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Only the real additions are noted here. Minor roadworks go on all the time. If the date on the front page suggests an update not mentioned here, it will be an odd new result (in, say, the National Club or Yateley Manor or ECF Counties National Stage) which does not involve SCCU people. The Links page was last updated 8.8.11. The Ragbag gets added to any old how, but last changed 24.8.11.

30 Aug 2011
  • County match Fixture List: The U180 fixtures are completely revised to accommodate a late entry from Kent.
27 Aug 2011
24 Aug 2011
  • The SCCU County match captains 2011-12 are now on the site.
  • ECF Counties Rapidplay Championship at Wanstead 24.9.11: the Entry form is available. Closing date 19th September
20 Aug 2011
  • We have added to the ECF grading notes we published a while back.
19 Aug 2011
18 Aug 2011
  • We give a few more details of the U14/130 2011-12. Closing date 15th September.
17 Aug 2011
  • Neill Cooper, last year's Junior Organiser, has come to the rescue of the U14/130 2011-12. We publish his statement to organisers.
24 Jul 2011
18 Jul 2011
  • SCCU AGM 25.6.11: an account. Apologies for the delay.
11 Jul 2011
10 Jul 2011
  • National Club. We have the results of the Finals played in London.
09 Jul 2011
04 Jul 2011
  • National Club Major Plate. The one outstanding semi-final result is in, and only the Finals remain. We have the locations (well, one is a presumed location) for the Finals.
03 Jul 2011
  • Open Final 2.7.11 Surrey 9 7 Kent
  • Minor Final 2.7.11 Beds 9 7 Herts
  • U160 Final 2.7.11 Kent 10½ 5½ Lancs
  • U140 Final 2.7.11 Hants 8½ 7½ Kent
  • U100 Final 2.7.11 Essex 8½ 3½ Warwicks
02 Jul 2011
  • Open Final 2.7.11 (bare match score) Surrey 9 7 Kent
  • Minor Final 2.7.11 (bare match score) Beds 9 7 Herts
  • U160 Final 2.7.11 (bare match score) Kent 10½ 5½ Lancs
  • U140 Final 2.7.11 (bare match score) Hants 8½ 7½ Kent
  • U100 Final 2.7.11 (bare match score) Essex 8½ 3½ Warwicks
  • Three titles for SCCU, out of five possible, wasn't too bad even if we were bound to win one of them. Details when available.
26 Jun 2011
23 Jun 2011
21 Jun 2011
  • U100 SF 11.6.11 Lancs 4 7 Essex. A revised result, following a ruling by the Controller and an unsuccessful appeal. Essex, who appeared to have lost on board count, proceed to the Final. For some details see below the match report in the ECF-Stage page.
15 Jun 2011
  • National Club Intermediate. We finally have both SF results in the Championship, and the QF results ("to be played by 30th April") in the Plate. We'd say "watch this space" if we wanted to tempt fate.
13 Jun 2011
  • U100 SF 11.6.11 Lancs* 6 6 Essex
  • We now have all the SF results (even for foreigners). All are in full, if you count our links to other sites.
  • National Club Major: our first (and all-SCCU) semi-final result
12 Jun 2011
  • Open SF 11.6.11 Surrey 9½ 6½ Staffs; Lancs 7½ 8½ Kent
  • Minor SF 11.6.11 Beds 9 7 Sussex; Lincs 7½ 8½ Herts
  • U160 SF 11.6.11 Kent 9 7 Notts; Essex 7 9 Lancs
  • U140 SF 11.6.11 Kent 9½ 6½ Herts
  • U100 SF 11.6.11 (bare match score) Lancs* 6 6 Essex
  • That makes all of the SCCU's results, though we await details for one of them. We lack one foreign result.
  • National Club Intermediate: the all-SCCU semi-final
11 Jun 2011
  • Open SF 11.6.11 (bare match score) Surrey 9½ 6½ Staffs
  • Minor SF 11.6.11 (bare match scores) Beds 9 7 Sussex; Lincs 7½ 8½ Herts. Details shortly
  • U160 SF 11.6.11 (bare match score) Kent 9 7 Notts. Details shortly
  • U140 SF 11.6.11 (bare match score) Kent 9½ 6½ Herts. Details shortly
  • We have foreign SFs as well but won't signal them here. See the ECF-Stage page.
31 May 2011
29 May 2011
25 May 2011
  • ECF Quarter-finals. We have all the results (in full if you count our links to other sites); except one. We've now found out why the One is elusive. Watch this space next weekend!
24 May 2011
  • National Club Minor. One new (SCCU) result. Neither group is decided yet.
23 May 2011
22 May 2011
  • Open QF 21.5.11 Lancs 11 5 Middx; Surrey 14½ 1½ Warwicks
  • Minor QF 21.5.11 Hants 6 10 Sussex; Herts* 8 8 Leics
  • U160 QF 21.5.11 Warwicks 6½ 9½ Essex
21 May 2011
  • Open QF 21.5.11 (bare match score) Surrey 14½ 1½ Warwicks
  • Minor QF 21.5.11 (bare match score) Herts* 8 8 Leics, we hear
  • U180 QF 21.5.11 Notts 9½ 2½ Kent
  • U160 QF 21.5.11 Kent 11 5 Cumbria. Also (bare match score) Warwicks 6½ 9½ Essex
  • U140 QF 21.5.11 Kent 11½ 4½ Notts. Also (bare match score) Hants 9½ 6½ Surrey, we hear
  • We also have some bare foreign results.
  • Some ECF grading notes
16 May 2011
15 May 2011
  • National Club Open is well into the season. We have a match result.
14 May 2011
  • U180 QF 14.5.11 Essex 8 8 *Lancs
  • U120 QF 14.5.11 Herts 6 6 *Warwicks
09 May 2011
  • Open QF 8.5.11 Suffolk 6 10 Kent
  • Yateley Manor Schools Championship has reached its final stage. Eight teams have qualified for the Finals at Uppingham.
  • EPSCA U11 Area Championship 7.5.11. Well, it's not on the EPSCA site yet, and SCCU teams occupied the top four places.
  • SCCU Bulletin 2009-10 is belatedly on sale. This is your permanent hard-copy record, more lasting than websites. 36 pp A4 excluding front cover, price £5 payable to SCCU. Send to RJ Haddrell, 48 Southview Rd, Tunbridge Wells TN4 9BX
03 May 2011
02 May 2011
  • National Club Major. The remaining quarter-final results (and one or two outstanding earlier ones); plus the semi-final draw. Three foreigners remain.
  • U100 QF 30.4.11. A remark we made under this match has aroused comment, and we've expanded it.
30 Apr 2011
  • U100 QF 30.4.11 Yorks 7½ 4½ Kent
27 Apr 2011
  • Yateley Manor Schools Championship: the first result in the quarter-finals. Keep watching. The round should be complete within a fortnight.
20 Apr 2011
  • U140 Prelim 16.4.11 Derbys 6 10 Herts
19 Apr 2011
  • National Club. A result in the SCCU section of the Minor, and a Major Plate quarter-final which has developed not necessarily to the SCCU's advantage.
  • U140 Prelim 16.4.11 (bare match score) Derbys 6 10 Herts. Details when we have them.
18 Apr 2011
  • Open Prelim 16.4.11 Middx 9 7 Gtr Manchester
  • U180 Prelim 16.4.11 Middx 6½ 9½ Warwicks
17 Apr 2011
  • ECF Council meeting 16.4.11: a report
  • Open Prelim 16.4.11 (bare match score) Middx 9 7 Gtr Manchester. Details shortly.
  • U180 Prelim 16.4.11 (bare match score) Middx 6½ 9½ Warwicks. Details shortly.
  • U160 Prelim: Notts w/o def Middx
16 Apr 2011
  • Yes, the ECF had a Council meeting today. Game Fee goes up from 54p to 58p though the Board did not recommend change, and they voted - in principle - for a Membership-only structure rather than a simplification of the hybrid one we've got now. Full account tomorrow with luck. But news and comment is already coming in on (where else?) the EC Forum.
13 Apr 2011
11 Apr 2011
05 Apr 2011
04 Apr 2011
03 Apr 2011
  • SCCU Junior Jamborees 3.4.11 U18 Open 1 Surrey 12/16; 2 Kent 11; 3 Sussex 10; 4 Berks 5½; 5 Bucks 1½. U18 Minor 1 Surrey S 9½/12; 2 Surrey O 8; 3 Sussex 6; 4 Kent 4; 5 Surrey W 3½. U14 Open 1 Kent 14½/16; 2 Berks 9; 3 Surrey 6½; 4 Sussex 2. Details when typed.
02 Apr 2011
  • U14/130 Final 2.4.11 Essex 11 13 Surrey. Surrey take their sixth title.
30 Mar 2011
26 Mar 2011
  • U160 26.3.11 Sussex 6 10 Kent. Kent take 1st nomination and the Amboyna Trophy. This concludes the SCCU stage of the Counties Championships.
  • SCCU U185 & U150 Jamborees 3.4.11: David Smith gives an update on entries so far. Entry is still possible!
  • Yateley Manor Schools Championship has reached the quarter-final stage. Keep watching.
21 Mar 2011
  • National Club Intermediate: one result, assuring SCCU of three teams in the semi-finals
20 Mar 2011
14 Mar 2011
13 Mar 2011
  • Neill Cooper gives an update on entries in the SCCU Junior Jamborees 3.4.11. Already two more than last year, and that's not counting the four entries in the brand new U14 section. Closing date 28th March.
12 Mar 2011
  • U160 12.3.11 Herts 6 10 Essex; Surrey 7½ 8½ Middx. Middx take third nomination; for first and second we shall have to wait for the last match of the season in a fortnight's time.
09 Mar 2011
  • Applications are invited from congresses wishing to host the SCCU Individual Championship 2011-12 or to offer a British Championship qualifying place 2012. The SCCU has four BCQ places in its gift, one of which goes to the congress that hosts the Union Championship. Applications to the SCCU Secretary Richard Haddrell rjh@sccu.ndo.co.uk, to arrive not later than the Executive Committee meeting of 8th April 2011. Earlier will be helpful.
06 Mar 2011
  • Open 5.3.11 Kent 5 11 Surrey; Middx 8½ 7½ Essex; Herts 8 8 Sussex. The competition is complete. Surrey are Champions for the first time since - amazingly - 1963-4, and Kent and Middx take the second and third nominations. Herts and Essex qualify in the Minor Counties.
  • U140 5.3.11 Essex 6 9 Surrey
  • You are invited to check our updated league tables.
05 Mar 2011
  • U140 5.3.11 (bare match score) Essex 6 9 Surrey. The section is complete, and Surrey take second nomination.
  • U100 5.3.11 Kent 5½ 6½ Essex. The section is complete, and nominations are Essex and Kent in that order.
03 Mar 2011
  • SCCU Junior Jamborees 3.4.11. Neill Cooper gives an update on entries
  • National Club Major. We have the outstanding first-round result
  • Yateley Manor Schools Championship. We have the first-round pairings in the national stage, and will publish results as they come in. Keep watching, because results will not always trouble What's New.
27 Feb 2011
  • U180 26.2.11 Sussex 9½ 6½ Kent; Surrey 7½ 8½ Essex
  • U120 26.2.11 Herts 10 2 Kent; Surrey 7½ 4½ Essex
  • The league tables are updated. You are invited to check them.
20 Feb 2011
  • U140 19.2.11 Middx 8 8 Surrey. Herts finish 3rd. 2nd place goes to either Surrey or Essex, who play each other for it in the last match on 5th March.
  • Yateley Manor Schools Championship: the local Zones are complete. Details of national stage shortly.
19 Feb 2011
  • U140 19.2.11 Essex 8½ 7½ Herts; Sussex 4 12 Kent. Also (bare match score) Middx 8 8 Surrey: details tomorrow
  • Kent take Ebony Trophy. Let us know if you can work any other positions out. We're going to bed.
14 Feb 2011
  • U14/130 13.2.11 Kent 9 15 Essex. This concludes the Zonal stage.
13 Feb 2011
  • U160 12.2.11 Herts 6 10 Middx
  • U120 12.2.11 Herts 7 5 Surrey
  • SCCU League Tables. We have filled in the final positions we think are sure. Say if you disagree.
12 Feb 2011
  • U160 12.2.11 Kent 8 8 Essex; Sussex 7½ 8½ Surrey
  • U120 12.2.11 (bare match score) Herts 7 5 Surrey. Details to follow
  • U100 12.2.11 Kent 7 5 Surrey
  • There are final positions to insert, but we've not had time to check everything. Opinions?
08 Feb 2011
07 Feb 2011
  • Open 5.2.11 Surrey 10½ 5½ Herts (not as reported last time: one game result has changed); Middx 8½ 7½ Sussex; Essex 7½ 8½ Kent
  • U120 5.2.11 Kent 6 6 Essex
  • U14/130 6.2.11 (bare match score) Herts 7 17 Surrey. Details on way.
  • National Club. We have the pairings for the Intermediate Quarter-finals, and one of the late results in the Major.
06 Feb 2011
  • Open 5.2.11 (bare match score) Middx 8½ 7½ Sussex. Details of this, and of yesterday's remaining matches, to follow.
  • Yateley Manor Schools Championship: some more Zone updates, and the qualifiers from the Last Chance Saloons. We returned from one of these unequal to further typing, and beg readers' indulgence till tomorrow.
05 Feb 2011
  • Open 5.2.11 Surrey 11 5 Herts. Also (bare match score) Essex 7½ 8½ Kent
  • U120 5.2.11 (bare match score) Kent 6 6 Essex
04 Feb 2011
  • National Club Intermediate: we have the last of the round-1 results. No Quarter-final pairings yet.
03 Feb 2011
  • SCCU Junior Jamborees 3rd April 2011: Neill Cooper gives details and invites entries
  • Yateley Manor Schools Championship: the first Zone winner emerges. Keep watching the Yateley page. Results are being updated all the time.
02 Feb 2011
  • National Club Major: one first-round result from Julie Johnson, and dates for the two that aren't played yet. Plus the draw for the Quarter-finals, and for the Plate Prelim and Quarter-finals.
31 Jan 2011
30 Jan 2011
  • U180 29.1.11 Essex 11 5 Sussex; Kent 9½ 6½ Middx. The positions are indeed determined, and the teams have earned an Editorial thank you by finishing in alphabetical order.
  • U160 29.1.11 Surrey 7 9 Kent
29 Jan 2011
  • U180 29.1.11 (bare match scores) Essex 11 5 Sussex; Kent 9½ 6½ Middx. Essex regain Montague Jones. We've a feeling all the U180 positions are fixed, but you may care to check.
  • National Club Intermediate: two results
24 Jan 2011
23 Jan 2011
22 Jan 2011
  • U140 22.1.11 Surrey 9½ 6½ Sussex; Herts 8½ 7½ Middx; Kent 8½ 7½ Essex
18 Jan 2011
17 Jan 2011
  • U14/130 16.1.11 Hants 16 8 Berks. With one match to go, positions in the Western group are determined. So is first place in the Eastern group, with two matches to go. (We think. It would do no harm if you checked those assertions.)
16 Jan 2011
15 Jan 2011
  • U160 15.1.11 Essex 9½ 6½ Sussex; Surrey 9 7 Herts
  • U120 15.1.11 Herts 6 6 Essex
  • U100 15.1.11 Surrey 5½ 6½ Essex
  • National Club Major. Another SCCU success
13 Jan 2011
09 Jan 2011
  • Open 8.1.11 Kent 9½ 6½ Middx; Herts 8½ 7½ Essex
  • National Club Intermediate. Our first result of the season (foreigner bites dust)
08 Jan 2011
  • Open 8.1.11 Sussex 6½ 9½ Surrey
  • U120 8.1.11 Surrey 6 6 Kent
  • U14/130 8.1.11 Essex 12½ 11½ Sussex
06 Jan 2011
31 Dec 2010
  • SCCU Junior Champions 2010-11 (from the second session of the London Junior Chamionships 28-30 December 2010): U18 Boys Akash Jain; U18 Girls Dominika Ociepka; U11 Boys William Claridge-Hansen; U11 Girls Akshaya Kalaiyalahan; U9 Girls Isabelle Gilbert
  • We have added one more season's worth - the very first season's worth - to the digitised back numbers of the Bulletin. It's in the Archive, but see today's update to the SCCU page first.
29 Dec 2010
  • SCCU Junior Champions 2010-11 (from the London Junior Chamionships 11-12 December 2010): U14 Boys Roy Zhang; U14 Girls Katherine Shepherd; U9 Boys Gautam Jain. The Championships of other age groups are currently in progress.
28 Dec 2010
  • We've been making vague noises, off and on, about digitising back numbers of the SCCU Bulletin. Well, we've made a start. See the SCCU page. (The product is in the Archive, but see the SCCU page first.)
19 Dec 2010
  • U140 11.12.10 Herts 11½ 4½ Sussex. With 5 Sussex defaults, not 4 as we said two days ago.
18 Dec 2010
17 Dec 2010
  • U140 11.12.10 (bare match score) Herts 11½ 4½ Sussex with 4 Sussex defaults. Details when someone sends them.
16 Dec 2010
  • National Club Minor is under way. Anyone know anything about the Open?
08 Dec 2010
07 Dec 2010
06 Dec 2010
05 Dec 2010
  • U14/130 4.12.10 Berks 9½ 14½ Surrey
04 Dec 2010
  • U14/130 4.12.10 (bare match score) Berks 9½ 14½ Surrey. Details shortly.
  • National Club. Detail on the Intermediate trickles in. More, anyone?
30 Nov 2010
  • National Club. We have some additional detail on the Intermediate and invite more. We also have news of the Minor, though it is not up and running yet.
29 Nov 2010
  • U180 27.11.10 Sussex 7 9 Surrey
  • U14/130 28.11.10 Kent 9½ 14½ Sussex
  • National Club Intermediate. News is, shall we say, incomplete; but it is under way.
28 Nov 2010
  • U14/130 27.11.10 Surrey 15½ 7½ Hants
27 Nov 2010
  • U180 27.11.10 Middx 7½ 8½ Essex. Also (bare match score) Sussex 7 9 Surrey
  • U100 27.11.10 Essex 6 6 Kent
22 Nov 2010
  • Open 20.11.10 Middx 6 10 Surrey; Essex 8½ 7½ Sussex; Kent 8½ 7½ Herts
  • U120 20.11.10 Essex 8½ 3½ Surrey; Kent 5½ 6½ Herts
21 Nov 2010
  • Open 20.11.10 (bare match scores) Essex 8½ 7½ Sussex; Kent 8½ 7½ Herts. Details shortly.
  • We know we said "details shortly" yesterday. We have details of all five of this weekend's matches, and etp is currently some time in the small hours of tomorrow.
20 Nov 2010
  • Open 20.11.10 (bare match score) Middx 6 10 Surrey. Details shortly.
  • U120 20.11.10 (bare match scores) Essex 8½ 3½ Surrey; Kent 5½ 6½ Herts. Details shortly.
15 Nov 2010
14 Nov 2010
  • U140 13.11.10 Herts 10½ 5½ Kent; Middx 11½ 4½ Sussex with 6 Sussex defaults
  • U14/130 14.11.10 Essex 17½ 6½ Kent
  • National Club Major is under way
07 Nov 2010
  • U160 6.11.10 Essex 9 7 Surrey
  • U14/130 6.11.10 Sussex 7 17 Essex
06 Nov 2010
  • U160 6.11.10 Kent 8½ 7½ Herts; Sussex 7½ 8½ Middx. Also (bare match score) Essex 9 7 Surrey
  • U100 6.11.10 Surrey 5½ 6½ Kent
01 Nov 2010
31 Oct 2010
  • U14/130 30.10.10 Herts 5 19 Berks
30 Oct 2010
  • U180 30.10.10 Surrey 7½ 8½ Middx. Also (bare match score) Essex 8½ 7½ Kent
  • U120 30.10.10 Surrey 6 6 Herts. Also (bare match score) Essex 5 7 Kent
25 Oct 2010
24 Oct 2010
  • Open 23.10.10 Herts 7½ 8½ Middx; Sussex 4½ 11½ Kent
23 Oct 2010
  • Open 23.10.10 Surrey 9 7 Essex. Also (bare match score) Herts 7½ 8½ Middx: details in the morning
  • U140 23.10.10 Surrey 9 7 Herts; Kent 11½ 4½ Middx
22 Oct 2010
19 Oct 2010
14 Oct 2010
  • Counties Championships: the ECF-stage dates are now available. You'll have to go to the bottom of the page for them.
11 Oct 2010
09 Oct 2010
04 Oct 2010
03 Oct 2010
  • U180 2.10.10 Kent 8½ 7½ Surrey; Middx 9½ 6½ Sussex
  • U140 2.10.10 Kent 11½ 4½ Surrey; Essex 6 10 Middx
  • U100 2.10.10 Essex 8 4 Surrey
02 Oct 2010
  • U180 2.10.10 (bare match scores) Kent 8½ 7½ Surrey; Middx 9½ 6½ Sussex
  • U140 2.10.10 (bare match scores) Essex 6 10 Middx; Kent 11½ 4½ Surrey
  • U100 2.10.10 (bare match score) Essex 8 4 Surrey
22 Sep 2010
21 Sep 2010
  • National Counties Rapidplay 18.9.10: detailed results. Let us know of any errors. Adam Raoof has sent a personal account of the event, with some games so we've put it in the eight-year dormant games page.
20 Sep 2010
  • National Counties Rapidplay (see 18 Sep): Handicap places. 1 Surrey 4.78; 2 Essex 1 2.1; 3 Middx -0.14; 4 Essex 2 -3.01; 5 Beds -3.73. We confess we weren't expecting accuracy to two places of decimals. Full details later today if we have time to type them up.
18 Sep 2010
  • Neill Cooper announces the entries and groupings for the U14/130 2010-11
  • National Counties Rapidplay at Wanstead 18.9.10: 1 Essex 1 37½/48; 2 Middx 28; 3 Beds 21½; 4 Surrey 17½; 5 Essex 2 15½. Handicap results, and full details, when we have them.
  • Mike Gunn, SCCU President, has a new email address. See Who's Who
13 Sep 2010
11 Sep 2010
  • Russell Trophy Jamboree 10.9.10
  • Things are moving in Sussex. They now have a County website.
  • And our own front page has a new Feature. Hope you don't mind.
09 Sep 2010
  • Yateley Manor National Schools Championship: entry form 2010-11 (Word doc) is now available.
03 Sep 2010
  • County matches 2010-11: we publish the list of match captains. Check that we've got your details right, if you are one.
01 Sep 2010
  • It's September, so it must be 2010-11. 2009-10 is consigned to the Archive. Much of it is also retained temporarily on the main Site for ease of reference. The deactivated links on the front page will spring back to life when needed.
  • David Smith, County Match Controller, announces the SCCU Fixtures 2010-11. Keep watching. One fixture has changed already since we first uploaded the page.

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