East of Scotland Megafinal Results 2024

Under 18

Girls

Boys

1st Florence Wilson

1st Ross Blackford 6

2nd Matthew Willder 5

3rd= Daniel Kiteav 4

3rd = Marvin Gera 4

Also Qualified

Rishon Arun 3½

Hugo Verity-Povoas 3½

Sean Gatenby 3½



Under 14

Girls

Boys

1st Shriya Madhu 4 

2nd Angharad Hunt 4

3rd Sahana Chakraborty 3½

1st = Joseph Zhao 5

1st = Raghuram Parasur 5

1st = Raghav Palanivel 5

Also Qualified

Srinivas Rath 4

Euan Bell 4

Jeric Peter Kiran 4

Sai Mallick 3½

Aniruddha Vishwanath 3½

Zach Patel 3½

Sanjay Dinesh Kumar 3½

Under 12

Girls

Boys

1st = Shruti Madhu 4 (1st = U11)

1st = Nilakshi Bhattacharjee 4 (1st = U11)

3rd = Laya Fernando Yogesh 3

3rd = Anaya Malpure 3 (3rd U11)

1st Tristan Del Mar 6

2nd = Nicholas Kitaev 4½ ( 1st = U11)

2nd = Alden Arun 4½ (1st = U11)

2nd = Rowan Oren-Woods 4½

Also qualified

James Lee 4

Qinshu Hao 4 (3rd = U11)

Vedanth Vikram 4 (3rd = U11)

Shang Gao 4

Marek Dziobek 3½

Tigmansh Ameta 3½

David Sheng 3½

Oliver Robinson 3½

Kieran Lin 3½

Under 10

Girls

Boys

1st Arsthea Rajasekar 4 (1st U9)

2nd Netra Gaikwad 3½

3rd = Nikhita Manoj 3

3rd = Lakshya Ashok Kumar 3

3rd = Keira Zhang 3 (2nd U9)

Also qualified:

Ivy Low 0 (3rd U9)

1st Aadith Prabhu 6

2nd = Yadhev Nathan 5 (1st = U9)

2nd = Tushit Chatterjee 5 (1st = U9)

2nd = Leander Hering-Bayer 5 (1st = U9)

Also qualified:

Alexei White 4

Arseni Cojocaru-Plamadeala 4

Omkar Joshi 4

Eric Rapan 4

Andrew Yu 4

Advay Menon 4

Fraser Easton 3½

Benan Hunter 3½

Damon Singh 3½

Under 8

Girls

Boys

1st Alice Yuan 4½ (1st U7)

2nd Ananya Vikram 3 (2nd U7)

1st Prithvi Nathan 6 (1st U7)

2nd Adam S Y Ling 4

3rd = Ainesh Prabhu 3 (2nd = U7)

3rd = Adrian Hering-Bayer 3 (2nd = U7)

3rd = Eddie Huang 3

Srivishnu Garlapati (U6) also received a medal for being our youngest player.

Lothian Junior Championships and Taster Tournament

The Lothian Junior Championships are open to players who live in Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders council areas. There are sections for Secondary, Primary (P7 & Under) and P5 & Under.

Lothian Junior Chess are pleased to announce the return of our popular Taster Tournament. This is an afternoon of chess for young players who may not feel ready to tackle a six round tournament. It's fun and friendly and run alongside our main tournament (the Lothian Junior Championship), so players can experience playing in match conditions (including using clocks) knowing their games will be against other rookie players.

East of Scotland Megafinal Results 2023

Thanks to everyone who came and played in the Megafinal on Sunday, and to the parents and others who brought the players along. UK Chess Challenge will be in touch with the people who have qualified shortly with details of the Gigafinals and how to enter. Congratulations to the prize winners and the qualifiers.

Under 18

Girls

1st Emma Salazar Eyre 4

2nd Yelizaveta Kuznietsova 3.5

3rd Florence Wilson 2.5

Boys

1st Daniel Kitaev 5

2nd = James Hartman 4.5

2nd = Marvin Gera 4.5

2nd = Matthew Willder 4.5

Qulaifiers

Ross Blackford 4

Nahum Bradford 3.5

Taylor Fletcher 3.5

Alex King 3.5

Kurt Noveros 3.5

Jacob Sladek 3.5

Pavel Yanev 3.5

 Full results on chess-results.com

Under 14

Girls

1st Sahana Chakraborty 3.5

2nd Eva Tai 3

3rd Laura Ruiz 0

Boys

1st Kritan Boggarapu 5.5

2nd = Michael Moroz 5

2nd = Raghuram Parasur 5

Qualifiers

Drisith Palaniswamy 4.5

Kai Moroz 4

Osian Hunt 4

Matthew Esser 4

Ashok Chandan Chandrasekaran Arunkumar 4

Ravi Paget-Tomlinson 3.5

Dylan Tedford 3.5

Joseph Zhao 3.5

Raghav Palanivel 3.5

Sam Chandra 3.5

Sai Mallick 3.5

Anton Skornyakov 3.5

Leopold Ahnert 3.5

Tom Dixon 3.5

Full results on chess-results.com

Under 12

Girls

1st Shriya Madhu

2nd Meiting Wang (1st Under 11)

3rd Cecilia Lu (2nd Under 11)

Boys

1st Aniruddha Vishwanath 5.5

2nd Tristan Del Mar 5 (1st U11)

3rd = Srinivas Rath 4.5

3rd = Rowan Oren-Woods 4.5 (2nd U11)

Qualified

Alexander Malham 4

Ashrith Ashok 4

Cory Stewart 4

Charlie Li 4

Jiayi Fan 3.5

Rory Leburn 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Marek Dziobek 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Drew Robertson 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Lochi McCready 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Ryan Chandorkar 3.5

Leonardo Lo Rizzo 3.5

Zach Patel 3.5

Daniel Kemp 3.5

Vishnuvaradhan Sriram 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Full results on chess-results.com

Under 10

Girls

1st Shruti Madhu 4

2nd Chinmayi Garlapati 3

3rd = Audrey Li 2

3rd = Olivia Karus 2 (1st U9)

3rd = Anaya Malpure 2

Lorelei Powell 1 (2nd U9)

Boys

1st Pavlo Sokolenko 6

2nd Vedanth Vikram 5

3rd = Qinshu Hao 4.5

3rd = Finlay Robertson 4.5

Qualifiers

Saitej Ganti 4

Ayush Vijay 4

Aadith Prabhu 4 (1st = U9)

Nandan Chintapalli 4 (1st = U9)

Nicholas Kitaev 3.5

James Rajendran 3.5

Eric Rapan 3.5 (3rd U9)

David Sheng 3.5

Nicholas M. Santos 3.5 

Full results on chess-results.com


Under 8

Girls

1st Branwen Hunt 1

Boys

1st Louis Cheng 6

2nd Devesh Sharma 5

3rd = Haruo Uegaki 4

3rd = Chunyi Fan 4

Full results on chess-results.com

The above is correct by our interpretation of the rules but qualification is subject to confirmation by UK Chess Challenge.

Scottish Girls' Championships Results

Scottish Girls’ Championship

1st Kanishka Bhatia        5

2nd Sahana Chakraborty    3½

3rd Elyzaveta Kuznietsova 3½

Medals:

Jennifer Feng         2½

Shriya Madhu          2½

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Scottish girls’ primary championship

1at Meiting Wang               5

2nd Qingxiang Zheng         4

3rd Laya Fernando              3

Medals

Iona Hunter                3

Maria Vilkova              3

Audrey Li                  3

Anaya Malpure             2½

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Scottish Girls’ P5 & Under Championship

1st Shruti Madhu             5

2nd Vihaa Vadalia            4

3rd Anika Munshi             4

Medals:

Janani Mohan             4

Anika Mittal             3

Maria Al Dakl Alla       3

Olivia Karus             3

Elsa Liu                 3

Isabella Mcgeough        3

Reina Gaikwad            3

Netra Gaikwad           2½

Caitlyn Othieno         2½

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Lothian Junior Championship Results

Thanks for everyone for coming along for a record-breaking tournament. We had 60 in the Secondary (Open) section which blows out of the water the 21 we had in 2020 and 2018. With 31 in the Primary and 29 in the P5 & Under all sections were well represented. We also had a good range of experience with some of the top junior players in the country battling it out for first place and a lot of novice players enjoying their first tournament. We hope we’ll see them all back at future tournaments.

Results:

Open Championship (S6 & Under)

1st Frederick Waldhausen Goeden 5.5

2nd Daniel Kiteav 5.5

3rd Ross Blackford 5

4th Kritan Boggarapu 5

5th Marvin Gera 4.5

Grading Prize (Under 800) Joel Bradford 4

Grading Prize (Ungraded) Jacob Sladek 4

Medals:

Jennifer Feng 4½

Jonathan Feng 4½

Florence Wilson 4

Joel Bradford 4

Nahum Bradford 4

Kai Moroz 4

Angharad Hunt 4

Drisith Palaniswamy 4

Raghuram Parasur 4

Srinivas Rath 4

Sahana Chakraborty 4

Jacob Sladek 4

Misha Pushkarov 4

Osian Hunt 3½

Tommy Weddell 3½

Vedanth Vikram 3½

Alex King 3½

Hugo Kagungila 3½

Laksh Thakur 3

Shriya Madhu 3

Tomos Hunt 3

Sai Mallick 3

Christian Gordon 3

Siyumi Parakramawansha 3

Lachlan Cattanach 3

Luke Brennan 3

Alexander Malham 3

Sanjay Dinesh Kumar 3

Anton Skornyakov 3

Daniel Kemp 3

Ashok Chandan Chandrasekaran Arunkumar 3

Hugo Verity-povoas 3

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Primary (P7 & Under)

1st Tristan Del Mar 6

2nd Pavlo Sokolenko 5

3rd Meiting Wang 4½

4th Zach Patel 4½

5th Jiayi Fan 4½

Grading Prize (Under 300) Qinshu Hao 4

Medals:

Vishnu Varadhan Sriram 4

Oluwarotimi Akanmu 4

Poppy Page 4

Max Scott 3½

Thomas Wakulicz 3½

Seth Kandasamy 3

Aliaskar Jusup-brooker 3

Anaya Malpure 3

Charlie Li 3

Advay Sisodia 3

Dannier Sabir 3

James Rajendran 3

Sanjeev Dhanasekaran 3

Oliver Robinson 3

Max Kelly 3

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P5 & Under

1st Nicholas Kitaev 5½

2nd Alden Arun 5

3rd Devesh Sharma 4½

4th Damodharan Sadagopan 4½

5th Ruben Chandra 4½

Grading Prize (Ungraded) Prithvi Nathan 4

Medals:

Shruti Madhu 4

Ayush Vijay 4

Vidhaan Srivastava 4

Aadith Prabhu 3½

Chunyi Fan 3½

Charles Reid 3½

Johan Kiran 3

Arseni Cojocaru-plamadeala 3

Advay Menon 3

Valentino Viola 3

Kamran Sabir 3

Chinmayi Garlapati 3

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Congratulations to all our prize winners and thank you to all the players for the excellent levels of behaviour and sportsmanship shown and to their parents for bringing them along and supporting them in their chess-playing.

Thank you to all the people who helped before and on the day to make this event a success

Many thanks to the Broughton High School Association for providing us with such an excellent range of refreshments.

Spring/Summer 2023 Events

We are returning to Broughton High School for the first event of the season, the Lothian Junior Congress. It means that we are back to our pre-covid capacity plus we will once again have the cafe run by the The Broughton Association.

After that it is back to St George’s for the Scottish Girls, which Chess Scotland have asked us to host again after the success of last year’s tournament when we had more entrants since before any of the players competing last year were born. St George’s has strong links with chess, being founded by Sarah Siddons-Mair who was also a founding member of the very successful Edinburgh Ladies Chess Club.

We’re once again at Broughton for the UK Chess Challenge Megafinal at the end of March and are very excited that those players who qualify from the Megafinal for the Gigafinal will be able to compete in that stage here in Edinburgh at the end of June at the first ever Scottish Gigafinal. Like last year, you do not need to qualify from a school or club tournament to play in the Megafinal - it is open to everyone of school age.

Details of all these tournaments are on our events page. Please enter early to ensure you get a space, especially for the Megafinal which often sells out.

Lothian Junior Congress Results

Open

1st Nahum Bradford 5.5

2nd Pavlo Sokolenko 4.5

3rd Vedanth Vikram 4.5

4th Humam Al Dakl Alla 4

Grading Prize: Alagu Karthik 4

Medals

Advik Mittal 4

Tavish Railwani 3.5

Raghav Palanival 3

Srinivas Rath 3

Christian Gordon 3

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Secondary U900/Ungraded

1st Sai Mallik 5

2nd Angharad Hunt 5

3rd Kai Moroz 4.5

4th Abhi Verma 4.5

Grading Prize Lachlan Cattanach 4

Medals:

Aiden Clarke 4

Gregory Stewart Roper 4

Anton Skomyakov 4

Philip Dorman 4

Tommy Wedell 3

Taylor Fletcher 3

Hugo Kagungila 3

Conor Reid 3

Yichen Shu 3

Alex King 3

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Primary U900

1st Nathan Lee 5

2nd Lochan Balaji 5

3rd Maggie Wang 4.5

4th Alden Arun 4

Grading Prize Marek Dziobek 3

Medals:

Anika Munshi 4

Leo Li 4

Sumanth Prakash 3.5

Haruo Uegaki 3

Ruben Chandra 3

Devesh Sharma 3

Aadith Prabhu 3

Arnav Rekhate 3

Dannier Sabir 3

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Primary U300/Ungraded

1st Alessandro Matteo Attili 6

2nd Oluwartimi Akanmu 5

3rd Oliver Robinson 4.5

4th David Sheng 4.5

Grading Prize Ayush Vijay 4

Medals:

Timur Kassimkulov 4

Johan Kiran 4

Vidhaan Srivastava 4

Maria Vikova 4

Zhihong Wang 4

Max Kelly 3.5

Advay Menon 3.5

Prithvi Ranjith Nair 3.5

Kamran Sabir 3

Daniel Casson 3

Max Scott 3

Thomas Crichton 3

Om Patil 3

Anaya Malpure 3

Louis Bannon-O’Rawe 3

Olivia Karus 3

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