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Sunday 2 December 2012

Herts Chess Association, 61st Annual Congress

News comes to us of the Hertfordshire Annual Congress, which is now held on the weekend of 2nd - 3rd February, to avoid clashing with the London Chess Classic. Details from www.hertschesscongress.com

The venus is the County Suite, County Hall, Hertford, SG13 8DQ.

In addition to the Open there are graded sections for U175, U150 and U120. Prizes totalling £1600 including 2 grading prizes in each Tournament.

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Friday 30 November 2012

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The results last night in the third round were:

Ian Snape ½-½ Michael Prizant
Stephen Lowe 1-0 John Duggan
Nick Briggs ½-½ Graeme Plato

Richard Selway (1½) v Andrew Ponting (0) – postponed to 13 December

This leaves the table as:

2 Ian Snape
1½ Richard Selway+, John Duggan, Nick Briggs and Graeme Plato
1 Michael Prizant+ and Stephen Lowe+
0 Andrew Ponting+



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COUNTY CUP

Not exactly the best start to our County Cup season last week as we began with two losses, 1½-4½ to Charlton and 2½-3½ to Maidstone:

Away to Charlton on 20 November

217 Philip Morris ½-½ Ian Snape 208
204 Tony Stebbings 1-0 John Duggan 190
202 Alan Hanreck ½-½ Michael Prizant 187
179 Philip Gregory 1-0 Graeme Plato 182
178 David Morris 1-0 Rohan Shiatis 176
173 Conor Murphy ½-½ Richard Selway 173

Home to Maidstone on 22 November

208 Ian Snape ½-½ Martin Taylor 218
190 John Duggan 0-1 Cliff Chandler 210
187 Michael Prizant ½-½ Andrew Mayhew 207
177 Nick Briggs ½-½ Ian Watson 193
176 Rohan Shiatis ½-½ Bob Lane 159
173 Richard Selway ½-½ David Heath 156

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Friday 9 November 2012

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The results of the second round, played last night, were:

John Duggan (2174) ½-½ Ian Snape (2245)
Andrew Ponting (1904) 0-1 Nick Briggs (1979)
Graeme Plato (-) 0-1 Richard Selway (-)

Michael Prizant (2076) v Stephen Lowe (-) was postponed by Michael - ill




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Thursday 8 November 2012

KENT QUICKPLAY FINAL

Rainham were at home to Beckenham in the final of the Kent Quickplay last night.  Beckenham won 10-6 to retain the trophy.  Many thanks to Alex Selway who stepped in as a replacement at a few hours notice and scored a critical 2/4.
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Friday 2 November 2012

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The second round of the 7 round APA tournament will be held on 8 November and the pairings are:

John Duggan (2174) v Ian Snape (2245)
Michael Prizant (2076) v Stephen Lowe (-)
Andrew Ponting (1904) v Nick Briggs (1979)
Graeme Plato (-) v Richard Selway (-)
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Friday 12 October 2012

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The first round of the above was played last night and very tense it was, with all 4 games going down to the wire.  Results:

Nick Briggs (1979) 0-1 Ian Snape (2245)
John Duggan (2174) 1-0 Andrew Ponting (1904)
Richard Selway (-) ½-½ Michael Prizant (2076)
Stephen Lowe (-) 0-1 Graeme Plato (-)

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Wednesday 19 September 2012

Fixture List

The first draft fixtures list is available here.  With thanks to Malcolm.
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Thursday 13 September 2012

BECKENHAM FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012/3

The first round of the 7 round APA tournament will be held on 11 October and the draw is:

Nick Briggs (1979) v Ian Snape (2245)
John Duggan (2174) v Andrew Ponting (1904)
Richard Selway (-) v Michael Prizant (2076)
Stephen Lowe (-) v Graeme Plato (-)
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Thursday 6 September 2012

Club Tournament 2012/13


The Tournament this year is being run by John White.

To enable the competition to get off to a speedy start, utilising the quiet period before the leagues begin,
we have produced a preliminary list of players for the two groups. If anybody knows that they will not be
playing, will they please strike their name off the list. Please check that the telephone number given is your
preferred one.

Unless they played last year, we have not included juniors as school commitments and league matches limit
the amount of time available.. However, if any juniors wish to play, again, please let John know by email.

The playing rules will be exactly the same as last year – a two hour handicap. The handicap is one minute of
time for each grading point. For example, if a 120 plays a 150 there is a 30 point difference and therefore a 30 minute difference: thus, 45 minutes plays 75 minutes. Players will toss for colours. As last year, players will be split into two groups; the top two from each group will play a semi-final (the winner of group A plays the runner-up in group B) to produce the two finalists.

To prevent anomalies at the extremes of the grading range, there are two qualifications to the handicap
calculation:

• No player shall have less than 15 minutes time
• A minimum grading of 50 will be used

Anybody who has not played a minimum of two games by Christmas will be removed from the competition
and their results will be ignored. Results sheets will be pinned to the red clipboard.

John Lewin
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Sunday 2 September 2012

London League Fixtures

The London League fixtures are here and can be imported (I think!) into your favourite calendar application by clicking here.
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Saturday 14 July 2012

Prizes & This Year's Classic

At the London League AGM this week, I collected a prize won by our second team.  Thanks to the sponsorship of Chess & Bridge we collected £25 for coming second in Division 5.  Well done to Richard Putman and his team.

Malcolm Pein was at the meeting and spoke about the London Chess Classic 2012 which this year will be even stronger, partly on account of Nigel Short moving from the player's changing room to the commentary box. It's on at the usual venue from 1st till 10th December.

Andy
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Friday 29 June 2012

Handicap Quickplay competition for the Rose Bowl.

19 club members attended for this year's event on 28th June 2012. There were two all-play-all groups  with the top two from each group going forward to a final round The winner of the final all-play-all round was Nick Briggs who wins the Rose Bowl. The other players in the final round were Stephen Lowe, Ian Snape and John Duggan.

Club Championship [non-FIDE rated]

This club championship is arranged in two groups with the first round being an all-play-all over the season, followed by semi-finals and then a final on 21st June 2012. The cup was won by Alan Sands who beat Alex Selway in the final.

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Friday 8 June 2012

Beckenham v Bromley


Played on June 7th 2012

A good evening with John White securing the draw for Beckenham with a last minute win on time.

Fred

1172
NameGradeNameGrade
Briggs, Nick
185
0
1
Snape, Ian
203
Bell, Duncan
158
1
0
Sands, Alan
166
Rao, Raunak
151
0
1
Lewin, John
157
John White
140
1
0
Alderson, John
147
Bernard, Chris
129
½
½
Griffiths, Jon
134
Wellings, Fred
123
0
1
Kelsey, Geoff
111
Walden, Howard
111
0
1
Fraser, Alan
110
Smee, Mike
105
1
0
Spencer, Mike
104
Roberts, Stephen
50
1
0
Deshmuckh, Ajoy
40
4½
4½
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Thursday 7 June 2012

 THE VERNEY CUP

Each year, the club presents a trophy to the player who has represented the club in all competitions and has gained the most number of points in doing so. This year, the cup goes to Richard Putman who has scored a remarkable 17 wins and 3 losses in 20 games.

THE ROSE BOWL

It is now a tradition that the final event in the club calendar will be the annual handicap quickplay competition for the Rose Bowl to which all members are welcome. This will be held on Thursday 28th June at 7.30 sharp. Then the club will close for the summer and start the new season on the first Thursday in September.
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In addition to the matches we play in the Kent league, we also play in the London and Croydon Leagues. Here are the end of season tables.



In London League Division 2, relegation looked a possibility at one time but we managed to avoid that:



Team
Matches
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
Games
For
Games
Against
Games
Diff.
Adjourn.
Match
Points
Double
Defaults
Penalty
Points
Wimbledon 1
12
10
2
0
82
38
+44
–
11
–
–
Drunken Knights 3
12
10
2
0
81
39
+42
–
11
–
–
Metropolitan 1
12
6
3
3
62.5
57.5
+5
–
7.5
–
–
Athenaeum 2
12
6
2
4
61.5
58.5
+3
–
7
–
–
Mushrooms 1
12
7
0
5
61.5
58.5
+3
–
7
–
–
Battersea 1
12
5
3
4
58
61
-3
–
6.5
1
–
Woodbridge 1
12
5
1
6
57
63
-6
–
5.5
–
–
Dulwich 1
12
5
0
7
57
63
-6
–
5
–
–
Wanstead & Woodford 1
12
4
2
6
54.5
65.5
-11
–
5
–
–
Beckenham & Charlton 1
12
3
3
6
50
69
-19
–
4.5
1
–
Hackney 2
12
4
0
8
54.5
65.5
-11
–
4
–
-2
Streatham & Brixton 2
12
2
1
9
52
68
-16
–
2.5
–
–
Mushrooms 2
12
1
1
10
47.5
72.5
-25
–
1.5
–
-1



London League division 5 is a graded tournament and there is no promotion or relegation:



Team
Matches
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
Games
For
Games
Against
Games
Diff.
Adjourn.
Match
Points
Double
Defaults
Penalty
Points
Hammersmith MA
14
11
1
2
39
17
+22
–
11.5
–
–
Beckenham & Charlton MA
14
7
2
5
33.5
22.5
+11
–
8
–
–
Metropolitan MA
14
6
4
4
30
26
+4
–
8
–
–
Hackney MA
14
6
3
5
27
29
-2
–
7.5
–
–
Kings Head MA
14
6
2
6
29.5
26.5
+3
–
7
–
–
Battersea MA
14
5
1
8
23.5
32.5
-9
–
5.5
–
–
Dulwich MA
14
4
4
6
22
34
-12
–
5
–
-16
Pimlico (HO&J) MA
14
2
1
11
19.5
36.5
-17
–
2.5
–
–



We play in the Croydon League we play under the name of West Wickham in recognition of one of the clubs we amalgamated with a few years ago. Division 1 is an open competition:

Division: 1 - Croydon Shield

Str A
WW 1
CCF A
CP A
Pld.
Match Pts.
Game Pts.
home
away
home
away
home
away
home
away
Streatham A
1.5
3.5
3
2.5
2.5
2.5
6
5
15.5
West Wickham 1
0.5
2.5
3
2.5
3
3.5
6
5
15
CCF A
1.5
1
1.5
1
1.5
2.5
6
1
9
Crystal Palace A
1.5
1.5
0.5
1
1.5
2.5
6
1
8.5

Divisions 2 and 3 are graded competitions. Well done to John Lewin and his team for winning division 2:

Division: 2 - Martin Cath Trophy

WW 2
Str C
CP B
SN A
Wall A
Str B
CCF B
Pld.
Match Pts.
Game Pts.
West Wickham 2
2
2
3
2.5
2
3.5
6
4.5
15
Streatham C
2
0
2.5
2.5
1.5
3.5
6
3.5
12
Crystal Palace B
2
4
2.5
1.5
2
1.5
6
3
13.5
South Norwood A
1
1.5
1.5
3
3
2
6
2.5
12
Wallington A
1.5
1.5
2.5
1
2
3
6
2.5
11.5
Streatham B
2
2.5
2
1
2
0.5
6
2.5
10
CCF B
0.5
0
2.5
2
1
3.5
6
1.5
9.5


CCF B fielded an ineligible player in their match against Streatham C. The affected game has been scored as a draw for Streatham C and a loss for CCF B and a match point has been deducted from CCF B's total.

Division: 3 - Dave Luckin Trophy

Wall C
WW 3
Wall B
CP C
Str E
Lew
Str D
SN B
SCBG
Pld.
Match Pts.
Game Pts.
Wallington C
2.5
1.5
3.5
3
4
1
2
4
8
5.5
21.5
West Wickham 3
1.5
2.5
2
3
3.5
2.5
1
4
8
5.5
20
Wallington B
2.5
1.5
4
1
1
3
2.5
4
8
5
19.5
Crystal Palace C
0.5
2
0
2
3
3
2.5
4
8
5
17
Streatham E
1
1
3
2
0
3
3
4
8
4.5
17
Lewisham
0
0.5
3
1
4
1.5
3.5
3
8
4
16.5
Streatham D
3
1.5
1
1
1
2.5
2
3
8
3.5
15
South Norwood B
2
3
1.5
1.5
0
0.5
2
3
8
3
13.5
Sth. Croy. Bus Garage
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
8
0
3


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