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Bournemouth Congress Prizewinners (04.07.2015.)
A prize fund of £3,700 attracted 175 players to last week’s Bournemouth Congress, including a number of titled players. The winners were as follows:- Open: 1st= GM Simon Williams (233) & IM Alfonso...
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So Near – So Far For Devon U-180 Team
Having got through the Quarter- & Semi-Finals of the National U-180 Inter-County Championships, Devon met Middlesex in the final at Warwick yesterday, and a tense affair it proved to be. Team...
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Devon’s Narrow Loss in National Final (11.04.2015.)
Devon got close to getting a result against Middlesex on Saturday in the final of the National Under-180 Championship at Warwick, but fell tantalisingly short, finishing the losers by 7½-8½. The...
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The Rise and Fall of a Dawlish Girl.
The August issue of Chess will contain a short biography of a Dawlish girl, born Rhoda, the youngest of 7 daughters to William Knott a local tailor, who rose to fame in the chess world and became a...
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A Forgotten Westcountry Chess Master.
An almost forgotten Westcountry chess master of the 19th century was William Henry Krause Pollock (1859-1896). He was born in Cheltenham, son of the Rev. W. J. Pollock and was educated at Clifton...
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Winning Devon Game (01.08.2015.)
This was Devon’s top win in their recent National U-180 Final, and was the last game to finish in a tense finale. Mark was the only player to win all three of his games in the National Stages, a fine...
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British Championship Nears Climax (08.08.2015.)
The British Championship finished late last night, though after 8 of the 11 scheduled rounds, there may well be a play-off this morning, as there was a bunch of 7 players all within a half point of the...
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The new Grading List came out recently, with the majority of members showing a healthy up-turn in the grades, arising out of what was a highly successful season, both in inter-club matches and...
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Hawkins Is British Champion (15.08.2015.)
So the possibility of a multiple tie in the British Championship with the necessity of a play-off, never came about, as all but one of the top players seemed to lose their nerve and drew their games,...
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British Championship Best Game Prize.
The recent British Ladies Championship in Coventry was won by the diminutive 13 year old Surrey schoolgirl, Akshaya Kalaiyalahan. She is the 3rd 13 yr old to win the title, the first being Elaine...
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Devon’s New County Champion.
Cornwall’s individual championship is decided at their annual congress each January, the current champion being James Hooker. Devon’s is done on a knockout basis throughout the season and this was the...
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Exmouth’s Pre-Season “Buzzer” Tournament – 2015.
This has been an annual pre-season jaunt for decades, designed to get the brainwaves back into operation after the summer break. The buzzer itself was constructed by Fred Hodge in his garden shed many...
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Paignton Congress Starts (13.09.2015.)
The Paignton Congress starts at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Livermead House Hotel in Torquay. The Premier section has almost become the private preserve of Grandmaster Keith Arkell, who has won it far more...
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Paignton Congress Starts
Chess players from all quarters started to assemble at the Livermore House Hotel on Sunday 13th September for the next in the long series of Paignton Congresses. On bumping into the resident GM, Keith...
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Paignton Congress 2015 – Day 3
The Congress has usually started to take shape by Rd. 3. In the Premier there were already only 2 players on a maximum 2/2; naturally being the top 2 seeds, Arkell and Berry had to meet this early....
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Paignton Congress 2015 Day 4
Paignton Premier Round 4 Bd. White Black 1 Gostelow, D. W. 2042 (2½) 0 1 Arkell, K. C 2505 (3) 2 Berry, S. H. 2294 (2) Dilleigh, S. P 2064 (2) 3 Pickersgill, A. O. 1991...
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Paignton Congress 2015 Day 5
Keith Arkell has an added incentive to finish on 7/7 pts, not only to be clear 1st, but also to keep his rating points up, after losing a few at his previous tournament at Coulsdon. Today he was paired...
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Arkell’s Optimism (19.09.2015.)
I wrote recently of the disappointment Grandmaster Keith Arkell must have felt at his anticlimactic finish to the recent British Championship. It seems he wasn’t downhearted for long, however, as...
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The Exmouth Blitz.
Exmouth may have been blitzed several times during WW2, but Exmouth Chess Club had its first taste of true Blitz Chess last night, when they managed to borrow 4 new digital programmable clocks, which...
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Arkell’s Paignton Max. (26.09.2015.)
Grandmaster Keith Arkell has made the Paignton Congress virtually his own personal fiefdom during the past two decades, having come 1st, either clear or shared, almost every year. This time, however,...
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