2024 NEW YEAR GROUP UPDATE

Hi everyone just an update to let you know what is going on in the club!!

OCD was formed on December 28, 2012 and has seen many changes in our 11 years. Levels of activity remain high for such a small group which remains strong and we are able to bring up to 80% of the whole membership to a match which is pretty unheard of at chess.com and field a very strong Vote Chess team.

Membership has remained around 200 currently, pruning inactive accounts and recruiting new, active people to keep standards high.

OCD Continues to be a successful, thriving community of chess enthusiasts and I thank everyone for helping to make this the case.

TEAM MATCHES

Our current matches can be found here and we are winning 72% of our matches and are currently ranked 146th at Chess.com.

TMCL (Team Match Championship League)

In 2023 we competed in TMCL Division B

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7

Had a revenge rematch recently for Round 4 and currently winning it here.

Currently awaiting confirmed results to see if we will have any more trophies for our crowded cabinet. We are currently in second place for 2023.

TMCL (Team Match Championship League) Under 1700 rated section.

In 2023 we competed in the inaugural TMCL under 1700 rated section in Division A against the toughest clubs in the competition.

R1 R2 R3 (winning but close) R4 (winning but close) R5 (Winning but not finished)

Some very exciting battles there!

TMCL 960

In the 960 (Fischer Random Chess) TMCL we competed in the B division. Official results have yet to be announced and we are currently in third.

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5

Knockout Tourneys

We are also playing in Knockout TM tourneys:

Season 31 - >1500 SILVER

Season 33 - 1400-1800 playing for GOLD currently and looking good and a win but not confirmed yet.

Season 35 - <1800 semi final very early days click here

Season 36 - <2000 Round 2 click here looks like another win unconfirmed by the league yet.

OCD MATCH AWARDS

Awards for TM participation continue to be recorded here, thanks to all for your participation.

VOTE CHESS

We continue to be a force to be reckoned with in VC, we have a win rate of 71% and are 105th out of the clubs at Chess.com.

Do get involved in VC whatever rating you are, currently we have 9 games ongoing with 2 960 games amongst them all of which can be found here.

We are also involved in Its a Knockout VC tournaments, where we are progressing well in Seasons 17, 22, 23, 24.

Season 17 - We have won and we are just waiting for the Bronze playoff to complete to get our GOLD trophy. 🏆🏆🏆

Season 22 - We are in the semi finals (top 4 clubs). This is the 960 season so if you are interested in learning about 960 join the 2 games with a KOVCL S22 R3 prefix.

Season 23 - We have won our first round games and await the next round.

Season 24 - Currently playing our games

OCD has also joined a new vote chess league - LaLEAGUE Chess Masters where we are playing top 8 clubs here in a round robin event. We have just started round 5 and 2 more rounds to go No games are finished yet.

I don’t think we can leave this Vote Chess topic without mentioning the vote game of the year. A friendly game against the unbeatable (so they said and no one much except us seems to have beaten them) Los Amigos de Chanquete. This club contains the strong Spanish and Portuguese speaking chess players at this site. We played the GROB opening. And surprised them and WON! 33 OCDers played this game with amazing team work.

IN HOUSE ACTIVITY

We are currently running several in house projects:

- The OCD unrated ladders which is very popular and active, the standard ladder is here and the 960 ladder is here , they are both rolling events so please feel free to jump in.

- We have many internal tournaments (chess.com) ongoing. More will undoubtedly follow.

-We run our fun team chess events which can be found in the group profile on the home page ...things like tag chess, (both standard and 960), crazy Biggest Loser competition found here and 3 Check Chess competition here were a lot of fun and more crazy fun to continue in 2024.

- The Hall of Fame has been created to show of the successes of our group and our players. Do take a look please.

- We are hosting more live arenas and will investigate entering a live league.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the OCD admin team for their efforts, I could not do this without you all.

If anyone has ideas or suggestions, please feel free to contact me and please note we are recruiting, so if you have friends who you feel may be suitable OCDers please let me know.

Kind Regards

DW

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