Milton Keynes chess superstar shines at chess challenge

    Sixty of the UK's brightest young chess players gathered at Blenheim Palace at the weekend for the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal.

    One super talented Milton Keynes player returned home victorious.

    Nikesh Acharya recorded 10 wins and a single draw to dominate the field and claim a well-deserved tournament victory in the grand finale of the nation’s largest and longest-running junior chess competition.

    Nikesh – a pupil at Jubilee Wood Primary School - took home the cup for the Under 8 category of the competition.

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