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!