FIDE RATED BLITZ ON 21 NOVEMBER

The whole of the County Cup team turned out last night for the 7 round blitz, along with 6 other members, making a total of 12. Top positions were: 6½/7 Ian Snape 5½ John Duggan and Jon Griffiths 4 Andrew Ponting 3½ Graeme Plato. However, the stand out performance of the night was undoubtedly that of Jon Griffiths. Had he held a drawn R + P ending in the first round against me, he would have tied for first. As it was, he beat John Duggan, Richard Selway, Nick Briggs and Andrew Ponting.

FIDE RATED BLITZ ON 21 NOVEMBER

A reminder that the club is holding its first FIDE Rated Blitz tournament this Thursday, 21 November and the details are: (a) Start 7.30pm; estimated finish 10.25pm. (b) Rounds - 7. (c) Time control - 8 minutes + 2 sec a move (digital) or 10 minutes flat (manual) per player. (d) Entry fee £5 (£10 if not a member). If you have not yet confirmed entry, please turn up by 7.20pm at the latest.

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