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Glorney Gilbert International 2015

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    #92
    Tim Harding
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Tim Harding


    A great performance all round. In my 40 years competing in Irish chess, I think we now have the strongest group of young players I can remember, especially the under-14s.

    Having played several teenagers in various events this year, I predict they will certainly be challenging the mature Irish masters and experts and their foreign contemporaries in the next couple of years if they can go on from this.
    Do we have juniors going to the Gibraltar event next month?


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    #93
    eclipsechaser
    Registered Users Posts: 878 ✭✭✭eclipsechaser


    Nice to be getting some good coverage!

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/leftfield/irish-u18s-claim-chess-glory-on-home-soil-after-receiving-support-of-president-higgins-31399011.html


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    #94
    2bts
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭2bts


    Pleased to see the Independent considers Junior Chess a Sport.


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    eclipsechaser
    Registered Users Posts: 878 ✭✭✭eclipsechaser


    2bts wrote: »
    Pleased to see the Independent considers Junior Chess a Sport.

    Albeit a left-field one!


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    sinbad68
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭sinbad68


    Yes, Congratulation to the irish glorney teams. It's a good thing that the English don't take this competition half as seriously as it's taken over here and they sent a second rate team and kept their creme de la creme at home, Imagine if they sent, over 2100 rated 12 year old players like koby kalavannan & anthony zhang .England would have won everything .


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    Tim Harding
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    You can only beat the opponents they put in front of you. Of course the British players get much more opportunities for strong opposition and probably coaching support.
    Yes, Anthony Zhang (born 2002 like Henry Li etc.) could have played on England's Glorney or Robinson team.

    Tomorrow Zhang has Black against GM Mark Hebden in the first round of the British Championship: the game will be live.
    Koby Kalavannan is in the top half of the draw and plays White against an opponent of lower rating.

    Henry also played in a violin competition in the Feis Ceoil this year. So chess is not his only interest but he is certainly capable of going over 2200 in the next few years - as are Alex Byrne and Tom O'Gorman.


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    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Some interviews with parents, coaches and players:

    https://stbenilduschessclub.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/glorney-interviews/


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