On Sunday, 11 May, the Birmingham Megafinal of the prestigious UK Schools Chess Challenge, the world's biggest junior chess tournament, took place.

A number of boys from Warwick Junior School took part and did themselves and the school proud - all taking home points from what was a very strong field; four of the five sections featured members of the England national junior team and dozens of members of the Warwickshire Junior Chess Squad also competed in all five sections.

The star performer was Warwick's youngest representative, Alex. In his first time competing on this stage, he scored a fantastic 4/6 in the U8 section and qualified for the Gigafinal, the penultimate stage of the competition. Remarkably, he did so despite being outrated in every single game. Congratulations to Alex and all the boys who competed!