Achievements included two GM norms, IM, WGM and British Rapidplay titles, and three IM norms. Jovanka Houska's Silver award was raised to Gold after her impressive victory in the European Girls U20. Players aged under 21 on 1st September in the year of the awards are eligible. No player may win the Gold award more than two years in succession. At least three awards each year are to non-recipients in the previous year.
Players receiving other significant sponsorship at the time of the awards are ineligible.
The Gold award winner is invited to participate in a Terence Chapman Award match against a leading grandmaster. Names and details of the winners follow. McShane won the World U10 championship aged 8, then became England's youngest ever IM at 13 and youngest ever GM at 16. He was voted BCF Player of the Year in 1997, the only time in a decade that this award has not gone to GMs Adams or Short. McShane has had some of his best successes in recent months with high placings at Reykjavik, Stockholm and Dordrecht and good team results in the 4NCL and Bundesliga.