The Book Prize Tournament 2022-23 ends as the winners of this year’s event are announced by organiser Peter Przybycin.
The 2022-23 Book Prize Tournament is now closed.
Congratulations to the three winners: Iwan Cave, Nobby George, and Daniel Phillips. They will each receive a copy of “Defend Like Petrosian – What you can learn from Tigran Petrosian’s Extraordinary Defensive Skills“.
The Book Prizes 2023
Book Prize Tournament 2022-23 ends: Results
The winners
Iwan Cave won the Premier Section
Nobby George won the Major
Daniel Phillips won the Minor
Final positions
Premier section:
Iwan Cave 7
Keith Gregory 5½
Graham Stuart 3½
Cary Xie 3½
Sam Murphy 2½
Peter Przybycin 2½
Pablo Vidal 2 (from 6)
Rob Sims ½ (from 6)
Major section:
Nobby George 6
Keven Lamb 4½
Andy Mills 4½
Dick Meredith 3½
John Kooner 3
John Pellegrini 2½
Peter Eales 2
Patrick Pavey 2
Minor section:
Daniel Phillips 8
Lee Mundy 7½
John Davis 6½
Rob Strachan 5½ (from 8)
Alan Weaver 3½
Rose Saunders 3 (from 8)
Geoff Parish 3
Ian Parker 3
Steve Saunders 3
Steve Dunleavy 1
Book Prize Tournament 2022-23 Round 9 game Steve Dunleavy v Lee Mundy
ECF Membership renewals 2023-24 will be due for many club players at the end of August. Until recently, this was the time for membership renewal for all English Chess Federation members, but it is now possible to join and renew in any month. Many of us continue to have September to August membership annual membership. Membership will last for 12 months from the date of purchase of the membership package you choose.
ECF Membership also gives discounts at various companies, including Chess & Bridge shop
ECF Membership levels: what’s best for me?
Basic Bronze level ECF membership gives players ECF Grading for their game results in club tournaments, local Leagues, and County games.
Silver as Bronze, plus grading at chess tournaments (Congresses – but not FIDE rated standard-play ones).
Gold membership: as Silver, plus it includes FIDE rated standard play tournaments.
For most club players, Bronze or Silver Memberships are sufficient: Bronze if you don’t plan to go to Congresses, but do want to play in the club’s events and the League.
Other ECF Membership types
Whilst Bronze or Silver would suit most of our Club members, there are other ECF membership types, and, just for information, here’s a brief overview:
ECF Supporter: access, and ECF grading to ECF online members clubs and events on chess.com and lichess.org together with free online rating of all ECF rated online events. £10.
Queen’s Gambit Scheme Supporter: Available to women aged 18 and over who have not been members of the ECF before, for their first membership year. Grants access to ECF online members clubs and events on Chess.com and Lichess, together with free online rating of all ECF rated online events. Free.
Platinum. As per Gold, plus printed ECF Yearbook. £75.
Inside the Chess & Bridge shop in London – where ECF members get a discount
Renewing your ECF Membership
This may automatically happen, and the subs will be taken when due. If you are an existing ECF Member, but haven’t set up for automatic payments, you can renew by going to the ECF’s membership payment page ecf.justgo.com – or via the ECF’s Membership page:
English Chess Federation membership is one of 3 possible costs of being an active member of Chandler’s Ford Chess Club. The other costs are joining our chess club, and membership of our venue, the Chandler’s Ford Central Club. See our ‘What does it cost?” Page:
The pre-season friendly vs Fareham Chess Club was last Tuesday, 8th August 2023. Thanks to Graham Stuart for organising the event. Chess! Buffet! New chess pieces! It was a great evening. The new chess pieces used in the match were purchased in London just the previous Friday.
In this article Graham Stuart selects the team, and then reports on the match.
The pre-season friendly match between Chandler’s Ford and Fareham Chess clubs, 8th August 2023
Preparations
Graham’s pre-match preparations including how he selected the team.
Thanks to everyone who wished to play in this match.
It is a shame that not everyone can play in the match as we have more people interested that Fareham, but I have hopefully chosen a fair method for selection. Because Fareham will be stronger than us (as I have discussed players with their Captain) I felt that the top 6 rated players should be selected, and the remaining 3 players were chosen by my wife at random. For the remaining 6 players I have paired 4 of you to play an extra rated friendly on the night as part of the friendly, but not counting towards the result of the match.
This leaves two players, myself, and Kev Lamb. We will be the reserves and if Kev does not mind I would very much like him to be of photographic duties for the night?
Team: CF Team (board colours to be chosen on night)
Time Control: 80 mins + 10 secs per move (I will set the clocks up before the match, but this is option 18)
Start Time: 7:30 (Rob and myself should be at the club at 7pm to set up)
I hope this is all ok with everyone, but please do let me know if you cannot play and I will rejig?
Buffet
With regards to the Buffet, we have received a very generous donation to pay for this and the club will supply this. I would kindly suggest that you don’t eat at the boards especially as we should be playing on the new equipment. But the beauty of chess is that you can move away from the board during the match. There should be plenty of food for everyone at the club, and this is not just for the people playing.
Good luck on the night.
Graham
Buffet at the Pre-season Friendly vs Fareham
The match: CFCC 3-6 Fareham CC
A closer game than the result indicated saw us lose 6 – 3. Fareham out-rated us by an average of over 100 points and the result was not unexpected. However, we did have a number of excellent results with Sam “Morphy” Murphy beating Tom Philidor with a very pretty finish and Patrick coming out on top in his game as well. There were also two CF vs CF games as well which were hard fought.
Diagram: “Morphy” v Philidor. White to move. Black then resigned.
The new chess pieces were an excellent addition, many thanks for Peter, Andy, David and Kev for their trip to London to collect these.
The match has been added to LMS as well as the two overspill games.
The Summer Tournament 2023 Round 3 starts as its organiser Malcolm Clarke announces the player pairings.
The Summer Tournament runs during the summer months between May and September, and has a 5-round Swiss format. The organiser is Malcolm Clarke.
The winner receives the Kooner Cup for a year and usually gets to keep a replica. The games are standard play in terms of time control, 90 minutes each player.
