First and foremost chess should be fun! This is the ethos of Ojays, the Oxfordshire Junior Squad Chess Club. We meet weekly on Thursdays between 6.15pm and 8pm, either in person or online, to develop young chess players in preparation for county tournaments and individual competitions.

Oxford Junior success in ESPCA and SCCU online competitions

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While over the board junior team competitions have not been possible, EPSCA and SCCU have run online equivalents of the usual Jamborees on lichess.org. They had an interesting format of Swiss competitions on each board as instead of three rounds only, it was possible to extend the event to five rapid rounds.

Oxfordshire Juniors took part in all events with EPSCA taking place in March (Girls U11), April (U9) and May (U11) and the SCCU Jamboree for older players (U14 Minor/ U14 / U18) in June. 

In the jamboree on 5 June, the Oxfordshire U18 team won the event, taking first place. Congratulations to the team! 

All players enjoyed the events. 

Team managers: Joseph Conlon (U9), Ola Murawska (all other teams)

ECF runs two county Blitz team battles for Juniors every month (one is specifically for girls). If you'd like to take part in those please contact Ola Murawska (amurawska@yahoo.co.uk) or join Ojays lichess team https://lichess.org/team/ojays.