ENGLISH CHESS
CHALLENGE HOME HONOURS
RESULTS ARCHIVE
SCHOOL ENTRY FORM RULES
ENGLISH CHESS CHALLENGE 2018
If you would
like to enter your school/club,
please click on this link:
ROUND 1: SCHOOL /
CLUB CHALLENGE or ONE DAY TOURNAMENT
In the Spring Term (or Autumn Term if a
school really wishes), a 7 round competition is played. This may be a one day
(if a tournament) or more likely with 1 round per week over 7 weeks in a school
(or outside school) club. Players are paired on a Swiss system basis in
each round, but do not worry if you don't know how to run this as we provide
enough information for you to run such an event and can even recommend a cheap
but effective computer pairing program that you can use for both Swiss and
All-Play-All events whenever you wish.
At the end of the event, the highest scoring 30% (minimum) of boys and girls from each year group qualify for the semi-finals (which are held in June each year). In addition, any other pupil scoring 15 points or more out of 21 qualifies. Where players are tied, they both/all qualify. In this event, 3 points are awarded for a win, 2 for a draw and 1 for a defeat.
Those running qualification rounds (Round 1) will be obliged to send CCF a final cross-table of the event by the end of April (the computer program can produce this easily). CCF will aim to process the results and issue invitations to enter the semi-finals by the and of April. This will be done direct to those we already have contact information for (by email where possible) or via their school/club/tournament organiser if not. All names will be listed on the web site and entry status tracked accordingly.
ROUND 2:
SEMI-FINALS
(Please see CCF
Conditions of Entry)
There will be 3 semi-final events for those of
Primary School age (secondary school aged players go straight into the
finals). Players can
choose which event they enter with no restriction - other than that they can only
play in one of them (one you have started your first game in one of the events,
another semi-final is not allowed!):
1
Saturday 23 June 2018 (Chipstead Valley Primary
School, Coulsdon)
2
Sunday 1 July 2018 (Unicorn Primary School, West Wickham)
3
Sunday 8 July 2018 (Wimbledon Park Primary School)
Subject to us having to merge adjacent sections
where numbers are not sufficient for separate events, there are potentially separate finals
as follows:
Under 11 Boys Under 11 Girls
Under 08 Boys Under 08 Girls
Under 10 Boys Under 10 Girls
Under 07 Boys Under 07 Girls
Under 09 Boys Under 09 Girls
Under 06 Boys Under 06 Girls
Ages are taken as at 31st August 2016.
ROUND 3:
FINAL - Monday 27
August 2018 (Bank Holiday)
(Please see CCF
Conditions of Entry)
Subject to us having to merge adjacent sections
where numbers are not sufficient for separate events, there are separate finals
as follows:
Under 18 Boys Under 18 Girls
Under 11 Boys Under 11 Girls
Under 08 Boys Under 08 Girls
Under 15 Boys Under 15 Girls
Under 10 Boys Under 10 Girls
Under 07 Boys Under 07 Girls
Under 13 Boys Under 13 Girls
Under 09 Boys Under 09 Girls
Under 06 Boys Under 06 Girls
Ages are taken as at 31st August 2016.
ROUND 4:
CHAMPION
OF CHAMPIONS' EVENT - Saturday 29 September 2018 - @ CCF
(Please see CCF
Conditions of Entry)
The age group winners play off against each
other for the ultimate title.
ENGLISH CHESS CHALLENGE HOME HONOURS RESULTS ARCHIVE SCHOOL ENTRY FORM RULES