National Primary Schools' Chess Championships

Enter the 2023 competition now!

Enter now on this Google form!
Details of the 2023 competition here.
Queries to NPSCC organisers, Angela Eyton and John Fleetwood, schools@epsca.org.uk

Three Stages

Stage 1 – The Zone Stage

Stage 2 – The National Semi-Finals

Stage 3 – The National Finals

Stage 1 – The Zone Stage

Pick a zone convenient to your school. If there is no Zone near you, please consider hosting one.

Stage 2 – The National Semi-Finals

Four choices for the Semi-Final stage:
Two-day competitions at Kingswood Activity Centres in Kent and North Wales. One-day competitions in Bristol and Nottingham.

Stage 3 – The National Finals
Two-day Finals in Central London with lunch provided.

Details

This successful competition started in 1969 and is now in it’s 52nd year. It is open to all schools in England, Scotland and Wales. Although the aim is to find the strongest chess-playing schools in the Country, it is intended to be an interesting challenge to schools of any chess-playing ability.
Teams:     5 players – plus 1 reserve
Under 11 (Year 6 & below)
Under 9  (Year 4 & below)

Stage 1: Zones:  January / February / March 2023
Zone list below.

Stage 2: Semi-Finals:
Kingswood Activity Centre. Ashford, Kent  20-21 May 2023
Kingswood Activity Centre, Colomendy, North Wales 10-11 June 2023
Bristol Grammar School – Saturday 13 May 2023
Nottingham High School – Sunday 18 June 2023

Stage 3: National Finals:
Covent Garden, Central London 1 – 2 July 2023

Entry fees

Stage 1:  £20 per team
Schools who host a zone are not required to pay any entry fee.

Stage 2: 
£120 per team for one-day semi-finals.
£50 per person access pass for two-day semi-finals to include lunch and activities or £200-£250 for two nights accommodation for one adult and one child, to include all activities Friday and Saturday, all meals provided, (dinner Friday, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday, breakfast and pick your own packed lunch on Sunday).

Stage 3:  £20 per person (lunch included)

Zones

(as at 1 March 2023). The very latest updates will be on the Google doc. More zones are required. If you can help to provide a zone, please get in touch urgently, email schools@epsca.org.uk

Zone Day Date School Location
1 COMPLETED Eltham College London SE9
2 COMPLETED RGS Newcastle Newcastle
3 COMPLETED Ladymount Wirral
4 COMPLETED Hereward House School London NW3
5 COMPLETED Hereward House School London NW3
6 COMPLETED Therfield Leatherhead
7 COMPLETED Moulsham Chelmsford
9 COMPLETED Westminster Under London W1
10 COMPLETED Orleans Park School Richmond
11 Sunday FULL Frith Manor School London N12
12 Sunday 18 March St Peter’s School York
13 Saturday 4 March Abbey Lodge Herts
14 Sunday 5 March Dulwich College Junior London SE21
16   COMPLETED Akiva London N3
17 COMPLETED Bolton School Manchester
18   TBC Birmingham Birmingham
19   TBC Cheney School Oxford
20   TBC Badgers Hampshire
21   COMPLETED Merchant Taylors’ Herts
22   FULL St Anthony of Padua Liverpool
23   FULL Brookland School London NW11
24   COMPLETED Bishop Douglass School London N2
25   COMPLETED Haberdashers' Boys' School Elstree WD6
26 Sunday 5 March Nottingham High School Nottingham
27   FULL Belmont Primary London W4