Internal Tournament Results

Howard Walden reports that two internal tournaments have been completed, with wins for Peter Thomas in Division 2 and Howard himself in Division 3. Division 1 wasn't played this year.

Congratulations to both, and I presume cups and applause will be awarded at the AGM.

The organisers of the Beckenham v Bromley match are Howard Walden [Tournament Controller], Fred Wellings [Beckenham team captain] and John Lewin [Bromley team captain].

Forthcoming Events Before Year's End

• Thursday 28th May will be the annual Beckenham v Bromley match at the club starting at 7.30 pm. More to come from the organisers (Malcolm Mourant, I think. Ed.)
  
  
• Thursday 18th June will be the annual handicap quickplay tournament for the Rosebowl. Registration will be at 7.15pm with a view to play starting at 7.30 pm. All club members, including juniors welcome. [This is a changed date from the normal date due to an additional event below].
  
  
• Thursday 25th June. We hope to hold a new event for juniors only [under 16]. We have been fortunate this year to see an influx of juniors and we want to provide them with a fun evening. This will be a handicap 5 minute tournament with a small prize for the winner. The last club evening of the year has been chosen because it is hoped that all exam pressures will be over by then. This will be in addition to a normal club evening for adults.

More Results From the Team Secretary

As reported before, we had a near miss in Division 2 of the London League; but we also play in the Minor Division and came third out of 7 – the same as last year.

Kent League

The first two teams in each division qualify for a semi-final match against teams from Mid and East Kent. As can be seen in the detailed report , we qualified in 3 divisions. Unfortunately, we lost in each semi-final and so do not have a chance to play in Finals Day on 10th May.

Croydon League

For the first time in many years, we entered a team in Division 1 – and we won it winning all our matches.

We also have 2 teams in Division 3. Our A team came 2nd and our B team came 7th, out of 8.

More information on this can be found on www.croydonchessleague.org.uk.

The Verney Cup

Every year the club awards a cup to the player who has obtained the most number of points in games played for the club against external opposition. This year, the cup goes to Fred Wellings.

Almost Promoted

For the second year running, our London League team - run jointly with our friends in Charlton - didn't quite make promotion from Division Two of the London League. The deciding match had been postponed because of the snow earlier in the year, and now become the "crunch" fixture. Played on Monday against Athenaeum, their comfortable victory carried them upwards.

Athenaeum are a strong central London club with plenty of strength in depth; and they'll need all their talent to survive in the hothouse of the premier division of what must be the strongest evening chess league in the UK (at least).

Division 2 winners were Ilford. They arrived in Division 2 by way of relegation last season, but this year they won every one of their matches by at least +2; and in our case by +6 (that's 8-2).

Try again next year!