World Schools Chess Championship 2017

[John Higgs]

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

[Roger Lancaster]

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.

[John Higgs]

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

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

[Tim Harding]

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?

[John Higgs]

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

[IM Jack Rudd]

Why no English competitor in this?

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

[Nick Grey]

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.