Junior Events ...
23 February 2025
Several 3Cs youngsters were in the three Oldham teams who took part in the 2025 under-18s' Pennine Cup in which Oldham compete as themselves despite it otherwise being for Northern-based County sides - and such confidence doing so was well justified by the Oldham first team finishing 5th out of 18 entrants, while only event winners, Merseyside A, scored more individual points than the 23.5 achieved by the Oldham side.
The photographs show Oldham players relaxing between rounds while full details of the competition can be seen by clicking the link below ..
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November 2024
Sofia Daysh pictured receiving her trophy after finishing as runner-up out of 32 players in the Yorkshire junior rapidplay competition with a score of 5.5 / 7, having only lost to the top seed and eventual winner of the event. Another 3Cs' players, Noah Hicks, finished equal 3rd, scoring 5 points.
August 2024
Edward Jackson and Alannah Ashton have been to Prague in the Czech Republic to represent England at the European Youth Championships.
Edward, who was elevated to the rank of Candidate Master earlier this year, competed in the under-18s' tournament while Alannah, twice a British Junior Champion, took part in the girls' under-14s' competition.
Details of their matches are via the following links
7 July 2024
Pictured right is 3Cs' Kyle Pelling being presented with his award after retaining the EJCOA Under-18s National title which he also won in 2023.
30 June 2024
All five 3Cs' entrants finished in the top 10 at the Lymm Junior Blitz competition.
Brothers Sebastian and Thomas Kearns along with Ryan Ainley, James Kaliski and Sachin Osmond can be seen in action and with their medals in the photos below
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August 2024
3Cs' Kyle Pelling helped England win the 2024 Glorney Cup which is annually contested by the top under-18 players from the four home nations. Kyle was unbeaten during the event while England won the event with a 100% record.
The photos (right) show Kyle with the Glorney Cup, his England colleagues and the Lord Mayor of Hull, where the tournament was staged.
Many congratulations also to the winning team manager, 3Cs' Vic Pelling,
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20 August 2023
Kyle Pelling represented England in the 2023 Glorney Cup; a junior international event between the four home nations, which this year was played in Stirling, Scotland. Kyle was board 1 for England and finished with a win and four draws from his six games. However, Scotland won the trophy, while more details can be seen via the following link ...
9 July 2023
Charlie Barnes finished runner-up in the Ashton junior rapidplay scoring 4 out of 5. Several other 3Cs' players entered the event, namely Sebastian and Thomas Kearns, Maeve Martiniere, Bailey Jones and James Kaliski.
10 December 2023
Ibrahim Riaz scored 5/6 and came runner-up in the under-9s' section of the Greater Manchester junior rapidplay tournament with Elodie Martiniere finishing on 4 out of 6. The under-11s' event included Maeve Martiniere (4pts), Sachin Osmond (3.5) and Hafsa Riaz (3) while Aaron Lewis, despite among the youngest in the under-18s' section, scored an excellent 3/6.
Some 3Cs' players at the event are shown below.
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8 July 2023
Kyle Pelling won the under-18's event at the national EJCOA finals , gaining 3 wins and 2 draws in an unbeaten 4 out of 5. Although finishing runner-up in a combined under 16-18-20 competition, Kyle was the leading under-18's player and is shown receiving his award while further details can be seen via the following link ...
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29 April 2023
Oldham under-11s finished equal 12th in the EPSCA national championships despite being the only town team playing against regional opposition. Oldham's 9 points were scored by Savannah Ashton (2), Sebastian Chung (2), Oliver Shijaku (1.5), Kingston Au (1), James Kaliski (1) and Tom Kearns (1).
In the under-9s' event, Oldham finished equal 11th, scoring 7.5 points via Abbas Ali (2), Vanessa Ashton (1), Kingston Au (1), Dilan Betney (1), Tom Kearns (1), Yusuf Taher (1) and Savannah Ashton (0.5).
1 July 2023
3Cs won the junior team event at the 2023 Lymm Chess Festival in which seven teams competed.
The 3Cs' team was (left to right)
Maeve Martiniere, Charlie Barnes, Tom Kearns, James Kaliski, Sebastian Kearns and Aaron Lewis.
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2 July 2022
Rebecca Correa won the Warrington Junior Congress, finishing unbeaten on 4.5/5. Ivan Elisseev-Siuda, also in the Open section, scored 1 point, while Hafsa Riaz and her brother Ibrahim gained 3.5 and 3 points respectively in the Knights section. The Pawns section saw Aaron Lewis and Abdul Qadeer both scoring 3 points and Maeve Martiniere ending on 2.5.
Pictured are (left to right) Abdul Qadeer, Aaron Lewis, Hafsa Riaz, Ibrahim Riaz, Rebecca Correa, and Maeve Martiniere. (IvanElisseev-Siuda also played in the competition)
10 July 2022
Having previously won the North-West under-16s' section of the English Junior Coaches and Organisers Association (EJCOA) tournament, Kyle Pelling advanced to the national finals in Nottingham where the three major sections of u-16, u-18 and u-20 were combined to make it more competitive. However, even against such opposition, Kyle was still seeded third out of nineteen and certainly justified that position by ending the tournament unbeaten with three wins and two draws, including defeats of both the second and fourth seeds and a draw in the final round against seed one.
Kyle's performance resulted in him becoming the national EJCOA under-16s' champion and is pictured receiving both his National award (left) and his North-West trophy (right).
1 February 2020
Four of our players took part in the ECF Academy blitz event which featured many of the country's top youngsters. Edward Jackson was 3Cs' highest scorer on 5/7 while our other players were Ethan Gardiner (4), Hunain Malik (4) and Lucas Chan (2).
3 May 2022
3Cs' Kyle Pelling completed his series of competitions in Rhodes, Greece by scoring 2.5/9 in the under-16s' section of the World Youth Blitz Championship having previously scored 3.5/9 in the equivalent Rapidplay event and 3/9 in the European Schools under-17s' tournament.
Kyle therefore became the 39th 3Cs' player to gain International honours for England.
The photos are of Kyle in Greece, with the top right showing the European Chess Union President opening the event by making the ceremonial first move in Kyle's opening match.
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Details of Kyle's progress in all the events can be seen via the following links ..
24 July 2019
Ethan Gardiner went to Ireland to play for the England under-12s' team in the Glorney Gilbert International competition. The England team finished as runners-up although Ethan remained unbeaten scoring 4 out of 5.
The event comprised of teams from six countries with the photo showing Ethan facing a Welsh opponent.
8 February 2020
Ben Newton has won the English Schools' under-11s' Rapidplay for the second year in succession and was unbeaten in scoring 4.5/5.
Lucas Chan was runner-up on 4/5 - and has qualified for a place at the England team trials - while the scores for the other 3Cs' players were as follows ... Alannah Ashton (3), Jude Benhamida (3), Hunain Malik (3), Tim Ye (2.5), Akil Balakrishnan (2).
In the under-10s' tournament Zayeem Alam finished as runner-up on 4/5 while Ollie Mills was third on 3/5.
With Zayeem having won their all-3Cs' encounter in round 3 the only other defeats for both players was to the eventual winner of the competition who scored 5/5.
Our players in the five-round under-9s' event scored as follows ... Fateh Muhammed (3), Kyle Harman (2.5), Shayan Ghouri (2).
There was an outstanding display in the under-8s' competition with Ivan Elisseev-Siuda achieving a 100% record from his five games while Savannah Ashton finished equal 4th on 3/5.
17 November 2019
Edward Jackson (shown below) is the latest 3Cs' young player to receive International recognition with his selection to play for England under-14s' in the European youth rapidplay and blitz championships to be played in Estonia.
15 December 2018
The one day junior congress held at 3Cs provided plenty of success for the host club against many of the top young players in the Greater Manchester region.
Ben Newton won the "Kings" competition with Akil Balakrishnan and Tim Ye finishing joint third while Zayeem Alam was victorious in the "Knights" section. The Open event saw a three-way tie at the top - all 3Cs' players - namely Alannah Ashton, Lucas Chan and Hunain Malik. Ben Newton also gained a prize for correctly answering a series of chess puzzles that were provided during the event
The group photo on the left is of (left to right) Tim Ye, Akil Balakrishnan, Zayeem Alam and Ben Newton while Hunain Malik can be seen on the right.
18 February 2018
3Cs' youngsters impressed at the recent Northern Junior Championships held in Newcastle, the highlight being that of Ethan Gardiner who won the under-11s' title with an unbeaten performance while Rebecca Correa finished in equal 3rd position and was the leading girl at under-10s
Edward Correa, who also came a creditable 5th in the under-9s' tournament, finished as runner-up in the under-8s' competition where Alannah Ashton finished just one place behind him.
Pictured above are Edward and Rebecca with their awards.
3 February 2018
3Cs dominated the recent EPSCA under-9s' rapidplay event with Ben Newton winning the title with 5 wins out of 5 while Akil Balakrishnan, Leo Booth and Tim Ye all finished in the top 7 from a total of 36 players.
Edward Correa was another 3Cs' junior to come away as Champion having won the under-8s' competition.
Ellie Amrooni came 4th in the under-10s' event which also featured Joe Holmes while in a strong under-11s' competition Rebecca Correa came joint 3rd with 3Cs also being well represented by Ethan Gardiner, Alicia Custy and Adam Booth.
Pictured are Ben (top) and Edward (bottom) with their trophies.