Tournament Results

The 2024 Warwickshire Junior Championship was held at Tudor Grange Academy Kingshurst in Birmingham. 96 players participated. The tournament features different age groups from the Junior Grand Prix series, and is closed to Warwickshire-eligible children. The full tournament results can be found here: Under 8 | Under 10 | Under 12 | Under 14, 16, 18 The playing area at Tudor Grange Academy Kingshurst Karan Kukreja and Keatan PatelUnder 18 Champions Sathya VaidyanathanUnder 16 Champion Preesh GandhiUnder 14 Champion Adithya VaidyanthanUnder 12 Champion Krish GandhiUnder 10 Champion Alex Tricoli and Ollie RackhamUnder 8 Champion The priezgiving included a presentation of the trophies for the 2023/24 Warwickshire Junior Grand Prix, for those who were able to attend. The final standings can be found here. Abhinandan BabuSection winner in the 2023/24 Warwickshire Junior Grand Prix Snithiksha Kuruva, Anvikkashri Prabhakaran, Karan Kukreja and Diah PatelSome section winners in the 2023/24 Warwickshire Junior Grand Prix

The first of three legs in the 2024/25 Warwickshire Championships was held at King Edward VI Five Ways School in Bartley Green, Birmingham. 114 players participated. The Open was won by Arav Baid, who scored 5/5. The leading Warwickshire player was Tom Junde He, who scored 3½/5. The full tournament results can be found here: Open | Under 2000 | Under 1750 | Under 1500 The top 3 boards of the Open section in the last round The upstairs playing area The downstairs playing area

The third and final leg of the 2023/24 Warwickshire Championships was held at Warwick Trident College in Leamington. 124 players participated. The Open was won by 13-year old Elis Dicen. In addition to winning the tournament, her FIDE rating passed 2000 after her Round 3 win, which secures her the Women’s Candidate Master title once the June 2024 FIDE rating list. She becomes Warwickshire’s newest FIDE titled player since Richard Weaving in 2017. The Warwickshire Championship was won by 18-year old Finlay Bowcott-Terry, whose combined score of 8½ points from Coventry and Leamington put him a point ahead of Matthew Harborne in the standings. Elis Dicen won the Warwickshire Women’s Championship for the second time. The final Championship standings can be found here. The full tournament results can be found here: Open | Under 2000 | Under 1750 | Under 1500 Photographs taken by Brendan O’Gorman, a participant in the Under 1750 section, can be found at his SmugMug account. Finlay Bowcott-Terry2024 Warwickshire Champion Elis Dicen 2024 Warwickshire Women’s Champion2024 Leamington Open Winner The playing area at Warwickshire Trident CollegePhotograph used with the permission of Brendan O’Gorman