Peter Kitchen’s reports on the county chess scene in the Shropshire Star
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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. …
By guest columnist Peter Kitchen It has taken a move from social clubs and pubs to the online pathways of cyberspace – but the Shrewsbury-based Telepost club has finally ended Newport’s five-year dominance of the Shropshire Chess League. The Abbey Foregate-based club’s A team has completed a main league and rapidplay league double – both …
Telepost A are within touching distance of winning their first Shropshire Chess League title since 2014 and ending Newport’s long reign after a decisive 3-1 win in the rivals’ crucial encounter. Newport A have won the championship for the last five seasons but with only one match left in their campaign are a point behind …
Telepost Dark Knights enjoyed another bright night in the latest Shropshire rapidplay chess league team battle, topping the table with 107 points after an evening of frenetic action. However Mad Wolves – a combined team from Wolverhampton and the Oakengates-based Maddocks club – ran them close, ending on 98 points. Unsurprisingly, the top individual performances …
Grandmaster chess player Keith Arkell did not have things all go his way as he took on 19 challengers simultaneously from the Shropshire chess scene in an online event. Two players beat him – the county’s top woman player, Kate Walker, from the Telepost club, and Newport’s young star Daniel Hilditch-Love. A further four achieved …
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The countdown is under way to a mass online simultaneous event in which chess grandmaster Keith Arkell will be taking on allcomers from the Shropshire chess scene. Arkell has agreed to play an unlimited number of challengers at 7.30pm on April 19 in an event organised by Shrewsbury-based Telepost chess club. The entry fee is …
Telepost Dark Knights were streets ahead in the latest Shropshire chess rapidplay team battle, helped by an amazing unbroken 16-game winning run by their grandmaster star player Keith Arkell who goes under the online username “Atomrod.” Shrewsbury-based Telepost finished on 120 points, a full 50 ahead of second-placed Mad Wolves, which is a combined team …
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Shropshire chess players are being given a chance to take on a grandmaster in a special Easter event. Keith Arkell is throwing down the gauntlet to allcomers in a simultaneous display – in which he will be playing an unlimited army of challengers all at the same time in individual games. The event is open …