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Archive 2003-2004
Only the major additions are noted here.

04 Sep 2004
26 Aug 2004
23 Aug 2004
21 Aug 2004
  • SCCU U14/90 CHAMPIONSHIP. Entries for 2004-5 are being taken now. Closing date 10 September. All known contacts should have received details. If you have not, contact the Organiser now: David Millward David.Millward@ukonline.co.uk
16 Aug 2004
11 Aug 2004
07 Aug 2004
  • BCF Grading List appeared at Scarborough 2.8.04. For a report and comments, click here.
27 Ju1 2004
22 Ju1 2004
  • Open Forum. Chris Rice responds to a BCF comment on the Counties Championship Finals venue.
19 Ju1 2004
  • Jack Speigel of Essex has died aged 72. See the Club & County page.
12 Ju1 2004
  • Oxon Schools League 2003-4
  • Kent Junior GP Final Event 4.7.04
  • U125 Semi-final 5.6.04 Salop 9 7 Essex. We include it for completeness and the record if not for its news value, and we thank our (over 125) Essex correspondent who discovered the source.
08 Ju1 2004
  • Open Forum: Tim Spanton has a new angle on Website Publication
07 Ju1 2004
  • Open Forum: Gary Cook writes in response to Chris Majer (see yesterday). Webmaster's view: Gary's right, and we all know the whole thing's silly. Write if you're a QC and bar who specialises in Data Protection, and otherwise it's probably best to leave it to the BCF. I think they're on our side.
06 Ju1 2004
  • SCCU U14/90 Finals 4.7.04
  • Open Forum: Chris Majer, BCF Grading Director, answers some frequently asked questions about publication of the Grading List on the BCF site. Correspondence has been quite heavy, as we suggested a few days ago.
05 Ju1 2004
  • SCCU U14/90 Finals 4.7.04 (bare results): 1 Richmond Juniors 18½/24; 2 Sussex 11; 3 Essex 6½. Oxon withdrew, we don't know why. Full details expected shortly.
04 Ju1 2004
  • Open Final 3.7.04 Gtr Manchester 8½ 7½ Kent
  • U175 Final 3.7.04 Essex 10 6 Devon
  • U125 Final 3.7.04 Shropshire 10 6 Middx
  • U100 Final 3.7.04 Norfolk 6½ 5½ Essex
  • National Club: Four results (Open & Major) from today's Finals
03 Ju1 2004
  • Coulsdon Rapidplay 3.7.04
  • Bare match scores from today's Counties Championship Finals at Hinckley:
    Open Gtr Manchester 8½ 7½ Kent
    Minor Counties Beds 9 7 Norfolk
    U175 Essex 10 6 Devon
    U150 Cambs 9 7 Lancs
    U125 Salop 10 6 Middx
    U100 Norfolk 6½ 5½ Essex
02 Ju1 2004
  • Open Forum: John Saunders and John Hodgson take up the Website Publication theme. We're getting emails about this with two different hats on: a journalist's, and a grader's. The journalist ones are published here, and the grader ones go to the Grading Director. It's getting hard to tell the difference.
01 Ju1 2004
  • Open Forum: Keith Selby writes about publication of grades on websites
29 Jun 2004
27 Jun 2004
  • BCF Schools Champions 2003-4 are Monmouth School, and the Plate Champions are Nottingham High School. The Finals were played yesterday. That link is to an overview of the season. For detailed match results, click here.
  • STOP PRESS. GAME FEE COMES DOWN. At the end of yesterday's BCF Council meeting it was announced that the Management Board has reduced next year's Game Fee (effective from 1st September 2004) from 44p to 43p. For the reasons, see the Council Report which we hope to publish tomorrow. It will say that the NCCU proposals on BCF Membership have been rejected.
  • We know we owe you an SCCU AGM Report, from seven days earlier. Sorry. Also tomorrow, with luck. It's the heavy season.
22 Jun 2004
20 Jun 2004
  • National Club Major semi-finals were completed today. Another SCCU team through at a foreigner's expense.
16 Jun 2004
  • Coulsdon CF Winter Tournament 2003-4
  • Open Forum: Gary Cook seeks information about the Ralph Barnett Trophy competition. John Philpott has replied, and we add his response as a postscript to Gary's letter.
15 Jun 2004
  • U125 13.6.04 (bare match score, from an Essex mole) Salop 9 7 Essex
  • Hastings CC: 2003-4 Championship
12 Jun 2004
11 Jun 2004
  • U100 Semi-final 5.6.04 Lancs 4½ 7½ Essex
07 Jun 2004
  • Open Semi-finals 5.6.04 Yorks 5½ 10½ Kent; Gtr Manchester 9½ 6½ Sussex
  • National Club Major Plate semi-finals are complete (another foreigner bites dust)
06 Jun 2004
  • Minor Counties Semi-final 5.6.04 Beds* 8 8 Herts
  • U175 Semi-final 5.6.04 Devon 8½ 7½ Sussex
  • U125 Semi-final 5.6.04 Middx 9 7 Lancs
05 Jun 2004
  • Open Semi-final 5.6.04 (latest) Kent had a winning lead over Yorks when our informant left.
  • Minor Counties Semi-final 5.6.04 (bare match score: details in the morning) Beds* 8 8 Herts
  • U175 Semi-final 5.6.04 Essex 11 5 Lancs; also (bare match score: details in the morning) Devon 8½ 7½ Sussex
  • U125 Semi-final 5.6.04 (bare match score: details in the morning) Middx 9 7 Lancs
  • CCF Champions League: Finals 5.6.04
01 Jun 2004
31 May 2004
28 May 2004
  • U125 Quarter-final ?8.5.04 Suffolk 6½ 9½ Middx. We believe we are now up to date with detailed SCCU matches in the National stage. Also with bare match scores for everyone else, with the exception of a single U175 quarter-final that no one seems to know anything about. Later - we do now. Thanks RDH and IMJ. Result inserted.
  • BCF Extraordinary Council Meeting, to finish off the Bristol business of 24th April, is Saturday 26th June in Nottingham. Details, for reasons which will appear, are in the SCCU page as an update to the Executive meeting of 14th May.
26 May 2004
  • National Club Open: the last semi-final result. SCCU triumphs over foreigner.
  • Kent Schools League: Results 2003-4. Your Webmaster knows that Junior results on this site tend to come from his own County. He'd be glad to publish more from other Counties.
  • Open Forum. Roy Heppinstall makes one or two points arising out of the "match captain" debate of February and March.
25 May 2004
  • U100 Quarter-final 8.5.04 (better late than never) Essex 6½ 5½ Salop
  • We await the full details of U125 Quarter-final Suffolk-Middx. BCF site hasn't even heard the bare match score. Please, Middx, send us your win!
18 May 2004
17 May 2004
  • SCCU Executive Committee meeting 14.5.04: a report
  • Open Quarter-final 15.5.05 Somerset 3½ 12½ Sussex
  • U125 Quarter-final 15.5.04 Devon 6 10 Essex
  • Golders Green Rapidplay 15.5.04
  • Kent Finals Day 2003-4 16.5.04
  • Minor Counties Quarter-final 15.5.04 (bare match score) Wilts* 8 8 Surrey. Details expected soon.
  • U125 Quarter-final (date not known: bare match score) Suffolk 6½ 9½ Middx
  • U100 Quarter-final (date not known: bare match score) Essex 6½ 5½ Salop
  • We pick results up where we can. Our sources are various. We have received no details of the U125 and U100 results above, and they are not apparently known to the BCF website. We appeal to SCCU match captains to send us their results direct, and in full, for publication.
13 May 2004
  • U100 Quarter-final 8.5.04 Norfolk 6½ 5½ Surrey
10 May 2004
  • Open Quarter-finals 8.5.04 Kent* 8 8 Lancs; Gtr Manchester 10½ 5½ Essex
  • U175 Quarter-final 8.5.04 Notts 5 11 Sussex
  • We are also adding foreign results (bare match scores) as we hear of them. Several quarter-final ones are in.
09 May 2004
  • U150 Quarter-final 8.5.04 Surrey 7½ 8½ Notts
  • National Club Open Championship Semi-finals are decided. Today's result involves no SCCU team, but we thought you'd like to know.
08 May 2004
  • Open Quarter-finals 8.5.04 (bare match scores) Kent* 8 8 Lancs; Gtr Manchester 10½ 5½ Essex. Details expected shortly.
05 May 2004
  • U125 Preliminary round 17.4.04 Worcs 7½ 8½ Essex. Apologies for delay, but Essex never told us. SCCU match captains: please go on sending us your BCF-stage results.
  • National Club Major. An SCCU win against a foreigner in the Plate semi-finals.
04 May 2004
  • Minor Counties QF: Herts score an easy win against their West of England opponents. Lancashire do likewise against Suffolk. See BCF-Stage page.
  • On the subject of County matches, Cambs and Bucks have withdrawn from the SCCU Open competition 2004-5.
  • Coulsdon Rapidplay 24.4.04 and Blitz 3.5.04
02 May 2004
  • Tunbridge Wells Junior 1.5.04. (If we give Kent results for juniors it's because Kent send them. We'd gladly publish more junior results from other counties.)
30 Apr 2004
  • A couple of loose ends. National Club Open Plate: one SCCU result we could have published some time ago
  • And the BCF Schools is now down to the last four in both Championship and Plate.
27 Apr 2004
  • Very brief reports of BCF Management Board meetings 20.3.04, 24.4.04. Yesterday's Council report has changed, of course.
26 Apr 2004
  • BCF Council meeting 24.4.04: a report. It goes without saying that this is the SCCU's report and not the BCF's. We hope to add a Management Board report tomorrow.
         We should say that SCCU reports are far more irresponsible than BCF ones. The BCF won't publish a report until it's been agreed and verified to the nth degree, and it takes months. The SCCU goes gaily ahead and publishes two days after the meeting, and amends as the complaints come in. The complaints invariably dry up within a week.
21 Apr 2004
  • Open Preliminary round 17.4.04 Staffs 6 10 Sussex
18 Apr 2004
13 Apr 2004
12 Apr 2004
06 Apr 2004
  • SCCU U180 and U135 Jamborees 4.4.04
  • National Club Minor. Quarter-final results and semi-final pairings
  • Our BCF Council papers (Finance meeting, 24th April in Bristol) arrived a few days ago. The Agenda includes some meaty stuff, and we have put a summary in the BCF page.
05 Apr 2004
  • National Club Major. Quarter-final results, including a new SCCU one, and the semi-final pairings
  • BCF Schools quarter-finals are now complete, as far as the Championship proper is concerned. There will be some new faces at the Finals this year.
04 Apr 2004
  • SCCU Jamborees 4.4.04. U180 (five teams) 1 North Circular League 6½/10; 2 Surrey 5½; 3-4 Essex, Sussex 5; 5 Middx 3. U135 (three teams) 1 North Circular League 4/6; 2-3 Essex, Surrey 2½. Detailed results expected shortly.
  • Open Forum. Jonathan Melsom has a suggestion for relieving BCF financial problems.
  • National Club: two results from today. An SCCU one in the Major, and a foreign one in the Minor
28 Mar 2004
  • U14/90 27.3.04 Bucks 6½ 17½ Oxon; Bucks 8½ 15½ Oxon (two matches head to tail). This concludes the local groups, and the four qualifiers if our arithmetic's right are Essex, Oxon, Richmond Juniors and Sussex.
27 Mar 2004
  • U14/90 27.3.04 Essex 12½ 11½ Herts. The third group ends with a remarkably close finish.
25 Mar 2004
  • So why has the date on the front page changed two days running, and nothing here? Mostly because of BCF Schools Championship results. The quarter-finals are well under way. Today we also have a new (all-SCCU) result in the National Club Open. Keep an eye on the BCF-Stage county pairings; they may be updated in silence.
22 Mar 2004
  • U150 20.3.04 Kent 8 8 Surrey
  • U14/90 14.3.04 Richmond Juniors 22  2 Coulsdon CF. (Scroll down one match.) We now have two qualifiers for the Finals, and the others are expected to emerge shortly.
21 Mar 2004
  • U150 20.3.04 Essex 11 5 Sussex; Middx 9 7 Herts. Also (bare match score) Kent 8 8 Surrey. This leads to an entertaining triple tie in the bottom half of the table. The league tables are now complete, barring errors.
  • National Club Minor: one all-SCCU result
20 Mar 2004
  • U14/90 20.3.04 Surrey Girls 8 16 Sussex
17 Mar 2004
16 Mar 2004
  • BCF Schools Championship: Quarter-final pairings. All first-round results are in, save for one match which should be played tomorrow.
15 Mar 2004
14 Mar 2004
  • Open 13.3.04 Bucks 5 11 Herts. This completes the fixtures.
  • U125 13.3.04 Herts 7½ 8½ Essex, Surrey 8½ 7½ Middx. This completes the fixtures. Now all that remains is next week's U150 matches.
  • U14/90 6.3.04 Herts 14 10 Essex
  • Golders Green Rapidplay 13.3.04
13 Mar 2004
  • Open 13.3.04 Surrey 6½ 9½ Essex. This seems to resolve all the positions.
  • Open Forum, and still not (well, mostly not) about match captains. Jonathan Melsom responds to Kevin Thurlow.
11 Mar 2004
  • Open 13.3.04 Sussex-Cambs: Cambs have defaulted. Their match captain is apologetic, and recognises that the future of Cambridgeshire in this competition is in doubt considering their unpredictable variations in strength from one season to another.
  • Open Forum, and not about match captains. Kevin Thurlow returns to a point raised in December.
  • We have slightly updated the Counties BCF-Stage page to show some of the qualifying teams. If you know others that we don't, please say.
10 Mar 2004
  • U14/90 (?)6/7.3.04 Hampshire 4 20 Richmond Juniors
09 Mar 2004
  • U14/90 6.3.04 Sussex 14 10 Surrey Girls
  • Lee (Kent) Junior 6th March 2004
  • Open Forum. The match-captain theme gathers fresh pace with contributions from Nick Butland and Kevin Thurlow (who actually knows a competition with written guidelines about it). Don't be put off by our 50-move remark of the week before last. If you have new things to say, say them.
08 Mar 2004
  • Open Forum. The match-captain theme resurfaces (Jeff Goldberg), and Neill Cooper writes about something else!
  • U175. Note that Daniel Hirsch is back in harness as Sussex U175 match captain. His details are again in the Fixtures page.
07 Mar 2004
  • U175 6.3.04 Middx 6½ 9½ Surrey. This completes the SCCU's U175 programme.
  • One more result in the National Club Major, but foreign. Also a number of BCF Schools Championship results, not always foreign, added over the last few days. Keep an eye out for these. For real enthusiasts, the BCF Schools also has a detailed results page.
06 Mar 2004
  • U175 6.3.04 Sussex 9½ 6½ Essex
03 Mar 2004
  • U14/90 Herts 8½ 15½ Surrey
02 Mar 2004
01 Mar 2004
  • U150 28.2.04 Sussex 8 8 Kent
  • U125 28.2.04 Surrey 7 9 Essex
  • U100 28.2.04 Kent 5 7 Surrey; Middx 2 10 Essex. This concludes the U100 section.
29 Feb 2004
  • Open 28.2.04 Cambs 7½ 8½ Surrey; Herts 8 8 Kent.  Kent, already home and dry, fail to repeat last year's clean sweep. We think places 5-7 are resolved, and 2-4 will be resolved on the 13th March.
  • U150 28.2.04 Surrey 10½ 5½ Middx.  We're not sure anything's resolved at all in the U150, on the results we've got.
28 Feb 2004
  • Open 28.2.04 Essex 13 3 Bucks with six Bucks defaults
  • U150 28.2.04 Herts 11 5 Essex
  • BCF Schools Championship. The first result of the season in the National stage. Involving two SCCU schools. We may not always mention BCF Schools results in "What's New", especially if there's no SCCU involvement, but they will always go in and they will always attract a new date on the front page. (Same goes for National Club.)
27 Feb 2004
  • Open Forum. Dave Welch replies to Paul Buswell. The match-captain theme is getting uncomfortably close to 50 moves. Anyone for Football?
26 Feb 2004
  • Open Forum: David Fryer responds to an editorial footnote of yesterday.
25 Feb 2004
  • Open Forum, naturally, about match captains. David Fryer contributes, and your Webmaster is confuted by a correspondent from California!
23 Feb 2004
  • Open Forum: still on the match-captain theme. Chris Howell joins in, and Scott Fraser and Gary Kenworthy come back. Your Webmaster regrets he's thrown in an opinion or two of his own. How come this subject never came up before?
  • National Club Major. The last result of the preliminary round, involving two SCCU teams
22 Feb 2004
  • U175 21.2.04 Middx 5½ 10½ Essex. See yesterday for commentary.
21 Feb 2004
  • U175 21.2.04 (bare match score) Middx 5½ 10½ Essex. Essex, by our calculations, are Champions with a match to spare. That makes four divisions out of five (and counting?) which have been won with a match to spare. The difference, in the case of the U175, is that all the positions are decided with a match to spare as well. Put your feet up on 6th March, lads!
  • Open Forum: the match-captain debate continues. Paul Buswell and Kevin Thurlow again, and Gary Kenworthy joins in.
20 Feb 2004
  • Open Forum: still on match captains. Kevin Thurlow comes back briefly, and Bernard Cafferty and Scott Fraser contribute. Stephen Hart broadens the debate somewhat.
  • You saw it here first. BCF Management Board Meeting 7.2.04: a report
18 Feb 2004
17 Feb 2004
  • Open Forum: Kevin Thurlow and Jonathan Melsom take up Paul Buswell's match-captain theme
  • National Club Minor results for round 1, and round-2 pairings. Plus one Major result, foreign but we'll have to knock them out some time.
  • On the BCF site: Wellington International. It is not our policy to duplicate results that are on other sites already.
16 Feb 2004
  • U14/90 15.2.04 Hampshire 9½ 14½ Coulsdon CF; Coulsdon CF 17 7 Hampshire. (Yes, two matches in one day. But they weren't really at different venues.)
  • Open Forum: Paul Buswell on the role of the match captain
15 Feb 2004
  • U125 14.2.04 Sussex 8½ 7½ Surrey. According to our calculations this means Middx are Champions with a match to spare - their first SCCU league title since 1994-5.
  • National Club. SCCU side beats foreigner in Major; two SCCU sides meet in Minor.
  • BCF Schools Championship: the first-round draw in the National Stage
14 Feb 2004
  • U125 14.2.04 Middx 9 7 Herts
  • Note that U100 7.2.04 Essex-Kent, which we gave four days ago, has changed. The scores were right but the players weren't.
  • Coulsdon Rapidplay 14.2.04
12 Feb 2004
  • The U14/90 has been less dormant than we thought. We now have 25.1.04 Richmond Juniors 20½ 3½ Hampshire, and 31.1.04 Coulsdon CF 5 19 Richmond Juniors. You'll have to scroll down a bit for them. While we were about it we corrected the Richmond contact details (same page).
  • BCF Schools Championship: all the Zone winners and runners-up. National stage is imminent.
  • BCF website now has the new Grand Prix Rules, and we still don't understand them.
10 Feb 2004
  • U100 7.2.04 Essex 7½ 4½ Kent. If our arithmetic is right, Essex are Champions with a match to spare.
  • U14/90 7.2.04 Surrey 12½ 11½ Essex
  • National Club Major. One result, with SCCU involvement
09 Feb 2004
  • U100 7.2.04 Middx 6 6 Surrey
08 Feb 2004
  • U175 7.2.04 Middx 6 10 Sussex
07 Feb 2004
  • U175 7.2.04 Surrey 5½ 10½ Essex
  • If you're wondering about the updates of the last day or two, they have been to the BCF Schools page. There's another today. Fresh results in the BCF Schools and National Club will always attract a changed date on the front page, but may not be mentioned in What's New.
03 Feb 2004
02 Feb 2004
  • Open 31.1.04 Surrey 5½ 10½ Sussex
01 Feb 2004
  • Open 31.1.04. Cambs defaulted v Bucks.
  • SCCU U180/135 Jamborees 4th April 2004: full details and entry form
  • National Club: our first eighth-final result in the Major. With SCCU involvement. And two in the Minor, but one of them foreign.
31 Jan 2004
  • Open 31.1.04 Kent 12½ 3½ Essex. Kent are Champions with a match to spare.
29 Jan 2004
28 Jan 2004
27 Jan 2004
  • U14/90 24.1.04 Surrey 10 14 Herts
  • SCCU U18 Jamborees, previously set for Sunday 29th February, have had to be postponed. The new date is not fixed yet. See the Jamborees page.
26 Jan 2004
  • U125 24.1.04 Sussex 6½ 9½ Middx
25 Jan 2004
  • U175 24.1.04 Surrey 9½ 6½ Sussex
  • BCF-Stage County matches 2003-4: the Draw is just announced.
20 Jan 2004
  • U150 17.1.04 Middx 7½ 8½ Sussex
19 Jan 2004
  • Webmaster's second note. BT have fixed my telephone, quicker than I dared hope. If the Website remains silent now it will be because it has nothing to say. It has nothing much to say at the moment, apart from a revised U125 date Surrey-Essex (see Fixtures page).
18 Jan 2004
  • Webmaster's note. My phone has been out of order since yesterday morning. Expected time of repair: some time this week, with luck. Until then I cannot easily send or receive emails or update this site. I'll let you know when I'm back, and in the meantime any uploads will be the result of special measures (as today's are).
         You can still phone me. Incoming calls are being re-routed via my mobile. At landline rates, of course.
  • U150 17.1.04 Herts 11 5 Surrey; Kent 6½ 9½ Essex
  • Coulsdon Blitz 17.1.04
16 Jan 2004
  • For your address book: Mike Gunn, SCCU Deputy President (and Surrey U125 match captain) has a new email address: mike@wxyz7.fsnet.co.uk
14 Jan 2004
  • Is your County league as healthy as it used to be? Neither is Essex's. To see their thinking on the subject, click here.
13 Jan 2004
  • U100 10.1.04 Surrey 5 7 Essex; Kent 10 2 Middx with six Middx defaults
  • National Club Open: one SCCU result from the weekend
12 Jan 2004
  • Open 10.1.04 Bucks 6 10 Surrey
11 Jan 2004
  • U175 10.1.04 Essex 12½ 3½ Middx
10 Jan 2004
  • U175 10.1.04 (bare match score) Essex 12½ 3½ Middx with four Middx defaults
  • Sussex U175 team. Daniel Hirsch is unwell. Acting match captain until further notice is Paul Watson who also runs the U150 team: see the Fixtures page.
  • U14/90. Kent have withdrawn. To judge from the results we've received so far, nearly everyone has.
  • National Club Major. The one postponed first-round result (with SCCU ingredient)
06 Jan 2004
  • Open Forum: David Fryer writes about the Hastings Congress
03 Jan 2004
  • BCF Management Board 8.11.03: a report. We're sorry this has been delayed.
  • Arising from the above: - What do you think about a BCF change of name to "English Chess Federation" or similar? We publish a Questionnaire which you may have missed when it went on the BCF website a while back.
02 Jan 2004
01 Jan 2004
31 Dec 2003
  • SCCU Junior Champions, from the LJCC 28-30 December: U18 Open Lawrence Trent; U18 Girls Naomi Miller; U11 Open Saravanan Sathyanandha; U11 Girls Sheila Dines. More details in the Junior page; cross-tables on the LJCC site.
30 Dec 2003
  • Frank Parr died on Sunday 28th December 2003, aged 85. A notice appears in the Club & County page.
23 Dec 2003
22 Dec 2003
21 Dec 2003
  • Coulsdon Christmas Congress 20-21 December 2003
  • One or two more results in the National Club. Today is the round-1 deadline, in the Major and Minor. Not that we've got all the results, and one match at least is postponed. Well, they've barely had eight weeks to play it in.
16 Dec 2003
  • National Club results, mostly Major, continue to arrive. Thanks, Mike. The Major is only missing two results in Round 1.
15 Dec 2003
  • SCCU Junior Champions (see yesterday). More details in the Junior page. Cross-tables on the LJCC site.
14 Dec 2003
  • SCCU Junior Champions, from the LJCC 13-14 December: U14 Open Vedantha Kumar; U14 Girls Chantal Sirisena; U9 Open Yang-Fan Zhou; U9 Girls Stephanie Hale. Details when we have them.
12 Dec 2003
10 Dec 2003
  • National Club various. Major and Minor approach their round-1 deadlines.
  • Open Forum: Jeff Goldberg answers Paul Buswell (see 1.12.03) on National Club rules and other things.
08 Dec 2003
  • U100 6.12.03 Surrey 3 9 Kent
  • SCCU Champion 2003-4 is Peter Wells, who won the Hitchin Congress at the weekend. Details when we have them.
  • The Website is five. Thank you for your birthday card, Michael.
07 Dec 2003
  • U100 6.12.03 Essex 8 4 Middx
  • U14/90 6.12.03 Essex 14½ 9½ Surrey
  • Another SCCU result in the National Club (Major this time, and more to your Webmaster's liking than the last)
06 Dec 2003
  • U175 6.12.03 Essex 9½ 6½ Sussex; Surrey 9 7 Middx
  • U100 6.12.03 (bare match score) Essex 8 4 Middx
04 Dec 2003
01 Dec 2003
  • Open 29.11.03 Sussex 15 1 Bucks
  • National Club: two more SCCU results in the Open and Minor, and a question about the rules
  • To which Paul Buswell responds in Open Forum
30 Nov 2003
  • Open 29.11.03 Cambs 5 11 Kent
  • National Club Major: one SCCU result. You'll find there's a foreign one there as well.
29 Nov 2003
  • Open 29.11.03 Essex 8 8 Herts; also (bare match score) Sussex 15 1 Bucks with 5 Bucks defaults
  • U125 18.10.03 Middx - Essex. Essex appeal fails, score remains 9-5.
  • Coulsdon Open Rapidplay 29.11.03
27 Nov 2003
26 Nov 2003
25 Nov 2003
  • Open Forum: Bernard Cafferty adds to the Venues correspondence.
23 Nov 2003
  • U125 22.11.03 Essex 8½ 7½ Sussex
  • Open Forum: Richard Palliser writes about Venues and the National Club.
21 Nov 2003
  • U125 22.11.03: Surrey have defaulted their away match against Herts. We don't know why.
18 Nov 2003
  • U150 15.11.03 Sussex 7½ 8½ Surrey
17 Nov 2003
  • Open Forum: Bruce Birchall and Cyril Johnson join in on Venues, and David Fryer writes again.
16 Nov 2003
  • Open 15.11.03 Kent 10½ 5½ Sussex; Herts 11 5 Cambs. Note that Cambs have a new match captain: Simon Williams saw46@cam.ac.uk.
  • U150 15.11.03 Kent 10 6 Herts; Essex 5½ 9½ Middx
  • Open Forum: Chris Howell enters the Venues correspondence.
15 Nov 2003
  • U150 15.11.03 (bare match score) Essex 5½ 9½ Middx, with one double default
  • Open Forum: BCF Venues attract their share of criticism, but it's a new one this time. David Fryer writes, and Tim Dickinson replies.
  • We have updated the BCF Schools Championship page. No results yet, but at least you can see who's in it.
12 Nov 2003
  • More about Schools funding (see two days ago). Jonathan Melsom writes in Open Forum.
11 Nov 2003
10 Nov 2003
  • U100 8.11.03 Surrey 8½ 3½ Middx
  • Open Forum: Funding for Schools initiatives. Paul McKeown responds briefly to Bruce Birchall's letter of 30.10.03
02 Nov 2003
  • U175 1.11.03 Essex 9½ 6½ Surrey; Sussex 11½ 4½ Middx
01 Nov 2003
  • U175 1.11.03 (bare match score) Essex 9½ 6½ Surrey
30 Oct 2003
  • U125 18.10.03 Middx-Essex (see 24th October below): Essex have given notice of appeal.
  • Open Forum: Bruce Birchall comments on a chess-in-schools initiative that came up in the House of Lords the other day.
28 Oct 2003
27 Oct 2003
26 Oct 2003
  • Open 25.10.03 Sussex 10 6 Herts
  • U150 25.10.03 Surrey 9 7 Essex; Middx 9½ 6½ Kent
25 Oct 2003
  • Open 25.10.03 Cambs 5 11 Essex
  • U150 25.10.03 Herts 8 8 Sussex
24 Oct 2003
  • U125 18.10.03 Middx-Essex is now 9-5: score adjusted for ineligible players.
  • National Club Major U160: round-1 pairings. It is not impossible that late NC entries may still be accepted. See this page for Controllers' contact details.
  • SCCU Calendar is at length the 2003-4 one. Contact the Webmaster rjh@sccu.ndo.co.uk if you spot errors or omissions.
  • SCCU league tables 2003-4 also inserted. This page is a quick-and-dirty MS Word job and will not allow you to change the text size (or the link colours). Expect repairs.
20 Oct 2003
  • U125 18.10.03 Middx 7½ 8½ Essex
19 Oct 2003
  • U125 18.10.03 Sussex 11 5 Herts
15 Oct 2003
14 Oct 2003
13 Oct 2003
12 Oct 2003
  • U175 11.10.03 Sussex 10½ 5½ Surrey
  • U100 11.10.03 (bare match score) Middx 5 7 Kent
11 Oct 2003
  • U100 11.10.03 Essex 4 8 Surrey
10 Oct 2003
  • National Club entry deadline is 16th October. Are you in? Go to our NC page for details.
08 Oct 2003
  • Counties Championships: Kent have withdrawn their U125 team for want of support. There is also a serious question mark over the Surrey U150 team.
07 Oct 2003
06 Oct 2003
  • Open 4.10.03 Kent 9 7 Bucks
05 Oct 2003
  • Open 4.10.03 Herts 9½ 6½ Surrey
04 Oct 2003
29 Sep 2003
28 Sep 2003
27 Sep 2003
26 Sep 2003
21 Sep 2003
  • SCCU Executive Committee meeting 19.9.03: a report. Mike Gunn is now SCCU Deputy President.
  • It is now possible to support the Union by becoming a Patron of the SCCU. (Please!) See the report above.
17 Sep 2003
16 Sep 2003
10 Sep 2003
  • Sussex Results 2002-3
  • It's September, so this must be a new season. 2002-3 is now archived (see What's Old?). Much of it is still duplicated on the current site, from which it will be progressively removed to make way for new material.
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

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