Tuesday, October 27, 2015

First match of the season and first win of the season.

 A confident win in the first match of the season sets us up nicely for the remainder of the season. The score was 4-1. Let's hope we are in the mix as the season draws to a close.

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Open Rapidplay

New Open Rapidplay launched which should be of particular interest to new and ungraded members. See Open Rapidplay under Tournaments tab.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Sussex Chess News 2015

Finally I have managed to put the Sussex Chess News file onto the website. You can download it from the pdf file on the Links page.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Digital clocks and time controls

Just a reminder that instructions for setting the digital clocks for league and tournament games are provided under Setting Clocks on the website. In particular the newly introduced alternative for league games, if both players wish it, of the incremental time control (Fischer) - 80 minutes for all moves + 10 second increment per move - is covered. Do ask if you need a demo (e.g. Michael, myself, Rob).

Also, it’s been pointed out that the chess magazines in the library are a valuable resource for the club. Some are in poor condition. To try to preserve these magazines please could you find an alternative to resting on them when recording games. Thank you.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Club Tournaments launched

The club tournaments are now up and running with paper charts up at the club, and online charts on the website so you can see who you have to play and what colour. There's also still the link on the Tournaments page for players to contact their opponents. You can enter your results on the paper charts but they won't be online as it's fiddly to do and more useful to use the online charts as a playing guide. (Anyone missing them should probably get out more or pop down to the club more often :-).) As you can see there are still places left in all three and these will be allocated first come first served. The Club Championship is open to applications from higher graded or aspiring players up to a maximum of nine. The Plummer Knight and Tasker Tankard will close at twelve. Anyone still wanting to play graded games after that will have to put their names down for a possible Open in the New Year, or join the Ladder.

Friday, October 2, 2015

Club Tournaments 2015-16

Thanks to everyone who's renewed their membership this season and put their names down on the tournament list. The tournaments are looking like this at present:

Club Championship: (probably playing both colours)
Julien Carron, Geoff, Callum B., Simon

U140 Plummer Knight:
Terry, Calum S., Jan, Mikolaj, Peter, Alaa 

U120 Tasker Tankard:
Rob, Joe, Sue, Andrew C., Andrew S., James Alvarez, Andrew Wallis 

There are still places left in all three but remember to renew club and ECF membership first (if you've paid recently online I won't know until Geoff's back). See the tournament controller, Andrew Caswill, or me if you have any issues.We hope to have the charts up and running in the club next week.