Callum goes global!

Congratulations to Callum on being asked to represent England at the World Schools Individual Championships in Greece during May. He is extremely excited and will be going to a special training weekend for the England Squad in March. Plus his new rapid grade of 158 makes him the joint highest U12 rapid player in the country. We will be officially adopting him as our mascot ..... errr no, sorry, we can't - I made that one up.....

New grades are published

New January grades are out - see club Members page for all the latest.

Club tournaments update

Tournament games are now well underway. In another change John Smuts has withdrawn from the Plummer Knight and his place has been taken by Hussaini Ndakwo who can now move down from the Club Championship.

All the charts are updated after most Thursdays and Saturdays so are usually bang up to date. There is now a link to Players' Contact Details at the bottom of the How to write to the Club Blog page (see tab above) under Bonus!! so please set up your matches even if you can't play them straight away. The longer you leave them the harder it gets. We are aiming to see 100% of matches played this year!

Vintage year at 88th Hastings International

A good year for the club at Hastings as nearly everyone who went won something or came close.

Ezra Kirk didn't win the Masters but his only losses were to titled players. He drew with GM Mark Hebden and local IM Thomas Rendle to finish on 5/10 - 35th=/88. Phew!

Paul Batchelor shared 3rd prize in the New Year Afternoon A on 3½/5 and just missed coming joint first by half a point on the same score in the Weekend Major.

Duncan Badham won the Weekend Minor on 4½/5 and Michael Cain was only half a point behind the two joint seconds on 3½/5.

Anthony Stanton won the New Year Afternoon C on 4½/5 (the ½ being a bye).

Sue Chadwick came second in the Christmas D on 4/5.

Scroll down on this link to see all the final results.