate Major (Billingham South)

Under-11

1st with 5/5 and Teesside Boys' Champion: Miles Page (Yarm School)

2nd with 4.5/5 and Best Girl: Kaira Nalawade (Yarm School)

=3rd with 4/5: Phoenix Emadi (Yarm School), Kavan Sidhu (Yarm School), George Butterworth (Thornaby)

3.5/5: Henry Stanley (Yarm)

3/5: Eric Pinedo Fuentes (Yarm), Sandy Omar (Yarm), Rory Fitzgerald (Yarm), Anwita Dara (Yarm), Freya Hind (Holy Trinity Rosehill), Lucas Grierson (Holy Trinity Rosehill), Hughes Adeniyi (Hemlington Hall), Elliot Banks (Wheatlands)

2/5: Thomas Unsworth (Hemlington Hall), Sean Adeniyi (Hemlington Hall), Jesse Havelock (Hemlington Hall), Lewis Godwin (Fairfield), Lewis Fox (Billingham South), Ageston Major (Billingham South), Manha Abdullah (Yarm School), Rosa Williams (Yarm), Vishaun Susewhewage (St. Alphonsus)

1.5/5: Harry Finnegan (Hemlington Hall), Edie Learman (Errington), Amelia O'Neill (Billingham South)

0/5: Lilyanna Gibson (The Village Primary School)

Every player received a certificate of participation and there were extra certificates for players in the top three places of each section.

CSC also provided trophies for the champions, medals for those in the other top places and badges for everyone who played in the tournament.

Well done and thank you to the control team of Catherine Lloyd and Johannes Grundmann - and to everyone who helped to make the event such a great success!

We will return to Yarm Preparatory School in October for our famous team tournament which will, remarkably, be the 29th such event in our long-running series. Details will be announced at the start of the new school year.