10.05.2020 - Online News

Great afternoon of Chess on Saturday where we came a very creditable 3rd in the Worldwide Junior Division B just missing out on promotion back to the A Division.The highlight was the victory by Henry over the top seed Erow 2352 - never underestimate the Traxler Counter Attack.Top scorers for Crowborough were; 1 OJS09 1839 26 2 CaptainBen1 1800 22 3 HLS20 1963 21 4 ArchiePawn 2072 20 5 Tocs 1593 18 6 WhiteKnightSV 1717 17 7 FrodwiseBaggee 1505 16 8 Chess_Feminist 1447 15 9 moksha1327 1543 14 10 Horses4839 1632 12 Well played everyone.Friday was a busy day with many of our players competing in the Su...

20.04.2020 - Monday Class 2:00pm

Invite to our Monday Classes will be email invite. If you are new to zoom it will just ask you to allow a download – no joining necessary. Basic Chess Techniques – Checkmates and Winning Ideas. Monday 20th April at 2pm This class is designed for our younger members but everyone is welcome. All the checkmates are from last Friday’s games. So even if your name is Archie do come along as you may see your checkmate showcased. Contributions include games involving to name a few; ArchiePawn; BennyWeis ; CaptainBen1; Hugs2000; CaptainPeter; LordSushi; Fredbob; Chess_Feminist And many more. So take a break from home schooling and relive your victories and disasters. ...

14.04.2020 - Friday Night Chess Club

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of our Series 1 Online chess tournament.We will be starting Series 2 this Friday 17th April at 6:30pm with adults joining in at 7:30pmI will change the scoring system for the juniors to 20 pts for 1st place 19-18-17 etc.Everyone starts back at 0 and please only play under ONE username.I will be messaging players I don't know to ask privately their real name. I know most of your aliases but just a few I am not sure of.Winner to be accounced after 5 Fridays.Series 1 full resultsTop Boys Archie Pawn CaptainBen1 TM9261 The_Pawn_Storm BennyWeis OJS09 Top Girls Chess_Feminist FredBob507 Jithu_99 MissElenaChess AmelieRees CuteButterfly Top Adults CrowChess Solebanana KrossKris Palkon2020 Simpkind Grisenj ...

11.04.2020 - Worldwide Junior Team Battle

Well done to everyone who played in our first online Battle. First of all my apologies for not setting up the Zoom Chat before the games started and not allowing players to be members of the club in time. I got stuck at the supermarket for an inordinate amount of time and was trying to do things on my phone in Morrison’s car park. Despite my poor efforts we came a creditable 6/10 Worldwide Junior Team Battle 1 Trojanska Hästen GustavB 48+44+36+36+28+25 217 2 GM Kiriakov's School PyankkovIvan2009 24+16+16+14+14+14 98 3 Santísimo Selección lucaforno10 18+17+12+12+10+10 79 4 SELECCION INMACULADA INMi...

10.04.2020 - Friday Night Chess Club

Just a reminder Chess Club tonight at 6:30pm for juniors 7:30pm for adults on LiChess T Password as usual CCC We are not using Discord tonight to chat instead please join me in a Zoom Meeting Come along before and chat with everyone about future events or ideas or just to say hello. Join Zoom Meeting  https://zoom.us/j/9798343402  please try it out as we will be using Zoom in the future for lessons etc any difficulties please call me on my mobile ...

06.04.2020 - Newsletter

To all Club Members We are open online Good Friday April 10that 6:30pm https://lichess.org/tournament/GB9m7jhT Usual rules 10 minutes +5 Sec increments – juniors start at 6:30pm adults join in at 7:30pm please. Current Leaderboard Please send me your online playing photos with your username and any stories. I will post on our website Gallery We are arranging Team Battles with other Sussex Clubs so please join our Team on LiChess. https://lichess.org/team/crowborough-chess-club We have created a Zoom Pro account so expect invites over the coming weeks to our special online training events including; Beginner classes aimed at our younger members Strategy classes for our intermediate members Game analysis for all members Opening Clinics for our stronger juniors and adults Master Classes...

05.04.2020 - New Plans for Online Chess

Following on from the success of the Online Tournament every Friday we are making plans for chess classes specific to individual needs.To this end we are rapidly learning how to use Zoom so do expect invites to online classes by email. These will be free for our club members with maybe a small donation requested from non club members.We are planning; Beginner classes aimed at our younger members Strategy classes for our intermediate members Game analysis for all members Opening Clinics for our stronger juniors and adults Master Classes with invited GM to talk and answer question We may also try simultaneous displays on LiChess.All suggestions welcome as we try to give value for being members of the Club in these rather strange times...

03.04.2020 - Clubnight Friday 3rd April 2020

We will be running our club tournament again tonight Friday 3rd April juniors from 6:30pm adults please join in at 7:30pm. I know it’s a little unfair but I am keeping junior and adult scores separately Link to LiChess tournament is https://lichess.org/tournament/wv7gcfyP Password CCC If you want to chat then link to Discord is https://discordapp.com/invite/yWJC2A4 Time control is 10 minutes + 5 secs a move but you can choose to go Beserk before playing your first move in a game. Half the time no increment but an extra point if you win. Also note if you win two games on the trot you are on fire and scores double in your next game. Tournament ends at 10pm. If you are still playing then that game continues and is rated but does not score in the tournament. More the merrier so guests are welcome and I have emailed our old club members to see if they want to join in. Just let me know your username by email. So you may see a few new names if not faces ...

27.03.2020 - Clubnight Friday 27 Mar

A REMINDER We will be running our club tournament again tonight Friday 27th March. Link to LiChess https://lichess.org/tournament/lrCp66r4  Password CCC If you want to chat then link to Discord is https://discord.gg/yWJC2A4  LiChess are struggling a little bit with the volume of users so bear with them if pairings are a bit slower tonight or you cannot see friends listed. More the merrier so guests are welcome and I am going to email our old club members to see if they want to join in. Just let me know your username by email. So you may see a few new names if not faces tonight. Adults please join in at 7:30pm – I know it’s a little unfair but I am keeping junior and adult scores separately . I have created a MSCL tournament to start on Wednesday 1st April at 7:00pm for everyone so an even playing field on that one. https://lichess.org/tournament/DwiWXMc8 Password is MSCL  REMEMBER I am keeping a record of Usernames and real nam...

26.03.2020 - Gladiators

Monday 30th March 2020 Make this a date for your diary.  You may have enjoyed the film "Gladiator"...................but this will be better! The 2nd Knock Out Blitz ("KOB2") competition is continuing online on Lichess.org. The competition has now progressed to the four quarter final games and these are scheduled successively every 30 minutes starting with the first at 7 pm on Monday 30 March. Each player has 10 minutes plus a 5 second increment per move so each game should complete within about 28 minutes. So you can settle in with a bag of popcorn and watch all four contests. To watch a game simply login to Lichess, locate the search option at the top right hand corner of the screen, type in one of the usernames playing in the game you want to watch, and then select the black-coloured TV symbol when the next screen appears on that player.  The 8 surviving contenders (the "gladiators" of the Crowborough Chess Club), and the times of their games, ...

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