The Edinburgh Megafinal was played on Saturday May 28th 2022 at The Edinburgh Academy Senior School under the rules of the UK Chess Challenge
The top players qualified for the Gigafinals.
The prize winners and qualifiers are listed below. The scores are out of a maximum of 6 points.
Under 18
Boys
1st Oliver Whalley 5*
2nd Karthikeya Vundi 4.5*
3rd Matthew Willder 4*
Girls
1st Florence Wilson 3.5*
2nd Nivedita Suyal 1.5
Under 14
Boys
1st Daniel Kitaev 5.5*
2nd Morvin Gera 5*
3rd Xia Rong 4*
Also Qualified
Ishan Kumar 4
Osian Hunt 4
Girls
1st place Eugenia Ramsay 1*
2nd Alice Ocytko 0.5
Under 12
Boys
1st Srinivas Rath 5.5*
2nd Kritan Boggarapu 5.5*
3rd Joseph Zhao 5*
Also qualified
Drisith Palaniswamy 4
Alexander Malham 4
James Meyer McKeon 4
Tom Aitken 4
Jonathan Shi Chit Kan 3.5
Girls
1st Angharad Hunt 4.5*
2nd Kanishka Bhatia 4*
3rd Sahana Chakraborty 4*
Under 10
Boys
1st Rithvik Deepak Ambattu 6*
2nd Humam Al Dakl Alla 5*
3rd Tristan Del Mar 5*
Also Qualified
Alagu Karthick 4.5
Vedanth Vikram 4.5
Nicholas Kitaev 4
Unnabh Shrestha 4
Nathan Lee 4
Rowan Oren-Woods 4
Leo Li 4
Oluwarotimi Akanmu 4
William Buchan 3.5
Shaurya Vundi 3.5
Girls
1st Cecelia Lu 3.5*
2nd Meiting Wang 3*
3rd Nilakshi Bhattacharjee 3*
Also qualified
Poppy Page 3
Under 8
Boys
1st Louis Cheng 6*
2nd Devesh Sharma 5*
3rd Nick Yan 4*
Also qualified
Ruben Chandra 4
Tushit Chatterjee 4
Girls
1st Isabella McGeough 2*
2nd Alba Gorman 1.5
A * by the score indicates a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place prize winner who qualified for the Gigafinal. If there were 4 or more people in the age/gender pool (eg Under 12 Girls) the top three qualified. If there were 3 or fewer only the first placed player qualified. In addition, players scoring 4 points qualified and U7s in the U8 Section, U9s in the U10 section and U11s in the U12 section who scored 3.5 points qualified, as did anyone attaining the same score as the 3rd place qualifier.
To the best of our knowledge Lothian Junior Chess have applied the qualification criteria correctly in compiling and announcing these results, but qualification is subject to confirmation by UK Chess Challenge.