{"id":377,"date":"2018-07-20T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/?p=377"},"modified":"2018-07-20T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:40:21","slug":"uk-chess-challenge-gigafinal-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"UK Chess Challenge Gigafinal Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Here are the results of the Northumbria players in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Northern Gigafinal, held at Wright Robinson College in Manchester, 14-15 July.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A total of 39 players took part from the Northumbria Megafinal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>1st, 2nd and 3rd (using tie-breaks if necessary) go forward to the top national final, the Terafinal in Peterborough, September 15-16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>All players with 4\/6 qualify for the Challengers (North) on September 22, at The Cunard Building, Liverpool. This is being run by Northumbria&#8217;s UKCC organiser,\u00a0Tim Wall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Gigafinal (and the UK Chess Challenge as a whole) were fantastically organised by Sarah and Alex Longson, who took over running the world&#8217;s biggest junior tournament (with 45,000 players) from founder IM Mike Basman in 2016. The tournaments were run on a very hot weekend, but the facilities, organisation, arbiting and general atmosphere were friendly and extremely good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 7 Boys: Daylan Deen-Williams (NPS) &amp; Ruben Bigley (Dame Allans) 3\/6, Gabriel Bowers (NPS), Joel Rajiv (Argyle House), Pranav Chadda (NPS) 2\/6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 8 Boys: Archit Upadye (RGS) 4\/6, Kaipo Wu (RGS) 3.5\/6, Sebastian Arend-Trujillo (St Teresa&#8217;s) 2\/6<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 9 Boys A: Lyege Payne (RGS) 3.5\/6<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 9 Boys B: Michael Landon 4\/6 (St Teresa&#8217;s), Naman Berry (Forest Hall) 3.5\/6, Ciaran Davidson (Forest Hall) 2\/6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 10 Boys A: Yichen Han (Forest Hall) 6\/6 1st, Alex Rudzenis (Forest Hall) 5\/6, 2nd=, 2nd on tie-break, Matthew Ansell (Gosforth Junior High) 3\/6, Luke Birkett (NPS) 1\/6<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 10 Boys B: Bhuvan Jumani (Forest Hall), Vincenzo Fazio (St Teresa&#8217;s), both 4\/6.Samuel Vincent (Our Lady and St Anne&#8217;s) 3\/6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 9 Girls Champion: Prachi Arora (Forest Hall) 5\/6 1st =, winner on tie-break, Maanvi Manchineni (RGS) 3\/6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 10 Girls Champion: Sai Kumaar (Forest Hall) 5.5\/6, 1st =, winner on tie-break ahead of Jessica Mellor (Guildford) 5.5\/6 (European Schools Under 11 Girls Champion 2018)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 11 Girls: Tanvi Manchineni (Forest Hall) 4\/6, 4th place on tie-break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 11 Boys A: Charlie Mooney (Forest Hall) 4th = 4\/6 (7th on tie-break), Benjamin Arend-Trujillo (St Teresa&#8217;s) 3.5\/6, Harshith Bonam (NPS) 3\/6, Harrison Scott (St Oswald&#8217;s), Fergus Whittaker (St Teresa&#8217;s) both 2\/6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 11 Boys B: Daniel Rajiv (RGS), 4\/6, 6th = (8th on tie-break), Varnu Boora (Forest Hall) 4\/6, 6th = (9th on tie-break)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 12 Boys and Girls: Daniel Needham (Dame Allan&#8217;s) 3\/6<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 13 Boys and Girls: Both 6th= on 4\/6: Matthew Jepson (Dame Allan&#8217;s) 7th on tie-break, Daniel Gazerani-Lopez, 8th on tie-break, Partheev Manoj (Forest Hall), Jonathan Jativa-Calle (St Mary&#8217;s) both 3\/6, Alex Johnston (St Mary&#8217;s) 2.5\/6, Mikey Block (St Mary&#8217;s) 2\/6<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 14 Boys &amp; Girls: Ben Needham (Dame Allan&#8217;s) 1\/6<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under 15-Under 18 Boys &amp; Girls (one tournament): 1st = James Moreby (Gosforth), Max Turner (Berwick) 5\/6 (James 1st on tie-break, Max 2nd)<\/div>\n<div>Joe Dalton (Gosforth) 3rd= 4.5\/6 (3rd on tie-break)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the results of the Northumbria players in the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Northern Gigafinal, held at Wright Robinson College in Manchester, 14-15 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-non-njca-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njcachess.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}