Club Championship

Richmond Junior Chess Club runs a club championship every term, which all club members in the Intermediate and Advanced classes are eligible to take part in. The games are all played at the rate of 25 minutes per player with an increment of 10 seconds per move. the games are all submitted for ECF Rapidplay Rating.

Pairings and results, produced using Swiss Manager, can be found on the following pages at chess-results.com:

At the end of Summer Term, there is also an annual club Blitz Championship. Pairings and results can be found at:

Perpetual Trophies

Richmond Junior Chess Club owns perpetual trophies in various ages and gender categories, and the winners in those categories have their names engraved on the relevant trophy, which they get to keep for the year (academic year – September to August).

2022 – 23

The Club Championship for 2022 – 23 has finished, and the winners will be announced shortly!

Table of Winners of Richmond Junior’s Perpetual Trophies for 2022 – 23
Trophy Winner Club Ch. Points Total Points Notes
U7 Boys        
U9 Girls        
U9 Boys        
U11 Girls        
U11 Boys        
U12 Boys        
U14 Girls        
U14 Boys        
U16 Boys        
Intermediate        
Blitz Yuk Hei Lee     1. Yuk Hei Lee 5½; 2. Paras Zalke 5; 3. Farrell Foo, Josiah Onojobi, Xavier Cowan, Jonathan Brennan, Long Tran and Yichen Wu, all 4.
Table of Winners of Richmond Junior’s Perpetual Trophies for 2022 – 23
2021 – 22
Table of Winners of Richmond Junior’s Perpetual Trophies for 2021 – 22
Trophy Winner Club Ch. Points Total Points Notes
U7 Boys Sam Jones 13½ 24 2. Ravi Singh 22; 3. Ethan Bogerd 19
U9 Girls Yichen Zhang 3 20½ 2. Annie Jiang; 3. Misha Halder
U9 Boys Gabriel Bernard 13 32½ 2. Harvey Li 32; 3. Lucian Li, Alec Hutchison 28½
U11 Girls Lila O’Neill 16 22 2. Meilin Song; 3. Sophia Li
U11 Boys Yuk Hei Lee 23½ 44½ 2. Brian Tang 25½ (12½); 3. Oscar Frydman-Orsteen 25½ (10½)
U12 Boys Hari Singh 10½ 24 2. Maks Blicharz 20½; 3. Oscar Virley 9
U14 Girls Isla Yip-Checuz 9 21½ 2. Sohana Sengupta 11; 3. Tania Halder 8
U14 Boys Liam Clery 24 39 2. Kai O’Neill 27½; 3. Richard Zhan 27
U16 Boys Alexander Koeung 18½ 23½ 2. Vedaant Saggi 18; 3. Telman Mehdiyev 14½
Intermediate Paras Zalke 15 15 2. Shishir Vaddadi; 3. Nathaniel Jessett
Blitz Liam Clery     1. Liam Clery 5; 2. Zac Welling 5; 3. Telman Mehdiyev 4.5. 6 rounds Swiss; 25 competitors; ties broken with a play-off game.
Table of Winners of Richmond Junior’s Perpetual Trophies for 2021 – 22
Previous Years

TBD

Software Evaluation

Richmond Junior Chess Club has used Swiss Manager as its main pairing software and tournament manager since 2016/17. We are actively considering alternatives, including Vega and the ECF League Management System. We are currently trialling Vega for the Club Championship in Summer 2022, alongside Swiss Manager. For the purpose of evaluating the Vega pairing and tournament management software, the 2022 Summer Term has been replicated in Vega and uploaded to Vega Result:

We would be interested in feedback from participants and parents regarding how informative and accessible the Vega Results output is.