Oxon Junior Chess AGM (online)

Oxon Junior Chess (incorporating Oxon Schools Chess League) will be holding an AGM on Monday 27 September 2021 at 7pm via Zoom. There was no AGM in 2020 due to the pandemic, and no schools league took place last year.

This will be a very important meeting. As all 3 committee members had already indicated that they were standing down, unless we have new volunteers for the positions, amongst other consequences, the Oxon Schools Chess League will go into abeyance.

Please contact Andrew Varney if you would like further details of the roles or if you wish to attend the Zoom meeting.

Oxon Juniors online success

While over the board junior team competitions have not been possible, 
EPSCA and SCCU have run online equivalents of the usual Jamborees on 
lichess.org. They had an interesting format of Swiss competitions on 
each board as instead of three rounds only, it was possible to extend 
the event to five rapid rounds.

Oxfordshire Juniors took part in all events with EPSCA taking place in 
March (Girls U11), April (U9) and May (U11) and the SCCU Jamboree for 
older players (U14 Minor/ U14 / U18) in June. 

In the jamboree on 5 June 2021, the Oxfordshire U18 team won the 
event, taking first place. Congratulations to the team! 

All players enjoyed the events. 
Team managers: Joseph Conlon (U9), Ola Murawska (all other teams)

ECF runs two county Blitz team battles for Juniors every month (one is 
specifically for girls). If any Oxfordshire junior players would like 
to take part in those please see the links at the equivalent news item 
at the Ojays website.  

				

Witney Chess Club Junior Wins British Online Chess Championships Under 16 Blitz

Very many congratulations to Witney Chess Club member Adam Sieczkowski, who is the new British Online Chess Championships Under 16 Blitz Champion with a score of 8/9.

The final table can be found in the link below.

ECF Online U18 County Championship - Oxfordshire 3rd

Well done to Oxfordshire junior team in the ECF U18 online county 
championship. Many thanks to Ola Murawska for managing the teams and 
the following report.

The Championship took place on chess.com on Saturday 21 November. 
Players played from their homes with Zoom supervision by arbiters and 
team captains. The teams were small and as a result only a limited 
number of Oxfordshire Juniors were able to participate. It was 
fantastic to watch them play and they did very well taking the third 
place in the tournament. 

Results are published on chess-results:
https://chess-results.com/tnr541241.aspx?
lan=1&art=63&flag=30

Oxon team individual results:
https://chess-results.com/tnr541241.aspx?
lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=3

				

Graders Report

Details of events submitted to the ECF up to 29 April 2020.