AGM Thursday 6th September 8:00 pm

The club AGM will be held on Thursday 6th September at 8:00 pm. The Agenda will be published at the weekend so please let me know this week if you have anything you wish to add.

Congratulations to Geoff

Geoff has succeeded in holding onto the Club Championship trophy this year, beating Luke in the final 1½-½.

The knock-out format attracted twenty-two entrants and provided some unusual encounters and interesting games. However we might try again to run an all-play-all Club Championship next season, perhaps restricted to members graded over 150 - currently a select group of eight. This would have the benefit of giving those eight more opportunities to play in the club. Feedback on your preferences welcome!

July grades published

All new grades are now on the Members page of this website. The results they are based on can be seen on each individual's page on the ECF grading website - just click on the interactive grading number by your name as it appears on the Members page.

Woodpusher Rapidplay

Julian (of the Avenue Bridge Club and Woodpushers Chess Club) is organising a second rapidplay tournament to take place over two consecutive Tuesday evenings as before. The details are as follows:

WOODPUSHERS  CHESS  CLUB
Avenue Bridge Club, 15 Third Avenue,

Hove, BN3 2PB.  Tel: 01273 775752.

Email: AvenueBridgeClub@aol.com

2^nd Tuesday Night Rapidplay

Six round swiss rapidplay, held over two Tuesday evenings. Advance registration by email preferred – pay on evening.

Tuesdays 17^th July and 24^th July.

Schedule

6.45 – 7.15 pm Payment taken from registered players.

7.15 – 7.29 pm Payment and registration from those previously unregistered; 
                          first come, first served.

7.30 – 10.45 pm 3 x 30 minutes rapidplay games.

Entry fee £10.    Students/Juniors £7.    One night only £5.  
   Unregistered surcharge £1 extra.

Players joining on 24^th July assumed to have 1½ points.

This is the second of a series of swiss rapidplay tournaments, designed not just to give players competitive opportunities, but to support the Avenue Bridge Club and both Brighton and Hove and Woodpushers Chess Clubs. Half the monies taken will be given back as prizes – prize list to be published when registration is complete.

Capacity will be limited to the first 30 registered players – so the answer is clear …

Do not delay – register today!

Tournaments

A final reminder that the club tournaments end on Tuesday 31st July. Some people  may be able to arrange games at alternative venues so as to meet  the final deadline.
Hopefully several people can find the time to finish a few more games so that the individual tournaments have a good completion .Then a fairer comparison can be made between the competitors.

The end of a successful season: AGMs and Awards

The Mid-Sussex League AGM minutes are now published. Paul collected the first division winners' cup and Luke the tankard for best individual performance in division one. Congratulations to them and the other first team players: Brian, Geoff and John. The second team are promoted to join the first in division one next season and the fourth team move up to join the third in the second division. The fifth team will then have a new sixth team to contend with in the third division as we revert to fielding six teams in the league: ample opportunities for all our promising new talent.

The Sussex County Chess Association's AGM is due to take place, also at the Lewes venue, next Tuesday 17th at 7:30 pm. I can forward the agenda and last year's minutes to anyone interested and the meeting welcomes anyone who would like to attend.

Chess Promotional Day

Hi Brighton Chess Club,

Good Skills, I am happy to report that the Brighton & Hove Chess Club Promotional Day was a resounding success and much better than I hoped or imagined. I would like to say a BIG Thank You to the many chess members who came and supported the club during the day. We were very lucky with the weather it was sunny with blue skies, the Brighton community was very interested with a huge amount of people showing interest by watching, taking lots of pictures, asking questions and playing chess with us and giving us tough games.

Please click on the following link to see more pictures of the day ;-

Brighton Chess Promotional Day Pictures

I hope we can organize another summer chess event this August and would be interested to know if you would be interested in joining me?

Thank You Again,

Michael