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Archive 2002-2003

Only the major additions are noted here.

07 Sep 2003
05 Sep 2003
  • BCF Schools Championship: Entry form 2003-4. Or you can download a word-processed version (zipped rtf, 5K) by clicking here. The Rules are also on the site.
04 Sep 2003
  • Open Forum: Jack Rudd contributes to the negative-grade debate.
01 Sep 2003
29 Aug 2003
  • SCCU County Fixtures 2003-4 are now on the site, together with contact details of match captains. Match captains: please check for problems. Unusually the BCF-Stage dates (bottom of same page) are also announced at the outset.
  • 39th Berks & Bucks Congress at Reading 23-25 August
  • In Open Forum: Neill Cooper and Kevin Thurlow comment on Grades.
20 Aug 2003
14 Aug 2003
  • Open Forum is still on the Grading theme. Mike Gunn writes.
13 Aug 2003
  • Still catching up. Sheila Jackson Simul at Westcliff 30.7.03
  • And, in Open Forum, Lester Millin and Stewart Reuben comment on Grading and other things.
03 Aug 2003
02 Aug 2003
  • Last stage in the catching-up exercise. We hope. (It's been a busy month.) SCCU Executive meeting 21.6.03. This is only the brief meeting that follows the AGM.
01 Aug 2003
  • U14/90 Finals 5.7.03, better late than never.
  • U100 semi-final 14.6.03 Kent 5½ 6½ Somerset. Not published at the time because no one sent it, and it was on the BCF website. But, for completeness, we've inserted it. All National-stage matches with SCCU involvement are now on the Site in full.
  • Open Forum: Tim Spanton replies to Scott Freeman
30 Jul 2003
  • Open Forum: Scott Freeman responds to the remarks we made a couple of days ago about negative grades.
28 Jul 2003
  • The Grading List appeared on Friday, in Battle and Edinburgh. Your copy should be with you in a couple of days if you ordered it by post. For some commentary, see the Grading page.
23 Jul 2003
  • Coulsdon Rapidplay 19.7.03
  • BCF Grading List 2003 is with the printer and should be in Edinburgh before the end of this week. Price £15, plus £2 postage if not bought over the counter. Reduced rates for Direct Members: see BCF website. Last time we looked, the site was including the £2 postage whether it applied or not.
13 Jul 2003
  • Open Forum: The Central Venues theme won't lie down, and Kevin Clark has new things to say.
10 Jul 2003
  • Open Forum: David Roberts and Kevin Thurlow reply to Cyril Johnson.
08 Jul 2003
  • Open Forum: Cyril Johnson replies to the comments about BCF Finals venues.
  • County Finals. We have published the ones with SCCU involvement, and intended (see 6th July) to publish the whole lot as we always have. But the BCF website, much improved in promptness and completeness this year, published them today and we will not duplicate its efforts.
06 Jul 2003
  • Counties Championship Finals 5.7.03 Open Kent 9 7 Lancs; Minor Counties Staffs* 8 8 Norfolk; U175 Sussex 9 7 Warwickshire; U150 Lancs 10 6 Yorks; U125 Norfolk 9½ 6½ Merseyside; U100 Lancs 7½ 4½ Somerset. We have all the results in detail, courtesy Cyril Johnson, and the ones not yet published here will follow shortly.
  • Open Forum: Chris Howell, Trevor Jones, Bernard Cafferty and Tim Spanton write about BCF Finals venues and other things.
  • SCCU U14/90 Finals 5.7.03. Sussex make it three in a row, by a whisker. 1 Sussex 13½/24; 2 (on tie-break) Oxon 13; 3 Herts 13; 4 Surrey 8½. Full details when we have them.
  • BCF Management Board meeting 28.6.03: David Smith (SCCU rep) reports. The BCF at last has a new Chief Executive, and it's someone you've heard of. It has a new Finance Manager as well.
03 Jul 2003
  • Open semi-final 14.6.03 Greater Manchester 8 8 *Kent
  • U125 quarter-final 17.5.03 Herts 7½ 8½ Merseyside
    Both these results have been somewhat elusive, and as far as we know this is the first time they have been published. For U100 semi-final 14.6.03 Kent 5½ 6½ Somerset we refer you to the BCF website.
02 Jul 2003
  • The Website apologises for its week off. It's been busy.
  • National Club Finals at Wanstead 29.6.03, courtesy John Philpott. Bare match scores only, we haven't had time for the detailed results yet.
  • BCF Schools Championship Finals at Nottingham 28.6.03. Both titles go to foreigners this year.
  • Kent Schools League 2002-3: a final update. Eltham College Junior School sweep the board in the U11.
24 Jun 2003
  • National Club Minor 2001-2. It appears that last year's Final, due to be played on Sunday at Wanstead, won't be. Look at the bottom of the "Minor" section, after the April Fool. This isn't an April Fool.
22 Jun 2003
20 Jun 2003
  • SCCU AGM Tomorrow, or maybe Today if you go to bed earlier than your Webmaster does. David Smith asks us to say that he has collected a large number of Trophies for presentation, and he doesn't want to be going home with any of them. Winners: please make sure you're represented!
18 Jun 2003
  • National Club Minor Semi-finals. We received this year's results for grading yesterday, and confidently expected to be able to fill the semi-finals in. Playing deadline was 8th June, which admittedly is 8 days into the wrong season. Alas we've filled one in, and there are two still missing. We can't see that either Final is fixed yet.
17 Jun 2003
  • U175 15.6.03 Warwicks* 8 8 Essex. Essex's claim for a QPF draw has been unsuccessful.
16 Jun 2003
  • Minor Counties 14.6.03 Staffs 10 6 Surrey
  • U175 15.6.03 Warwicks 7 8 Essex with one unfinished: see yesterday's note
  • U100 7.6.03 Essex 1½ 10½ Lancs
15 Jun 2003
  • Open 14.6.03 Lancs 9 7 Essex. Also (bare match score) Greater Manchester 8 8 *Kent: details when available.
  • U175 14.6.03 Sussex 9 7 Devon. Also (bare match score) Warwicks 7 8 Essex with one unfinished, and Essex claim a draw and if they don't get it they lose on board count. You were ahead of us.
  • U100 (bare match scores) 7.6.03 Essex 1½ 10½ Lancs; 14.6 03 Kent 5½ 6½ Somerset. Details when available. Our information on the Essex match is from Lancashire and the Controller. We are better placed on the Kent one, having heard the gory details from the Kent captain himself. Earlier editions of today's What's New?, informed by a telephone call from him shortly before the match, suggested that we weren't even sure it was going to happen. It did, but at a venue half a mile from the one Kent had been sent to. The cock-up appears to have been Somerset's.
08 Jun 2003
05 Jun 2003
  • U100 Quarter-final 24.5.03 Kent* 5½ 5½ Cheshire & N Wales
04 Jun 2003
  • SCCU AGM is 21st June 2003 at the Fountains Abbey, Praed St, Paddington, London W2 starting at 2 pm. Counties have two reps and NCMs one. The papers of the meeting aren't secret, and you can download them by clicking here. (Zipped Word and Excel, 18 KB)
03 Jun 2003
  • National Club Major: the remaining semi-final is played, and the SCCU recoups some honour. All the Finalists are known in the top two sections. Little is known of the Minor semi-finals.
02 Jun 2003
01 Jun 2003
31 May 2003
28 May 2003
  • U125 Quarter-final 17.4.03 Norfolk 8½ 7½ Middx
27 May 2003
25 May 2003
  • U100 Quarter-final 25.5.03 Kent* 5½ 5½ Cheshire. One double-default, and Kent defaulted two more but still scraped a win. Details when available.
20 May 2003
  • Minor Counties Quarter-final 17.5.03 Norfolk* 8 8 Herts. Norfolk's draw claim succeeded.
  • U125 Quarter-finals 17.5.03 (bare match scores, received from Controller): Herts 7½ 8½ Merseyside; Norfolk 8½ 7½ Middx
  • SCCU Open Fixtures 2003-4 (published 5 days ago) are revised following Oxon's withdrawal. Match captains: please check the new list.
19 May 2003
18 May 2003
  • Open Quarter-final 17.5.03 Lancs 9 7 Cambs
  • Minor Counties Quarter-final 17.5.03 Norfolk 7½ 7½ Herts, with one game undecided. Norfolk, needing a draw to win on board count, have claimed a Rule-10 one. Also (bare match score) Surrey 8½ 7½ Wilts: details expected shortly.
  • U150 Quarter-final 17.5.03 Notts 7½ 6½ Surrey (14 boards)
  • Open Forum: the Football correspondence continues, but is admirably terse so far.
17 May 2003
  • U100 Quarter-final 10.5.03 Norfolk 3½ 8½ Essex
  • We had a long correspondence about Football a year ago, and it's threatening to come back. See Open Forum.
15 May 2003
  • SCCU Open Fixtures 2003-4 are announced. Match captains: please check for problems now!
  • In Open Forum: Tim Spanton responds to yesterday's contribution.
14 May 2003
  • SCCU Executive Committee meeting 9.5.03: a report. Warning. Increased fees will be on the agenda at the AGM next month.
  • National Club Open: Plate and Championship finalists were determined a while back, but we've only just heard about one of the semi-final results.
  • Kevin Thurlow writes about Game Fee and other things. See Open Forum.
13 May 2003
  • Under 100 quarter-final ?10.5.03 Norfolk 3½ 8½ Essex. Details when available.
12 May 2003
  • National Club Open: the Championship Finalists are known. To find out whether it's going to be all-SCCU or not, you'll have to go to that page.
11 May 2003
07 May 2003
05 May 2003
04 May 2003
28 Apr 2003
27 Apr 2003
26 Apr 2003
  • Sussex Championship goes to Bernard Cafferty. The reference is to our County News page, but there is more detail on the Mid Sussex League site.
  • Council stuns Management Board! Game Fee goes up by more than the MB was asking for! It's 36p from September, and the amount most heavily supported (but it doesn't work that way) was 50p. Our report of today's Council meeting should appear tomorrow.
22 Apr 2003
20 Apr 2003
16 Apr 2003
  • National Club Minor quarter-final results and semi-final pairings. This brings us up to date with all the Nat Club competitions.
15 Apr 2003
  • Just an SCCU result in the National Club Minor Plate quarter-final, and we'd have preferred not to tell you.
13 Apr 2003
  • Our first result in the BCF Stage. U150 Prelim 12.4.03 Surrey 9½ 6½ Norfolk
  • And nearly our last in the SCCU U14/90 Zones: 12.4.02 Oxon 16½ 7½ Berks. All the qualifiers are known. We haven't yet heard of a date or venue for the Finals.
11 Apr 2003
10 Apr 2003
07 Apr 2003
  • SCCU U180 Jamboree at Harrow 6.5.03 1 Essex 6½/10; 2 Herts 6; 3 Middx 5½; Surrey 4; 5 North Circular Chess League 3
  • SCCU U135 Jamboree (alongside the above) for the John Philpott Trophy: 1 Herts 5/6; 2 Middx 4; also played: Middx II; Essex; Surrey
  • SCCU Girls U18 Team Championship (alongside the above) 1 Surrey A 6½/9; 2 Sussex 6; 3 Surrey B 4½; 4-5 MGCA, Surrey C 4; 6 Surrey D 2½
  • SCCU U11 Team Championship (alongside the above) for the Zoë Ryle Trophy: 1 Surrey 22/24; 2 MGCA 18; 3-4 Bucks, Kent 10; 5 Essex 6½; 6 Sussex 5½
  • SCCU U9 Team Championship (alongside the above) for a new SCCU Trophy: 1 Surrey 14/16; 2 Kent 8½; 3 Essex 1½
    Full details of all the above shortly, we hope.
05 Apr 2003
03 Apr 2003
01 Apr 2003
  • National Club Major: all but one of the quarter-final results, and the semi-final draw. There is also a development in the Minor.
30 Mar 2003
27 Mar 2003
  • U125 15.2.03 Herts 12 4 Kent. We said that five weeks ago, but it's really there now. No one's queried it till today.
25 Mar 2003
  • U14/90 22.3.03 Surrey 21½ 2½ MGCA; Sussex 18-6 Hants. Also 8.2.03 Hants 6 18 Sussex, and you'll have to scroll down for this one.
  • Kent U100 will be interested to know that their quarter-final opponent (NCCU1) in the BCF Stage is now Cheshire and not Yorkshire. Apparently this is due to a shock result received after the NCCU nominations were announced. We're keeping the BCF-Stage page updated as nominations come in, but how many of them you believe is up to you.
  • In the Junior page: Kent Schools League Senior Finals 25.3.03
23 Mar 2003
  • U175 22.3.03 Surrey 8 8 Middx. This concludes the SCCU stage of the Inter-Counties Championships, and we hope you'll check the Final League Tables before they find their way into the Yearbook. It's been Kent and Sussex's year, with two first places each. Our BCF-Stage nominations (top three in the Open and two everywhere else) have gone forward to the BCF but await confirmation of acceptance from the nominees.
  • U14/90 22.3.03 Bucks 12 12 Oxon
  • BCF U18 Jamborees 2002-3. It's now official. We are authorised to announce that these are on Saturday 28th June 2003 in Essex. Contact Peter Walker chesscoach@freeuk.com for details.
22 Mar 2003
  • U14/90 22.3.03 (bare match score) Bucks 12 12 Oxon
  • BCF Schools Championship: we've been adding results as they've come in, and the quarter-final draw is now up.
19 Mar 2003
18 Mar 2003
  • U100 15.3.03 Essex 5½ 6½ Kent
  • Open Forum: Bernard Cafferty, we think not for the first time, laments the difficulty of travelling to County matches. Is five hours from Hastings to Bourne End a record?
  • National Club Major: An SCCU team sadly fails to emulate yesterday's achievement.
17 Mar 2003
  • Open 15.3.03 Bucks 7 9 Sussex
  • U100 15.3.03 Middx 6½ 5½ Surrey. Also (bare match score) Essex 5½ 6½ Kent
  • National Club Major: One more SCCU success against a foreigner
16 Mar 2003
  • Open 15.3.03 Essex 8 8 Herts. Also (bare match score) Bucks 7 9 Sussex
  • Herts Open captain: "Has any county team ever drawn 4, or more than half, of its league fixtures in any one season before?" We'll pass. The records are there, back to 1958 at a pinch, but does anyone happen to know?
  • U150 15.3.03 Kent 7½ 8½ Sussex; Surrey 10½ 5½ Middx
13 Mar 2003
  • U14/90 9.3.03 Richmond Juniors 7 17 Herts
09 Mar 2003
  • SCCU Executive Committee meeting 7.3.03: a report
  • BCF Presidents Awards and BCET Schools Awards. Nominations to the SCCU President by the end of March.
  • SCCU Championship 2003-4 and British Championship qualifying places 2004. Places will be awarded to congresses in May. Applications from congresses to the SCCU Secretary by 19th April.
08 Mar 2003
  • U125 8.3.03 Essex 5½ 9½ Herts with one double default. This completes the U125 fixtures. We make it 1 Herts, 2 Middx.
  • National Club Open: Results to date, and the semi-final draw
06 Mar 2003
  • Details, belatedly, of the SCCU Girls U18 Jamboree. You already knew it was on the 6th April alongside the U180 and U135 Jamborees. There will be an U11 Jamboree as well.
  • In the Junior page: success for an SCCU school in foreign parts.
03 Mar 2003
  • Open 1.3.03 Cambs 6½ 9½ Kent. Kent, already Champions, finish with a clean sweep on 7/7.
02 Mar 2003
  • U175 1.3.03 Surrey 11½ 4½ Sussex. Surrey's first win of the season, as emphatic as their loss to Sussex in December, and it doesn't change the positions we gave yesterday.
01 Mar 2003
  • U175 1.3.03 Essex 7½ 8½ Middx. We think that makes Sussex Champions, and Essex are second.
26 Feb 2003
  • What's New won't always mention results in the National stage of the BCF Schools Championship, though they will always appear in the BCF Schools page as they happen. There's no harm in saying the first one's through. An SCCU school progresses to the quarter-final at the expense of a Welsh one.
25 Feb 2003
  • U100 22.2.03 Surrey 7 5 Essex. With one match to go it's a three-horse race, and no one is certain of BCF nomination yet.
  • U14/90 22.2.03 Berks 7½ 16½ Oxon
24 Feb 2003
22 Feb 2003
  • National Club Minor update and next-round draw, through the good offices of the Major Controller
20 Feb 2003
  • U125 15.2.03 Herts 12 4 Kent
19 Feb 2003
  • U14/90 15.2.03 Middx Girls CA 1 17 Kent, in unusual circumstances and with numerous defaults, six of them double
17 Feb 2003
  • U14/90 15.2.03 Coulsdon CF 7 17 Surrey
  • National Club Major: an odd result, and the next-round draw for the Major Championship proper
16 Feb 2003
  • U125 15.2.03 Essex 6 9 Surrey
  • Just done some tidying-up in the League Tables. We've not checked with the Controller, but the top three places in the Open (and hence the SCCU nominations) seem to be decided already. So we published that, and a few hours later David Roberts observed that 1st place in the U150 was settled as well. So we looked, and concluded to our surprise that every single place in the U150 was settled. Feel free to check, and you know where the Rules are! We've added a couple of known other-Union nominees to the BCF-Stage draw. If you hear of others, say.
15 Feb 2003
14 Feb 2003
12 Feb 2003
  • U14/90 9.2.03 Kent 19 5 Coulsdon CF
  • Open Forum: Gareth Ward revives a topic raised in December by Nick Butland.
11 Feb 2003
10 Feb 2003
  • Open 8.2.03 Essex 9½ 6½ Bucks; Sussex 9½ 6½ Oxon; Surrey 11½ 4½ Cambs. Cambridgeshire's loss means Kent are out of reach at the top and retain their SCCU title with a match to spare.
  • SCCU Open U18 Jamboree 9.2.03: 1 Essex 17/24; 2 Richmond Juniors 16½; 3 Sussex 14; 4 Herts 13½; 5 Cambs 9½; 6 Surrey 9; 7 Berks 4½. Full details shortly.
  • National Club Major: various results, including an unspeakable SCCU one
09 Feb 2003
  • Open 8.2.03 Herts 4 12 Kent
  • Kent U125 captain has a new address and phone number: see Fixtures page
08 Feb 2003
06 Feb 2003
03 Feb 2003
  • U175 1.2.03 Middx 9½ 6½ Surrey
  • U125 1.2.03 Herts 9 7 Middx
01 Feb 2003
  • U175 1.2.03 Sussex 7 9 Essex
31 Jan 2003
28 Jan 2003
26 Jan 2003
  • Open 25.1.03 Bucks 7 9 Herts; Kent 11½ 4½ Oxon
25 Jan 2003
  • Open 25.1.03 Essex 9½ 6½ Surrey; Sussex 7½ 8½ Cambs
  • U150 25.1.03 Middx 6 10 Essex; Surrey 7 9 Sussex
  • U14/90 25.1.03 Surrey Girls 11½ 12½ Sussex
22 Jan 2003
  • SCCU U18 Jamboree Sunday 9th February 2003: brief details, rather belatedly. Open to all Counties and Non-County Members. If your team isn't in yet, there's still time to contact Pat Aarons pataarons@hotmail.com.
  • We've been out of action for a day and a bit, or the ndo half of us has. Please remember we've GOT TWO ADDRESSES (see front page). They aren't likely to fail simultaneously, and they never have so far. The SCCU site is always there.
21 Jan 2003
  • U125 11.1.03 Surrey 8 8 Herts
  • U100 18.1.03 Surrey 6½ 5½ Kent
  • National Club Open courtesy Jeff Goldberg: rest of the first-round results, plus pairings for the next round.
20 Jan 2003
  • U100 18.1.03 Essex 6½ 5½ Middx
19 Jan 2003
18 Jan 2003
12 Jan 2003
  • U125 11.1.03 Kent 5 11 Middx
  • U14/90 11.1.03 Sussex 9½ 14½ Surrey Girls
11 Jan 2003
  • U175 11.1.03 Surrey 7½ 8½ Essex; Middx 7½ 8½ Sussex
  • U125 11.1.03 (bare match score) Surrey 8 8 Herts
07 Jan 2003
31 Dec 2002
30 Dec 2002
29 Dec 2002
  • Open Forum: Gary Kenworthy, in response to letters of the last few days, gives his own view of the way forward in the Counties Championships.
28 Dec 2002
  • Open Forum: David Smith, County Match Controller, replies to Nick Butland 19.12.02, and Roger de Coverly replies to David Smith.
26 Dec 2002
23 Dec 2002
  • Open Forum: Jeff Goldberg has the solution to Nick Butland's problem.
19 Dec 2002
  • Open Forum: Nick Butland deplores the scarcity of players for County teams.
17 Dec 2002
  • National Club Major: final round-1 results, and the full round-2 draw. Much SCCU involvement. What are we saying, "much"? More than half the entries were from the SCCU.
  • Shell CC (S Essex) announce a Nigel Short simul 20.1.03. If interested in playing, see notice in the Club & Counties page.
16 Dec 2002
  • Counties Championships: national stage. If you looked at the dates yesterday in the Fixtures page, have another look. One of them's changed.
15 Dec 2002
  • SCCU U14 and U9 titles have been awarded at the LJCC U14 and U10. See the Junior page. Full crosstables are on the LJCC site.
  • Coulsdon Open 14-15 December 2002
  • Eltham Junior Congress 7.12.02
  • Counties Championships: national stage. The dates are announced. See the SCCU Fixtures page (down at the bottom)
14 Dec 2002
  • National Club Major approaches the conclusion of round 1
  • while the Minor 2001-2 makes progress. Plate semi-final 14.12.02 Hastings & St Leonards 5 0 Hesperides. The Final is against Hereford, if there's still a chess club at Hereford.
11 Dec 2002
10 Dec 2002
08 Dec 2002
  • U175 7.12.02 Middx 6 10 Essex; Sussex 11½ 4½ Surrey
  • U125 7.12.02 Essex 7½ 8½ Middx
  • U14/90 8.12.02 (bare match score) Coulsdon CF 9 15 Kent
  • Coulsdon Rapidplay 7.12.02
  • National Club Major: one more SCCU result
  • Thank you for the birthday card, Michael.
04 Dec 2002
  • U14/90 30.11.02 Kent 11½ 12½ Surrey
02 Dec 2002
01 Dec 2002
  • Open 30.11.02 Kent 10½ 5½ Essex; Oxon 8 8 Herts; Cambs 14½ 1½ Bucks; Sussex 10 6 Surrey
  • U125 30.11.02 Herts 12½ 3½ Sussex
  • National Club Open one SCCU result; Major U160 a Foreign one; and Minor U125 a regrettable SCCU one
28 Nov 2002
27 Nov 2002
  • National Club Major: one more SCCU result. Both last year's Finalists have now lost in round 1.
26 Nov 2002
  • U14/90 24.11.02 Richmond Juniors 10½ 13½ Herts
24 Nov 2002
  • U100 23.11.02 Kent 4½ 7½ Essex; Surrey 8½ 3½ Middx
  • U14/90 23.11.02 Middx Girls CA conceded their match v Kent, for lack of sufficient players.
19 Nov 2002
  • U150 16.11.02 Kent 11 5 Middx
  • National Club 2001-2. The outstanding Minor Plate semi-final (Hastings v Hesperides) is arranged for 14th December 2002. There is no truth in the rumour that the Final will be played 29th February 2003.
18 Nov 2002
17 Nov 2002
  • Open 16.11.02 Herts 4½ 11½ Cambs. Plus (bare match scores, details tomorrow): Surrey 11 5 Bucks; Oxon 7 9 Essex; Sussex 7 9 Kent
  • U14/90 16.11.02 Hants 12 12 Surrey Girls. Plus (bare match score, details tomorrow): Surrey 19½ 4½ Coulsdon CF
  • National Club Major U160: an SCCU-SCCU result 17.11.02. There's a Foreign one as well, from a few days ago.
  • Email problem (see yesterday) has gone, but not as far as we could have wished. We unblocked the ndo server early this morning. But the same email, unable to get through on ndo, has tried our Freeserve address and is now blocking that. Freeserve is harder to unblock. Go on using the ndo address.
         None of this affects either of the Site's web addresses.
16 Nov 2002
  • U150 16.11.02 Essex 7½ 8½ Surrey
  • Email problem. Your Webmaster's ndo mail server has been blocked since about 10.30 on Saturday evening 16.11.02 by a message that's got stuck on it and won't go away. If you have written since then you will be queuing up behind it. Please re-send to rjh@sccu.freeserve.co.uk, and use that address until further notice.
14 Nov 2002
11 Nov 2002
  • U125 9.11.02 Middx 11 5 Surrey
  • U14/90 9.11.02 Coulsdon CF 21 3 Middx Girls CA (with heavy MGCA defaults)
10 Nov 2002
09 Nov 2002
  • Open Forum. We catch up with a few days of Grading correspondence from Ken Norman, Kevin Thurlow and Chris Majer. Bernard Cafferty disagrees with the Home Director on central venues in BCF Finals, and Gary Kenworthy agrees with Bernard.
  • U175 9.11.02 Essex 6½ 9½ Sussex. Details tomorrow.
         The Middx U175 default of this date against Surrey has been withdrawn, with Surrey's assent, and the match will be re-arranged some time in the new year. We hope the Middx captain won't mind our saying that she has been undergoing a period of family stress, for which we extend our fullest sympathy.
07 Nov 2002
  • U175 9.11.02: Middx have conceded their match against Surrey.
  • National Club Minor U125 pairings are out.
03 Nov 2002
  • Open 2.11.02 Kent 11 5 Surrey; Bucks 11½ 5½ Oxon; Herts 8 8 Sussex; Essex 13 3 Cambs with four Cambs defaults
01 Nov 2002
  • Kent U100 match captain. John Spink is unwell. Caretaker captain, until the new year at least, is Richard Bedwell: for details, see Fixtures page.
  • Open Forum: Chris Majer responds to Michael Yeo on Grading. We asked him to write about Football, but he wouldn't.
30 Oct 2002
  • Thorp Trophy (Surrey) Team Quickplay 26.10.02
  • Open Forum and it's not about grading: Bernard Cafferty asks about the decision on central venues at the Council meeting. By way of response we've added some detail to our report in the BCF page.
29 Oct 2002
  • U100 26.10.02 Essex 7½ 4½ Surrey
  • Open Forum: Michael Yeo comes back on Grading, Tim Spanton joins in, and your Webmaster has a go at clarifying the new conversion formula.
28 Oct 2002
27 Oct 2002
  • Open Forum: Michael Yeo queries the BCF's new formula for BCF/FIDE grading conversion, and Chris Majer replies. It came up yesterday as well, at the
  • BCF Council meeting 26.10.02 in Leeds, on which we hope to report imminently.
24 Oct 2002
  • In the Club & County page: Summer quickplay team results from Kent and Essex
  • Open: Oxon have defaulted this weekend's away fixture v Cambs.
23 Oct 2002
  • National Club Open: the first-round pairings are out. No news yet of the Minor. (We don't think last season's Minor Plate semi-finals are decided yet.)
21 Oct 2002
20 Oct 2002
  • Open 19.10.02 Sussex 7 9 Essex; Surrey 8 8 Herts; Bucks 6½ 9½ Kent
  • Under 150 19.10.02 Sussex 9 7 Essex. The Essex match captain [see Fixtures page] has resigned, and readers are referred to John Philpott (U175 captain) for the moment.
         Also (bare match score) Surrey 11½ 4½ Kent with three Kent defaults
19 Oct 2002
  • Matches 19.10.02 (bare match scores): Open Sussex 7 9 Essex; Surrey 8 8 Herts
  • U150 Sussex 9 7 Essex. Full details of (at least) two of these in the small hours.
18 Oct 2002
17 Oct 2002
  • National Club Major U160. Is this a record? Mike McNaughton has his first-round pairings out three days after the entry deadline. Entries are up.
14 Oct 2002
  • U125 12.10.02 Kent 10½ 5½ Essex
13 Oct 2002
  • U125 12.10.02 Surrey 7 9 Sussex. Also (bare match score) Kent 10½ 5½ Essex
08 Oct 2002
  • U100 5.10.02 Kent 6½ 5½ Surrey
  • BCF Council meeting 26.9.02: the papers are out. We give a quick run-down on some of the more interesting agenda items.
07 Oct 2002
  • Open Forum: The Grading theme won't go away. Jeff Goldberg writes.
06 Oct 2002
  • U175 5.10.02 Essex 8½ 7½ Surrey; Sussex 12½ 3½ Middx (five Middx defaults)
  • U100 5.10.02 Middx 6 6 Essex
    Coulsdon Rapidplay 5.10.02
02 Oct 2002
30 Sep 2002
  • Open Forum: We're still on Grading. Neville Belinfante writes.
  • Aha. Open Forum again, but not about Grading. Neill Cooper breaks the run.
27 Sep 2002
  • Open Forum: John Hodgson joins in on Grading. (New readers please note: you are allowed to write about other things!)
26 Sep 2002
  • Open Forum: Grading again. Chris Majer, the Director, answers various points that people have raised over the last six weeks.
  • On the ECGCF site: ECGCF Southern Region Jamboree 21.9.02
24 Sep 2002
  • The Fleming Trophy match 21.9.02: Bucks 5½ 10½ Beds. We're not sure whether this was the 2001-2 match or the 2002-3 one. Bucks, despite this reverse, still lead 32-16 in the series.
  • SCCU U14/90 Championship: details of the teams and Zones
23 Sep 2002
  • Open Forum: More on the BCF Grading copyright charge. The Director writes.
21 Sep 2002
20 Sep 2002
18 Sep 2002
09 Sep 2002
07 Sep 2002
05 Sep 2002
03 Sep 2002
  • Grading again: Neill Cooper writes about the BCF copyright charge and other things. See Open Forum.

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