The Chichester Chess Club AGM will be held at Fishbourne on Monday 5 September.
All members are encouraged to attend to discuss the direction for the next season.
PDCL AGM
The Portsmouth and District Chess League AGM will be held at the Fishbourne Centre on Monday 3 October at 7:15. Our members are encouraged to participate but this will mean that chess playing will start late.
Welcome to Kamila
Kamila Hryshchenko, having recently fled the Donbas region in Ukraine is warmly welcomed to our club.
Kamila is a World U18 Blitz champion and highly dangerous!
Round 3 Box Tables
All games need to be played by Monday 30th June at the latest.
A reminder that going forward all results from the box league games should now be forwarded to this email address chichesterchess.box@gmail.com. Please continue to copy Jamie Wilson in for grading purposes.
Round 2 Box Update
Well done to Graham Ellis who won the second round of the competition with an impressive 4 wins out of 4 games and now also leads the overall competition with 269.74 pts. He is closely followed by Jamie Wilson on 248.39pts and Rahul Leo Thomas on 225.93 pts.
2025 AGM
For your diary. The 2025 Chichester Chess Club AGM will be held on August 11.
Final Round Draw Club Championship
Draw for Round 6.
All matches to be played on (or before) Monday 28th April 2025.
| BoardNo | White | V | Black | Comments |
| 1 | Jaimie (4.5) | v | Vinuda (5) | |
| 2 | Andrew (4) | v | Lara (3.5) | |
| 3 | Steve S (4) | v | Bill E (3) | |
| 4 | Laurence (3.5) | v | Phil (3) | |
| 5 | Ian J (3) | v | Remel (3) | |
| 6 | Steve C (3) | v | Ryan (3) | |
| 7 | John H (3) | v | Adam (3) | |
| 8 | Mike W (3) | v | Mike E (2.5) | |
| 9 | Ian R (2.5) | v | Chris (2.5) | |
| 10 | Graham (2.5) | v | Alan (2) | |
| 11 | Tom (2) | v | Paul S (2) | |
| 12 | Mike S (2) | v | Rahul (1.5) | |
| 13 | Paul W (2) | v | Julz (1) | |
| 14 | Isaac (2) | v | Steve O (1) | |
| 15 | Vishal (2) | v | Francisco (0.5) | |
| 16 | Penny (1) | v | Kyall (1) | |
| 17 | Lucas (0.5) | v | Lloyd (1) |
Chichester A reach Cole Cup Final
Fantastic result from the team tonight, outrated by 170 points a board or so but winning on the board elimination rule. Well played everyone, we made the final! Thanks to all.
Jaimie
| 1 | 2097 | Wilson, JaimieG | ½ – ½ | G Bezuidenhout, Roland | 2418 |
| 2 | 1966 | McDougall, William MG | 1 – 0 | G Corkett, Anthony R | 2180 |
| 3 | 1950 | Pai, SidhanthG | ½ – ½ | G Gregory, Keith DF | 1989 |
| 4 | 1763 | Judd, Ian PG | 0 – 1 | G Wicken, Jack | 1967 |
| 5 | 1804 | Ramirez, RemelG | ½ – ½ | G Janota, Paul S | 1886 |
Portsmouth Individual
The League Committee has decided to run the Portsmouth Individual Championship as a Rapid event this year.
It will be held on Sunday May 11 at Emsworth Chess Club.
The winner will win the Portsmouth Individual Cup and a cash prize, other prizes include Grading and Junior.
This is the first such event and will only be viable if we have at least 20 entries, with a maximum of 40.
The entry form is in the link below, simply complete and press ‘Submit’.
New Game added
Brilliant win by Andrew against John Wheeler in recent A team match versus Cosham A added to Games Section here
Box Tournament Update
Status files attached.
At this stage Lloyd Jolley leads round 2 of the competition. Jamie Wilson currently leads the overall competition (score of 210.06), with Remel Ramirez in second and Vishal Leo Thomas in third.
The deadline for games to be completed is 31/03/25, so please make every effort to schedule and play any remaining games by then.
Club Championship Round 5
Draw for Round 5 of the Club Championship is here.
These matches to be played on (or before) Monday 10th March 2025
| BoardNo | White | V | Black | Comments |
| 1 | Vinuda Gunatilake (4) | v | Laurence Ellett (3½) | |
| 2 | Steve Coe (3) | v | Jaimie Wilson (3½) | |
| 3 | John Hargreaves (3) | v | Andrew McDougall (3) | |
| 4 | Adam Taylor (3) | v | Steve Smith (3) | |
| 5 | Lara Osiyemi (3) | v | Bill Emerson (2½) | |
| 6 | Mike Webber (2½) | v | Ian Judd (2½) | |
| 7 | Remel Ramirez (2) | v | Tom Howeson (2) | |
| 8 | Phil Carr (2) | v | Paul White (2) | |
| 9 | Mike Eason (2) | v | Ian Richardson (2) | |
| 10 | Ryan Kinzett (2) | v | Isaac McDonald (2) | |
| 11 | Chris Squires (1½) | v | Vishal Leo Thomas (2) | |
| 12 | Rahul Leo Thomas (1½)) | v | Graham Ellis (1½) | |
| 13 | Mike Spence (1) | v | Steve Owen (1) | |
| 14 | Alan Reed (1) | v | Lloyd Jolley (1) | |
| 15 | Paul Simpson (1) | v | Kyall Guy (1) | |
| 16 | Francisco Booth (½) | v | Penny Cullum (0) | |
| 17 | Julz Cayago (0) | v | Lucas Summers (½) |
Round 2 Box Tournament
Updated Round 1 leadership table with promotions/relegations now confirmed.
New Round 2 league tables attached. All games need to be played by Monday 31st March at the latest.
Please note that going forward all results from the box league games should now be forwarded to the new email address chichesterchess.box@gmail.com that I ( Steve) have created (this will help to prevent results being lost in my normal inbox!). Please continue to copy Jamie Wilson in for grading purposes.