Tournament results

 Congratulations to the following:
1)  Club Championship.
                               Julien Carron         Simon Wilks             Joint winners.
                              Geoffrey James      Chris Lake                 Joint third
2) Plummer Knight
                               Terry Brown                                            Winner
                               Alaa Albadin         Jonathan Davies        Joint second.
3) Tasker Tankard
                              Joe Everett                                                First
                              Sue Chadwick                                           Second
                              Robert Counsell                                        Third.
              Congratulations to you all. The cups, plaques and certificates will be presented to you all at the AGM in September.

Club equipment

The club has three wooden boards available for sale to members at £10 to £30. One board is 100 years old and requires restoration. There is also a wooden board and a decorative set plus board (this is suitable for display purposes only) available free to anyone who wants them. Please contact Anthony if you are interested.

MSCL AGM: B&H win again and Junior League approved

Much excitement at the MSCL AGM last week when it was decided to run a separate Junior League next season, starting earlier and finishing on the night (!), sneaking in as an alternative proposal to Eastbourne's  fourth division idea. Plus Brighton and Hove won the league cup and the first division tankard - both of which were carried off by first team captain, Paul Batchelor. Congrats to him for winning 6/7, and the first team for a winning team performance of 8.5/9.

Tournaments

Great to see that the majority of games are now completed in the three main tournaments. Well done everyone. A few still have to be finished but these seem to be in hand. The deadline is 30th June 2016.
Luckily I have noticed that the results of a few games have not been written on the A4 sheet. I use this information to send in results for grading. I have added them to the A4 sheet . If results are omitted  they will not be sent for grading. If hopefully an error is later discovered the result will then be entered in the next grading session.

Hastings and St Leonards 4th Weekend Tournament

Hastings are running another weekend tournament on 2nd - 3rd July.
See this page on their website for further details.

First Team Season Over.

The first team have finished the season with a loss in the McArthur cup. Although we did hold the trophy for seven seasons. A thank you to Geoffrey James and Shaun Brewer for providing lifts to away matches when required. Also a thank you to Paul Selby for captaining the side twice in my absence. Silverware this season was won in the form of the league[Mowatt] Division One Cup.
 I hope everyone who has participated has enjoyed the experience and hopefully will return next season to renew the first team campaign.

Hastings and St Leonards 3rd Weekend Tournament

Hastings are running another weekend tournament on 7th-8th May.
See this page on their website for further details.

Tournaments

A reminder that the longplay tournaments end on 30th June. However it is best to aim to have all your games played by the middle of June at the latest. It can often be difficult to arrange games at the last moment.
Also be aware that the winner of each tournament is the person with the highest score irrespective of the number of games played. E.G. Player A only completes five games and has five points. Player B completes 8 games and has 5.5 points. Player B is the winner.
The two Rapidplay tournaments continue until 31st August.

Brighton & Hove Chess Club Division 1 Champions

A hearty congratulation to everyone who contributed to this season's campaign. At present we lead Haywards Heath by 4-0. John Henshaw's game is adjourned. This means we finish the season with
 8.5 Match Points out of a possible 9. A most commendable performance. Well done everyone.
 Today's winners were Julien Carron, Callum Brewer, Simon Wilks and myself.

Rapidplay Ladder Tournament

The Open Rapidplay Tournament is now full.
 If present members, wish to enter a tournament, the Open Rapidplay Ladder Tournament is now operating.
To enter members just write their name on a card positioned in the ladder and challenge people above them. The time control is the same as the Open Rapidplay Tournament.
The rules of the Open Rapidplay Ladder Tournament are displayed at the club.

Library and clocks

Anthony's updated Library catalogue and all his digital clock help pages are now on the website. The clock pages make everything a doddle for people still puzzled by anything digital. Please take a moment for them to load if you don't see them at first. If you want to practise at home you can get a super new DGT 2010 for £49.99 - sale price from Chess and Bridge - or a much cheaper DGT 1001 for £19.99 for just the basics.

Also don't forget the e2e4 comeback at Gatwick next weekend.

Hastings chess match 12-Jan-2016

Hi Chess Club,

I am looking for 3 players willing to travel to Hastings to play for the 3rd Team next Tuesday 12th Jan 2016.

Myself and Sue are driving so you can have a lift.

If you would like to play at Hastings next week, then please contact me ASAP. ***Playing strength is not important.

Contact me on 07976 739911 or email : michael_s_cain@yahoo.co.uk

Thank You

Michael

A Life in Check

A nice short and true story about a chess-obssessive in Manhattan.  A warning to us all :-)


Merry Christmas all!

Christmas Cheer

We will be closed on Christmas Eve, Boxing Day and New Year's Eve, but fear not there are all these events to go to to get you through the bleak midwinter:

Coulsdon Christmas Longplay Congress
Hastings Chess Club Christmas Party
Hastings International Chess Congress

Hastings Christmas Party

Hastings are inviting Brighton and Hove players plus guests to their
Christmas Party on 20th December. 

New and improved Events Calendar

I've changed the Events Calendar to a calendar format and included MSCL matches to the end of January, complete with links to MSCL website and venue maps. Will captains please let me know of any date changes for this to function reliably - and anyone else for anything else exciting you'd like added!

PS Now with added e2e4 Gatwick Congresses in February and May 2016!

Knock Out match against the Args.

I thought we were goners arriving at Wednesday night's Knock Out match when it transpired Mikolaj had played in the first division as well as the third, meaning our grading average suddenly shot up by 30 points*. We were still the same underdogs but now minus the grading handicap. Ouch! However Robin overcame his 27 point difference and beat Peter Farr on top board. Paul Selby and I drew and Andrew won against roughly equal competition. Mikolaj was battling on against his 150 opponent on board three - both offering and declining draws - until finally Paul Kington's knight proved superior to Mikolaj's bishop in an equal pawn ending. Still, a good performance and we had beaten the Args. 3-2 with plenty of downtime in the Jolly Tanners (no speculative argy-bargy over unfinished games :-)). We now face Horsham at home in the quarter-finals.

* Ungraded players are estimated according to the highest division they have played in.

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.

Open Rapidplay

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

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.