Derbyshire Junior Chess

04/06/2026

If you or your children are attending the UK Chess Challenge on Sunday, I have sent a list of announcements to you. Please read them carefully. We are looking for tuck shop supervisors and board stewards on the day — if you are able to help, please let Alan Kennedy know.

01/06/2026

entries for the UK chess challenge event on Saturday are filling up fast. If you have not entered I would advise you to do so quickly. Link is below.

08/11/2025

Results for today's tournament are

Monachs https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1287906.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0

Knights https://s3.chess-results.com/tnr1287909.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0

Chess-Results.com is a powerful and dedicated server only for chess-results. The tournament archive of chess-results.com contains more than 40.000 tournaments from around the world.

18/10/2025

The first junior chess tournament of the year for under 11s and under 18s. It will be held in the TT Hut at Rolls Royce on Saturday 8 November starting at 12.30pm If you want to have a go for the county team this is the place to start. Also there will hopefully be a beginners section. Alan

Please enter early, event is restricted to 40 players, once it's full it's full! The first tournament of our season this will also be used as a county under 11 team trial. The Monarchs section is for those who secondary school students . The Knights section is for improving players aged under 11 and...

01/06/2025

todays results for the Derbyshire UK chess challenge can be seen here

Chess-Results.com is a powerful and dedicated server only for chess-results. The tournament archive of chess-results.com contains more than 40.000 tournaments from around the world.

16/03/2025

Well done to everyone who played yesterday! We performed exceptionally well, considering that, on average, we were outgraded by 300 points, and this was the first Derbyshire County Under-11 chess team since 2005.
Particularly impressive results were achieved by Nishkal (1.5), Ethan (2), Tarini (2), and Thomas (2) (all scores out of 3), but every player exceeded my expectations.

https://chess-results.com/tnr1137422.aspx?lan=1&art=1
Live Boards (Top 4 boards)
https://lichess.org/.../2025-epsca-u11.../round-1/psvuxlmP
A team photo featuring most of the players is below. Alan Kennedy

14/03/2025

the top boards from tomorrow's county under 11 matches can be seen on Lichess at

https://lichess.org/broadcast/2025-epsca-u11-midland-zone/round-1/psvuxlmP and scores are at https://chess-results.com/tnr1137422.aspx?lan=1&art=8

Chess-Results.com is a powerful and dedicated server only for chess-results. The tournament archive of chess-results.com contains more than 40.000 tournaments from around the world.

24/02/2025

If you want your child to be considered for selection in the county team (players graded 500 and above are encouraged to apply) then https://forms.gle/gRUDDHWfcibAFfr29 gives the form. We have pre selected seven players. Please can they also fill in the form.

Alan

Derbyshire under 11 primary schools chess - availability questionnaire for completion by prospective players

24/02/2025

Details of the EPSCA under 11 tournament can be seen below https://bit.ly/dpscau11epsca You might need to log into microsoft to view it.