The new ECF grades were published on the last day of January, and showed that 42 Forest Hall club members now have official grades – reflecting an impressive growth at the club in the last few years!
There were many players who improved their gradings dramatically, and the star result was undoubtedly that of 9-year-old Yichen Han (counted as an Under 9 in the ECF list), whose very first ECF Grade (since arriving from the Netherlands) in 182 (Standard play) and 183 (Rapidplay).
This puts Yichen at the top of all Under 11 players in England, and is a fantastic result! We are sure this is the first of many for Yichen, who has been a credit to the club, both in his play, and in his dedicated and friendly attitude towards the game.
Among the juniors also registering excellent progress were Jamie McIntosh, Johnny Wall and Mark Broughton. Well done!
For those of us who didn’t get an increase in our grades on this list, don’t worry – there’s always next time!
For your new grade, take a look at the list below or you can go to the ECF grading database:
Forest Hall adult players
Name Standard Rapidplay
Manoj Arora 145 151
Jeff Baird 115
Jeff Bentham 130
Steve Black 131
Ravi Boora 96
Stephen Bowey 125
Alexander Brodie 128
Keith Brooks 111
Paul Charlton 131
Jose Grueso 148
Alan Harvey 183 181
Tom McAllister 93
Rolf Millar 112
Roy Perrier 113
David Ridley 41
Martin Seeber 161
Stuart Skelsey 166 150
Mike Smith 149 154
John Wall (Snr) 131
Tim Wall 203 209
Ravi Wariyar 164 152
Mark Younger 148 144
Forest Hall junior players
Name Age Standard Rapidplay
Harshith Bonam 9 37
Varnu Boora 9 38 76
Mark Broughton 15 130 132
Suyash Dhull 8 27 48
Tony Gao 9 44
Yichen Han 8 182 183
Robert Hudson 17 91
Jaque Keal 14 67 84
Tanvi Manchineni 9 70
Jamie McIntosh 11 114 124
Charlie Mooney 9 64 72
Dylan Shone 11 42
John Wall (Jnr) 13 142 122
Oliver Wall 10 78 97
Weiming Xu 10 108 123
Hanif Zaman 17 105 133
Zheming Zhang 14 171 167
Jerry Zheng 8 97 84