Brothers playing for England

[MJMcCready]

More recently there's been Stanley and Frankie Badacsonyi and Amandeep and Adamjeet Singh.

I doubt the Badacsonyi would have played together in the same junior teams since the ages are too far apart (3 years); the Singh's may have but it would have to have been this year when Adamjeet would be in his last for the U11 and Amandeep playing as an U9 on the bottom boards

Obviously all of them would have played for England at some stage but that wasn't the question

I also have an issue around these events like the seniors when saying you are playing for England, yes the first team since there is selection crieria (possibly??), but the others are on a volunteer basis so it is just a title and technically not playing for England officially

It is not normally like this is it? Usually it's the playing elite that got the invites I thought.

[IM Jack Rudd]

England A is always an elite team in these events. Other England teams are more of a movable feast.

[Ian Thompson]

England would have to go some to emulate these guys...
https://s1.chess-results.com/tnr1396652 ... 5&SNode=S0

The team is called "Six Brothers", suggesting they have two more in reserve!

Last year, and in previous years, they've only been 5 brothers. Where's the new brother come from? It can hardly be a new birth when the existing brothers are playing in an Over-50s event.

[Ian Thompson]

I also have an issue around these events like the seniors when saying you are playing for England, yes the first team since there is selection crieria (possibly??), but the others are on a volunteer basis so it is just a title and technically not playing for England officially

I think you are technically officially playing for England because the ECF selected you for the team. It's just not much of an achievement, and nothing to be proud of, when the only selection criterion is the willingness and ability to pay all the costs of participation yourself.

It is not normally like this is it? Usually it's the playing elite that got the invites I thought.

Everyone over the minimum age limit is invited, and has been for many years. The only requirement is that they're willing to pay for it, although there is/was a statement that players rated below about 1700 wouldn't enjoy it to put them off applying.

[GrahamStuart]

England would have to go some to emulate these guys...
https://s1.chess-results.com/tnr1396652 ... 5&SNode=S0

The team is called "Six Brothers", suggesting they have two more in reserve!

Last year, and in previous years, they've only been 5 brothers. Where's the new brother come from? It can hardly be a new birth when the existing brothers are playing in an Over-50s event.

According to the US Rating site there are six players with the Jhunjhnuwala surname, although two are inactive. Could be they just wanted to reflect how many brothers there are in the family who play chess.
https://ratings.uschess.org/?fuzzy=Jhunjhnuwala

[Roger de Coverly]

According to the US Rating site there are six players with the Jhunjhnuwala surname, although two are inactive. Could be they just wanted to reflect how many brothers there are in the family who play chess.
https://ratings.uschess.org/?fuzzy=Jhunjhnuwala

They played as a team for Hong Kong at the 1974 Student Olympiad in Teesside

https://www.olimpbase.org/1974y/1974hkg.html

[John Upham]

Could I be awfully PC and ask about siblings playing for England instead?

[Ian Thompson]

Could I be awfully PC and ask about siblings playing for England instead?

I'd be rather surprised if a female player has ever played for an England open team, except for Seniors events. Possibly siblings might have played at the same event, with one in the open team and one in the female team (e.g. Adam and Harriet Hunt, or Jovanka and Miroslav Houska, in junior events).

[NickFaulks]

Sisters in the same women's team would count. There are of course numerous high profile examples from around the world but ( perhaps surprisingly ) I can't think of any in England.

[Mick Norris]

Sisters in the same women's team would count. There are of course numerous high profile examples from around the world but ( perhaps surprisingly ) I can't think of any in England.

Possibly not at national level, but Heywood in the Manchester League have a pair of sisters and their brother, all of whom played 4NCL for the Manticores, so I imagine it's relatively common

[Roger de Coverly]

Other England teams are more of a movable feast.

There's also England 3 in the Over 50 aka "Team Ledger".

They play quite frequently as a team. There's Blackthorne in the 4NCL and before that Bedford in the National Clab.

[Kevin Williamson]

Other England teams are more of a movable feast.

There's also England 3 in the Over 50 aka "Team Ledger".

They play quite frequently as a team. There's Blackthorne in the 4NCL and before that Bedford in the National Clab.

And also the Bedfordshire county team. In the Beds V Middlesex, Minor Counties quarter final on 14/5/94, the top 5 Beds boards were called either Ledger or Hare. As far as I know, the two Hares were not related.

[MJMcCready]

Other England teams are more of a movable feast.

There's also England 3 in the Over 50 aka "Team Ledger".

They play quite frequently as a team. There's Blackthorne in the 4NCL and before that Bedford in the National Clab.

And also the Bedfordshire county team. In the Beds V Middlesex, Minor Counties quarter final on 14/5/94, the top 5 Beds boards were called either Ledger or Hare. As far as I know, the two Hares were not related.

The Hares used to play for Milton Keynes didnt they?

[Matt Mackenzie]

Sisters in the same women's team would count. There are of course numerous high profile examples from around the world but ( perhaps surprisingly ) I can't think of any in England.

There were the Eagle twins back in the day, did they play for England at junior level?

[Tim Harding]

The Jhunjhnuwala brothers (originally from Hong Kong) play in this event every year. Only four actually play but the fifth may sometimes travel with them perhaps. The sixth is, I think, either deceased or didn't move to USA. I never knew the forenames of numbers 5 and 6.