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 …
Shropshire chess players who refuse to wear face masks when over-the-board action resumes in the Shropshire league could find themselves declared automatic losers if proposals drawn up by chess officials are approved. All players have been invited to an emergency general meeting to vote on coronavirus protocols on the eve of a resumption of face-to-face …
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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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 …
William Bates is the winner of the Colin Roberts Memorial Trophy awarded for the best chess game by a Shropshire player during the season. Bates, who plays for the Oakengates-based Maddocks club, is only the second winner of the trophy which was inaugurated in memory of Roberts, a popular player and former county chess official …
Shropshire chess legend David Everington is being honoured with the Division One trophy in the county league being named after him. The suggestion of naming a major trophy after Everington, who was the heart and soul of Shropshire chess over six decades, was discussed at the annual meeting of Shropshire Chess Association. A number of …
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 …
Simon Maydew is Shropshire’s new king of chess after a giantkilling performance in the county’s individual championship. Maydew won five games in the seven-round tournament and drew the other two to finish on six points, making him outright winner, half a point clear of the rest of the field. He receives a £45 first prize. …