LJCC Belfast Qualifier was held at Methodist College Belfast on 5th Oct 2024
Geoff Hindley and myself setup the 2 playing rooms. Geoff also posted the signs pointing to our location around the car-park. Players arrived and were registered. Until we had everyone in attendance we couldnt finalise our setup. Having 6 under 10s, we were going to have an all-play-all with the 6th round being manually drawn. We had possibly 7 or 8 under 12s so were going to try a swiss and when necessary do manual draws. How-ever a couple of the Under12s were absent. So after the first round I turned the tournament into an all-play-all. It was decided that with the under10/12 we would run each round after the previous round had finished and not keep to the timetable - allowing for a possible early finish. The parents agreed that this was a good idea. We had the Under 18s in the second room. Allowing for them to keep to the timetable for the day as they would play the full time control - 30 minutes each.
For details of this years London Junior Chess Championships go to : https://www.ljcc.co.uk/
Many thanks to the company who sponsored the trophies for this event
Trophy Sponsor
Trophies at this event will be sponsored by Errigal Contracts Ltd
About: “Errigal is a market leading construction company; with specialist expertise in partition systems, external façade, interior fitout, ceilings and bespoke solutions. Our track record in these specialist areas is internationally renowned and, as a result, we are able to provide an exceptional service on construction projects of all sizes. With a dedicated manufacturing facility at our headquarters in Monaghan, we also have regional offices in London, Northern Ireland and Europe.”
We also had a puzzle solving competition - each player had a sheet of 22 puzzles to solve. These were collected after round 5 and marked. Returning the sheets with awarded certificates and a trophy for the top U18 and top U12 puzzles solvers,
The Under 12 Puzzle Solving Champion : Alwin Micheal.
| Name | Points | Cert. | |
| 1 | Alwin Micheal | 21 | Gold |
| 2 | Advait Tahmankar | 18 | Gold |
| 3 | Alex McKeown | 12 | Silver |
| 4 | Kia Jahandizi | 11 | Silver |
| 5 | Max Likhodievskiy | 10 | Silver |
| 6 | Daniel Simpson | 9 | Silver |
| 7 | Timothy Simpson | 7 | Silver |
| 8 | Soundharya Premkumar | 6 | Bronze |
| 9 | Senanya De Silva | 4 | Bronze |
| 10 | Nathaniel McCallan | 2 | Bronze |
The Under 18 Puzzle Solving Champion : Andrew Campbell.
| Name | Points | Cert. | |
| 1 | Andrew Campbell | 20 | Gold |
| 2 | Jake Gourley | 15 | Silver |
| 3 | Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam | 11 | Silver |
| 4 | Nathan Murray | 6 | Bronze |
| 5 | Skyla Finnegan | 3 | Bronze |
| 6 | Aharshi Banerjee | 3 | Bronze |
| 7 | Shlok Amol Thoke | 3 | Bronze |
Under 10 - Round 1
Results
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Senanya De Silva [0] 0:1 Daniel Simpson [0] 2 Alex McKeown [0] 1:0 Soundharya Premkumar [0] 3 Kia Jahandizi [0] 1:0 Timothy Simpson [0]
I looked after the Chess Room with the sections Under 10 and Under 12. Whilst Geoff looked after the Under 18 section in the second room. It was good to see new faces at the tournaments. Below are the results and some photos from the tournament.
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Under 12 - Round 1
Results
No Name Total Result Name Total 4 Alwin Micheal [0] 1:0 Nathaniel McCallan [0] 5 Advait Tahmankar [0] 1:0 Conor Lowry [0] 6 Ruan Black [0] 1:0 Max Likhodievskiy [0]
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Under 10 - Round 2
Results
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Daniel Simpson [1] 1:0 Timothy Simpson [0] 2 Soundharya Premkumar [0] 0:1 Kia Jahandizi [1] 3 Senanya De Silva [0] 0:1 Alex McKeown [1]
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Under 12 - Round 2
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 4 Ruan Black U12 [1] 0:1 Advait Tahmankar U12 [1] 5 Max Likhodievskiy U12 [0] 0:1 Alwin Micheal U12 [1] 6 Conor Lowry U12 [0] .5:.5 Nathaniel McCallan U12 [0]
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Under 10 - Round 3
Results
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Alex McKeown [2] 1:0 Daniel Simpson [2] 2 Kia Jahandizi [2] 1:0 Senanya De Silva [0] 3 Timothy Simpson [0] 0:1 Soundharya Premkumar [0]
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Under 12 - Round 3
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 4 Advait Tahmankar U12 [2] 1:0 Nathaniel McCallan U12 [.5] 5 Alwin Micheal U12 [2] 1:0 Conor Lowry U12 [.5] 6 Ruan Black U12 [1] 1:0 Max Likhodievskiy U12 [0]
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Under 10 - Round 4
Results
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Daniel Simpson [2] 1:0 Soundharya Premkumar [1] 2 Senanya De Silva [0] 0:1 Timothy Simpson [0] 3 Alex McKeown [3] 1:0 Kia Jahandizi [3]
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Under 12 - Round 4
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 4 Max Likhodievskiy U12 [0] 0:1 Advait Tahmankar U12 [3] 5 Conor Lowry U12 [.5] 0:1 Ruan Black U12 [2] 6 Nathaniel McCallan U12 [.5] 0:1 Alwin Micheal U12 [3]
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Under 10 - Round 5
Results
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Kia Jahandizi [3] 1:0 Daniel Simpson [3] 2 Timothy Simpson [1] 0:1 Alex McKeown [4] 3 Soundharya Premkumar [1] 1:0 Senanya De Silva [0]
Under 12 - Round 5
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 4 Advait Tahmankar U12 [4] 0:1 Alwin Micheal U12 [4] 5 Ruan Black U12 [3] 1:0 Nathaniel McCallan U12 [.5] 6 Max Likhodievskiy U12 [0] 1:0 Conor Lowry U12 [.5]
The two top players meet. Alwin wins against Advait going into round 5 on full points.
Under 10 - Round 6
Results
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Daniel Simpson [3] 0:1 Alex McKeown [5] 2 Sonddharya Premkumar [2] 0:1 Kia Jahandizi [4] 3 Timothy Simpson [1] 1:0 Senanya De Silva [0]
Under 12 - Round 6
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 4 Conor Lowry U12 [.5] 0:1 Advait Tahmankar U12 [4] 5 Nathaniel McCallan U12 [.5] .5:.5 Max Likhodievskiy U12 [1] 6 Alwin Micheal U12 [5] 1:0 Ruan Black U12 [4]
Under 10 - Standings
Place Name Feder Score 1 Alex McKeown U10 6 2 Kia Jahandizi U10 5 3 Daniel Simpson U8 3 4 Soundharya Premkumar U10 2 5 Timothy Simpson U10 2 6 Senanya De Silva U10 0
We have two qualifiers for the Under 10 LJCC championships - Alex McKeown and Kia Jahandizi. The Champion of the Under8's: Daniel Simpson,
| Place | Name | Age Grp | Score | Qualifier | |
| 1 | McKeown, Alex | U10 | 6 | 1st Under10 | Major |
| 2 | Jahandizi, Kia | U10 | 5 | 2nd Under10 | Major |
| 3 | Simpson, Daniel | U8 | 3 | 1st Under8 |
The Under12s and Under10s completed just after 1:00pm so we held the prize giving ceremony early and allowed players the afternoon off. Thanks were given to the parents for supporting the players, to our trophy sponsor Errigal Contracts Ltd, Methodist College for hosting the event, Geoff Hindley and not least all the players.
Under 12 - Standings
Place Name Feder Score 1 Alwin Micheal U12 6 2 Advait Tahmankar U12 5 3 Ruan Black U12 4 4 Max Likhodievskiy U12 1.5 5 Nathaniel McCallan U12 1 6 Conor Lowry U12 0.5
We have 3 Under12 qualifiers.
| Place | Name | Age Grp | Score | Qualifier | |
| 1 | Micheal, Alwin | U12 | 6 | 1st | Major |
| 2 | Tahmankar, Advait | U12 | 5 | 2nd | Major |
| 3 | Black, Ruan | U12 | 4 | Minor |
Under 18 - Round 1
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam U16 [0] 1:0 Shlok Amol Thoke U14 [0] 2 Sohil Bande U14 [0] 0:1 Andrew Campbell U18 [0] 3 Nathan Murray U16 [0] 1:0 Skyla Finnegan U16 [0] 4 George McClelland U14 [0] 0:1 Aharshi Banerjee U14 [0] 5 Jake Gourley U14 [0] 1:0 Julia McNab U14 [0] 6 Jyuan Miguel Bendo U18 [0] 0:0 BYE 7 Cian Suitor U16 [0] 1:0 BYE
Under 18 - Round 2
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Aharshi Banerjee U14 [1] 0:1 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam U16 [1] 2 Andrew Campbell U18 [1] 1:0 Jake Gourley U14 [1] 3 Cian Suitor U16 [1] .5:.5 Nathan Murray U16 [1] 4 Shlok Amol Thoke U14 [0] .5:.5 George McClelland U14 [0] 5 Skyla Finnegan U16 [0] 1:0 Sohil Bande U14 [0] 6 Julia McNab U14 [0] 1:0 BYE
With an odd no of players Geoff Hindley played a friendly against the player who received the bye.
Under 18 - Round 3
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam U16 [2] 0:1 Andrew Campbell U18 [2] 2 Nathan Murray U16 [1.5] 1:0 Shlok Amol Thoke U14 [.5] 3 George McClelland U14 [.5] 1:0 Cian Suitor U16 [1.5] 4 Julia McNab U14 [1] 0:1 Aharshi Banerjee U14 [1] 5 Jake Gourley U14 [1] 0:1 Skyla Finnegan U16 [1] 6 Sohil Bande U14 [0] 1:0 BYE
Andrew Campbell goes into the all out lead with an unbeaten 3 out of 3.
Under 18 - Round 4
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Andrew Campbell U18 [3] 1:0 Nathan Murray U16 [2.5] 2 Skyla Finnegan U16 [2] 0:1 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam U16 [2] 3 Aharshi Banerjee U14 [2] 1:0 Cian Suitor U16 [1.5] 4 Jake Gourley U14 [1] 1:0 George McClelland U14 [1.5] 5 Sohil Bande U14 [1] 1:0 Julia McNab U14 [1] 6 Shlok Amol Thoke U14 [.5] 1:0 BYE
Under 18 - Round 5
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Aharshi Banerjee U14 [3] 0:1 Andrew Campbell U18 [4] 2 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam U16 [3] 1:0 Nathan Murray U16 [2.5] 3 Sohil Bande U14 [2] 0:1 Jake Gourley U14 [2] 4 Shlok Amol Thoke U14 [1.5] 1:0 Skyla Finnegan U16 [2] 5 Cian Suitor U16 [1.5] 1:0 Julia McNab U14 [1] 6 George McClelland U14 [1.5] 1:0 BYE
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Under 18 - Round 6
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Andrew Campbell U18 [5] 1:0 Cian Suitor U16 [2.5] 2 Jake Gourley U14 [3] 0:1 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam U16 [4] 3 Nathan Murray U16 [2.5] 1:0 Aharshi Banerjee U14 [3] 4 George McClelland U14 [2.5] 1:0 Sohil Bande U14 [2] 5 Julia McNab U14 [1] 0:1 Shlok Amol Thoke U14 [2.5] 6 Skyla Finnegan U16 [2] 1:0 BYE
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Under 18 - Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Andrew Campbell U18 6 11.5 18.0 21.0
2 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam U16 5 12.5 21.0 17.0
3-5 Nathan Murray U16 3.5 13.5 21.5 13.5
Shlok Amol Thoke U14 3.5 12.0 17.5 8.5
George McClelland U14 3.5 11.0 15.5 9.5
6-8 Aharshi Banerjee U14 3 13.5 20.0 13.0
Skyla Finnegan U16 3 12.5 19.0 10.0
Jake Gourley U14 3 12.0 18.5 11.0
9 Cian Suitor U16 2.5 12.5 19.0 10.5
10 Sohil Bande U14 2 11.5 18.0 7.0
11 Julia McNab U14 1 11.0 15.5 5.0
12 Jyuan Miguel Bendo U18 0 0.5 0.5 0.0
An end to an exciting day of chess games and solving puzzles.
Our next tournament is Saturday 2nd of November again at Methodist College 12:30pm.
email: mark.chris.newman@googlemail.com for more details.
| Place | Name | Feder | |||
| 1 | Campbell, Andrew | U18 | 1st U18 | ||
| 2 | Karpagavinayagam, Karthikeya | U16 | 1st U16 | ||
| 3-5 | Murray, Nathan | U16 | 2nd U16 | ||
| Amol Thoke, Shlok | U14 | 1st U14 | |||
| McClelland, George | U14 | 2nd U14 | |||
| 6-8 | Banerjee, Aharshi | U14 | 3rd U14 | ||
| Finnegan, Skyla | U16 | 3rd U16 |
