Peter Kitchen’s reports on the county chess scene in the Shropshire Star
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The pace has picked up on the Shropshire chess scene with the launch of the county’s rapidplay league using an innovative new format. Before coronavirus called a halt to face-to-face chess, games in the rapidplay league were played with a time limit of 20 minutes, but with the competition moving online players get just three …
Shropshire’s top woman chess player Kate Walker reached the women’s finals of the British Chess Championships, battling top opponents in an online tournament in which some games had a live commentary by a Grandmaster. Kate, who plays for the Shrewsbury-based Telepost club, became one of 12 English players to make it to the finals after …
A Shropshire chess player has been banned for the rest of the season after an anti-cheating probe found that he had been playing better than many grandmasters. Suspicions were aroused by his stellar performance in this month’s Shropshire online team quickplay competition in which his spectacular run included beating much stronger local players. An investigation …
A very strong Newport outfit held off a powerful challenge from Shrewsbury-based Telepost to win an innovative New Year quickplay chess tournament played entirely over the internet. While Newport fielded real heavy artillery with International Master Lawrence Cooper on top board, and Gavyn Cooper on board two, Telepost countered with Nigel Ferrington – who is …
Tributes have flooded in to the “father of Shropshire chess,” veteran player and multiple county champion David Everington, who has died. Everington joined Shrewsbury chess club aged 16 in September 1963, and was the county champion on nine occasions, including for six consecutive years in the 1970s. As captain of the club’s A team, he …
As Shropshire chess enters the Christmas break, Shrewsbury-based Telepost A are the early league leaders despite being without their strongest player, Nigel Ferrington. For obvious reasons the league is having to be played as an online event this season, and Ferrington is one of those players who doesn’t care for playing over the internet. However, …
Any thoughts that Shropshire’s first online chess league season might see a dip in the intensity of the competition have proven far from the case, the annual meeting of the county’s chess association has heard. In the first opportunity to review how the new league is going, with face-to-face chess being ruled out, it is …
Oswestry have put down a marker for the new Shropshire chess league season by inflicting a rare defeat over reigning champions Newport A. The new online format has particular advantages for the border town club as, with most of the county teams being in the Shrewsbury and Telford areas, it makes irrelevant any issues involved …
Shropshire’s historic first ever internet chess league season is under way, bringing in a new format, some new players, and some new problems for contestants to contend with. Online games mean it is possible for players to take part from their homes literally anywhere – including abroad – which has opened up new opportunities for …
19/11/2020 Shropshire chess has moved into historic new territory with the launch this week of the county’s first online league season – with the wonders of the internet meaning players will be taking part from as far away as Paris. With face-to-face chess still a distant prospect, the new league will take the place of …