Cheshire Tournament Features New Chase

Although held at its usual venue of Frodsham Community Centre, this year's Cheshire had new organisers and a new feature. Ai Guan and Florian Pein introduced the new Cheshire Chase, a self-paired three-round tournament played between rounds of the Open. 13 of the 32 players played at least one Chase game and the Chase winner was Caleb Fai (8k), the only player to play and win all three. His brother Joshua (6k) and Leo Zhang (15k) from Cheadle Hulme School won both the games they played. Adding both events together gave an Endurance ranking, again won by Caleb.

In the main event there were sadly few strong players, but a goodly 11 from Cheadle Hulme School. The unbeaten Open winner was Yifan Bao (5d), with Zhan Shin (3d) from Manchester in second. The only other player winning all three games was Simon Cohen (25k) from Manchester.

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