Drag successfully defended the Derbyshire Congress Major title he won last year, but this year managed a perfect 5 out of 5 score. As usual, he had some luck along the way as his 4th round opponent threw away a bishop when winning and then missed a chance to draw. There was little else to shout about for other Gambit […]

Marian came joint first this weekend in the Sheffield FIDE U1700 section. After storming into the lead with three wins, he came unstuck in round 4 but recovered like a champion to win his final round and end up joint first on 4 points with 3 others. Well done Marian!

It was a busy evening at the club on Tuesday with 4 of our teams playing, two against each other. In those 4 teams were 5 of our 7 team captains, and amazingly all 5 won! Our 2nd team faced newly promoted Grantham 1 who welcomed the return of Paul Cumbers who had been on loan to Newark last season. […]

The 2024-25 season began last night (week 0 in the NCA Fixtures) with two matches between teams in our club, Gambit 2 v Gambit 1 and Gambit 5 v Gambit 4. The matches were affected by several members’ unavailability, a potential flight delay, a car problem and a traffic issue. Otherwise it was a perfectly normal evening, and we comfortably […]

The now traditional pre-season Swizzle took place on Tuesday, featuring 14 members, 3 new members and 2 quests. As usual it was a 5 round time handicap Swiss. Players got time depending on their and their opponent’s colour group (1900+ = Blue, 1700-1899 = Red, 1500-1699 = Green, <1500 = Black), with the biggest difference being when Blue played Black; […]

Mike Barnes won his 8th county title this weekend coming 1st on 4 points, closely followed by Dave Flynn, Eldars Gulijevs and Shabir Okhai on 3.5 points. Florian and Drag finished on 3 points and Paul, playing in his 1st weekender, scored 1.5 points. Mike beat Florian in round 4 after Florian had beaten Drag in round 2. In the […]

26 players entered in week one, a record attendance. In round 1 there were 2 shock results with Marian beating Graeme and Leo beating Mark, while the rest of the higher seeds avoided slip ups. Round 2 saw more shock results as Peter G-M beat Drag and young Albert beat Keith, a man 8 decades older than him. Felipe played […]

After 5 rounds of our club’s ECF rated Rapidplay we have a tie between Mike Barnes and Florian Biermann, both on 8.5 points after both won their 5th round games v Felipe Lessa & Drag Sudar respectively. There will now be a two match playoff in July. The final standings are:- 8.5 Barnes, Biermann F6.0 Huthwaite, Talmacel5.5 Lessa, Radford, Sudar4.0 […]

The meeting took place at WB’s venue on Monday 20 May. There were 9 proposals; 7 passed and 2 didn’t. Four proposals that passed were either administrative or simple clarification of the rules. Three proposals were passed (by comfortable margins) with practical implications. All matches have to be played with increments. This passed without any votes against, possibly because 3 […]

13 members played in the congress. In the Open section, Mike N-E got 3 points, including an impressive win over a 2135 and a win over Drag who scored 2 points but had to face a 2126 and a 13 year old 2137 as well as Mike. Our third competitor in the Open was Jan who scored 2.5 and who […]