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Historic First – Exmouth Lose to Seaton (27.10.2014.)
Exmouth started the day as County champions at all forms of the over-the-board game – Standard play, RapidPlay and Blitz. But chess has a way of bringing any individual or group getting delusions of...
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Lawson on Legacies (01.11.14.)
The new President of the English Chess Federation is Dominic Lawson, former Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, son of former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson and brother to Nigella. He is a...
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15th Beacon Seniors Congress – Day 1
Players started to assemble in the playing hall all morning, firstly those staying at the hotel, then those staying in accommodation nearby and later on those having to travel, sometimes considerable...
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15th Beacon Seniors Congress – Day 2
The draw for Rd. 2 worked out well in that everyone got a game as there were no byes. Details of the schedule for prizes that were not already on the entry form were worked out before play started and...
View Article15th Beacon Seniors Congress – Day 3
Before play started, the announcements included a summary of the outcome of the World Seniors Championship that finished in Greece the evening before. Keith Arkell had finished 1st= on points (8/11)...
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15th Beacon Seniors Congress – Day 4
One of the players, David Openshaw, was introduced at the start of play, as he is on the ECF Board representing the interests of both International chess and Seniors. He invited anyone who had ideas or...
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15th Royal Beacon Seniors Congress – Final Day
Before play started there were the usual opening remarks, and on this occasion the focus was on our Controller, Ewart Smith, whose last event this was. Ten years ago, he had come in at short notice...
View ArticleWMN Chess Column Suspended (November 2014)
Newspapers all over the country, if not the whole world, are struggling to adapt to the challenges brought about by the new media – multiple channels of 24 hour rolling news - twitface – etc. etc....
View ArticleExmouth Open Account in Div. 2
Exmouth’s first match in the Devon Leagues involved the longest trip of the season, to Barnstaple, where they expected to be facing a team headed up by IM Jack Rudd or Theo Slade – or both. As it...
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Chipping Sodbury RapidPlay Results (8th Nov. 2014) 813
The Chipping Sodbury RapidPlay was held recently at the Old Grammar School. The winners were as follows: Open Section: 1st James Cobb (228) Bristol& Clifton 5/6 pts. 2nd= Chris Beaumont (214)...
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48th Torbay Congress 2014
NB: This report is still being added to, until further notice. The 48th Torbay Congress went back to one of its earlier venues, the Toorak Hotel, Torquay, just over the road from its home of recent...
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Not the Western Morning News! 1st Nov. 2014 (812)
As you might have realised by now, Western Morning News has, as from 1st November 2014, been forced to cut in half the Westcountry Life supplement in its Saturday edition, and with it has gone the...
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Not the WMN (08.11.2014) 813
The Chipping Sodbury RapidPlay was held recently at the Old Grammar School. The winners were as follows: Open Section: 1st James Cobb (228) Bristol& Clifton 5/6 pts. 2nd= Chris Beaumont (214)...
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Exmouth March On In Division 2
Exmouth had their first home match of the season when they entertained old rivals Teignmouth to the town. It was not quite a home match as the Club’s new base, the Royal Beacon Hotel, had a Christmas...
View ArticleSomerset beat Hants (29.11.2014.)
The Somerset captain reports on their match against Hampshire at Mere on Saturday. The final score of 12 – 4 to Somerset looks like a crushing defeat for Hants, but it was far from that, apparently, as...
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Peter Hugh Clarke (1933 – 2014)
The noted chess player, organiser and author of chess books, Peter Clarke, died suddenly on 11th December at his home near Morwenstow in North Cornwall. He was 81. He first came to prominence as a...
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A Shaft of Light on DCCA’s Early History.
Out of the blue, this week, shone a shaft of light on the earliest history of the Devon County Chess Association. It came in the shape of an innocent enquiry from Howard Stead from York, who was...
View ArticleWMN Chess Column to Return by Popular Demand
I heard officially today that the Western Morning News’s chess column is to be re-started, according to the Editor, “by popular demand”. He says he’s “been inundated with inquiries about the...
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Death of Peter Clarke. (17.01.2015.)
The Western Morning News chess column was suspended at the end of October last year, with a promise that the situation would be reviewed in January. Such has been the reaction of readers, via letters...
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Devon’s Inter-Area Jamboree 2015 Results
Four teams of 12 players from the four corners of the county contested Devon’s annual Inter-Area Jamboree, hosted this year by the East, at the Isca Centre in Exeter. There is a total grading limit of...
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