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Richmond Junior Chess Club (RJCC) meets on Saturdays during term time from 14.00 to 17.00 at the ETNA Community Centre and on Tuesday evenings during term time at Twickenham Prep School ... more details about the club here.
The program for 2008/09 and membership form can be downloaded here.
We will be holding some more blitz tournaments on Saturday mornings, the next one will be on September 27th. You can find an entry form here.
There are plenty more tournaments and events coming up between now and Christmas. Some of these are organised by RJCC, others by friends of the club. You can find a full list on our calendar page.
The program for 2008/09 and membership form can be downloaded here.
We will be holding some more blitz tournaments on Saturday mornings, the next one will be on September 27th. You can find an entry form here.
There are plenty more tournaments and events coming up between now and Christmas. Some of these are organised by RJCC, others by friends of the club. You can find a full list on our calendar page.
| PAST EVENTS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Several Richmond Junior Chess Club members had fantastic results in the latest Richmond Rapidplay congress on Sunday July 13th. Theodore Dias came 1st equal in the Intermediate Tournament and Harvey Kandohla came 1st equal in the Minor event. Jake Simms and Edward Li shared the grading prize in the Minor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Our 3RD BLITZ TOURNAMENT took place on the morning of Saturday July 5th, with 38 players. Congratulations to the winners: Under 14: Christopher Dunne Under 11: Max Wood-Robinson Under 9: William Claridge-Hansen Download full results in Microsoft Excel format. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We held our 2ND BLITZ TOURNAMENT on the morning of Saturday June 7th. Congratulations to the winners: Under 14: Edward Ko Under 11: Theodore Dias Under 9: Elliott McCall, Conor Murphy & Hugo Till Download full results in Microsoft Excel format. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thanks to former Australian Champion, John-Paul Wallace who visited the club on Saturday May 24th to do a lecture and simultaneous display. Congratulations to Edward Ko, Thushaan Rajaratnam and Tom Wilshire, who won prizes for the best performance against J-P. If you are interested in playing chess over the Summer months, you could go to one of J-P's Chess Camps. You can contact him via his web site or download details of his summer camps and training squad. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here for the Press Release. Great news! Richmond's Under 9 team won the EPSCA (English Primary Schools) Championship on Saturday April 26th. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who played, and thanks to Marie Gallagher (coach), and to Phil Benton and all the other parents. It was a fantastic team effort. Our team included the following players: Peter Andreev, Tarun Malhotra, Joe Benton, Paul Calderon, Will Styles, Jake Ruse, Elliott McCall, Amay Aggarwal, Hugo Till, Jake Simms, Dominic Tso, Fraser Owen, Noah Bultema, Alex Gogoladze, James Adshead and Jamie Gallagher.  Final scores:
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| The Under 11 team did well in the National Championships on Saturday May 10th coming 4th with 36.5 points out of 60, behind Kent (43), Wey Valley (39) and Notts (39). Well done to everyone who played, and thanks to parents and supporters. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Richmond scored another good result by coming second in our EPSCA Under 11 zone on Saturday March 15th. Final scores:
Well done again to everybody who played and thanks to all the parents, to Derek Thrumble who organised everything, and to Marie Gallagher who was the coach on the day. We have now qualified for the National Final which will be played on Saturday May 10th in Liverpool. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WE WON!!!!! Richmond came first in our EPSCA Under 9 zone on Saturday March 8th. The winning team was:Theodore Dias, Tarun Malhotra, Joe Benton, Hugo Till, Paul Calderon, Will Styles, Jake Ruse, Elliott McCall, Amay Aggarwal, Jake Simms, Dominic Tso, Fraser Owen, Noah Bultema, and Alex Gogoladze Final scores:
Congratulations to everybody who played. It was a very tough zone! Thanks also to all the parents for your support, to Derek Thrumble who did all the organisation, and to Marie Gallagher who coached the team on the day. We have now qualified for the National Final which will be played on Saturday April 26th at Crown Woods School, Riefield Road, Eltham, London SE9 2QN. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Six RJCC members were chosed to appear in a forthcoming Children's BBC TV programme, Brain-Jitsu. Congratulations to Neil Deo, Francesca Kamil, Edward Ko, Daniel Morgan, Thushaan Rajaratnam and Lottie Till (Hugo's sister), who all took part. The programs will be aired the week of February 25th on BBC2 at 07.30 (so set your video recorders ...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On Sunday February 3rd, the Richmond zone of the EPSCA Under 11 and Under 9 championships took place at Hampton School. Results here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RJCC hosted its first open blitz tournament on the morning of Saturday November 24th. 40 children competed in a five round event. The Under 18 section ended in a four way tie between Nishant Joglekar, Edward Ko, Michael Pettit and Jasper Tambini. Alfred Drinkwater won the Under 11s and Theodore Dias scored 100% in the Under 9s. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all who competed. We will hold further blitz events on Saturday June 7th and Saturday July 5th. Further details will be published shortly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On the afternoon of November 24th, RJCC welcomed International Master Andrew Martin who played 36 children in a simultaneous display. Despite some excellent fighting chess from the RJCC players, Andrew ended up winning all the games! There was coverage in the English Chess Federation's Right Move magazine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GAMES BY CLUB MEMBERS & TRAINING MATERIAL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John-Paul Wallace shows us a neat trap in the opening, from a game between Ernest Ignatovic and Tor Malin - click here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John-Paul Wallace writes about his game against Theodore Dias from the recent simul - click here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Here are some positions from the latest Squad Training session. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On Saturday February 8th we held a Squad Training session for the Richmond players competing in the English Primary Schools Chess Asoociation Under 11 and Under 9 championships. Here's a position that we studied at the Training session. |