Junior Chess

Horsham Junior Chess Club returns after the Christmas break on Tuesday 7th January at the usual time. The first junior competition games of the new year will take place on Tuesday 21st January...

Matthew triumphed decisively over the rest of the junior club in the HJCC simul...

HJCC will restart for the season on Tuesday 10th September at the usual times of 6:25pm-7:25pm...

While the club may have closed for the summer, some members are still chessing despite the heatwave! The diagram (Black to play) shows a recent position from a junior training session with yours truly as White and one of HJCC's brightest talents Oliver Thorne as Black, which I thought followers of the website might enjoy...

Amy Hoare has been out in Slovenia recently representing England in the European Team Under 18 Girls Championships...

Matthew continues to make waves in the junior chess world - this time he was scoring 5.5 in the national schools Southern Gigafinal in Reading...

Those of you who were at the last HJCC of the term last Tuesday will have heard the winners, for those who have not here are the top 5...

We may be taking a short break to improve our game but meanwhile Horsham players continue to play some great chess.

Matthew Forster is out in Serbia representing England with fellow Horsham junior Amy Hoare.

A couple of useful websites so you can follow progress:
http://www.school2013.org/index.php/en/
http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/escc-2013-day-six-report/

HJCC members Matthew Forster and Oliver Thorne were part of the winning Sussex team at the EPSCA Under 11 finals in Nottingham.

Just a quick reminder to all parents that there is no junior chess tomorrow due to half term. See you again next week.