Announcements

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.

The Cox Trophy semi-final draw is now available here. The Minor Knockout second round draw is here.

Draws have been made for this year’s competitions. Details of Cox here and Minor here.

By Athar Ansari I would like to invite you all to a summer open individual. This will be a 7 round swiss tournament played over-the-board once a week.  A new round will be drawn each week and I welcome you to play your matches on either Mondays or Thursdays at:  The Limes Hotel, 2 Vineyard

John Casewell is seeking SCA members’ views on whether and how online chess might continue if and when we return to over the board competitions. His comments are being sent to clubs by email and are below. Please send any responses to John at [email protected]. Dear chess players I am advised that in early July

Hello everyone. Now that we appear to be coming out of restrictions I am looking to start a junior chess club, with the first meeting probably early August. With the spike in interest in online chess plus the success of The Queen’s Gambit there has never been a more ideal time to open the club.

There will be an ECF Arbiter course held via Zoom on five consecutive Monday evenings between 7-9pm, starting on the 7th June. With Telford having at least one national event each year, FIDE international arbiter and ECF Director of Junior Chess and Education Alex Holowczak is encouraging Shropshire players who may be interested to join

Shrewsbury Town Championships has now begun, with an excellent entry of 22 players. Matches played on Lichess from May to September. Round One matches to be played by 31 May. Details here.