Another Excellent Performance at Golders Green

Following on from Douglas's result at the Golders Green Rapid a few weeks back, this time it's Reenen Du Toit who's making the news with second equal in the U170 section of this popular quickplay. Details here.

Interviewed for this esteemed blog - OK, that's not true, it was an email to Douglas - Reenen said:

Thanks. I would have won the major section was it not for the last game which I lost.  Nevertheless it was an inspirational tournament showing that I can get close to the no 1 spot.

Ambition!

For what it's worth, your correspondent played in the excellent Torbay Major this weekend, and thrilled the crowds with four draws and a loss.  Alan Fraser was there too, and he was on 2/4 (no draws, at least) at the beginning of the last round.  The winner of the Major - whose name I sadly cannot recall, despite supping beers with him on Sunday night - is an ex-Beckenham player from the 1970s.  He couldn't remember anyone from those days apart from Alan Sands, which goes to show the impact our legendary member must have been making, even then.

Andy Heard

Douglas Vleeshhouwer Takes 2nd Place at Golders Green

This is the regular monthly quick play run by the estimable Adam Raouf, and Douglas won 2nd place with 4.5 from 6 in the U170 section. 

I managed to checkmate Roshal Patel in round 1 and Martin Cheung in round 6, something happens in quickplay a lot but I didn't think it would happen in rapidplay matches.

Full results here.

Anyone who fancies going to another tournament, just post a note here and maybe we can get a small posse organised?

Andy

BECKENHAM & BROMLEY FIDE RATED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

After 2 rounds, scores are as follows: 2 Ian Snape 1½ Graeme Plato 1 John Duggan ½ Richard Selway, Nick Briggs and Andrew Ponting

Annual Quickplay Tournament

The Rose Bowl.

On 27th June [our last night for this season], 15 members took part in our annual quickplay handicap tournament. Initially, two groups played each other and the top 3 from each group then went through to the final round.

The top 6 were Ian Snape, John Duggan, Stephen Lowe, Nick Briggs, Doug Vleeshhouwer and Jon Griffiths.

John Duggan was the eventual winner and was presented with the "Rose Bowl".

Malcolm Mourant

FIDE RATINGS

Congratulations to Richard Selway who obtained his first rating in the FIDE list at 1 June. A very creditable 2038 it is too.

Graeme Plato and Stephen Lowe both now have partial ratings.

Bckenham vs. Bromley

Our annual Beckenham v Bromley freindly match took place last night. It finished with an equitable 5 all draw. See result below:

Board
		Beckenham					Bromley
	Grade	first name & surname		Game Results*			first name & surname		Grade
1	213	Ian Snape		0		1.0	Nick Briggs		183
2	171	Alan Sands		0		1.0	Graeme Plato		180
3	170	Andrew Ponting		1		0.0	Doug Vleeshhouwer		158
4	146	John Alderson		0.5		0.5	John Lewin		157
5	129	John White		0.5		0.5	Malcolm Mourant		132
6	125	Stephen Cousins		0.5		0.5	James Kinsella		121
7	116	Howard Walden		1		0.0	Tony Foreman		114
8	111	Fred Wellings		0.5		0.5	Geoff Kelsey		108
9	109	Mike Spencer		0		1.0	David Vigus		100
10	40	Stephen Roberts		1		0.0	Anthony Barnett		58
	1330	Grades Total	Team Total	5		5.0	Team Total	Grades Total	1311
	10	no. of players						no. of players	10
	133.0	Av.Grade						Av.Grade	131.1
							Played on 6th June 2013
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