Announcements

Maddocks Chess Club will now meet on Thursdays. Munroe Morrison is the new club secretary.

By Matthew Clark, SCA President Dear Shropshire Chess Officials, Secretaries and senior players. I invite all Shropshire Chess members to attend an Emergency General Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday 6thOctober at 7.30 p.m. Please could club secretaries inform their members about this meeting. The Purpose of this meeting is to debate the attached protocols to …

Shropshire Chess EGM – Covid Protocols Read More »

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.

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 …

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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 …

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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.

Standard ratings for August 2021 can be viewed here, or download below: Rapidplay ratings for August 2021 can be viewed here, or download below:

Dear Shropshire Chess Players, I am delighted to invite you to play for the new Shropshire and Friends team in the new 4NCL Competition. We have merged Shropshire with the Oswestry and Malpas team and we aim to enter 7 teams (one in each division.) Please could you confirm that you would like to play …

4NCL Online Season Four – register by Sat 14th August Read More »

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 …

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Minutes of the Shropshire Chess AGM held on 26th July 2021 are now available here. A summary and photographs of the presentations are available here.