The Chandler’s Ford Chess Club will hold its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21st September 2022. The AGM 2022 will be at the Club’s venue at the Central Club, at 7:30pm.
The League structure was agreed for the forthcoming 2022-23 season following its AGM, and our Club’s own AGM will decide, amongst other things, which players will play in which team, and who the team captains will be.
Wooden chess set
Agenda
1) Apologies for absence
2) Minutes of last year’s AGM.
3) Matters arising
4) Officer reports eg Secretary, Treasurer
5) Election of Officers
6) Fees for 2022/23
7) Proposals
a) Regarding amalgamation of senior and junior club – Nobby George
b) Regarding status of club history project – Steve Dunleavy
c) Suggestion regarding purchase of 5 wooden sets – Graham Stuart
d) Need to allocate squads for next season based on current grades – Rob Sims
As the new Southampton Chess League season, 2022-23 gets closer, we take a look back at the League AGM 2022 to see what the new season might look like.
The Southampton Chess League’s Annual General Meeting was held at our club’s venue, the Chandler’s Ford Central Club. Matthew Coldwell opened the League AGM 2022 at 19:30 on Tuesday 14th June. 20 people from the various clubs of the Southampton League attended. The League AGM concluded at 21:00.
Malcolm Clarke presented his Secretary’s Report, in which he noted that the 2021-2 season was in a sense experimental, as the League began to find its feet after the pandemic-caused break. The Robertson Cup and Plate were not contested as the League focussed on getting the League up and running in its reduced format. Fraser Macleod presented the Treasurer’s Report, and League subscriptions for the clubs were agreed.
Election of officers
Chair: Matthew Coldwell was elected, and was Chair at the AGM, keeping things moving at a good pace.
Vice Chair: Michael Pope
League Secretary: Fraser Macleod
Fixture Secretary: Malcolm Clarke
Treasurer: no takers for this role yet, so Fraser continues for the present.
Webmaster: a candidate for this role to be sought from the Clubs. Since the AGM Graham Stuart has kindly stepped up to fulfil this position.
2021-22 Season trophy presentations
2018/19
2022 winner
Division 1
Ringwood A
Fareham A
Division 2
Hamble B
Salisbury A
Division 3
Ringwood B
Basingstoke A
Division 4
Salisbury C
Fareham B
Division 5
Ringwood C
Basingstoke C
Trophy presentations
Note: Robertson Cup, Individual and Rapid-play competitions were not held this season.
Planning for the 2022-23 Season
The structure of the new season was discussed: number of Divisions, number of boards per team, start and end dates of the season and so on. The clubs were invited to say how many teams they would field, and their Division preferences (assessing where they saw their teams would compete according to expected player strengths). There will be Robertson Cup and Plate competitions.
Here are some key features of the forthcoming season:
Chandler’s Ford Chess Club will be fielding 4 teams, playing in Divisions 2, 4, and 5 (our C and D teams are both in Division 5). This represents the player strength profile of our club’s membership.
Match captains can notify results directly to the SCL Website, as in recent seasons.
The League structure established, it will be for our Club’s own AGM, on Wednesday 21st September to decide, amongst other things, which players will play in which team, and who the team captains will be.
The Chandler’s Ford Junior Chess Club will re-open for over-the-board chess on Wednesday 14th September 2022 – at its new venue, the Chandler’s Ford Central Club. The Junior Club meets 6-7pm term time Wednesdays. The adult chess club meets there (on Tuesday evenings), and it will be great to have the Juniors meet at the same place.
About the Junior Chess Club
The Junior Chess Club meets on Wednesdays 6-7pm – in school term time only: see the schedule below for full Autumn 2022 schedule.
There will be 25 minutes coaching by the experts and the rest will be games, Tournaments etc. Some of the tournaments’ fees are paid by the club so it is free for club kids.
The age criteria will be 6-16 years but, in some cases, exceptional.
There is a Free on-site Parking at the back, front and side of the Central club for Junior chess club members.
Please write the details on visitor’s page when you go inside the Club.
The Junior Chess Club age range is 6-16. The club will meet on Wednesdays at 6pm until 7pm each week – during school term time. See the schedule below for the rest of 2022.
Junior Chess Club schedule for the rest of the year:
2022 YEAR CHANDLER’S FORD Junior chess club
14/09/2022
6-7PM
starting
21/09/2022
6-7PM
28/09/2022
6-7PM
05/10/2022
6-7PM
12/10/2022
6-7PM
19/10/2022
6-7PM
finishing
26/10/2022
HOLIDAY BREAK
02/11/2022
6-7PM
starting
09/11/2022
6-7PM
16/11/2022
6-7PM
23/11/2022
6-7PM
30/11/2022
6-7PM
07/12/2022
6-7PM
14/12/2022
6-7PM
finishing
21/12/2022
HOLIDAY BREAK
Chandler’s Ford Junior Chess Club schedule September -December 2022
The ECF Membership year runs from 1st September to 31st August each year.
ECF Membership 2022-3 due
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.
It looks like the ECF have kept the membership rates at the previous prices, which is good in these inflationary times.
Renewing your ECF Membership
This may automatically happen, and the subs will be taken (today, actually). 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:
Keith Gregory’s 4th simultaneous match against his friends in Chandler’s Ford Chess Club. Congratulations to Keith on being unbeaten in the match: he won 5 of the 6 games and drew the other game (Graham Stuart thwarted the whitewash).
Keith Gregory at the Chandler’s Ford Curry night 26 May 2022
Simultaneous Exhibitions
Keith has now set up four of these club simultaneous tournaments online. These events, where one player takes on multiple opponents, are known as Simultaneous Exhibitions, or ‘simuls’ . Simuls can be over the (several) boards, or online. Keith has set up four of the online simuls so far.
These are very busy for Keith of course – and good fun for all of us. Keith copes well with the pressure of multiple opponents and the technical issues, and plays very well, and scores impressively highly each time.
Keith’s 4th Simul vs Chandler’s Ford
The 4th ‘Simul‘ tournament was on Monday evening, 21st August, on the online platform lichess.org. The games had full, standard time control, this event being 60 minutes for each player plus an increment of 20 seconds per move. As host, Keith played as white, and had an overall extra 20 minutes. As it happened time was never an issue for Keith as he kept up a good pace of play in all the games.
With all the pressures of setting up a type of online tournament we hadn’t played before, then playing nine of us from the Chandler’s Ford Chess Club simultaneously online, how would Keith do? Very well actually: see results at 1st Simul
Players who had been so used to playing in the online rapid-play tournaments had now learnt that there is ample time in a classic length 60+20 time-control game. So a tougher prospect for Keith with eleven opponents all playing better with the time limits. He still does well though… See 3rd Simul
Round 1 of the 2022 Knockout Tournament saw 8 of the remaining 16 players eliminated. Eight now remain. The Knockout Round 2 Draw has now been made. The Knockout is organised by Steve Dunleavy.
The Chandlers Ford Knockout Trophy
The Knockout 2022 so far
26 players entered this year’s Knockout. The Preliminaries, 10 games and 6 byes, saw that field reduced to 16 to compete in Round 1. Eight of the Round 1 players have been eliminated. Eight players have made it to the second round.
Round 2 Draw
Graham Stuart vs Joe Henbury
David Culliford vs Keith Gregory
Dick Meredith vs John Kooner
Rob Sims vs Nobby George
Pairings and results for each Round can be seen on the Knockout 2022 Page:
1) the player drawn first plays with white(in the event of a draw colours are reversed in the replay) 2) both players have their clocks set at 90 minutes 3) all games to be played by the 24th August; please let me know if for any reason you need a time extension to that deadline 4) if possible all games to be played over the board at club nights(2/8, 9/8,16/8,23/8) or at an agreed alternative venue 5) if necessary games may be played on the internet but please check with me first that this is okay 6) enjoy your games and please email me your result asap + when you have agreed to play the game to enable me to monitor progress
The club’s popular Ladder Tournament has seen its numbers climb recently, and there are now 25 players in the contest. Tournament organiser Rob Sims reports on the latest games on Tuesday 26th July. The current, 2021-22 Ladder, ends on 13th September.
Peter Przybycin plays Lee Mundy in the 2021-22 Ladder
Three games were played at club on Tuesday night:-
Peter Przybycin beat Lee Mundy ( no change needed in Ladder positions)
Nobby George beat Daniel Phillips
Cary Xie beat Pablo Vidal
The last two games have resulted in Cary and Nobby moving up while Daniel and Pablo drop down.
Only 7 more club nights before the current ladder finishes on 13th September and the mini tournament to decide the winner takes place.
A new ladder will start at the end of September.
Best wishes to all,
Rob Sims
For full Ladder player positions (latest is from 28th July), see the Ladder 2021-22 Page:
All games to be played on the clock, which will be set at ninety minutes and then played to a finish.
Players may challenge up to four places above their own step.
If the challenger wins, he will exchange places with the loser, all other results then the positions remain the same.
The same players may not play each other again without first playing another player.
Once a challenge is accepted neither the challenger nor the player being challenged may make or accept another challenge.
A challenge cannot be made more than seven days ahead of the game to be played.
The challenger will have the white pieces.
All games to be played over the board, other than games for Mike Henbury, which can be played online.
Please notify Rob Sims with the results of all games played.
The current Ladder will end on 13th September 2022. In previous years, after the ladder ends the two players in second and third place play each other and the winner of that game plays a final match against the player who is top, so we’ll go through that process when the final ladder positions are revealed on September 13th.
Summer Tournament 2022 Round 2 player pairings are announced by organiser Malcolm Clarke.
The Summer Tournament runs during the summer, and is a 5-round Swiss format event is played between May and September. Usually in the Summer Tournaments, the winner’s name is engraved on the Kooner Cup and receives a replica of the Cup. The organiser is Malcolm Clarke.
Round 2 Pairings (and player scores so far)
Geoffrey Parish (1) v Iwan Cave(1),
Sam Murphy (1) v Keith Gregory (1).
Keven Lamb (1) v Graham Stuart (1),
Mike Henbury (1) v David Culliford (1),
Peter Przybycin (0.5) v Nobby George (1),
Pablo Vidal (0.5) v Rob Strachan (0,5),
Rob Sims (0) v Peter Eales (0.5),
Steve Dunleavy (0) v Lee Mundy (0),
John Kooner (0) v John Pellegrini (0),
Alan Weaver (0) v Steve Saunders (0),
Rose Saunders (0) v Ian Parker (0)
First named players white.
Summer Tournament 2022 Rules recap
The Games are 90 minutes all moves per player.
When the Round Pairings are announced, the first-named plays as white.
Notify Malcolm Clarke of the results.
Click on the button below to see the Summer Tournament 2022 Page:
The 2021-22 Book Prize Tournament concluded this week, organiser Peter Przybycin announced. Keith Gregory is the winner of the Major, Nobby George the winner of the Minor. Both received their prizes from Peter at the end of season curry night. Congratulations Keith and Nobby!
We have known who the victors are for a few weeks now, with Keith Gregory winning the Major Section, and Nobby George winning the Minor Section. They were both presented with their prizes at the Club’s recent curry night.
Congratulations again to you both.
Runner up in the Major was Graham Stuart.
Well done Graham.
Third place in the Major was taken by Mike Henbury.
Well done Mike.
This section did have a slightly unsatisfactory ending, as Eric Jones was unable to play his final two games; defaulting against Rob Sims and Dick Meredith. This means that we will never know who would have finished in last place, possibly saving my blushes!
There are a couple of significant results to report in the Minor Section.
In round 8, Maha Chandar beat John Kooner, locking in the runner-up position.
Congratulations Maha.
In their round 9 game, Maha lost to Rob Strachan, meaning that three players finished the Minor section on six points; Steve Saunders, Rob Strachan, and John Kooner.
Steve Saunders takes the third slot on tiebreak, having the lowest ECF grade of the three.
Well done Steve.
Book Prize Tournament 2021-22 Final scores:
Major section:
Keith Gregory 7.5
Graham Stuart 6
Mike Henbury 5
Sam Murphy 4.5
Manoj Chandar 4
Eric Jones 4
Keven Lamb 3.5
Rob Sims 3 (+1 default)
Dick Meredith 2 (+1 default)
Peter Przybycin 2.5
Minor Section:
Nobby George 9
Maha Chandar 7
Steve Saunders 6
Rob Strachan 6
John Kooner 6
Geoff Parish 3
Lee Mundy 2.5
Ian Parker 2.5
Rose Saunders 2
Steve Dunleavy 1
I have thoroughly enjoyed running this tournament and I look forward to the next one. I expect to be asking for entries in a couple of months, once the Kooner Cup (AKA Summer Tournament) and Dunleavy Knockout have finished.
All the best,
Peter.
Book Prize Tournament organiser Peter Przybycin with the Prizes 2022
For full results of Major and Minor, all rounds, see the Book Prize Tournament Page:
The 2022 Knockout Round 1 draw has been made, now that the Preliminary Round’s record 26 entrants have been whittled down to the 16 players who begin Round 1.
In the event of a draw the players must play again (within the stipulated time period-13/7 if possible) with the colours reversed
Clocks to be set at 90 minutes for both players
All games to be played over the board at the club other than mike Henbury who can play his games on line (e.g. lichess.org)
All results will be sent for grading
The deadline date to play your games is the 13th July 2022 (club nights 21/6,28/6,5/7,12/7 + 1 day)
All results to be emailed to me Steve Dunleavy as soon as your game has been played
Please let me know if for any reason an extension of time to complete the game is required (as with Sam murphy and Mike Henbury in the preliminary round).
