Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Club Tournaments 2014-15

The Club Championship, Plummer Knight and Tasker Tankard are now online.

There will be no Denman Cup this year, but a standard play Mega Open on the noticeboard at the club and the Rapidplay Ladder which will remain open to regular players and new members. These will allow the more casual player to play graded games against a wide range of graded and ungraded opponents. This is slightly experimental so we shall see if copes better with the comings and goings at the club. Join them if you're unsure how many graded games you want to play.

Don't forget you can now arrange with your opponent to play matches on a Wednesday night until the end of March. This should suit those who want to be sure of a table and a quiet room to play their match. But this is also experimental and won't be repeated unless it proves worthwhile, so - use it or lose it - like the corner shop.

Friday, October 24, 2014

Good start to the season for Brighton 1

Last night we won 3.5 to 1.5 in our home fixture against Crowborough 1. The visitors were without county president, Robert Elliston, but we are still missing our normal top board player, Luke Rutherford, through illness. We welcomed to the side a strong player in Simon Wilks. Wins were obtained by Geoffrey James and Paul Batchelor, and John Henshaw, Simon Wilks and I drew our games. This was a good start to the season, but many hard matches lie ahead.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

First match of the season

On WEDNESDAY 22nd October we have our first match of the season when Robin's team - 2nd - are at home to Jan's - 3rd. This is also our first Wednesday match night! Please come and watch if you like and there should be space to play as well. We need to make use of Wednesday nights if we want to keep them.

The following day the first team are playing Crowborough 1.

Club Tournaments 2014 -15

We are proposing to run three all-play-all tournaments this year with an Open Tournament in addition.

The Open Tournament is open to all and there is no requirement to play all your games as there may be up to 24 entrants. The tournament chart is already on the notice board and will not be online. This will remain open to new entrants and is for new and ungraded members, members who can't commit to play 10/11 games and members who want to play more than 10/11 games.

Open Tournament Rules: To make this work all entrants must respond to challenges - you can't be picky about your opponents. You can, however, drop out at any time. Also you are under no obligation to set up matches and can just wait to be asked if you prefer. Contact details of entrants are on the noticeboard by the chart.

So far: 14 entrants. This competition is already underway.

All-Play-Alls These are more serious tournaments open to graded players committed to playing  a maximum of 10/11 matches before the end of June. Withdrawal is only permitted under exceptional circumstances (so as not to spoil the competition for the others).

Club Championship: over 160 with a maximum of five players playing each other twice.

So far: Brian, Mustapha, Callum, Geoff

Plummer Knight: 120-160 with a maximum of six players playing each other twice.

So far: Oli W., Julian, Jan, Peter, Kevin, Neil

Tasker Tankard: under 120 with a maximum of twelve players playing each other once.

So far: Rob, Andrew C., Oli L., Alaa, Andrew S., Sue, Bob, Terry, Grant

All entrants to all internal tournaments must be current members of both the club and the ECF. All the above are standard play and will be graded.

Please contact Andrew, see post below, or me for any issues or late entries.

Friday, October 17, 2014

Tournaments

  The OT is now running. Members (with ECF membership) can join at anytime throughout the year.
  The other tournaments will soon be running. Entry to these is limited. Members are expected to play all their games in these tournaments. If you have not signed up at the club and you wish to enter you can contact me via email or phone 01273 699335. You need to be a member of the ECF and please contact me asap (as soon as possible).