Shropshire Chess has featured once again on the airwaves of BBC Radio Shropshire – here’s an interview with Newport’s Chris Lewis covering the fascination of chess, details of the new Junior Chess Club launching in September, and the return to over the board chess.
Bill Clarke shares his memories of Bryan Holland, who sadly died a few weeks ago, here.
Shropshire players will be interested to know that Carl Portman’s latest book ‘Chess Crusader – confessions of an amateur chess player’ has just been published and there is a lot about Shropshire chess. There are plenty of anecdotes about such things as the visit of Lev Polugayevsky, the mighty cougher that was Norman Andrews, the sadly …
Date: 5th September Start time: 6.30pm 6 rounds Time control: 10 minutes with 15 seconds increment added per move Maximum players: 16 Location: Limes hotel, Wellington, TF1 1SE Break time: 10 – 15 minutes between each round entry fee: £5.00 1st prize equal to 40% of total entry fee amount, 2nd 30% and 2 rating …
The 2021 Shropshire Chess AGM was held at Telepost Club on 26th July. Among the items passed were: Tony Preece was elected General Secretary. We will seek to hold an online league in addition to the over the board season. Blue badge holders will be able to request that their matches are played online, with …
SHROPSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION 2021 Annual General Meeting President: Matthew Clark To all officers and members of the Shropshire Chess Association: Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting will be held at the Telepost Club, Shrewsbury on Monday 26th July 2021 at 7.30pm. Please ensure that any trophies held by your club are brought …
Round 3 Rutter Vs Love. 1/0 Ansari Vs Zdanowski. Smith Vs Pugh. 0/1 Round 2 Preece Vs Lewis. 0/1 Szwajkun Vs Tarr. 1/2
Dear Shropshire Chess players The Shropshire Chess AGM will be held at the Telepost Club on Monday 26th July at 7.30 p.m. If you have any proposals for the agenda, please can you send them to me by Wednesday 21st July. I plan to issue a final agenda on Thursday 22nd July. I am assuming the Covid restrictions …
Adrian Zdanowski Vs Nick Rutter. 1/2 Glyn Pugh Vs Athar Ansari. 1 – 0 Tony Preece Vs Chris Lewis Mark Smith Vs Dan Love 1/2 Richard Szwajkun Vs Steve Tarr.
A tournament page for this competition is now available here.