The Tenth Team Battle on the Lichess Arena will take place on Monday, October 5th starting at 6pm.
Please register at https://lichess.org/tournament/82ibA5fN
Please register for this ASAP !
The match start at 6pm every other Monday night and completes by 7.30pm
Please register (for free) on lichess.org and then email me (John Upham) at john.upham@zen.co.uk and will get you into the team !
The Tenth Team Battle on the Lichess Arena will take place on Monday, October 5th starting at 6pm.
Please register at https://lichess.org/tournament/82ibA5fN
Please register for this ASAP !
The match starts at 6pm every other Monday night and completes by 7.30pm
Please register (for free) on lichess.org and then email me (John Upham) at john.upham@zen.co.uk and will get you into the team !
The Seventh Team Battle on the Lichess Arena will take place on Monday, August 3rd starting at 6pm.
Please register at https://lichess.org/tournament/kw8qlRbT
We retained our place in Division One for the first time and the team’s results have improved each time.
Please register for this ASAP !
The match starts at 6pm every other Monday night and completes by 7.30pm
Please register (for free) on lichess.org and then email me (John Upham) at john.upham@zen.co.uk and will get you into the team !
The Sixth Team Battle on the Lichess Arena will take place on Monday, July 20th starting at 6pm.
Please register at https://lichess.org/tournament/ImhcurZv
Please register for this ASAP !
The HJCA Lichess Team
Hampshire Junior Chess Association is entering junior teams into the online Lichess Arena competitions.
The matches start at 6pm each Monday night and complete by 7.30pm
Please register (for free) on lichess.org and then email me (John Upham) at john.upham@zen.co.uk and will get you into the team !
The Sixth Team Battle on the Lichess Arena will take place on Monday, July 20th starting at 6pm.
https://lichess.org/tournament/ImhcurZv
Please register for this ASAP !
The HJCA Lichess Team
Hampshire Junior Chess Association is entering junior teams into the online Lichess Arena competitions.
The matches start at 6pm each Monday night and complete by 7.30pm
Please register (for free) on lichess.org and then email me (John Upham) at john.upham@zen.co.uk and will get you into the team !
The Hampshire Team played its second LiChess Battle on Monday, June 2nd and after 90 minutes of hard fought Blitz games emerged in 3rd place out of nine teams.
A late entry was the mighty Sussex team so winning was always going to be challenge.
At many points in the match we were lying second.
Here are the best scorers from our team :
Hampshire Junior Chess Association is delighted to announce the appointment of FIDE Trainer Lucas Piecha as the EPSCA Under-9 and EPSCA Under-11 Team Manager. Winchester based Lucas adds these Team Manager roles to his Head Coach role and will be a popular appointment.
Lucas will be selecting Hampshire juniors for the March 2020 series of EPSCA matches including the first EPSCA match to be hosted by HJCA in many years !
HJCA would like to thank Ollie Blacklock for his sterling work as the previous Team Manager.
Details of our Team Managers may be found here and details of all HJCA Officers may be found here.
Details of forthcoming matches may be found here.
EPSCA have sent HJCA dates and venues for the 2019 – 2020 competitions #
Dates and venues as follows :
Under 11 zone Saturday 7th March 2020 in ?
Under 9 zone Saturday 14th March 2020 in Hampshire (!)
Under 11 Girls Final Saturday 21st March 2020 in ?
Under 11 Final Saturday 28th March 2020 in ?
Under 9 Final Saturday 25th April 2018 at ?
Hampshire Junior Chess Association is delighted to announce the appointment of Ollie Blacklock as our Under 11 Team Manager.
Ollie also manages the Under 9 team and the two teams have a large overlap of players.
We wish Ollie all the best in his new role and look forward to his contributions to the fortunes and success of Hampshire Junior Chess Association.
Hampshire Junior Chess Association is delighted to announce the appointment of Ollie Blacklock as our Under 9 Team Manager.
Ollie has kindly penned his chess biography as an introduction :
Discovering there was no junior chess club within 25 miles for my son to attend, I decided to set up a club at his school – the New Forest Small School – in Lyndhurst in 2015.
Following visits to three junior chess schools in Kazakhstan, and a discussion with Elyena Gaichenya of the “Champion” club in Almaty, I decided to start an independent junior club – the New Forest Chess Club – based in Lymington in 2017. This club has been very successful and has over 20 members and a waiting list, and some of the strongest junior players in the county.
I joined the Southampton Chess Club in 2017, and am in the process of registering as an ECF accredited coach. I give private chess tuition, and when I’m not doing chess, I’m being a design engineer, sailing, or playing music.
We wish Ollie all the best in his new role and look forward to his contributions to the fortunes and success of Hampshire Junior Chess Association.
