Horsham Chess Club

Mark Baldock submitted the following report on the recent Horsham 5 vs Horsham 4 match.

Earlier this week saw the first fixture in Division 3 of the Mid-Sussex League. And what a fixture! A keenly competitive match between Horsham 4 and the new newly promoted Horsham 5. The latter faced an average deficit of 20 grading points on each board and, as the home team, played black on 3 out of 5 boards. But did this didn’t curb the enthusiasm and fighting sprit of the home team? No it didn’t as they ground out 4 very solid draws on Boards 2 to 5 and were just edged out on Board 1 right at the death.

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Last Tuesday was the day set aside for the first round of the standard play knockout competition. We managed to play two thirds of the fixtures, which was not too bad.

There were no real upsets in the games played. The full results can be found here.

Just a quick reminder that there is no junior chess tomorrow, back next week. The adult club runs as normal.

Some news from Brian Valentine, ECF Manager of Grading, regarding the forthcoming January 2015 grading list...

The pairings for round one of the Knockout 2014-15 are now up here.

Please check them if you have entered, as the first round of the competition is being played next Tuesday!

Last night saw the start of the Quickplay Knockout competition. The aim was to complete at least the first couple of rounds and this was largely completed, with only the top eighth failing to do so as a consequence of the rearranged D Gray - Z Rustom fixture not being played. Indeed, there were a few people keen enough to play their third round matches as well, so we already have one semi-finalist in the main competition and the plate!

The pairings for round one of the Quickplay Knockout 2014-15 are now up here.

Please check them if you have entered, as the first two rounds of the competition are being played next Tuesday!

I managed to overcome the assembled club members 12-7 in the annual simul last night, there was certainly plenty of high-quality opposition to keep me worried...

The club was proud to award Dick Newman with honorary membership at the AGM, and presented him with a framed certificate to record the achievement...