Following our summer break, Junior Club returns tonight at 6:00PM (doors open 5:45pm) ready for the new season of chess.
Anslow 2019
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Anslow 2019 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | O.Willson | 194 | xxx | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 1/2 |
| 2 | C.Hann | 146 | 1 | xxx | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | WO | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | J.Wheeler | 160 | 1/2 | 1 | xxx | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 1/2 |
| 4 | S.Blewitt | 160 | 0 | 1 | 1/2 | xxx | 1 | 1 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | A.Cload | 136 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 0 | xxx | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 1/2 |
| 6 | D.Cosens | 130 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | xxx | xxx | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 1/2 |
| 7 | B.Ruane | 167 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0 | xxx | xxx | 1 | 1 | xxx | 3 |
| 8 | M.Bryant | 136 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | O.Namouk | 109 | 0 | def | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | xxxx | xxx | 1 |
| 10 | M.Fletcher | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1 | xxx | xxx | 1 |
Bradley Martin
| Bradley Martin | |||||||||||||
| 1 | P.Tournier | 78 | xxx | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 1/2 |
| 2 | K.Hossack | 101 | 1/2 | xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 1/2 |
| 3 | J.leach | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| 4 | U.Jozwick | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1 | 1 | xxx | 1 | 1/2 | 1 | 4 1/2 |
| 5 | G.Chandler | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 1/2 |
| 6 | R.Richardson | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | xxx | xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 1/2 |
| 7 | J.Worsley | 0 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 0 | xxx | xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 1/2 | |
| 8 | C.Parry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 9 | H.Stephens | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1/2 | 2 |
| 10 | L.Steuart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | xxxx | 1/2 |
club winter tournaments
Entries are now invited for the club winter tournaments
Closing date Sunday the 13 October
President’s v Chairman’s Match
| President’s v Chairman’s Match | ||||
| 1 | O.Willson | .5 .5 | F.Rayner | |
| 2 | S.Blewitt | 0 1 | B.Ruane | |
| 3 | A.Cload | 0 1 | M.Woodhams | |
| 4 | G.Willson | .5 .5 | M.Fletcher | |
| 5 | O.Namouk | 1 0 | W.Cobb | |
| 6 | U.Jozwiak | 0 1 | R.richardson | |
| 3 3 |
Friendlies Report
This is the summary report of the friendly matches played this season 2018/19
Hastings and St Leonards are involved in four friendly matches this season.
In our longest running fixture against Insurance in April Hastings lost narrowly 2.5-3.5, a single win from Chris Hann not enough save our blushes.
The GLCC match in July, Hastings went down 1.5 – 5.5, however the scoreline was a bit disingenuous as a last minute replacement for their bottom board was their highest rated played which skewed all the board order. This was their captains 50 year appearance in this fixture and we fielded two juniors who we hope will continue to play in this fixture in 50 years time.
| Hastings | 1½ – 5½ | GLCC |
| B. Cafferty (176) | ½ – ½ | J. Rihel (179) |
| M. Bryant (139) | 0 – 1 | T. Pelling (189) |
| M. Fletcher(92) | 0 – 1 | D. Hadley (119) |
| K. Hossack (98) | 1 – 0 | M. Pole (110) |
| W. Cobb (84) | 0 – 1 | G. Broadbent (101) |
| J. Umberto (73) | 0 – 1 | D. Bennett (93) |
| C. Parry (UG) | 0 – 1 | T. Fleming (88) |
Our biggest friendly match with 18 boards was the regular visit of Wanstead and Woodford on 31st August. Another defeat for Hastings 11-7 but a cracking match it was very much enjoyed by all participants.
Following the football leagues champions league final in May and the fact that Hastings had won the Sussex League I thought it could be good to start our own champions league with a challenge to Wood Green who had just won the London league. Unfortunately they declined our challenge as they feared they couldn’t raise a team. I guess we win on default then, so Hastings are Champion of the Champions! 😉
A new fixture for this season was the restoration of a match against local rivals Bexhill who on the last two outings have defeated us. During one of those matches it was rumoured that a chess board was burnt signalling the death of chess in Hastings creating some Ashes in the process. Well we want our Ashes back and the fight is set for 21st September with the victor receiving the Ashes urn. It is hoped that this will be annual fixture from now on.
MacArthur Cup Report
The MacArthur cup is a very prestigious competition in Sussex that dates back to 1889. The format is a classical time-control straight forward knock out that is open to the best teams in clubs from East and West Sussex.
For the past 13 years this has been held by either Hastings or Brighton and once again these two teams contested the coveted trophy. Hastings hasn’t won this for 7 years so was about time we took it back from Brighton.
The competition is not well supported with only four teams entering this year and this was after an absence of two years where the trophy was not contested.
In our semi-final we faced off against Haywards heath and sailed through to the final 6-0 as they couldn’t raise a team and defaulted.
So Brighton it was in the final who knocked out Horsham 4.5-1.5 to claim their place. We lost the toss and so had to travel to Brighton for the final.
I (Mason) had taken over the captaincy of the team as I wanted to say that I played in such a long running and prestigious chess tournament but being a low grade didn’t think I’d ever make the team. Numerous calls & emails to top players resulted in me making the team on merit as so many players were unavailable and so it was game on at Brighton.
The team of Sugden, Barton, Blewitt, Wheeler, Hann and myself were all heavily out graded on all boards but we still managed to get some points and made a real fight of it, everyone playing exceptionally but unfortunately going down 3.5-2.5 in the end. Special mention for Alan’s game where he played an amazing Queen pawn ending which was an absolute joy to watch.
With a stronger team the trophy could have been ours as Brighton weren’t particularly good on the day considering the grades. Better luck next year.
Junior Club and Intro Cup report 2018/19
This is the report for the junior club of Hastings & St Leonards Chess Club for 2018/19 and the Intro Cup in the Kent League as this was contested by our Junior squad.
What an amazing season for the Juniors, probably one of the best we’ve had in a long time. Numbers up, enjoyment up, quality up, and juniors now starting to be integrated into the main club.
Special thanks to Eve Grimsted whose late husband Michael a member of the Junior club himself many years ago, continues to donate to the club allowing us to subsidise fees and bring the enjoyment of chess to more children than we might otherwise been able to do.
Average attendance this season has been 16.2 per week with a high of 22 and a low of 12. Over 40 different children have come through the doors with age ranges from 5 to 13. We have the most improved boy in Sussex (Alex Lebedev) and the second most improved girl in Sussex (Alise Peterson), alongside the unconfirmed most improved Junior in England who went from zero grade to 95 and gaining his ECF Chess Maestro title in the process (Will Cobb). Many other juniors have also increased their grades or got grades for the first time. We have a number of boys and girls who have been called up to play for Sussex Juniors this season including, Chamithu W., Thamadi W., Edie Stacy, Alise Peterson, the latter three who all played in the U11 County finals helping Sussex to runners-up spot, an amazing achievement. Hastings made up the biggest contingent of any club in that team something we should be very proud of. Our girls done us proud. William Cobb was our unofficial Junior Champion this year winning the Delancy challenge, special mention to Thamadi W. who leading in the final round agreed a GM draw with Chamithu forfeiting the title but allowing her brother to also qualify for the Sussex Mega Final, an amazing show of sportsmanship.
In October of 2018 and to celebrate Hastings day (the day chess was brought to England by the Normans) we played a chess variant to re-enact the Battle of Hastings on a chess board. The set up is as below. Surprisingly the massive shield wall of Harold was particular strong and held off the Norman knights a lot of the time changing the course of history.
New for this season was our participation in the Kent Chess League Intro Cup. At last year’s AGM no-one volunteered to be Intro Cup Captain so I took the opportunity to use that fact to create an all junior squad to compete. This was a big success. Giving juniors the chance to play tournament chess with classical time controls against adults dramatically improved their game. I don’t think any other club do this so this could be the start of something new (as always with Hastings being the pioneer in all things chess). Thanks go to the Kent league clubs for accommodating our need to play weekend fixtures. Our Intro squad was:
- William Cobb
- Thamadi Wickramanayake
- Chamithu Wickramanayake
- Edie Stacy
- Alise Peterson
- Alex Lebedev
- Christy Parry
Half way during the year we managed to purchase a cheap touch screen computer for juniors and the wider membership in general. A feature on Chess.com has been particularly useful in training juniors was “Vision”, this is a rapidfire test to see how many squares on a board you can name in 30 secs. It’s fun and a great way of teaching algebraic notation. Some juniors even did this faster than adults at the club!
Very early in the season I taught them Legals mate but it wasn’t until much later in the season when Thamadi watched a video on this and employed it in one of her games, much to the annoyance of her opponent in the Kent League who had travelled all the way to us for an Intro match only to be beaten within three minutes. A brilliant game and one that will be remembered for a long time by all parties.
In our first away match of the season in the Intro Cup young William Cobb was up against one of Maidstone’s top juniors. In their first ever long play game our juniors were real credit to the club but it William that stood out playing a brilliancy towards the end of his game that neither I nor David Heath my counterpart expected, we both saw a simplification but William made use of his knights to secure an amazing mate.
| Final Table 2018/19eam | Play | Won | Draw | Lost | For | Against | Points | SP | MP | IM |
| Team | Play | Won | Draw | Lost | For | Against | Points | SP | MP | IM |
| Maidstone 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Medway 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12½ | 7½ | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maidstone 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11½ | 8½ | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hastings & St Leonards 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Snodland 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6½ | 13½ | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Medway 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6½ | 13½ | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
SP = Season Penalties, MP = Match Penalties, IM = Incomplete Matches
Great credit to our juniors who finished only a single point off of the playoffs in their first ever season.
As mentioned earlier we had over 40 different children come through our doors this season but we say goodbye to two of our top juniors Thamadi & Chamithu Wickramanayake who return to Sri Lanka. We wish them good luck with their chess and hope they grace Hastings again with their presence in the future. We’ll miss them terribly.
The majority of 2018/19 we ran two classes, one for experienced more serious player and a social/beginners class, both with lots of prizes, treats and competitions. However on occasion when either tutor is unavailable and running a combined class, it can be challenging, especially with such a mix of skills and ages.. We would welcome members who would like to volunteer from time to time, or to provide cover when a tutor is unavailable to come forward. You won’t have to commit to regular days just any occasional time you have free and would like to help us develop our juniors would be very much welcomed.
2019/2020 and beyond
This next season we will continue to develop and integrate our juniors with the main club. The main way we will do this is to introduce an Academy of Chess. This will be an additional teaching session scheduled for before the Friday night RapidPlay, so that juniors can then take part in the evening. It will be open by invitation only to child members of the club. A formal curriculum and training programme will be followed, with individual learning plans giving a more rigorous foundation of chess knowledge. We did have a few additional pre-match training days last season but because fixtures were constantly being rearranged we were unable to give the training we wanted. There will be an additional cost in learning materials and tutor costs for the Academy which we are hoping to cover with grants.
Also this season we will continue the juniors participation in the Intro cup and enter them all in the Delancy Chess Challenge as usual.
Hastings v Wanstead and Woodford
| Hastings | Wanstead and Woodford | ||||||
| 1 | O.Willson | 196 | 0 | 1 | K.Bui | 177 | |
| 2 | D.Lowe | 193 | 1 | 0 | D.Spearman | 176 | |
| 3 | H.Tebbs | 180 | 1 | 0 | S.Rix | 175 | |
| 4 | T.Stock | 177 | 0 | 1 | L.Marden | 170 | |
| 5 | P.De Buff | 175 | 1 | 0 | P.Barclay | 148 | |
| 6 | S.Blewill | 156 | 0 | 1 | D.Rawlings | 148 | |
| 7 | J.Wheeler | 156 | 0 | 1 | C.Sicdo | 143 | |
| 8 | M.Bryant | 139 | 0 | 1 | A.Collyer | 142 | |
| 9 | J.Kimber | 137 | 1 | 0 | B.Harte | 142 | |
| 10 | M.Woodhams | 132 | 0.5 | 0.5 | P.Mccarron | 135 | |
| 11 | G.willson | 116 | 0 | 1 | P.Nickals | 132 | |
| 12 | W.Stock | 111 | 1 | 0 | D.Smith | 129 | |
| 13 | A.ponton | 110 | 0.5 | 0.5 | P.Haddock | 127 | |
| 14 | K.Hossack | 98 | 0 | 1 | J.Jestico | 101 | |
| 15 | M.Fletcher | 92 | 0 | 1 | n.White | 100 | |
| 16 | W.Cobb | 84 | 0 | 1 | M.Budeingham | 79 | |
| 17 | G.Chander | 87 | 0 | 1 | V,.Garlon | 78 | |
| 18 | E.Stacy | 40 | 1 | 0 | J.Mara | 49 | |
| 7 | 11 |
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Hastings & St. Leonards Chess Club
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Hastings & St Leonards Chess Club Ltd, company registration 07737752 – will be held on Sunday 8 September 2019 at 2:30 pm at Pelton House, 2 Cornwallis Terrace, Hastings.
All Members are entitled to attend and speak but only Full Members are entitled to vote
Members are encouraged to attend but if they cannot then company law permits them to appoint a proxy and a form of proxy accompanies this notice.
Would be proxy givers are asked to consider carefully any directions they wish to give the proxy holder on how and when their vote is to be exercised or not to be exercised.
A form of proxy is enclosed for eligible members who wish to use it.
Members are strongly urged, in order to expedite the business of the Meeting, to raise beforehand with the appropriate person any points of information that might perhaps be disposed of without taking up the Meeting’s time.
Tea (complimentary) will be taken at approximately 4.00 p.m., and if necessary, the meeting will adjourn for that purpose.
After the AGM, there will be the customary President’s v Chairman’s Match (30 minutes per player,
ungraded) for the Reg Cload Trophy.
It is not obligatory for most to submit written reports, but the following documents are enclosed with this Agenda:
Agenda item 5: Chairman’s Report
AGENDA ITEM 7 Treasurer Report
Agenda item 8.7 Harvey cup
Agenda item 8.8 En Passant Kent
Agenda item 8.9 Tom Fuller
Agenda item 8.12 Mid Sussex 1
Agenda item 8.13 Mid Sussex 2
Agenda item 8.10 Kent summer Quickplay 2018
Agenda item 18.9 Shadforth Boger
N.B. members who receive these papers by e-mail may find them collated differently to those receiving hard copy, but the content is the same!
The Minutes of the AGM of 9 September 2018 have been previously circulated but are circulated again for the convenience of Members. Members who attended who have issues of accuracy with them should advise the Secretary in good time.
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AGENDA
1 Apologies for Absence.
2 Announcement of any proxies.
3 One minute’s Silence for members who have died.
4 Matters Arising not otherwise on the Agenda or reported.
5 Chairman’s Report MR. Bryant
6 Secretary’s Report – Mr Willson
7 Financial Report Treasurer – Mr. Wheeler
7.1 Report
7..2 Accounts for the year to 30 June 2019
7..3 Adopt the Accounts
7.4 Appointment of examiner of the Accounts.
8 Reports from other office-holders
8.1 Premises Officer vacant
8.2 Junior Organizer Mr. Woodhams
8.3 Tournament Controller Ms Norinkeviciute
8.4 Librarian – Mr. Cafferty
8.5 Website manager – Mr. Woodhams
8.6 Stevenson Mr. Cload
8.7 Harvey Mr Bryant
8.8 EnPassant Mr Bryant
8.9 tom Fuller Mr Jozwiak
8.10 Kent Summer Quickplay 2018
8.11 Friendly matches Mr. Woodhams
8.12 Mid Sussex League 1st team Mr Tebbs
8.13 Mid Sussex League 2nd team Mr Bryant
8.14 Mid Sussex League 3rd team Mr Woodhams
8.15 Mid Sussex league 4th team Mr Willson
8.16 representative on Committee of the Hastings Chess Congress -Mrs Penfold
8.17 Delegates to Mid-Sussex Chess League – Messrs. Bryant, Tebbs woodhams Wilson
8.18 Delegate to Sussex Chess Association – Mr. Elliston Delegate to Sussex Chess Association
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9 Vote of Thanks to Retiring Officers
10 Election of Directors of the Company (i.e. Committee)
Directors also serve as Trustees of the registered charity
10.1 Chairman
10.2 Treasurer
10.3 Secretary
10.4 Premises Officer
10.5 Junior Director
10.6 up to six non-executive Directors
11 Election of other Officers and delegates:
11.1 Tournament Controller
11.2 Membership Secretary
11.3 Publicity/Press Officer
11.4 Website Manager
11.5 Equipment Officer
11.6 Representative on Committee of the Hastings International Chess Congress
11.7 Delegates to Mid-Sussex Chess League (has usually been the MSCL match
captains ex officio)
11.8 Delegate to Sussex Chess Association.
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12 Membership Subscriptions and related matters
12.1 The Committee is not proposing any changes to the standard rates
13 Match Captains
13.1 Paul Watson Trophy (teams of six and four respectively)
Mid-Sussex League
13.2 1team
13.3 2 team
13.4 3 team
13.5 4team
13.6 MacArthur cup
14 Kent League teams: six divisions
14.1 open
14.2 Lewis 170
14.3 Stevenson 155
14.4 En passant 140
14.5 Harvey 125
14.6 tom fuller 110
14.7 Intro 95
15 Friendly matches
16 Date of Annual General Meeting 2020
17 Any Other Business
18 Presentation of Trophies
18.1 Club Championship D.Lowe
18.2 Pelton Cup S.Blewitt
18.3 Rush Cup W.Cobb
18.4 Anslow Cup 2015 (summer tourney) To be announced
18.5 Bradley-Martin 2015 (summer tourney)
18 6 Winser Trophy 2015 (summer K.O.)
18.7 Dent Cup 2015 (summer K.O. Plate)
18.8 Whyte Cup 2015 ½ hour (summer quick play)
18.9 Shadforth-Boger Trophy (merit in matches) to be announced
18.10 Starling Cup (10-minute
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