We are now accepting entries for the NJCA RGS Congress on Saturday 26th November.

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A massive “Well Done!” to all those who took part in the NJCA Congress at Newcastle Prep School Sports Hall on Saturday 15^th October.

This was the largest attendance for one of our Saturday congresses for a while, with over 70 children taking part during the day. Many children attended for morning or afternoon sessions to get a taste of a chess day and we hope to welcome them back to future events!

All competitors should be incredibly proud of themselves!

U9s
Kush, Terrence and Avi scored a superb 4.5 out of 7 to finish in joint third place. In second, with an amazing 5.5 was Om. Our top girl champions were Cleo and Maddie with 3 points and winning the trophy, with a fantastic 6 points, was Iason!

U11s
With 5 points out of 7, joint third place went to Yogam, Ethan and Ishaan. Second place, with a super 6 points, was Bruce. Top girl was Eleanor with 4 and the overall champion was Adi with 6.5 points.

Seniors
In a hard fought competition, Jacob took third place with 3 points out of 5. Oliver was second with 5 and won the trophy for top boy. Emma won all her games, and the overall trophy, with 5 wins out of 5!

We are now taking entries for the NJCA congress at Newcastle Preparatory School on 15th October:

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For those new to NJCA events please read this description of a typical NJCA event:

The 2022 Northumbria Masters will take place at St Mary’s Catholic School, Benton Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7PE.

The school is situated, in a modern (2010) campus 2 minutes’ walk from Longbenton Metro station, which is a 20-minute Metro journey from Newcastle Central Station, and a 35-minute Metro journey from Newcastle International Airport. By road, St. Mary’s is 3 miles from Junction 77 of the A1(M).

NJCA players might be particularly interested in the Northumbria Junior Rapidplay: https://northumbriamasters.com/2022-northumbria-junior-rapidplay/

A range tournaments to suit all players is available:

Northumbria Masters Open (FIDE-rated, 26-30 August) – Open to all players, 9-round Swiss, eligible for title norms.

Northumbria GM event (closed all-play-all, 26-30 August). Invitation only, title norms. (Info: [email protected])

Northumbria IM event (closed all-play-all, 26-30 August). Invitation only, title norms. (Info: [email protected])

Northumbria Challengers (FIDE-rated, 26-30 August) – For players Under 2000 FIDE, 9-round Swiss.

Northumbria Major (ECF-rated, 26-30 August) – For players Under 1750 ECF, 9-round Swiss.

Northumbria Minor (ECF-rated, 26-30 August) – For players Under 1500 ECF, 9-round Swiss.

Northumbria Junior Rapidplay (FIDE-rated, 26 August) – For players aged Under 18 on 1/1/2022, 5-round Swiss.

Work is currently well underway in organising a full calendar of NJCA events to take place during the upcoming 2022 / 2023 academic year. This will hopefully be the first full year of events since Covid.

For those who are new to NJCA chess in the last couple of years, a full calendar involves approximately 5 NJCA Saturday Congress (supplemented by ECF, EPSCA and UK Chess Challenge events which we run on behalf of these organisations).

We hope to have the full calendar confirmed (and available on this site) before the end of the school summer holidays.

Gosforth Chess Club are organising a series of casual chess sessions in some of Newcastle’s parks this summer. This seems like a fantastic opportunity to enjoy some chess in the (hopefully!) good summer weather!

For further details see:

Urban Green (gosforthchessclub.co.uk)

Entries are now open for the RGS Congress on Sunday 7th November (10am to 4pm):

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Due to Covid-19 Restrictions on mixing households and school facilities not currently being available for external organisations, we are unable to plan for any face to face NJCA tournaments to take place over the next few months.

However, we are working on ideas to provide online events and will update this website in due course.

We hope all our Northumbria Junior Chess Community is keeping safe and well at this time and look forward to seeing everyone once we are able to do so!

Entries are now open for the Dame Allan’s Congress on Saturday 7th March (10am to 4pm):

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Please note, following a trial run at the recent RGS congress, we will be offering an U7 (Year 2 and under) event from 12:30pm to 4pm alongside the main competition.

Entries are now open for our second NJCA Congress of the year which will take place at the RGS on Saturday 9th November.

Please note that this event will run, as normal, from 10am to 4pm for all sections apart from U7s (Year 2 or below) which we are trialling as an afternoon session running from 12:30 to 4pm.

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