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Entries are coming in for the National School Chess Championships 2015-16, U19 Open section.
They are show on this map.
Please do encourage your local schools to take part.

Now 67 teams from 47 schools. Qualifying events starting to fill up, so schools should enter soon at http://englishchess.org.uk/NSCC2015/under-19-open/

Now 91 teams from 64 schools.
Across the 4 main competitions (U19/U11 Open and Girls) 126 teams from 73 schools.

Results of Qualifying events will be posted at http://englishchess.org.uk/NSCC2015/und ... n-results/

Congratulations to Bournemouth School, Harewood College and Bishops Wordsworth’s School on qualifying for the Regional stage by scoring 2 or more points at the Harewood College qualifying event.

Now up to 118 teams from 86 schools have entered the U19 Open,
along with 63 other teams in the other 3 school championships.
Still space for other schools to enter at http://englishchess.org.uk/NSCC/

Entry has now closed.

127 teams entered from 90 schools, as shown on this map.
Of these, 79 teams have qualified for the Regional stage (similar to previous year's zones) to be held between January and March 2016.
The regions are listed here
The winners of each Region will qualify for the National Finals

Results of the first round of regional matches can be found at http://englishchess.org.uk/NSCC/u19-ope ... l-results/

16 secondary school teams are heading for Uppingham School for the finals this Wednesday and Thursday.
More details at http://englishchess.org.uk/NSCC/u19-open/u19-final/

About to start the last round. Nobody has any idea how final platings are to be decided, but Hampton and reading (seeds 1 and 2) vying for title. Sadly a number of top players missing because of farcical scheduling of final. Manchester Grammar missing Fernandez brothers, Habs missing Ravi Haria and Eltham College without their top two. Hopefully, someone will see sense and have the event at a better time next year.

Matthew Turner wrote:About to start the last round. Nobody has any idea how final platings are to be decided, but Hampton and reading (seeds 1 and 2) vying for title. Sadly a number of top players missing because of farcical scheduling of final. Manchester Grammar missing Fernandez brothers, Habs missing Ravi Haria and Eltham College without their top two. Hopefully, someone will see sense and have the event at a better time next year.

The passage of time has something to do with the changes to the Manchester Grammar team - elder Fernandez brother Daniel left school three years ago and has just finished his 2nd year of Maths at Cambridge. And the elder of the two Horton brothers, Jamie, is also at Univ now, featuring for Oxford in the Varsity match this year (in which Daniel F played board one for Cambridge). But certainly If Michael Fernandez (the younger brother) isn't available, that will be a big miss for MGS.

Manchester Grammar are not quite the force of old, but would have probably been challenging with Michael Fernandez in the team. As it is they are actually defaulting on board 6.
It would be nice to see all the top players here, but the timing of the final makes that very unlikely.

Matthew Turner wrote:Manchester Grammar are not quite the force of old, but would have probably been challenging with Michael Fernandez in the team. As it is they are actually defaulting on board 6.
It would be nice to see all the top players here, but the timing of the final makes that very unlikely.

Who have they got in the team?

Horton, Abbas, Jason lau, Kevin ye, James descent.

Congratulations to Reading School who beat Hampton School in the final on board count.

Summary places:

1st - Reading School
2nd Hampton School
3rd - Millfield School
4th - RGS Guildford
5th - King Edward VI Chelmsford
Plate Winners - City of London School
Other 6th= (alphabetically): Haberdashers' Aske's; Manchester Grammar School; Queen Elizabeth's Boys' School Barnet; Royal Grammar School Newcastle; Wellington College