British Youth Go Championship Results: 2015

Tournament Name

British Youth Championship

Tournament Date

Sun, 22 Nov 2015

The 2015 British Youth Go Championships (BYGC) featured 34 competitors, aged from 6 to 17 (including two foreign players currently resident in the UK), with strengths from 2 dan to 35 kyu.
King Edward VI (Aston) School, Birmingham was again the venue. All games were played on full-sized (19 by 19) boards.

Section Winners (Runners Up)

Youth Champion: Oscar Selby (Alex Terry)
U18: Alex Benton (Kapriel Chiarini)
U16: Alex Terry (Hasan Nisar)
U14: Oscar Selby (Jack Nolan)
U12: Edmund Smith (Aidan Wong)
U10: Alexander Hsieh
U8: Jianzhou Mei (Andreas Ghica)

Handicap winner: Marieke Ahlborn

Best School (for the Castledine Trophy): Cheadle Hulme School (beat Milton 2-1 in round 4)
Best Junior School: Milton School, Cambridge

Other awards were presented to the best puzzle-solvers (Alina Wolowczyk & Charlotte Bexfield),
and those showing best Fighting Spirit (Daniel Atkinson & Andreas Ghica).

Results table sorted on number of wins

Handicap and no-komi games are in red.
The table shows details for each of the 5 rounds. Per round, it shows the line number of the opponent, followed by a minus if the opponent won, or a plus if the opponent lost.
For example, in Round 5, player 10 (Charlotte) beat player 26 (Alina) in a handicap game.

Posn	No	Name	Rank	Club	Age	1	2	3	4	5	Wins
1	1	Marieke Ahlborn	2k	Germany	U18	8+	17+	18+	11+	21+	5
	2	Oscar Selby	6k	Epsom	U14	9+	20+	14+	8+	27+	5
	3	Alex Terry	9k	Bungay	U16	19+	27+	10+	12+	18+	5
	4	Jack Nolan	19k	Cheadle Hulme	U14	34+	7+	28+	14+	20+	5
5	5	Zaki Betesh	12k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	10-	15+	22+	13+	6+	4
	6	Jason Brown	21k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	23+	32+	19+	29+	5-	4
	7	Zichen He	26k	Cambridge	U14	33+	4-	30+	26+	34+	4
8	8	Yueran Wang	2d	China-Bloxham	U14	1-	18+	27+	2-	22+	3
	9	Alex Benton	10k	Cheadle Hulme	U18	2-	21+	17+	18-	12+	3
	10	Charlotte Bexfield	10k	Letchworth	U16	5+	19+	3-	27-	26+	3
	11	Aidan Wong	11k	Cambridge	U12	18-	25+	13+	1-	17+	3
	12	Alexander Hsieh	16k	Cambridge	U10	30+	33+	29+	3-	9-	3
	13	Wenzhou Mei	16k	Milton School	U12	25+	30+	11-	5-	15+	3
	14	Anthony Ghica	18k	Cambridge	U14	29+	28+	2-	4-	32+	3
	15	Lily Danson	20k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	31+	5-	24+	20+	13-	3
	16	Adam Powell	24k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	24+	26+	31+	19-	25-	3
17	17	Kapriel Chiarini	2k	London	U18	27+	1-	9-	21+	11-	2
	18	Edmund Smith	9k	Milton School	U12	11+	8-	1-	9+	3-	2
	19	Dylan Zhu-Dong	9k	Leamington	U16	3-	10-	6-	16+	30+	2
	20	Daniel Gascoyne	17k	Cheadle Hulme	U14	28+	2-	25+	15-	4-	2
	21	Samuel Knapp	17k	Birmingham	U18	22+	9-	23+	17-	1-	2
	22	Tom Bradbury	18k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	21-	23+	5-	33+	8-	2
	23	Matthew Benton	22k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	6-	22-	21-	28+	31+	2
	24	Piotr Blyszczyk	22k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	16-	31+	15-	25-	29+	2
	25	Yusuf Hussain	22k	No Club	U12	13-	11-	20-	24+	16+	2
	26	Alina Wolowczyk	27k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	32+	16-	33+	7-	10-	2
27	27	Hasan Nisar	8k	Aston	U16	17-	3-	8-	10+	2-	1
	28	Kelda Smith	17k	Cambridge	U14	20-	14-	4-	23-	33+	1
	29	Jianzhou Mei	24k	Milton School	U8	14-	34+	12-	6-	24-	1
	30	Elliott Worthington	28k	Cheadle Hulme	U12	12-	13-	7-	34+	19-	1
	31	Yunus Sheikh	30k	Aston	U16	15-	24-	16-	32+	23-	1
	32	William Poizer	35k	Cheadle Hulme	U16	26-	6-	34+	31-	14-	1
33	33	Daniel Atkinson	27k	Cheadle Hulme	U14	7-	12-	26-	22-	28-	0
33	34	Andreas Ghica	35k	Cambridge	U8	4-	29-	32-	30-	7-	0

Oscar Selby beat Alex Terry in a rapid play-off game.

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