1) Play friendly games.
2) Play longer games and obtain a chess grade.
a) In club tournaments.
b) In one of the three teams playing other clubs.
3) Join by Monday October 2nd and have the chance of playing Raymond Keene , chess Grand Master, in a simultaneous match on Saturday October 7th at The Queen's Hotel.
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The two tournaments run this season were the Plummer Knight Trophy and the Club Championship. Both had seven entrants, which meant six games for each competitor. I had calculated there were 24 available Mondays for the players to finish their six games. This discounted those Mondays, where the team matches occurred. There was too little room at the Ralli Hall to accommodate both team games and internal ones. The Plummer Knight Trophy was the first tournament to conclude. This finished in July. First place was secured by Jan Ten Sythoff, who, scored 4½ points. Second was Paul Selby with 4 points. Joint third were Paul Edwards and Brian Izzard with 3½ points.
The Club Championship finished later in August. During the tournament cycle the deadline was extended until the end of August. In the last match up Luke Rutherford was to play Michael Gyure. This was due to be played on the last day of August. The last possible date for play. The day prior to this Luke Rutherford rung with the news Michael would not be able to make the date of their match. He explained Michael had messaged him to say he had 'a last minute change in plans'. He also said he was claiming a default win in this instance. After he had forwarded the message to me i drew the conclusion there wasn't a serious mitigating reason for not issuing a default win. So, i did so. In first place with 5½ points was Luke Rutherford. Second was Geoffrey James with 5 points. Third placed was Chris Lake with 4 points.
