Matthew Daggitt, from Magdalen College School, Oxford, has been selected to represent England Under 16s in the Commonwealth Chess Championships in India.

The Kidlington teenager was joining 11 other players who are flying out to New Delhi today together with top coaches Mark Hebden GM and Claire Summerscale.

Daggitt warmed up for the championships by helping Magdalen lift the team trophy at the Claire's Court Festival of Chess.

The Magdalen lads picked up the cup - awarded to the school whose three best players had the highest score - after finishing ahead of St Paul's Junior School and Ridgeway School.

Daggitt, in the under 15 competition, and Jacob Coxon, at under nine, won their age group events, the latter returning a perfect seven wins from as many games.

Henry Phillips completed the successful trio by coming runner-up in the under eight event.

Meanwhile, the school's older players finished a close fourth at the Birmingham Under 18 rapidplay team event.

They were hot on the heels of Haberdasher's Aske and Nottingham High, two of the leading chess-playing schools in the country.

Rapidplay results: MCS 6, King Edward's B, Birmingham 2; MCS 4, King Edward's A, Birmingham 3; MCS 3, Haberdasher's, Aske 5; MCS 3, Nottingham High A 5.