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 […]

Our 6th team had a dramatic 3 – 1 victory over 2nd placed Nomads 3 last night to move 3 points clear of 7th placed Central 2, whom they have to play on the final day of the season. Only two hours before the match only three players were available but Graham was located and stepped in to produce a […]

Our 1st team had an emphatic 4 – 1 win over already crowned league champions Mansfield 1 on Thursday to end the season in 2nd place, one point above our 2nd team. It has been a tricky season for captain Florian as, for various unavoidable reasons, 1st team members have missed 21 of the 60 individual games, with at least […]

Report by Mike Naylor-Eade Gambit 2’s excellent season continued on Wednesday with a 3-2 win against a full strength Ashfield 1. First to finish was Felipe who lost to Dan Hardman after getting a bit cramped in the opening and never finding a way to equalise.  The other games looked a bit more promising with Jan having a nice space […]

In a remarkable display of strategy and skill, Gambit 1 edged out Gambit 2 with a close score of 3-2 in a thrilling match-up that will be remembered for its intense battles and strategic masterclasses. Mike Barnes dominates Pete M with the Keres Attack The highlight of the evening was Mike Barnes’ brilliant execution of the Keres Attack against Pete […]

The LMC has restored promotion and relegation, with 2 up & 2 down, meaning there is now more to play for than in the past two seasons. 214 players have played in the league this season, 2 more than last season, although still some way off the 262 we had in 2019-20, before you know what. Our club has used […]

Our Rapidplay competition is ECF rated with a time control of 25′ + 10″ increments. Each pair plays two games, one with each colour. The best performance was by Nikolai Harrison who took a draw off Mike Barnes in game 1 and almost drew in the 2nd game. James Bradshaw took a point off John Huthwaite as Jonty Haddon did […]

We are well into the season and all of our teams have played at least 4 matches. So far we have used 35 players, at least 15 more than any other club, with more to come. Star performers are Gambit 2 who currently lead division 1 with 7 points from 5 matches in spite of being out graded by 32 […]