Eighth Teesside Megafinal: Results

The Eighth Delancey Schools' UK Chess Chess Challenge Teesside Megafinal was a very successful event and has been classed as the best one we have ever done.

Thank you to everyone who helped to make it such a great day.

A gallery will follow in the next post, but meanwhile, here is a full breakdown of the results.

Under-8s

=1st: Siri Nakshatra Reddy Patlolla (St. Peter's) - Best Girl; George Wallace (Echline), Jay Saraj Kura (Newton Hill), Henry Bishop - sharing the place as Best Boy(s), 5/5

4.5/6 Omran Soliman (Yarm School) received a special medal for finishing just off the top three.

4/6: Shanaya Chauhan (Hutton Rudby), Nydilay Kashyap (Stanwix), Jamie Frost (Yarm), Arya Jafari (Yarm)

3.5/6: Matthew Hartill (St. Therese of Lisieux), Joseph Hartill (St. Therese of Lisieux), Azaan Sharif (Yarm), Hugo Bollands (Yarm), Harrison McGlade (Yarm)

3/6: Max Colclough (Holy Trinity), Louie Smith (Yarm), Payton Gribnitz (Holy Trinity), John Williams (Holy Trinity)

2.5/6: Ted Taylor (Holy Trinity), Isaac Adamson (Holy Trinity)

2/6: Miesha Abdullah (Yarm), Abeer Agarwal (Yarm), Skye Johnson (Throston), Teddy Johnson (Yarm), Ollie Stephenson (Yarm), Wilfred Maredia (Yarm), Sebastian Tailby (Yarm), William Austin (Yarm)

1/6: Jamie Hunt (Throston), Arabella Zancudi-McMahon (Errington), Elsie Thompson (Yarm)


Under-10s

1st: Dara Jafari (Yarm School), 6/6

=2nd: Agam Vats (Yarm), Tashil Lankapura (Green Lane), Jayden Wang (Yarm School), all 5.6

4.5/6: Noah Mulloy (Billingham South) received a special medal for finishing just off the top three.

4/6: Jack McApline (Holy Trinity), Harry Whoriskey-Cromie (Moorside), Daniel Shavit (Yarm), Paari Muthukrishnan (Yarm)

3.5/6 Scarlett Yang (Yarm School) - Girls' Champion; Oscar Youdale (Billingham South), Zachary Thornton (Errington), Raheem Ahmed (Yarm), Noah Speight (Yarm), Bradley Murphy (Holy Trinity), Harrison Vanek (Yarm), Hugo Kelly (Yarm)

3/6: Zoyaa Soni (Yarm) and Edie Thompson (Yarm) - equal second girls; Zane Razzag (Yarm), Jack Lillie (Holy Trinity), Max Skelton (Whale Hill), Edward Williams (Yarm), Victor Bassey-Asuquo (Hemlington Hall)

2.5/6: Walter Church (Throston), Felicity Thompson (Yarm), Levi Arnett (Throston), Oliver Kerr (Throston)

2/6: Henry Laverick (Holy Trinity), Kathryn Frost (Yarm), Poppy Betts (Whale Hill), Beatrice Tailby (Yarm), Chester Jones (Hemlington Hall)

1.5/6: Felicity Bowes (Whale Hill), Toby Donnelly (Whale Hill)

1/6: Darcy McGlade (Yarm), Toby Armstrong (Throston)

0.5/6: Luca Sharp (Hemlington Hall)

0/6: Sophie Barkshire (Whale Hill)

Under-12s

1st: Vidhyuth Kavin Sudagar (St. Peter's), 5.5/6

2nd: Bertie Leatham (St. Peter's), 5/6

3rd: Joseph Dodds (Outwood Bydales), 4.5/6

4/6: Kaira Nalawade (Yarm) - Best Girl; John Smith (St. Aidan's)

3.5/6: Lolwa Soliman (Yarm) - second girl; George Butterworth (MacMillan), Kavan Sidhu (Yarm)

3/6: Manha Abdullah (Yarm), Henry Stanley (Yarm), Ryan Liu (Ings Farm), Benjamin Feighery (Yarm), Fathe Chahal (Yarm), Olly Rutter (Fairfield)

2.5/6: Noah Morgan (Wheatlands), Isaac Brette (Fairfield), Isabelle Little (Throston)

2/6: Freya Hind (The Links), Sandy Omar (Yarm)

1.5/6: Abel Booth (Hemlington Hall)

1/6: Bryan Pinto (Yarm)

Under-14s/Under18s (Combined section)

1st: Alice Sturman (Prior Pursglove), Under-18 Champion and Best Girl; Joshua Fischer (Hollis Academy), Under-14 Champion and Best Boy

4.5/6: Callum Hodgkiss (Lawrence Jackson), Under-18 Best Boy

4/6: Ajay Selvan (Yarm), Avanish Batra (Yarm), Rhys Orton (Teesside High), = 2nd Under-18 Boy(s); Amogh Ajay Kashyap (QEGS) - second Under-14 Boy

3.5/6: Zhuoyi Lin (Yarm), David Rosca (Northfield) = 3rd Under-14 Boy(s)

3/6: Joseph Machin (Ingleby Manor), Faruk Serin (Northshore)

2.5/6: James Mann (Northfield)

2/6: Sam Stevenson (Ian Ramsey), David Llewellyn (RGS), Stanley Allan (Huntcliff), Daniel Babatola (St. Michael's)

1.5/6: Eva Harris (Conyers) - second, Under-18 Girl