- Webmaster
- May 15, 2020
The Government Guidance
The Government guidance is to shut down all clubs and pubs until further notice.
This is a fast changing situation and pubs may re-open with "Social Distancing" and the situation will be reviewed when this happens
The ECF and coronavirus guidance
The ECF has been considering the operation of evening league chess during the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
It is for individual leagues to decide on their own policy and the ECF cannot make decisions for those organisations. Our suggestion is that play is suspended for a period. A sensible period, to allow for the progress of the virus to be monitored and reviewed in line with developments in Government policy .
Stockport League
ECF have recommended the postponement of all league chess fixtures and the Stockport League committee have agreed with this. All league fixtures are therefore postponed with immediate effect. The situation will be kept under review, but captains should not make any attempt to rearrange matches at this stage.
Stoke League
In view of the situation with the Covid-19 virus the NSDCA have just made the decision to suspend ALL league and cup matches with immediate effect. This will be reviewed when more advice and information becomes available.
Club (UPDATE : Club is closed)
The club will be Closed .
- Phil (TD)
- Feb 18, 2020
In the semi-finals, Joachim Trier capitulated to James Heppell (the current title holder) while Colin Davison was bested by Martin Ollson. I have no details of the games but I imagine they were both hard fought. So James plays Martin for the title ... 2 long play games with reversed colours (tie breaker if 1-1 after that). Watch this space for updates!!
- The Webmaster
- Jan 29, 2020
The January grades are out and can be seen on the members page or the ECF grading pages.
Plenty of interesting changes (Brief summary below)
Smallbone, Kieran 215
Shaw, Robert 195
Heppell, James 177
Davison, Colin 160
Olsson, Martin 156
Cattermole, Philip 153
Soames, Anthony 152
Gartside, Carl 151
Colville, Philip 150
Taylor, John Paul 148
Trier, Joachim 148
Lobo, Denzil 144
Laurence, Geoff 142
Brough, Anthony 137
Lane, Tony 121
Murphy, Richard 120
Astley, John 116
Renshaw, Mick 111
Jouannet, Marc 104
Robson, Thomas 98
Woodhall, Brian 74
Dawson, Stephen 64
Curr, Patrick 48
Renshaw, Angie 48