Castles Junior Chess Club

Saturday 11th December 2004 Caterham Schools event
Winners from Castles were: Ehsan Yosiflavi (Under 14), Charlotte West(under 10), Nathan Neal (Under 9) and Philip Knott(Under 8).

Saturday 16th October 2004 Warlingham Chess Festival
Castles members won 5 of the 6 sections, with Emily Galvin winning all 5 games in the Under 9 Novice, Keiran Rigg winning the Older Novice, Daniel Hubbard the Under 9 Section, Joshua Caulcott Cooper the Secondary Section and helper Richard Mascall the open (adult) section. For full results click here

Saturday 17th July 2004 Caterham Schools event
In this local tournament the majority of winners, and leading players, were again from Castles. Winners from Castles were: Seb Lumb (Under 14), George West(under 11), Ruth Cooper (Under 9), Nathan Neal (Under 8), Philip Knott (Under 7).

UK Chess Challenge 2004
Of the record number of 30 members who qualified for the Surrey Megafinal, ten qualified for the national Gigafinal. In the end 5 made the long journey to Manchester , their scores being: Seb Lumb and Aaron Adekoya 4/6 Philip Knott 3.5/6 Nathan Heal 3/6 and Oliver Adekoya 2/6. In view of the strength of the competition at the Gigafinal these were all good scores.

Monday/Tuesday June 28/29th
Whyteleafe School Under 9 team come 7th in the EPSCA national finals at Hemsby. The team is made up of 6 Castles' members: Charlotte West, Ruth Cooper, Nathan Neal, Bethany Nicholls Philip Knott and Dan Hubbard

Saturday 12th June Surrey Hundreds
Daniel Hubbard scored 4/5 in the U8s and was Tandridge Champion, Aaron Adekoya scored 4/5 in the U7, Philip Knott 3.5/5 in the U7 and Oliver Adekoya 2.5/5 in the U9s.

May 23rd/24th
Whyteleafe School Under 9 team come 2nd in the EPSCA national semi-finals at Brean Sands, winning all six of their matches. The team is made up of 6 Castles' members: Charlotte West, Ruth Cooper, Nathan Neal, Bethany Nicholls Philip Knott and Dan Hubbard

Sunday 9th May 2004 National Girls Team Championships in New Malden
Whyteleafe school come 2nd in the national girls Under 9 team tournament. 3 Castle's members were the top 3 boards for the team : Charlotte West, Ruth Cooper and Bethany Nicholls
Full scores

Scores of Castles players at the Surrey Megafinal (a total of over 800 players) were as follows


 Name                Year    School       
Philip Knott         2    Whyteleafe    5   G  2nd
Nathan Heal          3    Whyteleafe    5   G  2nd
Charlotte West       4    Whyteleafe    5   G  2nd
George West          6    Whyteleafe    4.5 G
James Foster         8    Cumnor House  4.5 G  Supremo!
Caroline Foster      4    Wolsey        4.5 G
Joshua  Cooper       6    Whyteleafe    4   G
Sebastian Lumb       7    Oxted         4   G
Ruth Cooper          4    Whyteleafe    4   G
Aaron Adekoya        2    Hamsey Green  4   G
Oliver Adekoya       4    Hamsey Green  4   G
Richard O'Neill     10    de Stafford   3.5 G  Supremo!
Daniel Hubbard       3    Whyteleafe    3.5
Tom Lydford          5    St John's     3.5
Ehsan Yosiflavi      8    Oxted         3
Tim Stevens          1    St Francis    3
Sally Stevens        3    St Francis    3
Andrew Stevens       4    St Francis    2.5
Daniel Brackenbury   6    Elmhurst      2.5
Joseph Brownless     5    St John's     2
Shona Heal           7    de Stafford   1
Jake Palmer          6    Audley        1

Those who scored 4 or more at the Megafinal qualfied for the Gigafinal shown by 'G'

Thus 20 Castles members played at the megafinal and 12 have qualified for the National Gigafinal in July, beating the number who qualified last year.

Saturday 27th March 2004Caterham Schools event
Winners were all from Castles: Seb Lumb (Under 14), Steven O'Neill (under 11), Joseph Brownless (Under 10), Bethany Nicholls (Under 9), Nathan Neal (Under 8), Philip Knott (Under 7).

Saturday 6th March 2004 Emmanuel Chess Festival
Leading Castles results were achieved by George West, Joshua Cooper and Nathan Heal who were 2nd= in the primary section with 4/5 (13 points), Ruth Cooper and 6 year old Philip Knott 3.5/5 (12 points) in the same section. James West score 4/5 (13 points) in the novice section whilst James Sullivan and Seb Lumb scored 3.5/5 (12 points) in the secondary section. For full results click here

18th January 2004 Wey Valley U12 Championships
Joshua Cooper and George West both scored 3/5 in the tough under 12 section, and both have been invited to play for the Wey Valley (Surrey) under 11 (mixed) team. Charlotte West scored 2.5/6 in the Under 9 section and has been invited to play for the Under 11 girls team. Seb Lumb scored 2/5 in the Under 12 section, having lost to George in the last round.