| British Championships 2006 Week 2 The
U12 Championship saw a virtual re-run of the U13 with Akash Jain facing
a Sussex player, this time Alex Galliano, in a playoff for the title.
This time, however, it was Akash who had the half point advantage,
and he secured a draw against Alex to take the title, leaving Alex
to take 2nd place. Ben Silverstein finished on 3 out of 7 points. The Major Open competition saw a number of Sussex competitors. Grant Bucher scored 5.5 from 10, Joe Fraser 5 and Andrew Tucker 4. Week 1 In an excellent first week of the British Championships, Sussex had 3 British Championships and one second place. In the U13 Championships, George Salimeni lead from the start of the week, and failed to be overtaken by Akash Jain, who was half a point behind but was only able to push George to a draw in the last game of the tournament. George finished on an impressive 6 out of 7 in an extremely tough tournament. Rhys Cumming scored 4 and Ben Blundell, Oskar Schortz and Chris Linnett all scored 3 points. Robert Fitzgerald took the U8 Championship with a perfect 6 out of 6. Ram Mohan took the two day U9 Championship on an impressive 6.5 out of 7, a full point ahead of Radha Jain. Robert Fitzgerald scored 5 points and Shyam Mohan scored 4. Jude Lenier took joint 2nd place in the U11 tournament, having beaten Craig Whitfield in the final round to level him on points, but being overtaken by Robert White. |