The Belfast LJCC Qualifier 2012
Focused on the beautiful game
In the Junior section it was decided to merge U8, U10 and U12 and play an all play all.
Also in the U19 section we were able to play a seven round all play all.
The section included last years Belfast Scholastic Shield Holder and Under 12 Ulster Champion - a top star in Ulster Chess Raghav Gupta who won the tournament without dropping a game. In the U19's we had the Irish International player Karina Kruk WCM (Womans Candidate Master).
Against him we had a section that included 5 girls. Lucia Corrigan held second place until beaten in the final round by Ellen Eachus.
Admira excelled gaining 2 points considering she was by far the youngest player.
Honor and Ryan only lossing 2 games. Shared 2nd place on 5 points.
| Place | Name | Age Group | Score |
| 1 | Raghav Gupta | U12 | 7 |
| 2-3 | Ryan Jackson | U12 | 5 |
| Honor Parissis | U10 | 5 | |
| 4 | Lucia Corrigan | U12 | 4 |
| 5-6 | Ellen Eachus | U10 | 2.5 |
| Rachel Eachus | U12 | 2.5 | |
| 7 | Admira Kecskemeti | U8 | 2 |
Karina plays Matthew Chapman round 4. Karina won. The overall winner was Matthew who won all of his matches apart from this game.
Karina Kruk and Radhika Gupta shared second place.
It was a day of good challenging chess with time between games spent solving chess puzzles and playing friendly games.
| Place | Name | Age Group | Score |
| 1 | Chapman, Matthew | U19 | 6 |
| 2-3 | Kruk, Karina | U19 | 5 |
| Gupta, Radhika | U19 | 5 | |
| 4 | Donaldson, Thomas | U19 | 4.5 |
| 5 | Henning, Adam | U19 | 4 |
| 6 | McMcwhinney, Ashley | U19 | 1.5 |
| 7 | Freag, Feras | U19 | 1 |
| 8 | Turnbull, Chris | U19 | 0 |
