Childrens Chess Tournament at Methodist College on 9th March 2024
Geoff Hindley and Karina Campbell setup the rooms and put up the arrows indicating the Chess Rooms. The year is flying by this is our 6th Monthly Schools Chess tournament. We have some of the top young chess players competing. The atmosphere is friendly the chess is brilliant to watch. With all ages playing. From P3 to Sixth Form. Each of the afternoon Childrens Chess tournaments contributes to our Grandprix for the Belfast Scholastic Shields - standing will be published shortly on this website.
This month the trophies are sponsored by company: Brypol Electrical, an Electrical appliance, hardware, retail and repair shop based in Carrickfergus : www.brypolelectrical.com
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As usual we handed out puzzle sheets as the pupils registered. This month the puzzles on the back of the sheet were particularly challenging. So some tips were given. We are lucky in the Rooms we have at our excellent venue Methodist College that there are large blackboards that are screens so we can display our players drawers and any chess diagrams. This assists with the challenge of playing over 2 rooms. With the draw visible for everyone to see we can quite quickly get players into the correct rooms.
The Primary School Puzzle solving champion: Lorcan Rippon. With a brilliant 19 out of 22.
| Name | Year | score | Cert |
| Rippon, Lorcan | P7 | 19 | Gold |
| McKeown, Alex | P4 | 14 | Silver |
| Loughrey, Matthew | P5 | 13 | Silver |
| Coakley, Jackson | P6 | 7 | Bronze |
| Jahandizi, Kia Kazemi | P5 | 6 | Bronze |
| Spence, Luke | P3 | 3 | Bronze |
The Secondary Chess Puzzle Champion : Toby Crothers with a complete 22 out of 22 - a fantastic score considering the difficulty of the problems.
| Name | Year | score | Cert |
| Crothers, Toby | F4 | 22 | Gold |
| Campbell, Andrew | L6 | 19 | Gold |
| Karpagavinayagam, Karthikeya | F3 | 15 | Silver |
| Rippon, Saoirse | F3 | 14 | Silver |
| Murphy, Peter | F3 | 11 | Silver |
| Deekonda, Rithvik | F2 | 10 | Silver |
| Labuda, Artur | F2 | 8.5 | Bronze |
| Corr, Freddie | F1 | 8 | Bronze |
| Corr, Jonah | F4 | 7 | Bronze |
| Banerjee, Aharshi | F2 | 6 | Bronze |
| Kirkland , Isaac | F4 | 4 | Bronze |
The back sheet of the problems. These dont give you the result ie Mate in 2. So you have to find the best moves. Solutions at the end of the page.
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Problems from the brilliant books :
With the start of round 1. The Rooms fell to a hush of focused thought.
Round 1
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Andrew Campbell L6 [0] 1:0 Jake Gourley F2 [0] 2 Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 [0] 0:1 Jonah Corr F4 [0] 3 Freddie Corr F1 [0] 1:0 Artur Labuda F2 [0] 4 Aidan Spence F1 [0] 0:1 Peter Murphy F3 [0] 5 Lorcan Rippon P7 [0] 1:0 Matthew Loughrey P5 [0] 6 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 [0] 0:1 Alex McKeown P4 [0] 7 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 [0] 1:0 Luke Spence P3 [0] 8 Oisín Byrne P7 [0] 0:1 Saoirse Rippon F3 [0] 9 Thomas Loughrey F3 [0] 1:0 Conor Marsh P7 [0] 10 Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 [0] 0:1 Eli Davison F4 [0] 11 Isaac Kirkland F4 [0] 0:1 Darragh Marsh P5 [0] 12 Jackson Coakley P6 [0] 0:1 Ryan Pettigrew F3 [0] 13 Aharshi Banerjee F2 [0] 1:0 Abhiram Ganja P4 [0] 14 Samudra Chakrabarti-Anjaria P3 [0] 0:1 Rithvik Deekonda F2 [0]
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The pupils are rated and if games go to rating then you will see alternate wins and looses. Starting with top cede Andrew Campbell. So this happens with player Darragh Marsh (P5) breaking the pattern getting a good win against Thomas Loughrey.
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Round 2
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Saoirse Rippon F3 [1] 0:1 Andrew Campbell L6 [1] 2 Jonah Corr F4 [1] 0:1 Thomas Loughrey F3 [1] 3 Eli Davison F4 [1] 1:0 Freddie Corr F1 [1] 4 Peter Murphy F3 [1] .5:.5 Ryan Pettigrew F3 [1] 5 Rithvik Deekonda F2 [1] 0:1 Lorcan Rippon P7 [1] 6 Alex McKeown P4 [1] .5:.5 Aharshi Banerjee F2 [1] 7 Darragh Marsh P5 [1] 0:1 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 [1] 8 Toby Crothers F4 [.5] 1:0 Isaac Kirkland F4 [0] 9 Jake Gourley F2 [0] 1:0 Oisín Byrne P7 [0] 10 Conor Marsh P7 [0] 0:1 Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 [0] 11 Artur Labuda F2 [0] 1:0 Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 [0] 12 Jackson Coakley P6 [0] 1:0 Aidan Spence F1 [0] 13 Matthew Loughrey P5 [0] 1:0 Samudra Chakrabarti-Anjaria P3 [0] 14 Abhiram Ganja P4 [0] 1:0 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 [0] 15 Luke Spence P3 [0] 1:0 BYE
Toby Crothers arrived late so was given a half point bye and we had an odd no of players. So the bottom player got a bye - a full point and played either Geoff or Karina a friendly game and some informal coaching. Andrew Campbell continues to win. With Thomas Loughrey, Eli Davison, Lorcan Rippon, and Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam winning and moving to round 2 on full points.
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Round 3
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Andrew Campbell L6 [2] 1:0 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 [2] 2 Lorcan Rippon P7 [2] 1:0 Eli Davison F4 [2] 3 Thomas Loughrey F3 [2] 1:0 Peter Murphy F3 [1.5] 4 Aharshi Banerjee F2 [1.5] 1:0 Toby Crothers F4 [1.5] 5 Ryan Pettigrew F3 [1.5] .5:.5 Alex McKeown P4 [1.5] 6 Artur Labuda F2 [1] 0:1 Jonah Corr F4 [1] 7 Freddie Corr F1 [1] 1:0 Matthew Loughrey P5 [1] 8 Darragh Marsh P5 [1] 1:0 Saoirse Rippon F3 [1] 9 Rithvik Deekonda F2 [1] .5:.5 Jackson Coakley P6 [1] 10 Luke Spence P3 [1] 0:1 Jake Gourley F2 [1] 11 Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 [1] 1:0 Abhiram Ganja P4 [1] 12 Isaac Kirkland F4 [0] 1:0 Oisín Byrne P7 [0] 13 Aidan Spence F1 [0] 1:0 Conor Marsh P7 [0] 14 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 [0] 0:1 Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 [0] 15 Malachy Yao Duffin P7 [0] 1:0 BYE
Lorcan Rippon and Alex McKeown lead the primary pupils. Lorcan joint leader going into round 4. Alex getting a good draw against Ryan Pettigrew. Darragh Marsh gets a good result against Saoirse Rippon. Andrew Campbell continues his wins as does Thomas Loughrey.
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Round 4
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Thomas Loughrey F3 [3] 0:1 Andrew Campbell L6 [3] 2 Aharshi Banerjee F2 [2.5] 0:1 Lorcan Rippon P7 [3] 3 Jonah Corr F4 [2] 0:1 Eli Davison F4 [2] 4 Ryan Pettigrew F3 [2] .5:.5 Freddie Corr F1 [2] 5 Alex McKeown P4 [2] 0:1 Darragh Marsh P5 [2] 6 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 [2] 1:0 Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 [2] 7 Jake Gourley F2 [2] 1:0 Rithvik Deekonda F2 [1.5] 8 Toby Crothers F4 [1.5] 1:0 Jackson Coakley P6 [1.5] 9 Peter Murphy F3 [1.5] 1:0 Artur Labuda F2 [1] 10 Saoirse Rippon F3 [1] .5:.5 Malachy Yao Duffin P7 [1] 11 Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 [1] 0:1 Isaac Kirkland F4 [1] 12 Abhiram Ganja P4 [1] 0:1 Aidan Spence F1 [1] 13 Matthew Loughrey P5 [1] 1:0 Luke Spence P3 [1] 14 Oisín Byrne P7 [0] 0:1 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 [0] 15 Conor Marsh P7 [0] 1:0 BYE
Lorcan Rippon and Andrew Campbell win and are joint leaders ready to meet in the next round. Darragh Marsh new to our competitions plays Alex McKeown a regular and top primary player, Darragh wins. The leaders are being chased by a group on 3 points including Darragh Marsh, Eli Davison, Jake Gourley, Thomas Loughrey and Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam.
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Round 5
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Andrew Campbell L6 [4] 1:0 Lorcan Rippon P7 [4] 2 Darragh Marsh P5 [3] 0:1 Thomas Loughrey F3 [3] 3 Eli Davison F4 [3] 0:1 Jake Gourley F2 [3] 4 Freddie Corr F1 [2.5] .5:.5 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 [3] 5 Peter Murphy F3 [2.5] 1:0 Aharshi Banerjee F2 [2.5] 6 Toby Crothers F4 [2.5] 1:0 Ryan Pettigrew F3 [2.5] 7 Aidan Spence F1 [2] 0:1 Jonah Corr F4 [2] 8 Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 [2] 0:1 Alex McKeown P4 [2] 9 Isaac Kirkland F4 [2] 1:0 Matthew Loughrey P5 [2] 10 Jackson Coakley P6 [1.5] 0:1 Saoirse Rippon F3 [1.5] 11 Malachy Yao Duffin P7 [1.5] 0:1 Rithvik Deekonda F2 [1.5] 12 Artur Labuda F2 [1] 0:1 Abhiram Ganja P4 [1] 13 Luke Spence P3 [1] 0:1 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 [1] 14 Conor Marsh P7 [1] 0:1 Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 [1] 15 Oisín Byrne P7 [0] 1:0 BYE
Andrew Campbell wins against Lorcan Rippon and goes into the lead on full points. The puzzle sheets were collected for marking.
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Round 6
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Andrew Campbell L6 [5] 1:0 Peter Murphy F3 [3.5] 2 Lorcan Rippon P7 [4] 1:0 Thomas Loughrey F3 [4] 3 Jake Gourley F2 [4] 0:1 Toby Crothers F4 [3.5] 4 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 [3.5] 1:0 Isaac Kirkland F4 [3] 5 Jonah Corr F4 [3] 1:0 Darragh Marsh P5 [3] 6 Alex McKeown P4 [3] 0:1 Freddie Corr F1 [3] 7 Saoirse Rippon F3 [2.5] 0:1 Eli Davison F4 [3] 8 Ryan Pettigrew F3 [2.5] 0:1 Aharshi Banerjee F2 [2.5] 9 Rithvik Deekonda F2 [2.5] 1:0 Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 [2] 10 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 [2] 0:1 Aidan Spence F1 [2] 11 Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 [2] 0:1 Matthew Loughrey P5 [2] 12 Abhiram Ganja P4 [2] 0:1 Malachy Yao Duffin P7 [1.5] 13 Oisín Byrne P7 [1] 0:1 Jackson Coakley P6 [1.5] 14 Luke Spence P3 [1] .5:.5 Conor Marsh P7 [1] 15 Artur Labuda F2 [1] 1:0 BYE
Marking the problem sheets is always done under a little time pressure. We have the solutions which makes it easier. So I dont get to take any photos - those below are from the day in the Second Room taken by Karena Campbell who together with Geoff Hindley run the room and play friendlies against players with Byes.
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Round 7
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Toby Crothers F4 [4.5] 0:1 Andrew Campbell L6 [6] 2 Lorcan Rippon P7 [5] 0:1 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 [4.5] 3 Freddie Corr F1 [4] 0:1 Jonah Corr F4 [4] 4 Thomas Loughrey F3 [4] 0:1 Jake Gourley F2 [4] 5 Eli Davison F4 [4] .5:.5 Peter Murphy F3 [3.5] 6 Aharshi Banerjee F2 [3.5] 0:1 Rithvik Deekonda F2 [3.5] 7 Matthew Loughrey P5 [3] 0:1 Alex McKeown P4 [3] 8 Isaac Kirkland F4 [3] 0:1 Aidan Spence F1 [3] 9 Darragh Marsh P5 [3] 0:1 Ryan Pettigrew F3 [2.5] 10 Malachy Yao Duffin P7 [2.5] .5:.5 Jackson Coakley P6 [2.5] 11 Saoirse Rippon F3 [2.5] 0:1 Artur Labuda F2 [2] 12 Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 [2] 1:0 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 [2] 13 Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 [2] 1:0 Luke Spence P3 [1.5] 14 Conor Marsh P7 [1.5] 1:0 Oisín Byrne P7 [1] 15 Abhiram Ganja P4 [2] 1:0 BYE
As the times of the rounds completed reasonably quickly we were able to run 7 rounds. The results dont always reflect the closeness of the games. Some brilliant chess was played and some agonising mistakes.... all part of the beautiful game of chess. Andrew Campbell wins on 7 out of 7 points. Followed by Karthikeya on 5.5 points and Lorcan Rippon on 5 points.
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Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Andrew Campbell L6 7 22.0 30.0 28.0
2 Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam F3 5.5 18.0 26.0 21.5
3-5 Lorcan Rippon P7 5 22.0 32.0 24.0
Jake Gourley F2 5 18.0 25.5 19.0
Jonah Corr F4 5 18.0 25.0 18.0
6-8 Eli Davison F4 4.5 21.0 28.5 19.5
Toby Crothers F4 4.5 18.5 28.5 18.5
Rithvik Deekonda F2 4.5 17.0 24.5 15.5
9-13 Thomas Loughrey F3 4 22.0 31.0 21.0
Freddie Corr F1 4 20.0 28.0 17.5
Peter Murphy F3 4 19.5 29.0 17.5
Alex McKeown P4 4 16.0 22.0 16.5
Aidan Spence F1 4 14.5 21.5 12.0
14-15 Aharshi Banerjee F2 3.5 20.0 27.5 17.0
Ryan Pettigrew F3 3.5 18.5 25.5 15.5
16-24 Darragh Marsh P5 3 19.5 27.5 16.0
Mokshith Kudaravalli F2 3 18.0 25.5 12.0
Artur Labuda F2 3 17.0 24.5 9.0
Isaac Kirkland F4 3 17.0 23.0 12.0
Matthew Loughrey P5 3 16.5 22.5 12.0
Jackson Coakley P6 3 16.5 21.5 11.0
Malachy Yao Duffin P7 3 16.0 23.0 9.5
Abhiram Ganja P4 3 15.0 21.0 10.0
Kia Kazemi Jahandizi P5 3 12.5 18.0 9.0
25-26 Saoirse Rippon F3 2.5 15.5 23.0 12.0
Conor Marsh P7 2.5 14.5 19.0 6.0
27 Maxim Likhodievskiy P6 2 13.5 18.0 7.0
28 Luke Spence P3 1.5 16.5 24.0 7.0
29 Oisín Byrne P7 1 14.0 21.0 3.0
30 Samudra Chakrabarti-Anjaria P3 0 7.5 7.5 0.0
Form 4 and above section winners.
Champion : Andrew Campbell who also won the tournament overall with full points.
| Name | Year | Score | Section | Cert. | M-Buch. | Buch. | Progr. | |
| Campbell, Andrew | L6 | 7 | F4< | 1st | 1st Trophy | 22 | 30 | 28 |
| Corr, Jonah | F4 | 5 | F4< | 2nd | 2nd Trophy | 18 | 25 | 18 |
| Davison, Eli | F4 | 4.5 | F4< | 3rd | 21 | 28.5 | 19.5 | |
| Crothers, Toby | F4 | 4.5 | F4< | 3rd | 18.5 | 28.5 | 18.5 |
Form 3 section winners.
Champion : Karthikeya Karpagavinayagam and second overall.
| Name | Year | Score | Section | Cert. | M-Buch. | Buch. | Progr. | |
| Karpagavinayagam, Karthikeya | F3 | 5.5 | F3 | 1st | 1st Trophy | 18 | 26 | 21.5 |
| Loughrey, Thomas | F3 | 4 | F3 | 2nd | 2nd Trophy | 22 | 31 | 21 |
| Murphy, Peter | F3 | 4 | F3 | 2nd | 19.5 | 29 | 17.5 | |
| Pettigrew, Ryan | F3 | 3.5 | F3 | 3rd | 18.5 | 25.5 | 15.5 |
Form 2 Section winners
Champion : Jake Gourley and 4th Overall.
| Name | Year | Score | Section | Cert. | M-Buch. | Buch. | Progr. | |
| Gourley, Jake | F2 | 5 | F2 | 1st | 1st Trophy | 18 | 25.5 | 19 |
| Deekonda, Rithvik | F2 | 4.5 | F2 | 2nd | 2nd Trophy | 17 | 24.5 | 15.5 |
| Banerjee, Aharshi | F2 | 3.5 | F2 | 3rd | 20 | 27.5 | 17 |
Form 1 Section winners
Champion : Freddie Corr
| Name | Year | Score | Section | Cert. | M-Buch. | Buch. | Progr. | |
| Corr, Freddie | F1 | 4 | F1 | 1st | 1st Trophy | 20 | 28 | 17.5 |
| Spence, Aidan | F1 | 4 | F1 | 1st | 2nd Trophy | 14.5 | 21.5 | 12 |
Primary 7 Section winners
Champion : Lorcan Rippon and 3rd Overall
| Name | Year | Score | Section | Cert. | M-Buch. | Buch. | Progr. | |
| Rippon, Lorcan | P7 | 5 | P7 | 1st | 1st Trophy | 22 | 32 | 24 |
| Duffin, Malachy Yao | P7 | 3 | P7 | 2nd | 2nd Trophy | 16 | 23 | 9.5 |
| Marsh, Conor | P7 | 2.5 | P7 | 3rd | 14.5 | 19 | 6 |
Primary 6 Section winners
Champion : Jackson Coakley
| Name | Year | Score | Section | Cert. | M-Buch. | Buch. | Progr. | |
| Coakley, Jackson | P6 | 3 | P6 | 1st | 1st Trophy | 16.5 | 21.5 | 11 |
| Likhodievskiy, Maxim | P6 | 2 | P6 | 2nd | 2nd Trophy | 13.5 | 18 | 7 |
Primary 5 and Below Section winners
Champion : Alex McKeown
| Name | Year | Score | Section | Cert. | M-Buch. | Buch. | Progr. | |
| McKeown, Alex | P4 | 4 | P5< | 1st | 1st Trophy | 16 | 22 | 16.5 |
| Marsh, Darragh | P5 | 3 | P5< | 2nd | 2nd Trophy | 19.5 | 27.5 | 16 |
| Loughrey, Matthew | P5 | 3 | P5< | 2nd | 16.5 | 22.5 | 12 | |
| Ganja, Abhiram | P4 | 3 | P5< | 2nd | 15 | 21 | 10 | |
| Jahandizi, Kia Kazemi | P5 | 3 | P5< | 2nd | 12.5 | 18 | 9 | |
| Spence, Luke | P3 | 1.5 | P5< | 3rd | 16.5 | 24 | 7 |
Many thanks to all the players and parents. To Brypol Electrical for providing the brilliant trophies. To Methodist College for an excellent venue. Most of all a big thankyou to our volunteers for making all this possible.
See you next month on Saturday 13th April same place and same times.
Solutions to the puzzles
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13. Black to move (1001W-787) 1. Kd6 d2 2. Kc7 d1(Q) 3. Ra6+ bxa6 4. b6+ Ka8 5. b7+ Ka7 6. b8(Q)# |
14. White move. (1001W-788) 1. Rd8+ Kxd8 2. Nb7+ winning Queen 1. … Rxd8 2. Bxc5 |
15. White to move (1001W-789) 1. Nb6+ King moves NxQ 2. …. axb6 3. Qa8# |
16. White to move (1001W-790) 1. Nb6 Qxb6 2. Qd4+ Rxd4 3. Rxb6 threatening both Rook and Knight 2. Qd4 Qxd4 3. Nxd4 Rxd4 4. Bxg4 |
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17. White to move (1001W-791) 1. Nxh7 Kxh7 2. Bxh6 g6 3. Qxg6 fxg6 4. Bxf8# |
18. White to move (1001W-792) 1. Rg6 fxg6 2. hxg6+ Rxg6 3. fxg6+ winning |
19. White to move (1001W-793) 1. Nxc6 bxc6 2. Bxg7 Kxg7 3. Qxc6 Nc7 4. Rc1 Re7 5. Rc5 Qb6 6. Qxb6 axb6 7. Rxc7 Rxc7 8. Bxa8 |
20. Black to move (1000CC-330) 1. Rxe4 Nxe4 2. Rxe4 fxe4 3. Bf4+ Kc8 3. Qb6 winning |
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21. Black to move (1000CC-331) 1. …. Qxb2+ 2. Kxb2 Nc4+ |
22 White to move (1000CC-332) 1. Qxh5+ gxh5 2. g6+ fxg6 3. fxg6# |
