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Last update: Tuesday February 26, 2008 12:08

Leeds Junior Congress 2008

The Leeds Junior Chess Congress attracted 64 juniors from around the North of England. With a host of titles, county caps and even international honours between them, many of Yorkshire’s top juniors were there to battle it out for the £150 first prize and the large number of trophies on offer. It was an intense day of competition.

Very pleasing was the number of girls taking part - 21 in total, and it was fantastic to see a girl emerge as the overall winner – Evie Hollingworth achieveing 5½/6 to win on the fractional tie break of Sum of Opponents Scores from James Bowler, who also scored 5½. Both played superbly on the day and deserved their shared prize money. Third place went to Robert Bowler with 5/6.

All the top board matches were very close and the competition could have gone to any of at least 5 players going into the last round.

However, it was not just about the top boards. There was rising talent such as 3C’s Phoebe Price whole stole wins from Yasmin Niksaz and Amanda Hipshon on her way to the best girl trophy with 5/6. The age group trophies were distributed nicely – U16 went to Amanda, U14 to Ashley Littlewood, U12 to Roshan Patel, U11 to Matthew Li, U10 to Lara Buckley, U9 to Lois Coleman, U8 to Adarsh Vani and U7 to Rachel Brown (again the girls doing well).

Awards were also given to Yasmin Niksaz (U14 girl), Hannah Priest (U11 girl) and Abigail Arnold (U9 girl).

Many thanks to all juniors for taking part and playing so well and in such a great spirit and thanks to all who helped.

John Hipshon

Pos	Name		Section	Grade	1	2	3	4	5	Total	SOP	Award
1	Evie	Hollingworth	U14	96	1	2	3	3½	4½	5½	19½	1st
2	James	Bowler	U11	108	1	2	3	3½	4½	5½	19½	2nd
3	Robert	Bowler	U14	119	1	2	3	3	4	5	18	3rd
4	Phoebe	Price	U11	57	1	1	2	3	4	5	16	Best Girl
5	Ashley	Littlewood	U14	121	1	2	3	3½	4½	4½	18½	U14
6	James	Roberts	U14	89	1	2	3	3½	3½	4½	17½
7	Michael	Littlewood	U14	94	1	2	2½	3½	3½	4½	17
8	Daniel	MacDonald	U14	73	1	2	2	3	4	4½	16½
9	Lara	Buckley	U10	30	0	1	2	3	4	4½	14½	U10
10	Amanda	Hipshon	U16	95	1	2	3	4	4	4	18	U16
11	Roshan	Patel	U11	73	1	2	2	3	4	4	16	U11
12	Harry	Li	U10	79	1	2	2	3	4	4	16
13	Matthew	Li	U12	78	1	2	2	3	3	4	15	U12
14	Mark	Kong	U14	63	1	1	2	3	3	4	14
15	Pravaker	Hamal	U10	54	1	1	2	3	3	4	14
16	Karim	Ismail	U10	58	1	1	1	2	3	4	12
17	Yasmin	Niksaz	U14	75	0	1	2	2	3	4	12	U14Girl
18	Joshua	Levine	U10	66	0	1	2	2	3	4	12
19	Gianni	Singh	U11	71	1	2	2½	3½	3½	3½	16
20	Rebekah	Brown	U14	69	1	2	2	2	3	3½	13½
21	Tyrell	Walwyn	U11	69	1	2	2	2½	2½	3½	13½
22	Mohamed	Musa	U14	82	1	1½	2½	2½	2½	3½	13½
23	Robert	Oxley	U10	57	1	1	2	2	3	3½	12½
24	Francesca	Fozard	U12	37	0	1	2	2½	3½	3½	12½
25	Edward	Pellow	U14	57	1	1	1	2	2½	3½	11
26	Matthew	Wilson	U14	65	1	1	2	3	3	3	13
27	Amber	Bailey	U12	51	1	1	2	3	3	3	13
28	Christian	Christianson	U14	82	1	2	2	2	2	3	12
29	Peter	White	U14	55	1	1	2	2	3	3	12
30	Amol	Vani	U10	60	1	1	2	2	3	3	12
31	Lucy	Ackroyd	U12	57	1	1	1	2	3	3	11
32	Thomas	Yems	U12	45	1	1	1	2	2	3	10
33	Adarsh	Vani	U08	27	0	1	1	2	3	3	10	U8
34	Isaac	Wilinsky	U10	46	1	1	1	1	2	3	9
35	Priyanka	Aggarwal	U14	47	0	1	1	2	2	3	9
36	Lois	Coleman	U09	29	0	1	1	2	2	3	9	U9
37	Alexander	Bennet	U14	8	0	0	1	1	2	3	7
38	Wesley	McGough	U10	57	1	1½	1½	1½	1½	2½	9½
39	Douglas	Jones	U12	44	0	1	1	2	2½	2½	9
40	David	Squirrel	U12	0	0	½	½	1½	2½	2½	7½
41	Spike	Leatherbarrow	U10	28	0	½	½	1½	2½	2½	7½
42	Gabriel	Dixon-Hardy	U08	20	0	½	1½	1½	1½	2½	7½
43	Hannah	Priest	U10	24	0	0	1	1½	2½	2½	7½	U11Girl
44	Hannah	Kong	U12	56	1	1	2	2	2	2	10
45	Roddy	MacSween	U10	34	0	1	2	2	2	2	9
46	William	Birtley	U09	21	1	1	1	1	2	2	8
47	Euan	Tanna Fenton	U10	15	0	1	1	1	2	2	7
48	James	Overend	U10	0	0	0	1	2	2	2	7
49	Abigail	Arnold	U09	0	0	0	1	2	2	2	7	U9 Girl
50	Amelia	Collins	U11	16	0	1	1	1	1	2	6
51	Niall	Collins	U08	0	0	½	½	1	2	2	6
52	Mason	Boycott-Owen	U12	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	6
53	Jemima	Stephenson	U11	13	0	½	1	1	1	2	5½
54	James	Kirby	U09	0	0	½	1	1	1	2	5½
55	Jessica	Priest	U08	0	0	0	½	1	2	2	5½
56	George	Albane	U12	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	4
57	Rachel	Brown	U07	0	0	0	1	1½	1½	1½	5½	U7
58	William	Dyer	U10	7	0	0	1	1	1	1	4
59	Connor	Stephenson	U14	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	3
60	Emily	Stephenson	U11	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
61	Britanny	Hubbard	U11	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
62	Kobie	Blair Adams	U09	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
63	Mollie	Bloomfield	U11	2	0	0	½	½	½	½	2