BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Last Thursday night’s third round results were:

Ian Snape 1-0 Michael Prizant
Robert Maguire 1-0 Kevin Bailey
John Duggan ½-½ Andrew Ponting

The round 4 draw, to be played on 10 February, is:

Robert Maguire v Ian Snape
Kevin Bailey v John Duggan
Michael Prizant v Andrew Ponting



The crosstable to date is:

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Round 3 will be held on 18 November; games as follows:

Robert Maguire v Kevin Bailey
Ian Snape v Michael Prizant
John Duggan v Andrew Ponting

The crosstable to date is:

KENT COUNTY QUICKPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010

Sadly, it was not to be three in a row. A rather lacklustre performance resulted in a 10-6 loss to Charlton.

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Last night’s second round results were:

Kevin Bailey ½-½ Michael Prizant
John Duggan 1-0 Robert Maguire

The next games are below:

14 October: Andrew Ponting v Ian Snape (outstanding round 2 game)
18 November: Ian Snape v Michael Prizant
18 November: John Duggan v Andrew Ponting
18 November: Robert Maguire v Kevin Bailey

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

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KENT QUICKPLAY 2010

Beckenham won their Kent Quick Play semi final away to Folkestone on 8 September by the close score of 8½-7½ and will now play Charlton in the final. The match will be held at Beckenham on 7 October starting at 7.45pm. All spectators welcome.

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Yes, you read that right; Beckenham has its own FIDE-rated round-robin event!

The first round matches will take place on 16 September, starting at 7pm, and the draw is

• Michael Prizant v Robert Maguire
• Kevin Bailey v Andrew Ponting
• Ian Snape v John Duggan

First round results to be added in due course.

Winner of Chess & Bridge London League Prize

Once again, our Division 5 London League team has brought home the bacon. This time I was presented with £50 by Malcolm Pein (courtesy of Chess & Bridge) at this week's AGM. We came second.

Malcolm also asked the meeting for anyone who is interested in coaching in schools to get in touch with him. He has some money to run a coaching scheme next year, which he's calling Chess in Schools and Communities. The charity will pay for any CRB approvals that need to be made.

Note that this not the ill-fated ECF scheme.

Annual Handicap Quickplay competition

On 1st July, the annual Handicap Quickplay competition took place with 14 members attending. At the end of 2 rounds and 11 games, there was a tie for 1st place between Ian Snape and Duncan Bell. The play-off was won by Ian Snape.

A cup [called the Rosebowl] is awarded for this event and it will be presented at the AGM on 2nd September 2010.

Victory at Kent Finals Day

Mike Spencer points out that we actually won the Intro cup in the Kent finals this year, beating Lewisham on the day..

Well done, guys.

Out of curiosity I checked the details here, and it seems we won the En Passant Cup as well!

Congratulations to Malcolm and the team.

Update (Sunday): As a tie-breaker, board-count to Beckenham chess club is like penalties to the England footy team. They happen too often and we always lose (so it seems). Malcolm has just pointed out to me:

The EP report is in fact a mistake. We lost the final on board count [and we were black on odds]. Strange though that this error should have happened. I reported it but heard nothing in response

Beckenham v Bromley Match

Bromley won the annual Beckenham v Bromley match by 6 - 4. Paul Andrews says a "massive thank you to Howard for organising the whole thing despite not being able to attend himself". Details below....

Andrew Ponting 164	0 - 1	Ian Snape 198
Alan Sands 153	0 - 1	John Lewin 162
Peter Thomas 145	1 - 0	Paul Andrews
Chris Bernard 124	½ - ½	Malcolm Mourant
Fred Wellings 124	1 - 0	Geoff Kelsey 140
Richard Putman 122	0 - 1	Gautham Reddiar
Duncan Bell 119	½ - ½	Raunak Rao 126
Ronald Huggins 115	0 - 1	Justin Brown 116
Simon Leung U	0 - 1	Alan Fraser
Mike Spencer 95	1 - 0	Derek Simmons 100

Clean Sweep in Croydon League 2010, from Howard Walden

Our teams have won both of the divisions we entered for this season.

• Division 1 was won by West Wickham
  
  
• Division 3 was won by West Wickham A, with a massive 9½ out of a possible 10 match points with West Wickham B as worthy runners-up.

That means that West Wickham have won Division 1 two years running!

In Division 3, West Wickham teams have dominated the division for the last four years with three championships and a runners-up!!!!

Well done to all those who have taken part. Perhaps we should have a team in Divsion 2 next year?

2010 Beckenham v Bromley Chess Match

This match will be on 10th June. Please contact Howard Walden if you want to take part.

Kent League Semi Finals

Malcolm Mourant reports that it's been "a reasonably successful season with 3 of our teams getting through to the semi-finals. All 4 of our other teams just missed out by coming 3rd"

Alan Fraser a Winner at Dudley

Minor Tournament (Under 115)
1st with 4/5 was Alan R Fraser (Beckenham & Bromley)

=2nd with 3.5/5 were Michael Henbury (Eastleigh Railway) and Keven A Lamb (Eastleigh Railway)

The Grading Prize went to Spectrum newcomer Alf Evans (Oswestry) who scored 2.5/5

A Little Slice of Glory for your Webmaster

Much against the form book, your webmaster pulled off equal first at the Dorset "Closed" Individual Championship in Bournemouth, this weekend. I got 3½ out of 5, having lost Round One and been lazy in Round 4 by pre-booking a bye.

This is probably the most interesting position of the tournament, which I reached in the last round, needing a win to get into the money. Black (Kevin Goater) is to move, and should probably take the pawn on c5. But he goes, instead directly for the win with g4.

Click to see what happens next!

Tues 23rd Feb - Kent Blitz Chess Championship

The 1^st Kent Blitz Chess Championship will be held at 7.30pm Tuesday 23^rd February at Snodland United Church, High Street, Snodland, Kent, ME6 5AG. The event is sanctioned by KCCA and organised by Snodland Chess Club.

• 9 rounds of blitz chess (5 mins per player, no increments). £5 entry fee.

• £30 first prize, plus other prizes depending on number of entries.

Entries must arrive by Monday 22nd February and will not be accepted on the evening of the event.

Please contact David Lettington on 07729 624141 for more details.

Tea and coffee will be provided free of charge on the evening. There will be a secondhand bookstall at the event.