Wiltshire/West of England Junior Championship 26-27 February

[LozCooper]

Wiltshire/West of England Junior Championship 26-27 February 2011
http://www.wiltshirejuniorchess.co.uk/

A reminder to all players hoping to qualify for the European Youth Championship and other junior events that the 4th stage of the John Robinson Grand Prix takes place at St. Joseph’s Cath. College, Ocotal Way, Swindon, SN3 3LR on 26-27 February. Please see http://www.englishchess.org.uk/?page_id=353 for further details.
The Under 12 Major section is a Pre-Trial tournament for the England Under 11 team. Further details can be found at http://www.epsca.org.uk/teams.htm

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

I really like this tournament. The venue and playing conditions are excellent.

[David Sedgwick]

The results of this event are available at http://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-conte ... t-2011.pdf.

I see that the winner was Marcus Harvey, who has recently been commended in another thread.

[David Shepherd]

The Wangs are just getting greedy now (x3) Congratulaions to Eva in the U8's

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

Marcus' two games on the second day were apparently very interesting - he told me he sacced a couple of pieces for a mating attack against Brandon Clarke in round four.

In the last round against James Holland the advantage swung back and fro several times, with James missing a mate in five at one point, before Marcus finally allowed a swindle at the very end - if he'd promoted his pawn to a rook he would have won, but by getting a queen he allowed James to sacrifice his rook for stalemate!