Shrewsbury Town Championships winners
Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 Shrewsbury Town Championships – James Wilkinson. The U1700 winner is Fred Bench and the U1400 winner is Martin Ayres. Full details here.
2021
Association debates covid measures ahead of new season
Rows over the board and walkouts before matches – those are possibilities raised at a Zoom meeting of Shropshire Chess Association called to discuss coronavirus protocols as face to face chess resumes. With some players not wanting to wear face masks, and some not wanting to play in matches unless their opponents are wearing face …
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Minutes of Zoom meeting held on 22 Sep 2021
Meeting Chaired by Matthew Clark, SCA President Minutes by Tony Preece, SCA Gen Secretary Agenda To discuss policies for playing safe chess under current conditions Minutes The purpose of the meeting was to try and come up with a shared set of agreed measures that would be common to all clubs competing in Over The …
Quids-In Chess Club – every Wednesday
7pm each week at Nerdy Coffee Co – details here.
Nick triumphs in the summer individual
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 …
Zoom meeting for Shropshire Chess Clubs
By Matthew Clark, SCA President Dear Secretaries and Officials of Shropshire Chess Clubs, I would like to suggest that we have a Zoom meeting to discuss our policies for safe Chess under current conditions. This would be an informal meeting with no decision-making powers. I will chair it and Tony will take the minutes as …
Chess over the board action picks up
Face to face chess action in Shropshire is continuing to make its comeback with a quickplay competition being held in Wellington on October 3.Despite the autumn date, it is being billed as a summer quickplay, after the regular summer quickplays normally played around June were scuppered by coronavirus this year and in 2020. Organiser is …
Shropshire Chess in the 4NCL
Report by Charles Higgie Shropshire are fielding no less than 7 teams in the 4NCL Online Chess League. Last season Shropshire fielded 5 sides, but they have merged with most of the Malpas & Oswestry & Friends squad to form “Shropshire & Friends” with Matthew Clark from Shrewsbury and Charles Higgie from Malpas running the …
League rules update
Captains and secretaries, please note that the league standardplay and rapidplay rules have been updated to include: the new rule on Blue Badge holders playing online that was agreed at the 2021 AGM the change to four-digit ratings instead of grades. Standardplay rules are here, rapidplay rules are here.
Shropshire ratings August 2021
Standard ratings for August 2021 can be viewed here, or download below: Rapidplay ratings for August 2021 can be viewed here, or download below: