Pre-Season Tournament at Rugby

Rugby Chess Club are holding a pre-season Tournament in September.

All players are invited:

For more details go here : https://rugbychessclub.blogspot.com/2019/07/pre-season-tournament-2nd-9th-and-23rd.html

Blitz Tournament

Hi All, Please find the latest report from Ed for the Blitz tournament we held a week or so ago.

The Blitz handicap was well supported with 16 players participating.

The handicap was quite challenging, at it’s most extreme the highest graded player had 2 minutes to the lowest graded player’s 5 minutes.

Wesley had an excellent score sharing first place with Paul Woodfinden visiting us from Northwich.

Scores with number of games played in brackets were:-

Wesley 10(11)
Paul Woodfinden 10(12)
Warrick 8 ½ (13)
Damien 7 ½ (9)
Howard 7 ½ (13)
Sam 6 (11)
Paul Sweatman 5 (14)
Gagandeep 4 ½ (7)
Mike 4 ½ (9)
Arun 4 ½ (11)
Stan 4 (10
Margarita 3 ½ (9)
Ed 3 ½ (10)
John Conway 3(11)
Simon 1 ½ (5)
Patrick 1 ½ (9)

Chess 960 Chaos

Chess 960 Chaos

The Annual (well it’s been held twice) Chess 960 , Doubles, Rapidplay took place at Coventry Chess Club on 25^th June.

Teams of 2 were selected by a draw with higher rated players being paired with lower graded.

After an attempt to explain the castling rules by Ed play started with each team having 10 minutes on the clock and a no consultation rule being applied. 

The starting set up of the bank rank set having been drawn from a selection of over 20 possibilities.

No Queen’s Gambits or Sicilian Dragons, but castling on move 1 allowed.

Final results – after 5 rounds:-

1= Gagandeep/Dave Ireland, Josh/Dave Filer 4½

3-4^th Margareet/Paul W, Wesley/John Conway 2

5-6th Simon Weaver/Paul Sweatman Sam Cotterill/Patrick

Summer Schedule

After the success of  Last Years Summer Activities Ed & Dave have kindly agreed to arrange similar Tournaments this Year.

These Activities are open to Club Members and anyone from other Clubs are welcome to join us. For Coventry Chess Club members these are all free to enter. Non-members £5.00 Juniors £2.00.



So the schedule looks like this

June 11th - Dave Ireland to challenge all comers in a Simultaneous. Start Time 8-8.15pm

June 18th - League AGM - All members are welcome to attend. Friendly matches to take place in the Main Hall. 7.30pm start

June 25th - Chess 960 Pairs. If you have never played Chess 960, now is your chance and to add to the fun you have a partner to play with you. 7.30pm start Chess 960 description

July 2nd - Blitz Handicap Chess.Your chance to beat a higher graded player ! 7.30pm start

All the above events are at Massey Ferguson Social Club

We also hope to organise several one day tournaments over the next few months so please keep checking back for further details.

Club AGM 21st May 2019

To All Club Members : - 

The Club AGM will be held at :

Venue: Massey Ferguson Social Club

Start Time: 7.45pm

Date: Tuesday 21st May 2019

We aim to Finish approximately 9.30pm when light refreshments will be served.

Summer Cup Round 6

The final round of the Summer Cup was held on Tuesday 7th May. My Thanks to Dave Filer for setting up on Tuesday in my absence. 

Not being present at the final evening I can not comment on how matches progressed throughout the evening. However, we do have a winner - Dave Ireland, dropping his first half point against the Runner Up Ed Goodwin. 

One result that does stand out is Roy Watson's win over Bernard Charnley. 

My Thanks go to all players who participated and I hope everyone enjoyed taking part.

Results 7/5/2019

D.Ireland .5 .5 E.Goodwin
N.Morris 1 0 W.Scaiffe
Bava 1 0 Kaan

Margarita 1 0 J.Loughnane

B.Charnley 0 1 R.Watson

S.Whitmore 0 1 D.Filer

A.Evans 1 0 P.Smith

W.Beeston 1 0 B.Evans

J.Conway 1 0 C.Badley

P.Sweatman 1 0 T.White

C.Pegler 1 0 Lana

J.March 0 1 D.Riley

S.Cotterrill 0 1 S.Simpson

Scores After Round 6 - FINAL STANDINGS
D.Ireland    5.5

E.Goodwin 4.5

R.Watson   4.5 

D.Filer        4.5
S.Cotterill   3.5
M.Johnson 3.5

A.Paul       3.5
B.Charnley 3.5

S.Simpson 4

S.Whitmore 3.5
Bava           4

N.Morris     4

S.Anwar     2.5
A.Evans     3.5
Margarita   3.5
Kaan         2.5

J.Loughnane 2.5

P.Smith         2.5
N.Carrouche 2.5
W.Beeston    3
D.Riley          3
J.Conway     3
P.Sweatman 2.5

J.March        2
C.Badley      1.5
J.Harrison    1.5
B.Evans      1.5
Hok             1
D.Adams     1
C.Pegler     2
L.Nasibova .5 
T.White       .5
T.Gazee     .5
A.Franklin  1

Seb            0