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27 February 2010
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General News
The 2010 Staffordshire Congress will be held in Bloxwich on
10 and 11 April, 2010 - Full details and entry forms.
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| Match finishes with the closest of margins |
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 27 Feb
As today's match began, the Notts team quickly went into a 5 - 0 lead.
It wasn't looking good.
As the other matches began to finish, the results started to swing back the other way.
Peter Broomhall and Matthew Wyza found themselves in tense engame positions...
Match details
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| Bushbury chess club take on Bradford |
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 27 Feb
While the U160 team were facing a team from Notts, and the Bulldogs were facing Worcs, four players from Bushbury were facing a team from Bradford in an ECF club knockout.
The irripressible Alf Schroeder secured a win, and John Button managed a draw, but John Whitehead and Simon Jones were beaten.
Well done to the Bradford players - unfortunately, they left before I could get any of their names.
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| Closest of results for Paul's team |
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 21 Feb
Wins for Karl Walkate from Fenton, Danny Torbica from Cannock St Mary's, together with Derrick Jones and Richard Mansell from Newcastle meant that with just two games to finish, the score stood at 5 - 5.
Match result
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| National stages becon |
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 8 Feb
The draw for the national stages of Inter-County chess are now available on the New, Improved ECF website.
Some of our teams have been more successful than others but depending on how the remaining matches finish, it is still possible for all our teams to reach the national stages - who said I'm an optimist.
The Open team have won every match, and have an unassailable lead.
Once confirmed as MCCU champions, David Anderton's team will be facing a quarter-final fixture at home against the Northern Counties second team on 22 May.
Barring any problems, a win for John Day's U140 team against bottom of the table Shropshire next month should also secure them a place in the National stages.
But with three places up for grabs, where they finish will be dicided by results of other matches.
In the U120 section, the Bulldogs currently lead, two points clear of second place Warwickshire.
They still have 2 games to play, so it's all still to play for.
Despite being in the lower half of their respective sections, it is still possible for Alan Thomason's U160 team and Paul Clapham's Terriers team to qualify.
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| Entry forms for the Staffordshire Congress |
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 22 Jan
Entry forms for the 2010 Staffordshire Congress are now available.
It will be held in the main hall of
Bloxwich Leisure Centre
Bloxwich
where it was held in 2007 and 2008.
Full details.
Entry forms
 Word (30 KB)  PDF (21 KB)
In addition, those who took part last time should receive entry forms in the next week or so.
Good Chess!
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| Success at the Wrekin |
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 11 January
At the Wrekin Congress in Telford this weekend, I've been told that Paul Jackson from Rugeley chess club finished on 4½ out of 5 and gave him an outright win in the Minor section.
Congratulations Paul!
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| Three default wins to start with, but... |
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 27 Feb
The Worcestershire team arrived for today's match three players short.
With that advantage to start with, wins for both John Fenby and Tony Colabella, and a draw for Peter Evans brought the Bulldogs to within a point of victory
Match details
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| Success at the Warwickshire congress |
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 21 Feb
With both the Frodsham and Warwickshire congresses on the same weekend, many local players were spoiled for choice.
Warwickshire,
In the Open section, well done to Tomasz Sygnowski from Wolverhampton.
In the U175, Simon Smith from Warley Quinborne and Golam Ali from Sutton Coldfield did well.
In the U150, there was success for Mike Maher from Lichfield.
In the U125, Paul Munro from Warley Quinborne also did well.
In the team section, well done to Henrik Stepanyan from Sutton Coldfield - The team he was playing for finished in second place.
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| Decisive win for Alan's team |
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 11 Feb
A slightly belated well done to Alan Thomason and everyone involved with the U160 Inter-County team.
In their recent match against Warwickshire, they produced a decisive 11½ - 4½ victory.
Once that result is included in the U160 county tables, they should be in equal third place - and there will be 3 midlands qualifiers for the national stages.
Well done!
Match result
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| Good result against tough opposition |
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 8 Feb
Despite being outgraded on every single board, John's U140 team finished with a very creditable 6 - 10 score against the Notts team in Bushbury on Saturday.
Match result
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| Close finish for David's team |
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 31 Jan
I don't have the details yet, but I've been told that yesterday's match between Greater Manchester and our open team had a very tight finish.
With one game still playing, our team needed just a draw to secure victory.
In a very tense position several checks were given and parried until... the players agreed a draw.
Once confirmed, that victory should secure the team as winners in the midlands stages and MCCU first team in the national stages.
More details once I receive them.
Well done to David Anderton and everyone involved with the team.
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| If it's good enough for our younger players... |
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 22 January
Those of you who browse the junior pages of this site should be familiar with its events calendar.
As something of an experiment, and for a trial period this, general, part of the site has now been given its own events calendar.
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| Bad weather forces a change of venue. |
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 17 January
By Paul Clapham
The fixture Leics v the Terriers went ahead yesterday at the Village Hall at Hoby, Leics.
The bad weather of the past couple of weeks and a boiler failure at the original venue looked as though they might jeopardise the fixture...
More details
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| County cups |
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 1 January
The draw for the semi-finals of the county cups have now been issued.
Mike Savin has also sent me the details of the matches already played, on behalf of Graham Humphreys.
Semi-final draw and first round results
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