Match Report from first League Games

Ed Goodwin has kindly completed a match report on the first A team match against Coventry Chess Academy on the 3rd October.

If any other Captains would like to place a match report, please feel free.

We do have a new website under development and the ultimate idea is that we can post games to the website as well.

My Thanks to Ed and here is his match report:

 Match Report 03/10/2017 Div 1 Coventry Chess Academy A v Coventry Chess A

This is our first match report when the new website is up and running I hope to be able to put interesting positions or whole games in the article.

We faced the new Academy side who turned out to be strong outgrading us on 3 out of the 4 boards.

On board 1 Dave Ireland (White) faced Paul Lam against whom he previously had a 0-4 record. This seemed to me to be fairly uneventful from I think the 1 e4 Nc6 opening. Dave drew , a very good result.

Bernard played the only junior but a good one in David Phillips. This was the popular London System, with Bernard seeming to be under pressure on the king side , however he neutralised this and I thought he had an advantage afterwards but it proved not enough to win.

Against Alan Phillips  I played an appalling opening after a very early ..Ne4 in the Dutch defence and had to offer a pawn to develop. Alan thought I would have good compensation so he declined the offer. Then I set a trap which my opponent fell into and I won the exchange. But with two rooks and a bishop against rook knight and bishop just couldn’t find any winning plan. My opponent could have claimed the draw twice by threefold repetition. Eventually I ran short of time and offered him a draw which was accepted

Bava played the sharp Sicilian Dragon against Georgeta Ercsei . White castled queen side and launched an attack against Bava’s king on the king side. At a critical point Bava blocked the attack by placing his knight on h5, but Georgetta switched to attacking in the centre and Bava’s knight was completely cut off. When I looked again he had lost a number of pawns and was unable to hang on.

Match Result

Dave Ireland (175)         ½–½ Paul Lam (196)

Bernard Charnley (154) ½-½ David Phillips (144)

Ed Goodwin (156)           ½-½ Alan Phillips (168)

Bava Manickam (134)      0-1 Georgeta Ercsei (151)

Leamington Rapid Play Report

Report from Ed Goodwin

Leamington Rapidplay Report Sunday September 10^th

There were several Coventry Chess players taking part in this event organised by Ed Goodwin.

Open

Dave Ireland scored a respectable 3/6 including a draw against Warwickshire champion Don Mason

Former member Josh Pink finished on 2½/6

Under 170

Bernard Charnley showed a welcome return to form finishing 3^rd on 4½/6

Under 140

Clive Blackburn and John Conway scored 3½/6 sharing the grading prize

Interesting Article

Whilst idly surfing around the interweb I came across this article on Coventry Chess  Academy's website: -

coventrychessacademy.wordpress.com/coaches-corner/

You may recognise a few of the players/coaches - It is worth a read if you have a few minutes. 

New Season

Calling all Coventry Chess Players !


Already Summer is nearly over and the New Chess Season will be upon us very soon so next Tuesday 29th August our Brand new Treasurer - David Adams will be collecting subs for the New Season.

Cost is as follows:-  £38.00 including Bronze membership to the ECF or if you have paid the ECF Online Club membership of £22.00.

The first match of the Season is on September 26th - Divisional Cup match.

We also welcome a couple of new clubs into the League - Coventry University into the Second Division and  a Junior team in each Division, run by Paul Lam - Coventry Chess Academy. Please note for this Season all Coventry Chess Academy away matches will be played at their Home venue.


If you are unable to attend next Tuesday could you let your Captain know as we are also starting to select the Teams for the New Season.

Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 29th August.

Simon

Road Closures Around Massey Ferguson

For anyone coming to the club over the next three weeks please be aware of the following Road Works:-


http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/major-coventry-road-close-three-13458721

There will be diversions in place to get to the Club.

Having looked at Google Maps, the best way to get to the club by car, is to come up Tile Hill Lane, turn right onto Banner Lane and then left along Astoria Drive which then brings you out onto Broad Lane, turn right and the Club is a few yards away.

I am unsure as to how Bus Services are affected.

New Grades

The ECF have just issued the new grades for July. You can check here on this link your new grade:- 

http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/new/menu.php

Please note the text regarding grading : -

This is the first provisional edition of the July 2017 grading list. It is based on games played up to 30th June.

The August revision, as always, will be definitive, as it may include corrections and late-reported 2016-17 events. Many leagues will adopt the August revision for eligibility purposes.