Hampshire scored 17 game points and came 9th. Warwickshire came first with 31.5 game points. See the Results on the Chess-Results.com website.
Maha tells us she enjoyed the tournament and watching the games all day, and that although there was a delay, she thought that the English Chess Federation organised the event well.
The Championship was held online on chess.com, and the teams of six competed in 7 Rounds. The time control for the games was ten minutes initially per player per game plus an increment of 5 seconds per move.
A reminder from Maha Chandar, Team Manager of the Hampshire Juniors that the U-18 team are going to play tomorrow 21st November in the County Championship. Starts @10.00 -5.00 in Chess.com U18 SCCU and until now 12 counties are signed up and expecting more than 15 counties.
This week: our best-attended online tournament so far on Tuesday 10th November, and on Thursday 12th the Ewok was defeated by a ‘Belgian’… Details of forthcoming tournaments on 17th and 19th. Plus a reminder to pay ECF subscriptions.
Online Tournament results 10th, 12th November
Tuesday Arena, 10th November 2020.
Sixteen of us participated in this week’s Arena Tournament on Tuesday 10th November, our best turnout so far in these online tournaments on lichess.org. Congratulations to Sam Murphy, who came first. Well done too Andy Mills 2nd, and Graham Stuart (WillHeSac) 3rd. It was Sam’s birthday on Tuesday, so some virtual silverware for his birthday as he achieved top podium position. Andy Mills is a former player from when we used to play at Eastleigh, and this is his first Chandler’s Ford online tournament – a great reunion.
Another former player is John Zastapilo who used to play for us when we were at the Unity Club. John Z now lives in Belgium: great for the club tournaments to go international!
5-Round Swiss tournament 12th November: Belgian beats Ewok
Seven of us played in the Thursday evening tournament on 12th November. Congratulations to Graham Stuart who won this week with an impressive 5 wins out of 5 games. Well done too John Zastapilo (john_zed) 2nd, and me, Kev Lamb 3rd. Belgium-based John’s Round 1 game was a 26-move game against Mike Henbury – Ewokmike, a win for John.
ECF subscriptions reminder
Remember to pay your ECF membership subs
The English Chess Federation relies upon members’ annual subscriptions to provide its services of ratings, online and over the board chess when that resumes. To see more details on what the ECF does go to https://www.englishchess.org.uk/what-we-do/.
The Membership year runs 1st September to 31st August.
Can’t remember if you’re up to date? Check the ECF Rating database. Search for your own details and it will show your ECF membership number, category and expiry date.
If you need to renew membership – or to become a member if you haven’t yet joined the ECF, click on the button below to go to the ECF website’s Membership page:
Two Chandler’s Ford chess club online tournaments on lichess.org this week: the regular Tuesday Arena on 17th November, and our 5-round Swiss on Thursday 19th. Both have now been set up and are ready to join.
Tuesday Arena, 8pm on 17th November 2020
This is our regular online tournament in which players have ten minutes each per game in the one-hour tournament. 8pm start. Click on the button below to go to the Tournament.
On Thursday 19th the club has its regular 5-round Swiss tournament. This starts at 8pm on lichess.org. Players have an initial 7 minutes each per game plus a 3-second increment per move (that is, about ten minutes each). Click on the button below to go to the Tournament.
This week: Knockout Tournament organiser Steve Dunleavy presents the Trophy to the 2020 winner Peter Przybycin; results of the week’s online tournaments, plus details of the coming week’s online tournaments.
2020 Knock Out Tournament winner Peter Przybycin presented with Trophy
Peter Przybyin won this year’s Knockout Tournament. The tournament was organised by Steve Dunleavy, who presented the Trophy to Peter (in a socially safe way) last weekend.
Peter Przybycin receives Knockout Trophy, 2020. Photo by Suzan Dunleavy
Tuesday Arena: the Force is strong with the Ewok
Twelve of us participated this week in the online tournament on 3rd November. Congratulations to Mike Henbury (Ewokmike) on coming first – by a huge margin. Although he didn’t go ‘Berserk’ to score bonus points, the Ewok still ran amok – and won all his games. The Force was clearly with him.
Well done too John Kooner 2nd, and Sam Murphy 3rd.
Thursday evening’s online tournament this week was the Southampton Chess League‘s monthly tournament, the SCL Rapid – Tournament No 2. These monthly lichess.org online tournaments are set up and organised by Graham Stuart from our Club. These tournaments are well-supported by Chandler’s Ford players: 9 of this month’s participant’s were from our club. Graham also created the Chandler’s Ford Chess Club on lichess.org.
And a mention for Rose who got an impressive ten games played during the tournament!
Forthcoming online Tournaments
Two Chandler’s Ford chess club online tournaments on lichess.org this week: the regular Tuesday Arena on 10th November, and our 5-round Swiss on Thursday 12th. Both have now been set up and are ready to join.
Tuesday Arena, 8pm 10th November 2020
This is our regular online tournament in which players have ten minutes each per game in the one-hour tournament. 8pm start. Click on the button below to go to the Tournament.
On Thursday 12th the club has its regular 5-round Swiss tournament. This starts at 8pm on lichess.org. Players have an initial 7 minutes each per game plus a 3-second increment per move (that is, about ten minutes each). Click on the button below to go to the Tournament.
A new Chandler’s Ford Chess Club Tournament begins, and is just the format for these pandemic times: online. Peter Przybycin announces the draw for the 1st Round of the New Online Club Tournament, and outlines the rules of the contest.
Round 1 Pairings
White
Black
Rose Saunders
Mike Henbury
Geoffrey Parish
Keven Lamb
Rob Strachan
Don Creasey
Rob Sims
Steve Dunleavy
John Kooner
Steve Saunders
New Tournament Round 1 pairings
Tournament Rules
The tournament will be over nine rounds (all play all) .
Although players will sometimes play several consecutive games with the same colour, each player will have at least four games with white during the course of the tournament.
Each round to be completed within three weeks of pairings being issued. A certain amount of flexibility will be given on this rule. Any problems with meeting the deadline of each round, please let me know as early as possible.
The winner of each game is to inform me of the game result. In the event of a draw, the player with white has this responsibility.
Enjoy yourselves!
Peter.
Tournament organiser Peter Przybycin
There is a new Page on this website for the New Tournament, and this will be updated with results when known. The Page will be a useful reference as the tournament goes on, with tables for all rounds, plus the tournament’s rules.
This week: Hampshire Juniors victory against Berkshire Juniors; West England Chess Union (WECU) County chess online matches from January; results of this week’s club online tournaments, and details of the forthcoming tournaments.
Hampshire Juniors Victory in Team Battle
The Team Manager of the Hampshire Juniors , Maha Chandar, reports that the Hampshire Juniors won their online Team Battle on lichess.org against the Berkshire Juniors team 322 points to 208. The Saturday Afternoon Event on 31st October 2020 was a Team Battle tournament , a team version of the lichess.org Arena tournaments. The Event was a 2-hour tournament. Well done Hampshire! 54 players took part. See the tournament results list in full at: https://lichess.org/tournament/sR5uGBiB
There are some impressive statistics from the tournament:
Nine of us participated this week in the online tournament on 27th October. Congratulations to Don Creasey on coming first. Well done too Dean Shaw (Sheff84) 2nd, and David Culliford (djc202) 3rd. Dean has only recently joined our lichess club and is off to a good start.
5-round Swiss Tournament 29th October
Nine of us participated this week in the online tournament on 29th October. Congratulations to Graham Stuart (WillHeSac) on coming first. Well done too Keith Gregory 2nd, and Patrick Pavey 3rd.
WECU Online County Chess
Hampshire Team Captain Fraser Mcleod announces the online West England County chess championship:
We have been invited to participate in an online West of England championship along with Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. The proposed format is one game on Lichess every 3 weeks starting early in January, Sunday evenings starting at 7 p.m. Rate of play: 90’/15″. Results submitted to ECF for online rating
Please let me know if you’d be interested in playing.
The Tuesday Arena tournament is a one-hour event in which players have ten minutes each per game (i.e. a rapid play). It starts at 8pm. Click on the button below to be taken to the tournament on lichess.org – it’s already set up.
The SCL tournament starts at 7:30 pm on Thursday 5th November, and is a one and a half hour Arena event. The time control is 7 minutes initially per player per game plus a 3 second increment per move – the same as our 5-round swiss events.
Chandler’s Ford Juniors organiser Maha Chandar announces the Juniors County match Hampshire vs Berkshire which is on Saturday 31st October 2020 at 2pm, online at lichess.org.
Dear chess parent,
Your child in invited to play in HJCAs very first Saturday Afternoon Event (SAE).
This is a rated friendly match versus our neighbours, Berkshire Junior Chess Association (BJCA).
This will take place on the Lichess Arena and use the Team Battle format.
This week, the Summer Tournament progresses, with just one more match to go; results of last Tuesday’s online Arena Tournament and Thursday’s 5-Round Swiss; details of this week’s online tournaments. Plus, club history project. And The Queen’s Gambit.
Summer Tournament update
Summer Tournament prize: the Kooner Cup
The 5th and final round of the 2020 Summer Tournament progresses well, with just one game to go. Peter Przybycin currently leads on 4.5 points. Here’s the 5th Round table:
2020 Round 5 Pairings (last Round)
White
v
Black
Sam Murphy
Phil Overton
Peter Przybycin
1-0
John Kooner
Rob Sims
0.5-0.5
Maha Chandar
Rob Strachan
0-1
Steve Dunleavy
Rose Saunders
0-1
Steve Saunders
Bye – Don Creasey
Summer Tournament Round 5 Pairings
Tuesday Arena, 20th October
Twelve of us participated this week in the online tournament on 20th October. Congratulations to Sam Murphy on coming first. Well done too David Culliford (djc202) 2nd, and me- Kev Lamb– 3rd.
5-Round Swiss tournament 22nd October
Eleven of us played in the Thursday evening tournament on 22nd October. Congratulations to Graham Stuart (WillHeSac) who won this week. Well done too Keith Gregory 2nd, and Mike Henbury (Ewokmike) 3rd.
On Thursday 29th the club has its regular 5-round Swiss tournament. This starts at 8pm on lichess.org. Players have an initial 7 minutes each per game plus a 3-second increment per move (that is, about ten minutes each).
Following on from queries by club regular Steve Dunleavy, examining the history of our chess club has captured the imaginations of many in the club. Current players come from a variety of chess clubs before joining together in our club. We’d like to put together members’ recollections and piece together the history of the chess club. Seeing contributions of players’ experiences already, this obviously strikes a chord with members. Please send in your thoughts to Rob Sims who is leading the project or me, Kev Lamb.
The Queen’s Gambit
Netflix viewer and club stalwart Graham Stuart recommends viewing the series The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix.
“Just a quick note, that if you have Netflix the series they have based on Walter Tevis’s book (which for my shame I have not read) is now available. Have watched the first three episodes and have enjoyed it so far. The chess is accurate, although they play a bit quickly and think the acting is very good. “
This week: the Daily Echo publishes an online gallery of chess photos – with some familiar faces… Also, results of the Online Tournaments on 13th and 15th October; links to join forthcoming tournaments; and we mention another newspaper article – in the Guardian.
Photos on Daily Echo website
The Daily Echo have published a gallery on their website of 65 photos of pictures of people playing chess. There are a few of an Individual Championship at the Unity Club, a former venue of our own chess club. There is one of Southampton Chess Club players, many familiar faces still current in the chess league.
But there are some great pictures of current and former members of our own club: Gunther Burkert, Mike and Joseph Henbury. I remember the occasion, an Echo photographer came to our club to take photos of our then oldest and youngest players Gunther Burkert and Joseph Henbury. This was on 31st March 2009. Gunther was 83 and Joseph was 8 years old.
Here’s one of our own photos of Gunther and Joseph (and Mike) that year:
Joseph Henbury (aged 8) v Gunther Burkert (aged 83) 30 June 2009
Online tournament results 13th October
Fourteen of us took part in this week’s weekly online ‘ Tuesday Arena’ online tournament on 13th October on lichess.org. Congratulations toJoseph Henbury who won this week’s Tournament. Well done too Maha Chandar 2nd and Sam Murphy 3rd. Sam had connection problems during the tournament but still got a good number of games in.
5-round Swiss online tournament results 15th October
Eight of us played in this online tournament on 15th October on lichess.org. Congratulations to Joseph Henbury on winning the 5-round Swiss. A good week for him, winning both of our online tournaments and being featured in the Echo photos… Well done too Patrick Pavey who came 2nd, and Graham Stuart 3rd.
Forthcoming Online Tournaments
This week our regular Tuesday Arena tournament, and a 5-round Swiss on Thursday 22nd .
The Chandler’s Ford Chess Club Arena Tournament on Tuesday 20th October is at 8pm on lichess.org, and is the usual one-hour ‘Arena’ event in which players have ten minutes each per game.
On Thursday 22nd the club has its regular 5-round Swiss tournament. This starts at 8pm on lichess.org. Players have an initial 7 minutes each per game plus a 3-second increment per move (that is, about ten minutes each).
The previous Post on this website announced the ECF Under 18 County Championship. The technical requirements – of having to be on Zoom, to have webcams, microphones and so on – may seem very cautious – but when you see the Guardian’s story on ‘Chess’s cheating crisis‘ you’ll see why the championship has its fair play rules.
Once a month there is Southampton Chess League‘s online rapid play Tournament on lichess.org. The next one, already set up on lichess.org, is on Thursday 5th November (‘SCL Rapid – Tournament No2 Arena‘). It starts at 7.30pm, and is a one and a half hour Arena in which players have an initial 7 minutes per game then a 3-second increment per move (same time control as the Chandler’s Ford Swiss tournaments) . These don’t clash with our own Thursday Swiss tournaments – we don’t run our club tournaments on those particular Thursdays so that we can play in the SCL tournaments.
Hampshire Juniors Team Manager Maha Chandar is looking for more Under-18s to play in the County Championship on Saturday 21st November 2020.
Maha Chandar, Hampshire Under 18 Team Manager
ECF online Under 18 County Championship
The English Chess Federation Online Under 18 County Championship will be on Saturday 21st November 2020. Our own chess club member Maha Chandar is Hampshire’s Team Manager. Hampshire are looking for Juniors to play in the Under 18 County Championship, and entries must be in by 9pm on Wednesday 18th November. See The ECF website’s Online Entry Form
‘Where’ and when
The English Chess Federation Online Under-18 County Championship will be on Saturday, 21st November 2020, starting at 11:00. It is a team Swiss format.
The event will be online at chess.com. Before the scheduled start time for each round, players should be logged in to chess.com/live
See below for further information, as given on the ECF web Page for the event:
Time limit
The time limit is all moves in 10 minutes, plus 5 seconds per move. The expected maximum duration of each game is 30 minutes, but they may take longer in the case of a long game. A player whose game is not started within 10 minutes of the actual start time for their round will lose their game by default.
The teams
Each team will be represented by 6 players in total, from four categories –
Category A Under 18 – Born 01/09/2002 or later, 2 players + up to 2 reserves
Category B Under 18 Girls – Born 01/09/2002 or later, 2 players + up to 2 reserves
Category C Under 11 – Born 01/09/2009 or later, 1 player + up to 1 reserve
Category D Under 11 Girls – Born 01/09/2009 or later, 1 player + up to 1 reserve
If your child fits into one of these categories and would like to represent Hampshire then please contact our Team Manager who is Maha Chandar.
The team on the left-hand side of a match in the pairings will be white on the odd-numbered boards, and the board order of each match will be the following:
Boards 1 & 2 – Category A Boards 3 & 4 – Category B Board 5 – Category C Board 6 – Category D
Technical requirements
The games, as mentioned, will be on chess.com, but there are other, technical requirements to ensure fair play and event integrity.
Players need to be connected to the tournament Zoom call before and throughout their games. Webcams, microphones, and speakers to be switched on. See the ECF website Page for full details.
Useful Links
The links within the article above will take you to the relevant websites, but for handy reference they are listed together below:
