Kamilla was with us at Chichester Chess Club when she first came to the UK in the summer.

Listen to her story on Womans Hour this week.

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Many congratulations to Mike Eason for an excellent second place with +4-1+1 for 4.5/6 in a field of 33 players in the Hampshire Chess Congress Minor tournament.

Draw for Round 2 of the Club Championship can be found here.

Draw for Round 2 – To be played on Monday 11^th December 2023

Bd No   White                              (Score) v (Score) Black         

1            Mick Plumb [1735]              (1) v (1) Jaimie Wilson [2169]     

2            Andrew McDougall [2155] (1) v (1) Steve Smith [1746]

3            Chris Squires [1703]            (1) v (1) Bill McDougall [2115]    

4            Vinuda Gunatilake [1989]  (1) v (1) Mike Spence [1715]

5            Steve Coe [1675]                 (1) v (1) Bill Emerson [1900*]      

6            Norbert Gyorke [1879]       (1) v (1) Laurence Ellett  [1697]        

7            Paul White [1610]              (1) v (1) Tom Howeson [1842]      

8            Ian Judd [1766]                    (1) v (1) Phil Carr [1658]                           

9            Mike Webber [1608]          (0) v (1) Penny Callum [1060]         

10          Mike Eason [1577]              (0) v (0) John Hargreaves [1595] 

11          Ryan Kinzett [1488]            (0) v (0) Ian Richardson [1561]                  

12          Roy Fairful [1459]               (0) v (0) Kyall Guy [1465]                

13          Lloyd Jolley [1435]              (0) v (0) Alan Reed [1450]               

14          Vishal Leo Thomas [1375] (0) v (0) Isaac McDonald [1398]  

15          Paul Simpson [1357]          ( 0) v (0) Jacob Carr [1358]           

16          Francisco Booth [1235]      (0) v (0) Rahul Leo Thomas [1254] 

17          BYE                                        (0) v (0) Lucas Summers [1179]  

Including Club Championship dates, all League Fixtures can be found in new menu at the top of the website. Document is dowloadable for convenience.

At the Chichester AGM on 14 August Ian Richardson stood down as Club Secretary to warm thanks from the Chairman and the members.

Andrew McDougall was elected the new Club Secretary. Congratulations to Andrew and wishing you success in your new role.

Over the last weekend the English Junior Coaches and Organisers Association ( EJCOA) held the National Youth Final U16/U18/U20 in Nottingham.

Vinuda Gunathilake scored an oustanding win with a 4.5/5 score, defeating many higher grade players on his way to victory.

As Vinuda was only the 18th seed this was a truly great result.

Many congratulations!!

Monday 14 th August – Chichester Chess Club Annual General Meeting.
Agenda to follow. Please talk to the Secretary, Ian Richardson, if you have
specific items for discussion.

Congratulations to Bill McDougall on winning the Club Championship with 5.5/6 points.

The final results table can be found here.

The 76^th Annual General Meeting of the League will be held at 7:15pm on Monday 21 August at Chichester Chess Club, Fishbourne Centre, Blackboy Lane, Fishbourne, Chichester  PO18 8BE.

Note this will limit chess until after the meeting.

McArthur Cup ½Final– 2023 Horsham v Chichester 25.04.2023 

For the first time in decades, our Chichester Club entered a team into the McArthur Cup tournament – the premier inter-Club competition in West Sussex.

After a default win at home to Brighton we found ourselves away to Horsham in a semi final.

Horsham is a thriving chess club with an excellent venue and a great deal going on. Immediately the teams were announced it was clear that Horsham were fielding a very strong team with 4 players well over 2000 rating.

On board 1: Jaimie played Gavin Lock in a tussle of the giants. Unfathomable to spectators and eventually agreed drawn

On board 2: Andrew, playing black again, had a long and tense positional struggle with the equally strong Mark Broom. A wonderful finish and this game can be found here.

On board 3: Rolandas played the equally strong James Mansson and this always promised to be a game of extreme complications and it lived up to this billing. A wonderful win by Rolandas to take this scalp.

On board 4: Norbert met the 2029 rated Antony Higgs – quite a challenge and illustrating the massive strength in depth that Horsham can muster for their A team. Again, some significant complications and Norbert slowed his opponent but some accurate play prevailed.

On board 5: Ian was facing the evergreen Phil Stimpson and had much the best of it in a heavyweight game. Alas , when approaching critical simplifications to convert, Ian fell for a cheap tactic and the point was lost. 

On board 6: Steve was 200 rating points adrift of the well experienced Ian Comley. On the defensive for much of the game, Steve made it very difficult to identify the winning combo but Ian played with extreme care and a powerful Queen and Bishop battery proved too much to defend against. 

Summary:

1. G.Lock        ½ ½ J.Wilson
2. M.Broom    0 1 A.McDougall
3. J.Mansson  0 1 R.Lukosius
4. A.Higgs        1 0 N.Gyorke
5. P.Stimpson 1 0 I.Judd
6. I.Comley     1 0 S Coe

Horsham  3½ 2½ Chichester

A match in which the chess was the winner. All good wishes to Horsham in the final where they meet Lewes. This was some distance for Chichester players to travel so my thanks to Rolandas for driving the Bognor contingent. Andrew persisted in the face of a diversion on a diversion and some small country lanes so well done on that tour of West Sussex. My thanks also to Mike Spence who attended as reserve and offered good moral support.