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Handicap Rapidplay
updated 16.7.09
NATIONAL CLUB 2008-9
Most of our information outside the Open (thank you Geoff), and all of our information in the Major, has come directly or indirectly from the clubs (thank you Alasdair, Brian, Chris, Chris, Chris, David, David, Jeremy, John, Mike, Paul, Paul and Roger).
OPEN
3 entries (4 last year)
Entries from Maidstone, Mushrooms and Wood Green. The teams have agreed to a single-round all-play-all (so no Final). Matches, to be played by 12th July 2009: Maidstone 1 5 Wood Green; Mushrooms 2 4 Maidstone; Wood Green 4 2 Mushrooms played 12.7.09 alongside the London Finals. "The league to be decided on Match Points, tie break will be Game Points then Board Count." So, by our reckoning: 1 Wood Green 2; 2 Maidstone 1; 3 Mushrooms 0.
MAJOR
16 entries (15 last year)
Round 1 (by 26th January) Bushbury 2½ 2½ *Gloucester; Milton Keynes 3½ 1½ Diss Asters; St Albans w/o scr Brown Jack; Tunbridge Wells scr w/o Maidstone; Hastings & St Leonards 3 2 Cosham; London Deaf ½ 4½ Bourne End; Wanstead & Woodford 4 1 Metropolitan; Wood Green 1½ 3½ Hackney
Quarter-finals (by 1st April) Gloucester 3 2 Milton Keynes; Bourne End ½ 4½ St Albans; Maidstone 2 3 Hastings & St Leonards; Hackney 1½ 3½ Wanstead & Woodford. This last match concluded with a Hackney loss by Mobile well into the fifth hour. We don't know if they were winning the game, but board count was in their favour.
Semi-finals (by 31st May) St Albans 3 2 Gloucester; Hastings & St Leonards 1½ 3½ Wanstead & Woodford
Final 12.7.09 Wanstead & Woodford 4 1 St Albans
PLATE
Quarter-finals Diss Asters 2 3 Wood Green; Cosham 2 3 Bushbury; byes London Deaf, Metropolitan
Semi-finals Bushbury 4 1 London Deaf; Wood Green 3½ 1½ Metropolitan
Final 12.7.09 Wood Green 3 2 Bushbury
MINOR
16 entries (16 last year)
Round 1 (by 31st January) St Albans 1½ 2½ Hackney; Tunbridge Wells 1½ 2½ Cosham; Wanstead & Woodford 2½ 1½ Bedford; Milton Keynes scr w/o Rainham †; Bushbury 2 2 *Ashfield; Alwoodley 2½ 1½ Barton on Humber; Lancaster 2½ 1½ Newark; Maidstone 2 2 *Snodland
† Note 25.11.08. Leamington have withdrawn and been replaced by Rainham.
Quarter-finals (by 31st March) Hackney 3½ ½ Alwoodley; Cosham ½ 3½ Wanstead & Woodford; Snodland 2½ 1½ Rainham; Ashfield 3 1 Lancaster
Semi-finals (by 30th June) Ashfield 1½ 2½ Hackney; Wanstead & Woodford 1½ 2½ Snodland
Final 12.7.09 Snodland 2½ 1½ Hackney
PLATE
Quarter-finals Newark beat St Albans, one presumes; Bedford* 2 2 Maidstone; Barton on Humber 1½ 2½ Bushbury; Milton Keynes scr w/o Tunbridge Wells
Semi-finals Tunbridge Wells 1 3 Bedford; Bushbury 1 3 Newark
Final 12.7.09 Bedford* 2 2 Newark
UNDER 100
9 entries (10 last year)
Round 1 (by 8th February) Hackney* 2 2 Thurrock; Rushall w/o scr Syston; Chipping Campden 2 1 Forest of Dean; Snodland 2½ 1½ Hastings & St Leonards; Bye Bushbury (who emerged, through one of our informants, on 27th February)
Quarter-final (by 19th April) Rushall ½ 3½ Bushbury
Semi-finals (by 7th June) Snodland 1 3 Hackney; Bushbury* 2 2 Chipping Campden
Final 12.7.09 Hackney 3 1 Bushbury
PLATE
Semi-finals Forest of Dean w/o scr Syston; Hastings & St Leonards ½ 3½ Thurrock
Final 12.7.09 Thurrock 3½ ½ Forest of Dean
HANDICAP RAPIDPLAY
was promised but has not occurred. However, there will be a five-round four-board "National Chess Club Rapidplay Championship" on Saturday 26th September 2009 at Syston. We're not sure which season it goes with. It will be two competitions in one: a straight Rapidplay, and an incorporated event with grading handicap. The handicap reverts to the (in our view unsatisfactory) CFWJ system used in 2005-6 and earlier. (Don't remember it? It's in the Archive.) We've not seen this event mentioned on the ECF website, but entry forms have been circulated to unspecified individuals. If left out, try the ECF Office or Home Director.
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