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updated 10.9.03
CLUB AND COUNTY NEWS

SUSSEX RESULTS 2002-3
McArthur Cup has been retained by Hastings, who beat Lewes 3½-2½ in the Final. Individual Championships:
Sussex Championship Bernard Cafferty
Veterans Julian Simpole, again
East Sussex Queen Charlie Linford
West Sussex Queen Daniel Hirsch
Sussex Jamboree at Dorothy Stringer HS 12.7.03, for the Bickerstaff Cup (9 teams of 6) 1 The Holt 4½/6; 2-3 Bognor & Arun, Lewes 4...
We omit the Mid-Sussex and SW Sussex Leagues and loads of Junior results because you should be able to find them on other sites. ("When will the SCCA have its own website?" - CPR twelve months ago. It still hasn't.)
Source: Sussex Chess 2003

WESTCLIFF (Essex) CHESS CLUB
invited IWGM Sheila Jackson to give a simul on 30th July 2003. Over the seventeen boards played Sheila won eleven, and drew six with no losses. The club has been active in the Southend & District Chess League for many years and last year received a grant from Awards for All to increase awareness of chess in the Westcliff area.
     [rjh: a plug followed. We don't give plugs. However, we are pleased to note that the Club now has its own website. See the Links page.]

KENT LEAGUES 2002-3: FINALS DAY at Sevenoaks, 18th May 2003
County Cup (Open) Maidstone I 3½ 2½ Lewisham I
Lewis Cup (mean grade not over 160) Beckenham & Bromley II 4 2 Lewisham II
Stevenson Cup (<=140) Tunbridge Wells II 3½ 2½ Chislehurst I
En Passant Cup (<=120) Hastings & St Leonards II 3½ 2½ Folkestone II
Harvey Cup (<=100) Kilndown II 4 2 Tonbridge & Hadlow II
Tom Fuller Cup (<=80) Medway III 2½ 1½ Maidstone V
Intro Cup (<=60) has no Final because it is contested only in Metropolitan Kent. It was won by Sidcup VIII.

SUSSEX CHAMPIONSHIP 2002-3
has gone to Bernard Cafferty of Hastings, who beat David Oates of Worthing 1½-½ in the Final. The two top seeds, Luke Rutherford and Feliks Kwiatkowski, fell at the semi-final stage. Eight played. More details on the Mid Sussex League site.

NIGEL SHORT SIMUL: PLAYERS INVITED
Shell Chess Club (South Essex) 20th January 2003
An extract from the Club's advertisement: "Shell Chess Club is pleased to announce that Nigel Short will be holding a simultaneous display at Shell Chess Club on Monday, Jan 20th, 2003 at 7.30pm (play starts at 8.00pm). This is a 30-board simul, and places are available on a first-come first-served basis: £35 per player, or £5 spectators. This price includes tea/coffee/sandwiches/certificate/book prizes to those who win or draw, and a Bar will also be open on the night."
     Entries and enquiries to Paul Lovell, Night of Knights, Shell Club Corringham Limited, Springhouse Road, Corringham, Essex SS17 7QT pauldlovell@hotmail.com.
     They don't say where Corringham is, but it's off the A13 west of Southend, about 10 miles from the Dartford crossing.

PETER BUNCE 26.04.1926 - 11.11.2002
Peter died on Monday 11 November, two days after suffering a stroke. A lifelong chess player, he had a significant role in Hertfordshire chess over a long period. Frequently playing for the Under 150 and Under 125 County teams, he even turned out for the Open team at short notice on occasion, and must have played countless club matches in his time.
     Peter was Hertfordshire’s Individual Competitions Organiser for a number of years, and often took part in the tournament himself. His last tournament was this year’s County Championship, just a month before he died, and he won a nice miniature game in just 19 moves against John Leake, our League Secretary.
     Everyone remembers Peter as thoroughly likeable and easy going. I recall returning from an away match against Essex with him a couple of years ago, together with Bill d’Costa. Peter saw army service in India around the end of the Second World War, and Bill spent his childhood there. Peter was delighted to find a kindred spirit, and was highly animated as the two of them swapped stories throughout the whole journey. I felt as though I was being treated to a rather amusing history lesson!
     Peter survived his wife by just over a year, and leaves a son and two daughters.
John Denton 14.11.02
     Gary Kenworthy adds 15.11.02: Peter was an active member of Lloyds Bank Chess Club and was a good supporter of Lloyds' Town v Country events. He was a very likeable controller of Herts County individual events, always helpful, always smiling. Simply a nice guy and a gentleman.

THORP TROPHY (SURREY) QUICKPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP at Coulsdon, 26th October 2002
"Only four teams entered the event; frankly, this was a pitiful response from Surrey Clubs... Coulsdon retained the Thorp Trophy without much difficulty."
1 Coulsdon 20/24; 2 Streatham 15½; 3 South Norwood 9; 4 RGS Guildford 3½. Teams of four, double-round APA.
Results Martin Cath

ESSEX SUMMER KO RAPIDPLAY 2002 was won by Ilford who retained their title by beating Writtle 7½-4½ in the Final. 6 boards double-round.
Source Chessex

KENT SUMMER QUICKPLAY 2002 was won by Maidstone who retained their title by beating Hastings 11-5 in the Final. This one's a time handicap competition, 4 boards 4 rounds Scheveningen.

43rd CAPES TROPHY (North London League) 20th September 2002
11 teams entered this annual 5-minute team event, organised this year by the North Circular Chess League due to John Capes' ill health. The event was not helped when the 12th team dropped out at the very last minute and half of the Athenaeum team were delayed leaving the top two boards to hold the fort until their arrival later in the evening.
     Format was three qualifying groups with the top 2 teams going forward to play for the Capes Trophy proper and the bottom two going forward to play for "fun". Powdermill became the 2002 Champions. Their winning team consisted of Bill Stirling, Cauis Turner, Terry Turner and Dominic Allen.
Qualifying group A 1 Imperial Knights A 8½; 2 Chingford 7½; 3 Beckton Rooks 6; 4 Wanstead B 2
Qualifying Group B 1 Powdermill 9½; 2 Edmonton 6½; 3 Athenaeum 5½; 4 Wood Green B 1½
Qualifying Group C 1 Wood Green A 10; 2 Wanstead A 7½; 3 Muswell Hill 6½; 4 Default 0 [!: rjh]
Final Group A 1 Powdermill 14; 2 Wood Green A 12½; 3 Imperial Knights 10½; 4 Wanstead A 8½; 5 Chingford 8; 6 Edmonton 6½
Final Group B 1 Athenaeum 14½; 2 Wanstead B 13½; 3 Beckton Rooks 11½; 4 Muswell Hill 8½; 5 Wood Green B 8; 6 Defaults 0
Individual board prizes: Final Group A Dominic Allen (Powdermill) 8/8; Final Group B John Quinn/Graham Copeland (both Athenaeum) 7½/8
Results Gary Cook

SUSSEX RESULTS 2001-2
McArthur Cup Semi-Finals Hastings 3½ 2½ Brighton; The Holt 4½ 1½ Chichester Regnum. Final Hastings 3½ 2½ The Holt
Individual Championships:
Sussex Championship John Dodgson and Feliks Kwiatkowski, jointly
Veterans Julian Simpole
East Sussex Queen Gino Scamardella
West Sussex Queen Bill Partridge
Schools Championships:
Wilson Cup (U18) Dorothy Stringer HS Brighton
Sadd Cup (U16) Dorothy Stringer
Butler Cup (U14) Not known. "Either Downlands or Holy Cross."
Gammans-Renwick Cup (U16 Girls) Holy Cross Uckfield
Primary Div 1 Holy Cross CE Primary Uckfield (can this be the same Foly Cross that won the U16 Girls?); Div 2 St Margarets CE Ditchling; Div 3 St Margarets First and Middle School Ifield
Sussex Jamboree at Dorothy Stringer HS 13.7.02 (10 teams of 6) 1 Brighton 6/6; 2 Eastbourne 4...
South-West Sussex League (6 teams) 1 Emsworth Dredgers 11/18 (GP 25); 2 Emsworth Eelers (same club, we believe) 11 (23)...
We omit the Mid-Sussex League and loads of Junior results because you should be able to find them on other sites. ("When will the SCCA have its own website?" - CPR)
Source: Sussex Chess 2002

DAVE METCALFE
It is our sad duty to report that Dave Metcalfe of Oxfordshire died on Monday 26th August aged 57. He had been suffering from a malignant brain tumour.
     Lester Millin writes:
Dave became Oxfordshire First Team Captain in the late eighties. He did not even have a grade at the time. He did not play organised chess in the Oxford League because he worked nights, and his chess was limited to playing Blitz during tea breaks in the Cowley Works. But the captaincy became vacant and, as the sole volunteer, Dave was appointed. Because of his efforts, we now run 4 teams: Open, Chiltern Under 170 and Under 125; Under 14/90. We won the Minor Counties because Dave could persuade strong players to turn out who before he became Captain were never available. He ran the First Team until 1994 and then, after a year as County Secretary, took over the U125 team in the Chiltern League. He was Chiltern Captain until 2001. He also found time, from 1992 to 1995, to be SCCU Fixtures Secretary.
     Dave was elected Oxfordshire President at the May 2002 half yearly County Meeting. He was such an excellent organiser, captain and friend, his appointment was unanimous. It is a shame that he was President for so short a time.
     Dave's funeral is at the Oxford Crematorium on Monday 2nd September (11.15 am).

HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS CC
Club Championship 2001-2 (7-player APA): 1 F Rayner 5/6; 2-3 B Cafferty, P Donovan 3½; 4 N Twitchell 3...
Results Paul Buswell

NORTH CIRCULAR CHESS LEAGUE 2001-2
A Division (6 teams) Barnet I 15/20...
B Division (6 teams) Barking III 13/20...
C Division (6 teams) Edmonton III 17/20...
Lawrance Cup Open KO: Imperial Knights
Finchley Cup (U150 KO) Edmonton
Kirby (Individual KO) Caius Turner
Results Gary Cook

A SURREY LEAK
6.6.02
A document has come into our hands which we think is not unconnected with recent Surrey disagreements about time controls. It is written in the first person, but we couldn't say who its author was. It was present and evident, though perhaps not formally so, at the Surrey CCA SGM 29.5.02. It reads:
Possible proposals for the August Council meeting of the SCCA
In the light of all the recent arguments that have been had and proposals that have been made, I thought I would make a few suggestions as to rules that will be necessary for the SCCA clubs to move forward peacefully in the coming years. I have done this tonight so that consideration can be given to passing them either at the August Council meeting or the Annual General Meeting in September:
     (1) Any club providing tea and coffee for their opponents shall ensure that china cups and saucers be made available to any player who requests them.
     The reason for this rule is twofold. Firstly, some players genuinely cannot cope with mugs, or far worse than that, beakers; and secondly, if the use of a mug were to go wrong in the middle of a game and as a result tea or coffee was spilt, in the absence of a saucer, there would be great danger of the board being flooded. This, in turn, could lead to arguments about whether or not pieces have been touched by a player's refreshment and disputes would then be expected as to whether or not they should have to move the first piece that the liquid came into contact with. Obviously, the imposing of this rule would depend heavily on who knocked the mug or beaker over in the first place.
     (2) All types of chess clocks must be provided, with all time controls on offer. There has been offence caused by some clubs in that they have been either offering digital clocks for matches and / or setting them initially for quickplay mode. Some players from these clubs are equally offended when they turn up at other venues and find not only manual clocks forced upon them, but manual clocks set for adjudication! What this proposal seeks to do is balance things fairly for everyone.
     We wish to ensure that 2 manual clocks be on each board at the start of play, one set for 1¼ hours to allow for adjournment or adjudication and another set for an hour for the quickplay finish time control (with the flags balanced as delicately as possible on top of the big hand on both clocks) as well as 3 digital clocks set correctly for each type of end game time control. These clocks should all be placed equi-distance from the board to ensure that no one type of clock or end game is suggested by the positioning of these clocks. It would also ensure that no club would then be forcing either outdated or too modern equipment and that they could not then be accused of trying to force one type of end game on their unsuspecting and obviously gullible opponent. The county would then need to devise a system that is fair to all parties to choose which clock to use and it will be up to the home player to remove the 4 un-needed clocks before the start of play.
     (3) Independent Referees shall be present at all Surrey league matches. For every team entered by a club in the Surrey Divisions, that club shall also provide a nominated referee that shall be present to deal with disputes at allocated matches between other clubs. They shall be asked to referee 9 matches per season at different venues and they cannot be involving their own team. Care must be given when allocating matches not to give someone a match that could be relevant to their own club's chances, to ensure that there are no dodgy decisions given in favour of the opposing team in respect of touching pieces, etc. Referees would have to be at the venue by 7-15pm and shall supervise the setting up of the boards and clocks to ensure that there is no foul play by the home team. All clocks should be tested for accuracy. Any digital clocks found to be too accurate shall be taken out of service straight away as this could cause offence to players who think manual clocks are more accurate or those who feel that players are less likely to agree gentlemanly draws in the later stages of matches because of the accuracy of these clocks.
     (4) All Surrey League long play matches that are agreed for quickplay finish shall play a time control of 1 hour and 15 minutes to start the game plus 30 seconds added per move. Those using manual clocks shall be expected to update their clocks after each move.
     (5) The SCCA be disbanded with immediate effect. Our constitution states that the Secretary shall send notice of meetings. As the Secretary has to be elected by a General Meeting (according to the wording of our constitution) and there is no Secretary to call a General meeting for a Secretary to be elected at, no further General Meetings can be called. This being the case, the Association can no longer function legally, which means that it should close itself straight away, if the implications of the law haven't already done that. However, this established, we should look on the positive side, as this should mean that chess clubs will be able to co-exist much more easily as there will be no meetings to attend and get wound up with each other at.

Your Webmaster is constrained to add that the SCCA, whether legally or not, appointed a Secretary at the meeting. His details are in the Notices page.

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