18th – 31st October 2016 in Batumi, Georgia
Official website – here

Christopher Tombolis

Christopher started playing at the age of 6. His first introduction into tournaments was the Delancey UK chess challenge and has been a Gigafinal winner twice. Christopher was the U8 British Champion in 2013, U10 London Junior chess champion in 2015, English U8 Junior Rapidplay champion in 2013 and 2014. Christopher has represented his school, Colet Court, and achieved a bronze medal at the EPSCA U9 schools final playing on board 1. He represents Richmond and Ealing regularly. He would like to thank his coach Tom Rendle for all his help over the last 2 years.

Anum Sheikh

Anum Sheikh started playing chess when she was 6. She developed an interest in chess because she used to accompany her Dad to chess tournaments from the age of 4. She is “ECF Player of the year 2016” and she won a Bronze medal for England, last year at ESCC, in her first International tournament. Anum is excited to play for England and is grateful to her family to provide her support to play. Away from Chess she loves reading, swimming , writing and Crafts.

Joe Birks

When Joe was three, his dad grew bored of Snakes and Ladders and got out the chess board. After that, the only way his mum could get him round the supermarket was by pretending to be a knight on the black and white tiled flooring. Mercifully, Laneshaw Bridge Primary School, the Lancashire Chess Association and Pontins have since given Joe a healthy context for pursuing his love of chess. He’d like to thank Dave Gaston, Mike Conroy, Bill O’Rourke and Sarah Hegarty for their encouragement and support.

Aditya Munshi

Aditya Munshi, known as Adi, born on leap years day 29th Feb, learnt chess from the age of 6 (from his sister Shaarika). Adi works very hard at his game! He guided the Nottingham junior school to the National Under-9 championship for 2 successive years. Adi played in ESCC 2014, 2015 & World Schools 2014 in Brazil & World Youth 2015 in Greece . He is extremely grateful for all the fantastic support he has received from Nottingham High Junior school, his coaches & his family. He loves cricket, badminton, video games & maths!

Robert Akeya-Price

Bobby played in international tournament since 2013. He is proud to be selected to represent England in World Cadets Championship 2016. From September he is going to Trinity School and looking forward to be part of school chess team.

Ilya Misyura

Ilya is 12 years old and was proud to represent England twice at the World Youth Chess Championships in Durban and Halkidiki. He is the current London U14 Chess Champion and was the English Youth Champion for his age in 2014 and 2015.
As well as chess, he is passionate about football , cricket and, of course, his beloved cat Zefir. Ilya attends Westminster Under School and wants to thank everyone who has helped him!

George Clarkson

George has played tournament chess now for over two years including in the European Championships last year. However he is still in the U8 category and hopes in Georgia to rise to the tough challenge of playing and sustaining his very best chess when it matters most – at the World’s when playing for England! He is so very excited by the challenge and would like to thank all his chess mentors at school and at his Barnet teams for their support and encouragement that has enabled him to get this far.

Keerthana Easwar

Nilomi Desai

Coaches – GM Glenn Flear and IM Andrew Martin