Leeds Junior Chess Club
Approved English Chess Federation Development Pathway Club


Leeds Juniors are Yorkshire League Champions 2025.
In a thrilling finale our A team defeated York 4.5-3.5 and then Ilkle Jaguars by the same score to complete a clean sweep of 7/7 victories to become Yorkshire Junior League Champions. Keeping the same team for all three meetings our stars Sri Sasikumar, Toby Quaite, Nathan Madzia and Adamjeet Singh pulled it off despite intense competition.
Massive well done - very proud club!
Overall we had 4 teams playing across three divisions so well done all who took part.
2024 Awards
Player of the year: Sri Sasikumak
Most Improved Player: Vidyuth Kavin Sudagar
Coaches Award: Ivan Shi
UKCC MegaFinal 2024 in York.
Well done to everyone who took part in the MegaFinal in York on June 9th. We had nearly 40 children from our club (that's over one third of the total entry) and we were very proud of everyone. Massive well done to Toby winning the U18 section, Sri who won the U12 boys, Sienna winning U11 girls, Sofia winning U9 girls and Abhiraj winning U7 boys. Also placed were Rafael, Samarth Mishra, Samiksha, Nivedik, Vidyuth Kavin, Roberta, Krishay and Nathan. The following all qualified for the next stage as well: Narita, Lucas, Tomasz, Aditya, Parin, Vedant, Christopher, and Ivan. That's 21 qualifiers!!
Leeds Junior Chess Club is National Club of the Year!
Our club has been named as the National Club of the Year by the English Chess Federation. An incredible achievement - well done to everyone. You can read the citation and all the awards here.





