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The World Schools Chess Championship 2017 starts today and runs to Sunday 30th April. It is an 9 round event for U7s, U9s, U11s, U13s, U15s & U17s. The location is Iasi in Romania.

The event website is https://chessinschool.ro/

The chess-results link for results and pairings:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr264495. ... =30&wi=984

Meet England's team here:

http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/wscc ... -the-team/

Good luck to our 7 players supported by two very experienced coaches.

Latest news, photographs etc can be seen via the twitter feed : @ECFJuniors2017

No twitter account? You can follow the twitter feed via this link:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ECFJuniors2017

Progress report after 6 of the 9 rounds. Two England players (Nadia Jaufarally) have 3.5 points, two (Giulio Sahinoz and Roshan Gurjar) are on 3, while the other three each have 2.5.

For daily round reports and photographs follow this link to the ECF junior web pages:

http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/wscc-2017/

Diana Mirza of Ireland (whose father is Romanian) has won the Girls U17 with 6.5/9 on tiebreak ahead of an Azeri girl.
She is already a veteran of two FIDE olympiads.
Why no English competitor in this?

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr264493. ... 984&snr=14

Tim Harding wrote:Why no English competitor in this?

It's not a good time of year for English U-17s to take time off school.

It's not a good time of the year for anyone in school to take time off.
There is a cost implication & decision & was well thought out.
It was last weekend of 4NCL so the top juniors were supporting their teams & playing.

Congrats to all those playing - including the Irish - & their coaches & organisers.