Scottish Girls’ Championships 2026

SATURDAY 30TH MAY 2026

START 10.00 – APPROXIMATE FINISH 16.30

Lothian Junior Chess are pleased to host the 2026 Scottish Girls' Championships on behalf of Chess Chess Scotland at St George’s School, Edinburgh. The event is a 5-round individual tournament using Swiss pairings and is open to girls of school age living in Scotland.

Venue: St George’s School, Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 6BG

Eligibility: Open to all girls of school age in Scotland, with sections for P5 & Under, Primary, and Secondary (younger players may play up).

The event will be graded on the Chess Scotland Allegro grading list for 2025–2026.

Time Control: 20 minutes plus 5 seconds increment per move

Entry Fee: £15 (late fees apply after 25th May; entries close 29th May)

Click here to register for the Scottish Girls’ Championships

East of Scotland UK Chess Challenge Megafinal 2026

Title: East of Scotland UK Chess Challenge Megafinal 2026

SATURDAY 28TH MARCH 2026

ARRIVAL FROM 9.00 FOR A 9.45 START - APPROXIMATE FINISH 17.30

Lothian Junior Chess is proud to be hosting the 2026 UK Chess Challenge East of Scotland Megafinal at Broughton High School, Edinburgh. We will also be hosting the Gigafinal in June!

Venue: Broughton High School, 9 East Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh, EH4 1EG

Eligibility: Open to all juniors born after 31/08/2007

The Megafinal is part of the UK Chess Challenge, the UK's largest junior chess tournament, and your chance to qualify for the Gigafinals.

Click here to register for the East of Scotland Megafinal

Contact: ljc.megafinal@gmail.com

Lothian Junior Championships 2026

Saturday 28th February 2026

First Round: 9.30am - Prize Giving: 4.30pm

The Lothian Junior Championships are a regional championship and therefore open to children living in Edinburgh, Lothians and the Scottish Borders area only
The Lothian Junior Championships will have three sections:

P5 & Under For primary school age players up to and including P5.

Primary (P7 & Under) For P6 and P7 but younger players may enter this section if they want more challenging games.

Open (S6 & Under) For Secondary school age, but younger players may enter this section if they want more challenging games.
Click here to enter the Lothian Junior Championships

There will also be a three round 'Taster Tournament' for beginners in the afternoon.

Click here to enter the Taster Tournament

Lothian Junior Chess Team Day 2 2026

9:15am-5pm Saturday February 7th, 2025, at Broughton High School, Edinburgh

Hello - Lothian Junior Chess are pleased to announce Team Day 2 full details below. 

Register for team Day 2 2026 HERE

Please note that entry closes at midnight on Thursday 26th February.

Team entries are £20, if paid for before midnight on Wednesday 25th February, £25 thereafter.

Teams can pay on the day by using the PAYONDAY code in the discount field.

You can enter a team without player details and amend your entry once the team is known. Player details must be provided by midnight Thursday 26th February

This is a team chess tournament with four boards per team. Teams can have up to six players but only four can play each round.

Lothian Junior Chess Team Day 1 2025

9:15am-5pm Saturday November 15th, 2025, at Broughton High School, Edinburgh

Hello - Lothian Junior Chess are pleased to announce Team Day 1 full details below. Register for team Day 1 2025 HERE Please note that entry closes at midnight on Thursday 13th November.

This is a team chess tournament with four boards per team. Teams can have up to six players but only four can play each round.

East of Scotland Megafinal Results 2025

Congratulations to all the qualifiers! We are thrilled by your outstanding performance. UKCC will be reaching out shortly with further details on how to enter the gigafinals. Stay tuned and keep up the great work!

Below are the winners and qualifiers in the different sections.

Under 18 Boys

Name	Points	Position
Marvin Gera	5.5	1st
Daniel Kitaev	5	2nd=
Matthew Willder	5	2nd=
Raghuram Parasur	4.5
Nestor Pento	3.5
Raghav Palanivel	3.5

Under 18 Girls

Name	Points	Position
Sahana Chakraborty	3.5	1st=
Coral Cresswell	3.5	1st=
Angharad Hunt	3	3rd

Under 14 Boys

Name	Points	Position
Kyriakos McKenzie	5.5	1st
Shang Gao	5	2nd
James Lee	4	3rd
Max Scott	3.5
Ronen Abramson	3.5
Sam Veeradaseri	3.5
Zach Patel	3.5
Shreyasbalan Arunachalam Priya	3.5
Luka Shin-Guma	3.5
Oliver Robinson	3.5

Under 14 Girls

Name	Points	Position
Shriya Madhu	4	1st
Lucy Gall	1.5	2nd

Under 12 Boys

Name	Points	Position
Daniel Sewart	5	1st
Vedanth Vikram	5	1st=
Nicholas Kitaev	4.5	3rd=
James Phillips	4.5	3rd=
Oliver Lee	4.5	3rd=
Sumanth Prakash	4.5	3rd=
David Sheng	3.5
Archie Drysdale	3.5
Benan Hunter	3.5
Om Patil	3.5
Oliver Brownlee	3.5
Alex Thompson	3.5
Rudra Pardhi	3.5
Robin Fletcher	3.5
Calum Hamilton	3.5
Tariq Makkawi	3.5
Eric Rapan	3.5
George Seggins	3.5

Under 12 Girls

Name	Points	Position
Shruti Madhu	4.5	1st=
Nilakshi Bhattacharjee	4.5	1st=
Aaradhya Ramprasad	3	3rd
Miara Mukherjee	2
Ava Conroy	2
Nikhita Manoj	2

Under 10 Boys

Name	Points	Position
Krishiv Ganesh	5.5	1st=
Yadhev Nathan	5.5	1st=
Adam Ling	4.5	3rd=
Hrihaan Parasur	4.5	3rd=
Raphael Rahman	4.5	3rd=
Vivaan Pritam	4
Jude Henderson	4
Rafael Allen Marin	4
Leander Hering-Bayer	4
Siraaj Gujral	3.5
Corin Kirby Brennan	3.5
Andrew Yu	3.5
Dhairya Prakash	3.5
Eddie Huang	3.5
Aaron Smith	3.5

Under 10 Girls

Name	Points	Position
Arsthea Rajasekar	4	1st
Keira Zhang	3	2nd
Alice Phillips	2	3rd
Jessica Sewart	1
Manhita Chityala	0.5

Under 8 Boys

Name	Points	Position
Vladyslav Shopynskyi	6	1st
Prithvi Nathan	5	2nd
Ainesh Prabhu	4	3rd=
Dylan Fairweather	4	3rd=
Adrian Hering-Bayer	4	3rd=
Lucas Liu	4	3rd=
Ved Pulkanti	3
Toby Linton	2.5
Nathan Prabakar	2.5

Under 8 Girls

Name	Points	Position
Alice Yuan	5	1st
Zara Anwar	3.5	2nd
Dana Cooke	3	3rd=
Ananya Vikram	3	3rd=
Magizhini Parthibhan	2

Team Day 2 - Saturday 2nd March

Entry is now open for Team Day 2 on Saturday 2nd March. Click on the image above or see our Events page for further details

Lothian Junior Championships and Taster Tournament

The Lothian Junior Championships are open to players who live in Edinburgh, East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders council areas. There are sections for Secondary, Primary (P7 & Under) and P5 & Under.

Lothian Junior Chess are pleased to announce the return of our popular Taster Tournament. This is an afternoon of chess for young players who may not feel ready to tackle a six round tournament. It's fun and friendly and run alongside our main tournament (the Lothian Junior Championship), so players can experience playing in match conditions (including using clocks) knowing their games will be against other rookie players.

East of Scotland Megafinal Results 2023

Thanks to everyone who came and played in the Megafinal on Sunday, and to the parents and others who brought the players along. UK Chess Challenge will be in touch with the people who have qualified shortly with details of the Gigafinals and how to enter. Congratulations to the prize winners and the qualifiers.

Under 18

Girls

1st Emma Salazar Eyre 4

2nd Yelizaveta Kuznietsova 3.5

3rd Florence Wilson 2.5

Boys

1st Daniel Kitaev 5

2nd = James Hartman 4.5

2nd = Marvin Gera 4.5

2nd = Matthew Willder 4.5

Qulaifiers

Ross Blackford 4

Nahum Bradford 3.5

Taylor Fletcher 3.5

Alex King 3.5

Kurt Noveros 3.5

Jacob Sladek 3.5

Pavel Yanev 3.5

 Full results on chess-results.com  

Under 14

Girls

1st Sahana Chakraborty 3.5

2nd Eva Tai 3

3rd Laura Ruiz 0

Boys

1st Kritan Boggarapu 5.5

2nd = Michael Moroz 5

2nd = Raghuram Parasur 5

Qualifiers

Drisith Palaniswamy 4.5

Kai Moroz 4

Osian Hunt 4

Matthew Esser 4

Ashok Chandan Chandrasekaran Arunkumar 4

Ravi Paget-Tomlinson 3.5

Dylan Tedford 3.5

Joseph Zhao 3.5

Raghav Palanivel 3.5

Sam Chandra 3.5

Sai Mallick 3.5

Anton Skornyakov 3.5

Leopold Ahnert 3.5

Tom Dixon 3.5

Full results on chess-results.com

Under 12

Girls

1st Shriya Madhu

2nd Meiting Wang (1st Under 11)

3rd Cecilia Lu (2nd Under 11)

Boys

1st Aniruddha Vishwanath 5.5

2nd Tristan Del Mar 5 (1st U11)

3rd = Srinivas Rath 4.5

3rd = Rowan Oren-Woods 4.5 (2nd U11)

Qualified

Alexander Malham 4

Ashrith Ashok 4

Cory Stewart 4

Charlie Li 4

Jiayi Fan 3.5

Rory Leburn 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Marek Dziobek 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Drew Robertson 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Lochi McCready 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Ryan Chandorkar 3.5

Leonardo Lo Rizzo 3.5

Zach Patel 3.5

Daniel Kemp 3.5

Vishnuvaradhan Sriram 3.5 (3rd= U11)

Full results on chess-results.com

Under 10

Girls

1st Shruti Madhu 4

2nd Chinmayi Garlapati 3

3rd = Audrey Li 2

3rd = Olivia Karus 2 (1st U9)

3rd = Anaya Malpure 2

Lorelei Powell 1 (2nd U9)

Boys

1st Pavlo Sokolenko 6

2nd Vedanth Vikram 5

3rd = Qinshu Hao 4.5

3rd = Finlay Robertson 4.5

Qualifiers

Saitej Ganti 4

Ayush Vijay 4

Aadith Prabhu 4 (1st = U9)

Nandan Chintapalli 4 (1st = U9)

Nicholas Kitaev 3.5

James Rajendran 3.5

Eric Rapan 3.5 (3rd U9)

David Sheng 3.5

Nicholas M. Santos 3.5

Full results on chess-results.com

Under 8

Girls

1st Branwen Hunt 1

Boys

1st Louis Cheng 6

2nd Devesh Sharma 5

3rd = Haruo Uegaki 4

3rd = Chunyi Fan 4

Full results on chess-results.com

The above is correct by our interpretation of the rules but qualification is subject to confirmation by UK Chess Challenge.

Scottish Girls' Championships Results

Scottish Girls’ Championship

1st Kanishka Bhatia        5

2nd Sahana Chakraborty    3½

3rd Elyzaveta Kuznietsova 3½

Medals:

Jennifer Feng         2½

Shriya Madhu          2½

chess-results.com

Chess Scotland grading

Scottish girls’ primary championship

1at Meiting Wang               5

2nd Qingxiang Zheng         4

3rd Laya Fernando              3

Medals

Iona Hunter                3

Maria Vilkova              3

Audrey Li                  3

Anaya Malpure             2½

chess-results.com

Chess Scotland grading

Scottish Girls’ P5 & Under Championship

1st Shruti Madhu             5

2nd Vihaa Vadalia            4

3rd Anika Munshi             4

Medals:

Janani Mohan             4

Anika Mittal             3

Maria Al Dakl Alla       3

Olivia Karus             3

Elsa Liu                 3

Isabella Mcgeough        3

Reina Gaikwad            3

Netra Gaikwad           2½

Caitlyn Othieno         2½

chess-results.com

Chess Scotland grading