Shropshire junior on England duties

Best of luck to Shropshire junior Athar Mehmood who is playing in an international tournament in Poland this week with an England side playing against teams from Turkey, France and Poland. We hope to give you the results of his exploits later in the week.

UK Chess Challenge qualifiers

Congratulations to all the Shropshire juniors who qualified for the next stage of the UK Chess Challenge competition. A total of 42 Shropshire juniors took part in the Megafinal which took place at Kingstone & Thruxton School near Hereford on Saturday and all those who scored 4 points from six games or were the leading player in their age group qualified for the next stage - the Northern Gigafinal which is held in July. The UK Chess Challenge is an annual competition that encourages chess amongst junior and secondary school children and involves more than 70,000 children.
The Shropshire qualifiers for the 2009 Gigafinal are:
Greg Jones - (Much Wenlock) Under 7 - Runner up 4/6
Laura Newey - (Lilleshall) Under 10 - Suprema 5/6
Angus Ingliss-Jones - (Castle House) Under 10 - Runner up 4/6
Charlotte Collier - (Castle House) Under 11 Runner up - 4.5/6
Alice Collier - (Castle House) Under 11 4/6
Georgia Stannard - (St Georges, Shrewsbury) Under 11 4/6
Tom Holiday - (St Georges, Shrewsbury) Under 11 - Runner up 4/5/6
Joe Booth - (St Georges, Shrewsbury) Under 11 4/6
George Kilby - (St Georges, Shrewsbury) Under 11 4/6
Athar Mehmood - (Wrekin College) Under 12 - Supremo 6/6
Angelica Dean - Under 13 - Suprema 4/6
Matthew Best - ( Mary Webb) Under 13 - Supremo 4/6
Mark Richards - (Adams Grammar) Under 13 - 4/6
Jonathan Newey - (Adams Grammar) Under 14 - Supremo 6/6
Luke West - (Adams Grammar) Under 14 - 4/6
Francis Rooney (Church Stretton) Under 14 - 4/6
Peter Mellor - (Blessed Robert Johnson) Under 15 - Supremo 4/6
Chris Lovejoy - (Adams Grammar) Under 16 - Supremo 4/6
Sam Eardley - (Adams Grammar) Under 16 - 4/6
Jamie Allan - (Adams Grammar) Under 16 - 4/6
Nathanael Paul - (New College) Under 17 - Supremo 4.5/6
Alex Taylor - (Adams Grammar) Under 18 - Supremo 3.5/6
(Supremo/Suprema means they won their age section.) Apologies if I have missed any qualifiers - of so please add the details on a comment and I'll update the table.