Photos and Results from the congress are now published. https://www.shropshirechess.org/shropshire-congress/shropshire-chess-congress-past-results/ https://www.shropshirechess.org/shropshire-congress/gallery-shropshire-chess-congress-2023/
Fixtures for the Shropshire Rapidplay League are now published. The first match night is Wednesday 9th November at Telford.
Fixtures for the Shropshire Online League have now been revised with Shrewsbury’s home match night moved to Monday. The revised fixtures are available here.https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/134110/efixtures Thanks go to Charles Higgie who has agreed to be the acting online league controller for this season.higgiecharles@gmail.com
Tony Preece from Maddocks was once again representing Shropshire chess by competing in winner-stays-on on BBC Radio Shropshire. The quiz starts at 3:08:50https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0cz6ddp Given his outrageous antics it remains to be seen if he will be invited back!
Last Friday Chris Lewis and Tony Preece went head-to-head in a quiz as well as discussing the Hans Niemann cheating allegations on BBC radio Shropshire. Their encounter starts at 3:09 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0cypsr2 The winner of that encounter will be a contestant on the radio again this coming Friday starting just after 9am.
Results of the Newport Blitz Event held on the 6th September: http://www.newportchessclub.com/newport-events/06-09-22-summer-blitz/
Entries for the Minor Individual are now open (https://www.shropshirechess.org/other-competitions/individual-competitions/county-minor-individual/). Entries are open to any player graded 1640 or below in August’s grading list. This year we will try reverting back to Over-the-Board and then switch back to an online format in the following year and keep switching it up going forwards. The deadline for entries …
Hello everyone. The Junior Chess Club had a very successful first term and are now gearing up to open again. I am looking to broaden the pool of volunteers to help me run the club. The role primarily involves supervising the children, pairing them against each other and sharing your chess knowledge with them. We’re …
Entries for the Minor Individual are now open. Following a survey of recent entrants the clear majority feeling was to hold this years tournament online although we may end up alternating between online and OTB in subsequent years. Entries close 6th November.
Following some closely fought games both Nick Rutter and Adrian Zdanowski were tied on 5.5 points after the swiss rounds in the summer individual. The tournament was therefore decided by 2 play-off matches between Nick and Adrian. The first game was drawn in a closely fought ending whilst the 2nd game was a crushing win …