Delancey Chess Challenge Belfast Megafinal 2017
In the surrounds of the beautiful school of Methodist College, Belfast. We werent sure of the numbers of children attending. This is one of the few tournaments we run that looks to get entries in advance. This year the organisers have moved from postal entries to an excellent online registration service.
With the boards out. We registered the players taking their dates of birth and allocating a category based on this. Then the calculation of best how we could split the age groups into sizes that allowed for a 6 round tournament. In the end I decided that we would have one section for the U7/8/9/10/11 and one section for U12/13/14/15/16.
A little latter than planned the tournament begun and the room went from a friendly buzz to a hushed silence as the players focused on their games.
To qualify players had either to win their aged group and become a Supremo or Suprema or gain 3.5 points for those Under12 and over or 4 points for those in the lower sections.
Trophies supplied by the Delancey Chess Challenge as well as certificates and 3 books. The competition to get to the Giga-finals was on.
U11 mega - Round 1
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Maxim Dobrynin U11 [0] 1:0 Rahul Shah U10 [0] 2 Ali Shahzad U9 [0] 0:1 Adam Fitzsimons U8 [0] 3 Jasper Grady U10 [0] .5:.5 Aaditya Singh U7 [0] 4 Anjali Singh U9 [0] 1:0 Ronan Hanna U9 [0] 5 Dexter Harris U9 [0] 1:0 Sharan Varma U10 [0] 6 Birney Wang U10 [0] 0:1 Josh Morrison U10 [0] 7 Cormac O'Donnell U11 [0] 1:0 Steffie WU U10 [0] 8 Calvin Patterson U10 [0] .5:.5 BYE
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Within our players Dexter Harris, Calvin Patterson and Adam Fitzsimons are players to watch. How would they fare against new comers and improving players like Aaditya and Anjali Singh. Adam and Dexter gains points. Maxim Dobrynin gets a point - Maxim played last year and qualified to Manchester gaining 4.5 out of 6 at the Under10 finals - a brilliant result.
U11 mega - Round 2
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Josh Morrison U10 [1] 0:1 Maxim Dobrynin U11 [1] 2 Adam Fitzsimons U8 [1] 1:0 Cormac O'Donnell U11 [1] 3 Anjali Singh U9 [1] 0:1 Dexter Harris U9 [1] 4 Calvin Patterson U10 [.5] 1:0 Jasper Grady U10 [.5] 5 Aaditya Singh U7 [.5] 1:0 Ronan Hanna U9 [0] 6 Rahul Shah U10 [0] 1:0 Birney Wang U10 [0] 7 Sharan Varma U10 [0] 1:0 Ali Shahzad U9 [0] 8 Steffie WU U10 [0] 1:0 BYE
Maxim, Adam, Dexter and Calvin win their respective games. The first 3 coming out of the 2nd round on 2 full points.
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U11 mega - Round 3
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Maxim Dobrynin U11 [2] .5:.5 Adam Fitzsimons U8 [2] 2 Dexter Harris U9 [2] 1:0 Aaditya Singh U7 [1.5] 3 Josh Morrison U10 [1] 0:1 Calvin Patterson U10 [1.5] 4 Cormac O'Donnell U11 [1] 0:1 Anjali Singh U9 [1] 5 Steffie WU U10 [1] 0:1 Rahul Shah U10 [1] 6 Jasper Grady U10 [.5] 1:0 Sharan Varma U10 [1] 7 Ronan Hanna U9 [0] 1:0 Ali Shahzad U9 [0] 8 Birney Wang U10 [0] 1:0 BYE
Maxim and Adam draw. Leaving Dexter gaining a point off Aaditya and going into the lead with 3 out of 3.
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U11 mega - Round 4
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Adam Fitzsimons U8 [2.5] .5:.5 Dexter Harris U9 [3] 2 Calvin Patterson U10 [2.5] 0:1 Maxim Dobrynin U11 [2.5] 3 Rahul Shah U10 [2] 0:1 Anjali Singh U9 [2] 4 Birney Wang U10 [1] 0:1 Jasper Grady U10 [1.5] 5 Aaditya Singh U7 [1.5] 1:0 Cormac O'Donnell U11 [1] 6 Ronan Hanna U9 [1] .5:.5 Steffie WU U10 [1] 7 Sharan Varma U10 [1] 0:1 Josh Morrison U10 [1] 8 Ali Shahzad U9 [0] 1:0 BYE
Adam takes on Dexter and again draws against one of the top players - however the draw was quite fortuitous as it was a stalemate with Dexter having the winning position. Going to show you should never give up. Maxim now shares the lead with Dexter both on 3.5. No player having hit the qualifying score of 4 points.
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U11 mega - Round 5
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Maxim Dobrynin U11 [3.5] .5:.5 Dexter Harris U9 [3.5] 2 Anjali Singh U9 [3] 0:1 Adam Fitzsimons U8 [3] 3 Aaditya Singh U7 [2.5] 0:1 Calvin Patterson U10 [2.5] 4 Jasper Grady U10 [2.5] 0:1 Rahul Shah U10 [2] 5 Josh Morrison U10 [2] 1:0 Ronan Hanna U9 [1.5] 6 Ali Shahzad U9 [1] .5:.5 Steffie WU U10 [1.5] 7 Cormac O'Donnell U11 [1] 1:0 Birney Wang U10 [1] 8 Sharan Varma U10 [1] 1:0 BYE
Dexter holds Maxim to a draw and both get 4 qualifying points, Adam gains a point off Anjali and also gets the qualifying 4 points.
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U11 mega - Round 6
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Adam Fitzsimons U8 [4] 0:1 Calvin Patterson U10 [3.5] 2 Anjali Singh U9 [3] 0:1 Maxim Dobrynin U11 [4] 3 Dexter Harris U9 [4] 1:0 Josh Morrison U10 [3] 4 Rahul Shah U10 [3] 1:0 Aaditya Singh U7 [2.5] 5 Steffie WU U10 [2] 0:1 Jasper Grady U10 [2.5] 6 Sharan Varma U10 [2] .5:.5 Cormac O'Donnell U11 [2] 7 Birney Wang U10 [1] 1:0 Ali Shahzad U9 [1.5] 8 Ronan Hanna U9 [1.5] 1:0 BYE
The last round sees three leaders on 4 points playing other players. Adam looses to Calvin who on 4.5 is the top Under10 Boy. Whilst Adam is the top Under8 Boy. Dexter wins his game and ends joint leader with Maxim on 5 points. Rahul Shah pulls up with an excellent score of 4 points.
Under11 Section
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1-2 Maxim Dobrynin U11 5 15.5 23.5 18.0
Dexter Harris U9 5 12.5 19.5 18.5
3 Calvin Patterson U10 4.5 13.5 21.0 15.0
4-5 Adam Fitzsimons U8 4 15.0 21.0 16.5
Rahul Shah U10 4 10.5 17.0 12.0
6 Jasper Grady U10 3.5 10.0 16.0 11.0
7-8 Anjali Singh U9 3 15.5 22.5 13.0
Josh Morrison U10 3 13.5 20.0 11.0
9-12 Aaditya Singh U7 2.5 14.5 21.5 11.0
Sharan Varma U10 2.5 12.0 18.0 7.5
Ronan Hanna U9 2.5 10.0 14.0 6.5
Cormac O'Donnell U11 2.5 9.0 14.5 8.5
13-14 Birney Wang U10 2 12.0 17.0 5.0
Steffie WU U10 2 11.0 16.0 7.5
15 Ali Shahzad U9 1.5 8.5 14.0 4.0
The age group winners and the qualifiers. Aaditya Singh being the youngest player has an excellent score of 2.5.
| Place | Name | Age | Score | |
| 1-2 | Maxim Dobrynin | U11 | 5 | U11 Supremo |
| Dexter Harris | U9 | 5 | U9 Supremo | |
| 3 | Calvin Patterson | U10 | 4.5 | U10 Supremo |
| 4-5 | Adam Fitzsimons | U8 | 4 | U8 Supremo |
| Rahul Shah | U10 | 4 | Qualifier | |
| 6 | Jasper Grady | U10 | 3.5 | |
| 7-8 | Anjali Singh | U9 | 3 | U9 Suprema |
| Josh Morrison | U10 | 3 | ||
| 9-12 | Aaditya Singh | U7 | 2.5 | U7 Supremo |
| Sharan Varma | U10 | 2.5 | ||
| Ronan Hanna | U9 | 2.5 | ||
| Cormac O'Donnell | U11 | 2.5 | ||
| 13-14 | Birney Wang | U10 | 2 | |
| Steffie WU | U10 | 2 | U10 Suprema | |
| 15 | Ali Shahzad | U9 | 1.5 |
Under16 - Round 1
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Calum Glenndinning U12 [0] 1:0 Aditya Shah U14 [0] 2 Minaahil Shahzad U13 [0] 1:0 Louie McConkey U13 [0] 3 Ciaran Rowan U16 [0] 1:0 Katy Thornton U12 [0] 4 Daniil Zelenchuk U14 [0] 1:0 Adam Rushe U16 [0] 5 Pheobe Patterson U12 [0] .5:.5 BYE
We are lucky to have up and coming player Daniil Zelenchuk - who is playing and winning against everyone - his results in the UCU Chess League being outstanding. How would the section challenge Daniil?
Under16 - Round 2
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Minaahil Shahzad U13 [1] 0:1 Calum Glenndinning U12 [1] 2 Daniil Zelenchuk U14 [1] 1:0 Ciaran Rowan U16 [1] 3 Louie McConkey U13 [0] 1:0 Pheobe Patterson U12 [.5] 4 Adam Rushe U16 [0] 0:1 Aditya Shah U14 [0] 5 Katy Thornton U12 [0] 1:0 BYE
Under16 - Round 3
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Calum Glenndinning U12 [2] 0:1 Daniil Zelenchuk U14 [2] 2 Katy Thornton U12 [1] 0:1 Louie McConkey U13 [1] 3 Ciaran Rowan U16 [1] 1:0 Minaahil Shahzad U13 [1] 4 Aditya Shah U14 [1] 1:0 Pheobe Patterson U12 [.5] 5 Adam Rushe U16 [0] 1:0 BYE
Under16 - Round 4
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Aditya Shah U14 [2] 0:1 Daniil Zelenchuk U14 [3] 2 Louie McConkey U13 [2] 1:0 Calum Glenndinning U12 [2] 3 Adam Rushe U16 [1] 1:0 Ciaran Rowan U16 [2] 4 Pheobe Patterson U12 [.5] 1:0 Katy Thornton U12 [1] 5 Minaahil Shahzad U13 [1] 1:0 BYE
Daniil goes into the lead with 4 out of 4.
Under16 - Round 5
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Daniil Zelenchuk U14 [4] 1:0 Louie McConkey U13 [3] 2 Calum Glenndinning U12 [2] 0:1 Adam Rushe U16 [2] 3 Pheobe Patterson U12 [1.5] 0:1 Ciaran Rowan U16 [2] 4 Katy Thornton U12 [1] 0:1 Minaahil Shahzad U13 [2] 5 Aditya Shah U14 [2] 1:0 BYE
Several players on 3 can qualify next round scoring 3.5 or more.
Under16 - Round 6
Results
No Name Feder Total Result Name Feder Total 1 Daniil Zelenchuk U14 [5] 1:0 Pheobe Patterson U12 [1.5] 2 Ciaran Rowan U16 [3] .5:.5 Louie McConkey U13 [3] 3 Minaahil Shahzad U13 [3] 0:1 Aditya Shah U14 [3] 4 Adam Rushe U16 [3] 1:0 Katy Thornton U12 [1] 5 Calum Glenndinning U12 [2] 1:0 BYE
Daniil wins undefeated on 6 out of 6. Followed by Adam Rushe and Aditya Singh on 4. and qualifiers Ciaran Rowan and Louie McConkey on 3.5.
Under16
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Daniil Zelenchuk U14 6 13.0 18.0 21.0
2-3 Adam Rushe U16 4 12.5 19.0 10.0
Aditya Shah U14 4 11.5 19.0 12.0
4-5 Ciaran Rowan U16 3.5 11.0 17.5 12.5
Louie McConkey U13 3.5 10.0 16.5 12.5
6-7 Calum Glenndinning U12 3 13.5 22.0 12.0
Minaahil Shahzad U13 3 12.5 16.5 11.0
8 Pheobe Patterson U12 1.5 13.5 20.0 6.0
9 Katy Thornton U12 1 12.5 17.5 5.0
The age group winners and the Qualifiers.
| Place | Name | Section | Score | Qualifying |
| 1 | Daniil Zelenchuk | U14 | 6 | U14 Supremo |
| 2-3 | Adam Rushe | U16 | 4 | U16 Supremo |
| Aditya Shah | U14 | 4 | Qualifier | |
| 4-5 | Ciaran Rowan | U16 | 3.5 | Qualifier |
| Louie McConkey | U13 | 3.5 | U13 Supremo | |
| 6-7 | Calum Glenndinning | U12 | 3 | U12 Supremo |
| Minaahil Shahzad | U13 | 3 | U13 Suprema | |
| 8 | Pheobe Patterson | U12 | 1.5 | U12 Suprema |
| 9 | Katy Thornton | U12 | 1 |
A big thanks to everyone who played - win or loose chess is a brilliant game and with practice everyone can improve - and good luck to those going to Manchester to the Gigafinals. We will let you know how they do.
The atmosphere was brilliant and the chess exciting and challenging - a brilliant day... thanks...
The website for the Delancy Chess Challenge : https://www.delanceyukschoolschesschallenge.com/
