Peter Kitchen’s reports on the county chess scene in the Shropshire Star
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A fascinating four-team fight has broken out to avoid relegation from the top flight of Shropshire Chess League, writes Peter Kitchen. While Oakengates-based Maddocks A are seven points clear at the top of the five-team division with five wins out of five, the remaining four teams are all tied on three points. They include reigning …
Face-to-face chess action in Shropshire has been suspended because of the rampant Omicron variant – just weeks after it had been resumed. A special meeting of Shropshire Chess Association officials and club representatives voted 8-1 to call an immediate halt to the league season. The meeting, held on Zoom, heard that some clubs had already …
Maddocks A have set down a marker in Shropshire Chess League with a 3-2 victory over once-invincible Newport. The win has taken the Oakengates-based club into a pre-Christmas lead of Division One in a season which is shaping up to be one of the most closely fought for a while, with the title contenders more …
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. …
Newport and Maddocks to the fore as OTB league returns Read More »
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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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 …
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 …