Ches and Neil

Ches Clifton has found these old photos of himself and Neil Tasker playing in the Dupree Tournament in 1954/5.

This week at the club:

Thursday 21st Feb. 7:30 - 9:00pm:
Luke Rutherford will be giving another analysis session. 

Open to all but £3.50 a head, member or not. Please try and bring the right change if poss. and any scoresheets you would like Luke to go through. It will be held in the back of the main room with any tournament games in the poker room please. It’s half term so no league matches.


Thanks to Luke for a very successful event. Photo by Anthony Giles.

Saturday 23rd Feb. 2:15pm: McArthur Cup semi-final v Horsham

The McArthur Cup is a Sussex County Chess team knock-out played between a small number of Sussex clubs over the course of the year. Matches are played over six boards. This Brighton v Horsham semi-final will be held in the main room together with any tournament games. The poker room will be available for analysis and friendlies.

Cairns Cup

A few people at the club mentioned having played in a simul against Marie Sebag in Dieppe. Marie is currently participating in the 'Cairns Cup' , an invitational tournament for strong female players organised and hosted by the St. Louis Chess and Scholastic Club.

I happened to pick on round 5 of this tournament to watch over the course of a few days, unfortunately Ms. Sebag may go into history for the wrong reasons as she was on the receiving end of a brilliant game by Gunina, and the whole round was full of excitement. I'd heartily recommend looking at this tournament, they games are on the whole much more entertaining than 'SuperGM' matches, and the plans are relatively understandable.

If you don't have time for the full 3-plus hours on YouTube, I see plenty of people have already reviewed the Gunina - Sebag game including the ever-popular 'friend-of-the-club' Simon Williams.

Link to the GingerGM review (I'm not actually seen it)