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The Spring Quickplay was held on the 30th May 2022.There was a good turnout with 13 competitors.

The tournament was organised by Tony Soames and went smoothly .

The handicap system helped level the playing field

  1. Tony Brough won with 4.5 points

  2. Geoff Laurence and Jake Darlington were joint second with 4 points

Tony Brough secured the overall lead and the trophy (Results on Quickplay Webpage)


The Winter Quickplay tournament was held on the 13th December 2021.There was a good turnout with 15 competitors, with some old members returning and a few new members.

The tournament was organised by Tony Soames and went smoothly as usual.


  • James Heppel proved too strong for all with 5 points

  • Roy Gray performed well and was second with 4 points .

  • Tony Brough was third with 3.5 points.

It was a good evening which everyone enjoyed. The quickplay results are now on the website. A big thank you to Tony Soames for his excellent organisation of the event

There are 10 entrants for this venture. The players have been rated 1 to 10 based on standard play grades. Pool A consists of the odd numbers :Colin Davison, Geoff Laurence, John-Paul Taylor, Jack Staniland and Jake Darlington.

Pool B has the even numbers : Tony Soames, Joachim Trier, Ant Brough, John Astley and Ed Watts.

The format is simple - every player in each pool will play the others in that pool, once with white and once with black. I would expect both games to be played against an opponent on one night.

Thus everyone should have 4 nights of games. The winners of each pool will play-off (again with each colour) to determine the overall winner.


In the event of the final ending 1-1, there will be no play-off and there will therefore be joint winners.


The Rate of Play is 20 minutes each with 10 secs per move.

I will remind all players that an illegal move will result in 2 minutes being added to the opponent's clock (good luck with that) but a 2nd illegal move automatically loses the game.


Tony Soames has qualified for the final from pool B but, an organiser's nightmare results in the need for a tie-break in pool A. Colin will play J-P again (sudden death - first to win goes through). Thus the competition will finish in September!


Pool A Results


28/03/22 Colin Davison 1 - 0 Jack Staniland P W D L Pts

Jack Staniland 0 - 1 Colin Davison Colin Davison 8 5 1 2 11

04/04/22 John-Paul Taylor 1 - 0 Jack Staniland John-Paul Taylor 8 5 1 3 11

Jack Staniland 1 - 0 John-Paul Taylor Geoff Laurence 8 4 1 3 9

Colin Davison 1 - 0 Geoff Laurence Jake Darlington 6 1 1 4 3

Geoff Laurence 1 - 0 Colin Davison Jack Staniland 6 1 0 5 2

11/04/22 Jake Darlington 0.5-0.5 Colin Davison

Colin Davison 1 - 0 Jake Darlington

Geoff Laurence 0.5-0.5 John-Paul Taylor

John-Paul Taylor 1 - 0 Geoff Laurence

09/05/22 Jack Staniland 0 - 1 Geoff Laurence

Geoff Laurence 1 - 0 Jack Staniland

23/05/22 Jake Darlington 1 - 0 Geoff laurence

Geoff Laurence 1 - 0 Jake Darlington

John-Paul Taylor 1 - 0 Colin Davison

Colin Davison 1 - 0 John-Paul Taylor

John-Paul Taylor 1 - 0 Jake Darlington

Jake Darlington 0 - 1 John-Paul Taylor


Pool B Results


28/03/22 Ant Brough 0 - 1 Joachim Trier P W D L Pts

Joachim Trier 0 - 1 Ant Brough Tony Soames 8 7 1 0 15

04/04/22 Joachim Trier 0 - 1 Tony Soames Ant Brough 8 5 1 2 11

Tony Soames 1 - 0 Joachim Trier Joachim Trier 8 5 0 3 10

Ant Brough 1 - 0 Ed Watts John Astley 8 2 0 6 4

Ed Watts 0 - 1 Ant Brough Ed Watts 8 0 0 8 0

11/04/22 Tony Soames 1 - 0 Ant Brough

Ant Brough 0.5-0.5 Tony Soames

25/04/22 John Astley 0 - 1 Ant Brough

Ant Brough 1 - 0 John Astley

John Astley 0 - 1 Tony Soames

Tony Soames 1 - 0 John Astley

09/05/22 John Astley 0 - 1 Joachim Trier

Joachim Trier 1 - 0 John Astley

16/05/22 Tony Soames 1 - 0 Ed Watts

Ed Watts 0 - 1 Tony Soames

Joachim Trier 1 - 0 Ed Watts

Ed Watts 0 - 1 Joachim Trier

John Astley 1 - 0 Ed Watts

Ed Watts 0 - 1 John Astley


macclesfieldchess

The Club Championship and The Pomeroy Cup are underway in an all-play-all league format.



Club Championship

Full results of the completed competition are on the relevant section of the competitions page.



Pomeroy Cup

There are still a few games to complete but the majority of results are on the Pomeroy Cup section of the competitions page.








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