EPSCA U9 Zonal
This will take place on Saturday 9th March at the Chislehurst School for Girls, Beaverwood Road, Chislehurst. BR7 6HE.
6 teams (Barnet, Essex, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Kent and Richmond) will compete with jamboree pairings over 12 boards to qualify for the Final. Up to 4 reserves from each team will play in a separate tournament at the same time as the main event. The number of teams to qualify for the final is likely to be five, to be confirmed.
The rate of play will be all moves in 30 minutes plus 10 seconds per move from the start. The event will ECF rapid rated.
EPSCA rules. which can be found at https://www.epsca.org.uk/rules-2 will apply.
The schedule is as follows:
- Arrival – by 11.00am
- Board Stewards Meeting – 11.15am
- First Round – 11.45am
- Second Round – 1.25pm
- Third Round – 3.05pm
- Prize Giving – 4.50pm
If play is running late, there will be at least 10 minutes between rounds.
EPSCA U11 Zonal
This will take place on Saturday 16th March at University College School, Frognal. NW3 6XH.
6 teams (Barnet, Essex, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Kent and Richmond) will compete with jamboree pairings over 12 boards to qualify for the Final. Up to 4 reserves from each team will play in a separate tournament at the same time as the main event. The number of teams to qualify for the final is likely to be five, to be confirmed.
The rate of play will be all moves in 40 minutes plus 10 seconds per move from the start. The event will ECF rapid rated.
EPSCA rules. which can be found at https://www.epsca.org.uk/rules-2 will apply.
The schedule is as follows:
- Arrival – by 11.00am
- Board Stewards Meeting – 11.15am
- First Round – 11.45am
- Second Round – 1.45pm
- Third Round – 3.45pm
- Prize Giving – 5.35pm
If play is running late, there will be at least 10 minutes between rounds.
Qualification for the Teams
The age limits are relative to the Academic Year; in other words, the players must be under the stated age before the 1st of September in the previous calendar year.
Within the EPSCA Inter-Association Championships, Richmond Juniors is responsible for selecting teams of primary school children who live or go to school in the following London Boroughs:
- London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
- London Borough of Hounslow
- Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
- London Borough of Merton
- London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- London Borough of Wandsworth
A number of London boroughs contiguous with the Richmond Juniors area are unassociated within the EPSCA structure. Young players from these Boroughs are free to play for Richmond Juniors if they wish. Boroughs to which this applies are Ealing, Brent, City of Westminster, Lambeth, Croydon and Sutton.
Finally, a player may qualify for a Richmond Juniors team, even if they reside and go to school in an area of another association, provided they can demonstrate that they have “significant ties” to Richmond Juniors. The simplest way in this case is to ask permission from the other association. There is an appeals process should permission not be granted, but Richmond Juniors has never exercised that process.
Richmond Juniors general policy when asked by another association about a child with “significant ties” to that other association is permissive. We prefer not to stand in the way of a child and his or her chosen affiliat
ion.
Selection for the Richmond Teams
Assuming your child qualfiies as above, if you wish your child to be considered for selection, please email richmond_junior_chess_club@hotmail.com, inlcuidng the following information:
- Child’s Full Name
- Child’s ECF Rating Id
- In the absence of an ECF Rating, another rating (e.g. another national federation or an online server) and source of the rating
- Child’s Gender
- Residential Postcode
- Borough in which the child’s school is located
- Parent’s Name
- Parent’s Email Address
- Parent’s Mobile Number
- Other Parent’s Name (optional)
- Other Parent’s Email Address (optional)
- Other Parent’s Mobile Number (optional)
We will select for the strongest team available on the basis of the information available.
For the U9 team, we will announce the selection by Wednesday 6th March, and for the U11 team by Wednesday 13th March.
Further Dates
The remaining fixrues in the EPSCA Inter-Association Championship are:
- 13 April – U11 Girls Final
- 20 April – U11 Final
- 27 April – U9 Final
Please diarise!
Looking forward to some success for our teams.
