Bryan Holland
Bill Clarke shares his memories of Bryan Holland, who sadly died a few weeks ago, here.
July 2021
Carl Portman’s Chess Crusader
Shropshire players will be interested to know that Carl Portman’s latest book ‘Chess Crusader – confessions of an amateur chess player’ has just been published and there is a lot about Shropshire chess. There are plenty of anecdotes about such things as the visit of Lev Polugayevsky, the mighty cougher that was Norman Andrews, the sadly …
Summer rapid tournament
Date: 5th September Start time: 6.30pm 6 rounds Time control: 10 minutes with 15 seconds increment added per move Maximum players: 16 Location: Limes hotel, Wellington, TF1 1SE Break time: 10 – 15 minutes between each round entry fee: £5.00 1st prize equal to 40% of total entry fee amount, 2nd 30% and 2 rating …
AGM Presentations
The 2021 Shropshire Chess AGM was held at Telepost Club on 26th July. Among the items passed were: Tony Preece was elected General Secretary. We will seek to hold an online league in addition to the over the board season. Blue badge holders will be able to request that their matches are played online, with …
Shropshire Chess AGM Proposed Agenda
SHROPSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION 2021 Annual General Meeting President: Matthew Clark To all officers and members of the Shropshire Chess Association: Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting will be held at the Telepost Club, Shrewsbury on Monday 26th July 2021 at 7.30pm. Please ensure that any trophies held by your club are brought …
Summer Individual table
Name Grade Played Wins Draws Losses Byes Points Nick Rutter 2208 3 2 1 0 0 2.5 Adrian Zdanowski 1990 3 1 1 1 0 1.5 Athar Ansari 1990 4 2 0 2 0 2 Charles Higgie 1953 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chris Lewis 1915 4 3 1 0 0 3.5 Francis Best …
Round 4 Individual and schedule
There is an agm meeting on Monday so players can play on Tuesday and Friday for this week only. Round 4 – w/c 26 July Chris Lewis 1-0 Athar Ansari Dan Hilditch-Love Andy Grillage Adrian Zdanowski Francis Best Mark Smith 0-1 Glyn Pugh Richard Szwajkun 0.5-0.5 Steve Tarr Tony Preece Nick Rutter
Round 3 Remaining games
Ansari Vs Zdanowski 0/1 Lewis Vs Tarr. 1/0 Szwajkun Vs Preece Best Vs Smith 1/2
Lichess crash serves up cup confusion
The pitfalls of internet chess were starkly demonstrated when a server crashed during crunch games played in Shropshire’s Cox Trophy and Minor knockout competitions. The server went down at about 8.33pm, which would have been just over an hour into the action. With the outage being for nine minutes, most players simply assumed their opponents …
Round 2 and 3 Summer Individual
Round 3 Rutter Vs Love. 1/0 Ansari Vs Zdanowski. Smith Vs Pugh. 0/1 Round 2 Preece Vs Lewis. 0/1 Szwajkun Vs Tarr. 1/2