Our Bristol juniors have recently been competing in the 3 GigaFinal stages of The UK Chess Challenge. The Southern GigaFinal was held in Richmond on June 30th/July 1st, The Midland GigaFinal in Birmingham on July7th/July8th, The Northern GigaFinal in Manchester on July14th/July 15th.The top two players in each section, both boys and girls, would qualify for The TeraFinal, held in Peterborough, over the weekend of Sept 15th/16th.
Then ‘The Delancey Schools Chess Challenge’ would be down to the last 200 player from the original 40,000 that started the tournament back in January. Pretty impressive if you could get there ?
There was also the chance to qualify for the Challengers Tournament. This was a separate tournament for a player who just missed out on qualifying for the Terifinal, but still scored a very commendable 4/6 points.
All rounds of the GigaFinal were ECF graded, with a rapidplay time control of 20 mins each- plus 10 secs per move.
The Bristol league juniors had 9 players competing for qualification to the Challengers and Terafinal.
They had already all done very well to qualify for the GigaFinals through their previous regional Megafinal stage.
Huge congratulations to the following:
TeraFinal Finalists :
Oliver Stubbs for qualifying for the Terifinal through the Under15-18 section of the Midland GigaFinal .
Chirag Hosdurga for qualifying for the Terifinal through the Under 13 section of the Midland GigaFinal .
Kandara Acharya for qualifying for the Terifinal through the Under 10 section of the Midland GigaFinal .
Qualifiers for The Challengers :
Max Walker through the under 14 section at the Midland GigaFinal
Jack Tye through the under 14 section at the Midland GigaFinal
Toby Kan through the under 12 section at the Northern GigaFinal
Jonathan Zeng through the under 10 section at the Midland GigaFinal
Incidentally, Maria Eze and Aron Saunders just missed out on qualifying by half a point !
Up and coming Dwiti Acharya score a solid 3/5 in the under 8 girls at the Midland GigaFinal
What great effort by all 
Coming up we have the TeraFinal and Challengers tournaments in September, and over the weekend of Oct 13th/14th our Bristol League Juniors have been invited to compete in The Millfield International Chess tournament with teams from all over the UK.
We have accepted and our 12 board team is as follows:
- Chirag Hosdurga – North Bristol
- Oliver Stubbs – Downend & Fishponds
- Max Walker – Clevedon
- Toby Kan – Downend & Fishponds
- Yuvraj Kumar – Downend &Fishponds
- Nick Cunliffe – Clevedon
- Jack Tye – Downend & Fishponds
- Aron Saunders – Downend & Fishponds
- Maria Eze – South Bristol
- Jonathan Zeng – Horfield
- Fedor Turetskiy – Downend & Fishponds
- Kandara Acharya – North Bristol
- Dwiti Acharya – North Bristol
More news to follow on this !
John Stubbs (Bristol & District League Junior Officer)
