Warwickshire Championship

The second of three legs in the 2024/25 Warwickshire Championships was held at Alan Higgs Centre in Coventry. 114 players participated. The Open was won by Finlay Bowcott-Terry, who scored 4½/5. The full tournament results can be found here: Open | Under 2000 | Under 1750 | Under 1500 The Warwickshire Championship standings can be found here. The playing area at Alan Higgs Centre

The 2024/25 Warwickshire Primary Schools Team Championship took place at Solihull School on Saturday, 1st March. Three Zonal tournaments held in November 2024 produced 8 qualifiers for the Final, and they were joined by another 8 teams in the Plate competition. Each competition was played as a 7-round Round Robin tournament. Hallfield School defended their title from 2024; their 2½-1½ win against Warwick Junior School in Round 2 proving to be the decisive result. The Plate competition was won by The Blue Coat School, who won all 7 of their matches. Warwickshire Chess Association wishes to thank Solihull School for being excellent hosts for the event Hallfield School, Solihull Preparatory School and Warwick Junior School, which hosted the Zone competitions in November Richard Buxton, Gregory Kornilovich and Diah Patel for working as the tournament arbiters The results in full: Final (Board Prizes) | Plate (Board Prizes) Team Medallists in the Final1st: Hallfield School (centre)2nd: Warwick Junior School (right)3rd: The Blue Coat School (left) Team Medallists in the Plate1st: The Blue Coat School (centre)2nd: Warwick Junior School (right)3rd: Solihull Preparatory School (left) Final Board 1 Individual Prizes1st: Krish Gandhi (Hallfield, centre)2nd: Ilyas Rashid (Warwick, right)3rd: Yang Tan (Blue Coat, left) Final Board 2 Individual Prizes1st: Handuo Cao (Hallfield, centre)2nd: James Palmer-Brown (Warwick, right)3rd: Adam Hazel (Blue Coat, left) Final Board 3 Individual Prizes1st: Lukas Neophytou (Balsall Common, centre)2nd: Jasper Mun (Hallfield, right)3rd: Bani Heer (Warwick, left) Final Board 4 Individual Prizes1st: Sammy Bowden-Williams (Warwick, centre)2nd: Finley Reed (Solihull, right)3rd: Cassian Gregg (St Gabriel’s, left) Plate Board 1 Individual Prizes1st: Jason Hu (Blue Coat, centre)2nd: Leon Chen (Warwick, right)3rd: Luke Eccleston (Eversfield, left) Plate Board 2 Individual Prizes1st: Garrick Chiu (Blue Coat, centre)2nd: Alexander Barnard (Warwick, right)3rd: Shauraditya Pandey (St Gabriel’s, left) Plate Board 3 Individual Prizes1st: Sonam Hulait (Blue Coat, centre)2nd: Elisha Johal (Solihull A, right)3rd: Cian Raaj (Warwick, left) Plate Board 4 Individual Prizes1st: Vedh Mithun (St Gabriel’s, centre)2nd: Tom Sephton (Solihull A, right)3rd: Elizabeth Atteck (Warwick, left)

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