The winner has been announced for the 2022-23 Colin Roberts Memorial Prize for the best over the board game played by a Shropshire player last season. Taking the trophy is Tony Preece, who is awarded the prize for his game against Danny Griffiths. There were eight entries and Tony’s game with a spectacular sacrifice leading …
Entries are invited for the Colin Roberts Memorial Prize, a brilliancy prize for the best game played over the board in any competition anywhere by a Shropshire player in the 2022-23 season. Please send your entries to organiser Toby Neal at langrishcaiger@aol.com, ideally in PGN format so the games can be uploaded to the Shropshire chess …
The Shropshire summer quickplay tournament has been fixed for Sunday, July 9, at the Maddocks chess club, Oakengates. The club opens at 11.30am and play will start at noon sharp and will continue to 6pm or thereabouts. Deadline for team entries is Wednesday, June 28. At least four teams will be needed for a viable …
Glyn Pugh was announced as winner of the 2021-22 Colin Roberts Memorial Trophy at the annual meeting of Shropshire Chess Association. After two rounds of voting to whittle down the nine entries, judges chose Pugh’s win against Athar Ansari as meriting the trophy, which is for the best game played by a Shropshire player during …
Champions Maddocks A have completed a perfect Shropshire Chess League season with eight wins out of eight. The Oakengates side maintained their 100 per cent record with a 3.5-1.5 win away to a below-strength Telepost A, finishing the campaign five points clear of closest challengers Newport A. It caps a superb season for Glyn Pugh’s …
Face-to-face chess action in Shropshire has been suspended because of the rampant Omicron variant – just weeks after it had been resumed. A special meeting of Shropshire Chess Association officials and club representatives voted 8-1 to call an immediate halt to the league season. The meeting, held on Zoom, heard that some clubs had already …
Maddocks A have set down a marker in Shropshire Chess League with a 3-2 victory over once-invincible Newport. The win has taken the Oakengates-based club into a pre-Christmas lead of Division One in a season which is shaping up to be one of the most closely fought for a while, with the title contenders more …
History has been made in the Shropshire Chess League with the playing of the first hybrid match, with a mix of games played face-to-face and online. The county chess association’s annual meeting passed a motion that allowed Blue Badge holders to play their matches in the regular season online, as long as the opposing captain …
Newport A wasted no time in laying down a marker for their title aspirations in Shropshire Chess League as they beat reigning champions Telepost A in their first match of the season. It was the first face-to-face Division One league match since the Covid pandemic brought an abrupt halt to over-the-board chess in March 2020. …
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Questions hang in the air as Shropshire prepares for its first chess league season after the advent of the pandemic, including – how many people will want to play? An emergency general meeting of players to discuss coronavirus protocols to allow face-to-face action to resume revealed huge divisions of opinion, particularly on whether face masks …