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I am pleased to announce that the ECF U18 County Championships will take place in 2018.
Brief details are given below.

Date: Sunday 25th February
Place: The King’s School, Grantham
Sections: ECF U18 Open (12 players) and U18 Minor (6 players, grade limited)
Organiser: Neill Cooper, ECF Manager of School Chess
Format: 2 round Jamboree
More details to follow in due course

Some discussion about this competition has been posted at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9373#p207831

Various counties have expressed interest in entering though few have entered so far.
It should be noted that for entries received after 1st February 2018 there is an added charge of £20 per team.

Neill Cooper wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:18 pm

Various counties have expressed interest in entering though few have entered so far.
It should be noted that for entries received after 1st February 2018 there is an added charge of £20 per team.

Pleasingly, I've found someone to run a Warwickshire team on the day while I'm at BUCA, so now I just have the task of getting a team of 12 together.

Entries now coming in. So far:
Under 18 Open – Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex
Under 18 Minor – Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Kent
(http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/counties-main/)

The closing date for entries is 18th February 2018

Entries now coming in. So far:
Under 18 Open – Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex
Under 18 Minor – Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Kent
(http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/counties-main/)

The closing date for entries is 18th February 2018

wonder if you will have any more teams from the north going to enter

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:43 pm

wonder if you will have any more teams from the north going to enter

Final entries:
Under 18 Open – Hertfordshire, Surrey, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex
Under 18 Minor – Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Kent, Nottinghamshire

For those interested in such things, here is a table of recent venues and entrants:

Hertfordshire County Junior Teams are being entered by Hertfordshire Schools Chess Association (HSCA). This year Roger has been of great assistance in promoting the ECF U18 tournament at his club and as a result we are able to field a team in both sections.

If at all possible Herts will try and locate a suitable venue, but without having any secondary school teachers to turn to it is not easy to find one.

The enormous 2013 event which we hosted at Haberdashers Askes School, including u13 sections, was a fantastic event organised by previous HSCA chairman, Yogesh Jina.

I don't think we currently have sufficient resources to be able to repeat something on that scale.

maybe you need to try Manchester or somewhere in Birmingham to run it next year?

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 24, 2018 11:56 am

maybe you need to try Manchester or somewhere in Birmingham to run it next year?

I found a venue in Solihull for EPSCA Under 11 Final late last year. It's now also being used for the EPSCA Under 9s and the UKCC Midlands Gigafinal. So maybe I can help in 2019...

Apparently Kings School, Grantham, did not charge for the venue. The school also ran the snack bar with a selection of hot snacks (pizza, panini, cornish pasties) and drinks.

A well run event.
Open: 1. Kent (16.5pts), 2. Sussex (16pts), 3. Surrey (15pts), 4. Herts (9.5pts), 5.= Leics, Suffolk (7.5pts).

Haberdashers took the school team trophy (total of 4 best players scores).
Roundwood Park, Harpenden, scored 3.5/4 (brother & sister on boards 1 & 5)

Thanks Michael for the report.
Also Knole Academy, Sevenoaks scored 3.5/4 (brothers on board 3 and 4).

Minor: Norfolk 9, Yorks 8.5, Kent 7, Notts 5, Surrey 2 Herts 1.5

Results and report on ECF website at http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/unde ... hips-2018/