06.12.2019 - Paul Watson Trophy
3rd December 2019 Last season we reached the final but this year we have crashed out at the first time of asking away at Lewes.
East Zone:
Grade
Lewes
Crowborough
Grade
1
169
Jonathan Britnell (w)
1
-
0
David Fryer
170
2
166
Matthew Britnell
0
-
1
Jon Lawrance
155
3
152
Duncan Badham
...
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04.11.2019 - Results
Friday 1st November 2019 Autumn Lightning 11 Seniors and 7 Juniors competed in this annual Blitz event with just 3 minutes on the clock plus a 5 second increment.4 players achieved 4 points from 5 games. Result on tie break;1st Trevor Norton2nd Jonathan Tuck3rd Gary McCulloch4th Jon LawranceTop Junior prize was won by Henry Shaw on 3 poiunts from 5.CrosstableSome of the games went on for longer than others with one player delaying things inordinately by trying to win with a single knight. He achieved the winning position with a forced mate in 6 on the board only to blow it by moving his knight, as described later by an insensitive soul, to some random square.Halloween Junior BlitzEarlier in the evening the juniors played their own tournament with a strong field of 10 players.Henry Shaw won on tiebreak from Benedict Weis.Trevor acted as filler for the first 3 rounds until Suriya arrived for the final two rounds.CrosstableJunior Club ChampionshipOver the past 8 weeks 25 juniors...
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01.10.2019 - Season 2019-20
All Mid Sussex League Results can now be found on theECF League Managent System.The AGM agreed to increase the
membership fees by £5.
This should provide a small surplus over the next year after
paying for hire of meeting rooms, insurance, team entries, junior trophies,
engraving and refreshments.
The new membership fees for September 2019 – May 2020 are;
Adult
Membership £80
Junior
Membership £50
Family
Membership
£115 Any combination of Adult and Junior memberships £ 90 Three Junior memberships £ 75 Two Junior memberships
If you have not already done so please pay your membership
fees by electronic transfer or if you prefer by cash or cheque to the Treaurer.
Club Championship
Jonathan Grisenthwaite is organising the club championship
rapidplay this year which is open to adult and junior members and commences
shortly after 7:30pm.
Teams
Nick Hope is our new 1st Team captain and
please keep him inform...
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14.09.2019 - 34th Crowborough Chess Congess Results
Download Crosstable David Norton from Horley prevailed over a very competitive field scoring an unbeaten 5½/6 and picked up the Berberich Cup and £150 1st prize.David Graham of Worthing came clear 2nd on 5/6 and was also unbeaten. Three veterans came in as equal 3rd place on 4½/6;
Ian Snape (Beckenham)
Chaski Patrick (Uckfield)
John Sugden (Hastings & St L)
Grading prizes were won by ;
Martin Cutmore (Folkestone)
Paul Jackson (Coulsdon)
Daniel Finn (Sussex Juniors)
Matthew Britnell (Lewes)
Jon Lawrance (Crowborough)
Andy Mitchell (Lewes)
James West (Coulsdon)
The team results were;
Gold Medal (Boxes of chocolates) WORTHING 10½ Points
Silver Medal LEWES 10 Points
Bronze Medal SUSSEX JUNIORS and SUSSEX MARTLETS 9½ Points.
And finally after 30 years of hurt he never stopped dreaming.
Jon Lawrance was the first winner of the Albany Cup presented to the highest placed...
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26.08.2019 - Season 2019-20
Chess Club starts a new season on Friday 6thSeptember 2019
Junior Members
This season we are going to start the junior Club at 6:20pm so that we can finish in time for the Adult
Club rapidplay games to start promptly at 7:30pm.
Older juniors who wish to improve or gain an ECF Rapidplay
rating are strongly encouraged to join the adults in the 7:30pm games which are
played under tournament conditions.
IMPORTANT do remember to enter the SJC Crowborough Grand
Prix 1 that is on Saturday 14th September please enter via Sussex Junior Chess
As last season we will be running a Junior Team in the Mid
Sussex League Rapidplay – all parents who are interested in their children
playing for the team please let me know either by email or talk to me at the
club.
Adult Members
As last season we will be running a 1st team in the Mid
Sussex Chess League ; a team in the MSCL KO Cup and one team in the Paul Watson
Trophy.
Chris Dunn has done a splendid job over the past f...
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22.07.2019 - July 2019 Grades Published
Full details on the ECF Website
FirstName
Surname
Member
ECFMember
StdGrade
RapidGrade
FIDEGrade
Chris
Dunn
Adult Member
Silver
129
112
-
Robert
Elliston
Adult
Member
Gold
174
151
2083
David
Fryer
Adult
Member
Gold
170
164
1926
Don
Grant
Adult Member
Bronze
-
41
-
Jonathan
Grisenthwaite
Adult
Member
Bronze
95
93
-
Nick
Hope
Adult Member
Bronze
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16.07.2019 - Weald Congress
Twelve club members played at the annual Weald Congress an adult tournament but organised by Sussex Junior Chess so an excellent opportunity for our juniors to gain long play tournament experience.Congratulations to everyone playing but especially to Oliver Stockham who scored 4½/5 winning the Minor Section and £110 and to Peter Crosby who came 3rd in the same section.Special mention to Martin who picked up a grading prize in the very strong Open section with a marvellous 203 performance. From experience I know how difficult it is to concentrate on your own game while also keeping an eye on your children's games.
MINOR
Under 110
Grading Performance
Oliver Stockham
4½/5
133
Peter Crosby
4/5
112
Thomas Martin
2½/5
72
Emily Ashcroft
1½/4
30
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01.06.2019 - End of Season Blitz 2019
In a tightly contested tournament comprising of 14 players Trevor Norton came out 1st on tiebreak winning 4 of his 5 games. Jonathan Tuck came 2nd on the same score. Elena Currah just pipped Daniel Longley also on tiebreak to collect the U18 prize.Crowborough Blitz
Venue: Crowborough Community Centre
Date: 31/05/2019 to 01/06/2019
Arbiter: Gary McCulloch
Timings: 5 mins to completion plus an additional 3 secs for each move
Pos
Name
Grade
1
2
3
4
5
A
B
C
D
T
1
Norton, Trevor
170
b10+
w9+
b2+
b3-
w4+
4
5
895
179
13.0
2
Tuck, Jonathan
190
w11+
b5+
w1-
b8+
w3+
4
5
935
187
12.0
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23.05.2019 - Chess Club Newsletter
This Friday 24th May is the last round of the
Adult Rapid Play Club Championship with Nick Hope currently looking the
favourite to pick up the trophy.
On Friday 31st May
2019 the end of season Blitz Tournament will be taking place between 8pm and
9:30pm and all are welcome; Adults, Juniors, Parents and Guests.
This will be run by Gary over 5 rounds and the time control
will be 5 minutes + 3 Seconds a move. As usual prizes can be expected.
The Junior Spring Tournament will end on the 31stMay but we will then start the special additional Summer Term tournament for
the Juniors.
This will run as usual between 6:30pm and 7:30pm though we
do have the room booked until 8:30pm so if any juniors wish to stay on and play
casual games or need help from the trainers on any particular aspects of the
game they are more than welcome to stay on.
We will be meeting in the smaller Room 3 only for the summer
term and unfortunately we do need to ask for an additional £1...
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13.05.2019 - Sussex Mega-Final Results
See the Sussex Junior Website for full lists Thank you to SJC for providing once again a classroom for our use and 17 of our club members and a couple of special guests took advantage of this facility.All the players entered their results with a number displaying their Excel skills onto our Laptop which has helped me to show the following table of results.
Names
Section
Rd 1
Rd 2
Rd 3
Rd 4
Rd 5
Rd 6
Total
Risha
Jithendra
U9
1
1
1
0
1
1
5
Qualified
Francesca
Currah
U9
0
1
1
0
0
0
2
Lucy Lai
U10
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
Suprema
Oliver
Stockham
U10
1
1
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