Croalin is the highest rated player from Scotland and along with Phish Finger they share first position in group 7. Phish Finger has been online since 2014 and Croalin joined in 2009 so with almost 5000 daily games under his belt it's probably no ...
Winawer dominates group 5 which is no surprise with an 1800+ rating. William Edwards, aka 'Billy The Kid', shows how much he has improved since our Summer tournament and progresses to round 3. FYI: The Winawer Variation is one of the main lines i...
Zoe Varney shows her dominance with 4 straight wins. This was hopefully good practice as she is soon to represent England in the European Team Chess Championship 2021 and European Women’s Team Chess Championship 2021 which will take place from 11t...
Westview2016 and Donacropolis make it through to round 3. I tried!
This was a surprise win by Phishfinger (1347) after Croalin (1820) resigned as white. Croalin was winning but then gave it away. There is still a long way to go in this group so anything could happen.
Neil Williams (Saint29) and Steven Smithwhite go through to round 3. FYI this was David's first Vivaldi tournament, hopefully he will be back in January for the Winter event.
NM Sacbutt and Plywood64 go through to round 3. FYI NM Sacbutt won the Vivaldi Summer Tournament
CM Grouvilleknight and Rhi Autumn go through to round 3. FYI Grouville is a small parish in Jersey with a population circa 5000. Here is a view across the Royal Bay of Grouville.
BluesRunner holds CM Grouvilleknight to a draw. This is probably his best result to date as it’s not often that players get to play against a Candidate Master.The CM title is awarded to players who achieve an established classical FIDE rating of 2...
Rhi Autumn playing the black pieces wins against BluesRunner. This is an excellent result for Rhi as she is rated 400 points less than her fellow player from Wales. Interestingly her profile states she is: Just a chess girl. For the love of the ga...
Chess960 (or Fischerandom) is a variation of chess invented by the eleventh World Chess Champion, Bobby Fischer. Fischer felt that the current approach to chess produced lifelessness and a general decline in creativity. His solution was to shuffle...
VinCollo made Morgan and Lucy work hard and in the end he secured victory with checkmate. It's not often (well not for me) that a BRILLIANT move is made but Steve Collins did just that.
Bluebird52 (Ken Leach) may be in the runners up tournament but he is an experienced and skilful player, so who is Jim Gangel? Jim Gangel is new to the club and on the list to join the Winter tournament so to whet his appetite he has been invited t...
Neil is the highest rated player who is not currently a chess master or similar. It took him just 12 moves to force StevenSmithwhite to resign after Rc1. By coincidence they both met in round 1 and shared top spot.
Saint29 (Neil Williams) and Steven Smithwhite both top group 3 with 5pts each. Neil has a daily rating of 1963 so how did he get so good? He started playing chess when he was young although only played for 4-5 years before he had a long hiatus fr...
I guess I should explain my choice of pic - Marionette is a Korean film and from what little info I have Marionet Lee is a female player and so is Rui Autumn. If I'm wrong it's still a good chess pic. Now for what matters .... they have both prog...
Until recently William Edwards called himself Billy Edwards, something he hadn't been called since secondary school. This last win secured top position with 5pts closely followed by Blacknight40 with 4 pts. Jim Hawkins narrowly missed out with 3pt...
Mr Jolson secures another win after Siluriun (Taff James) resigns as white. Some might call it Karma after Taff messaged to tell me ‘Get stuffed’ when I prompted him to make more moves to keep up with the 16 a week. Mr Jolson is currently +6 in th...
Ken Sweetman (Ken_S2013) leaves the tournament in style as Martin Portwood (Plywood64) resigns on move 43 when Ken played Rxe3+. With two game to go Ken cannot finish higher than 3rd so he is now eligible for the runners up tournament. With a 500 ...
A special tournament for all of those who have been knocked out of tournament and need something to keep them going until the next in January. It's invite only so I will send to you if appropriate. It's a non rated tournament so no chance of losi...
StevenSmithwhite and Saint29 (Neil Williams) progress to the next round. Neil has a Daily rating of 1940 whilst Steven is currently 1444. When they played each other Steven won by resignation playing white.
Master_Eli (Eli Miller) from Scotland, who timed out in his game against Towey2 has gone on to win the next 2 games and is now level on points with toxa_s (Anton) from Ireland. In this last win he played Bxf6# to seal Jim Ward’s fate.
bfck (Ken Kenchington) resigns after Donacropolis (Andrew) plays Bxg5 on move 14 and captures blacks queen. Watch the game as it unfolded: bfck v Donacropolis
Zoe Varney is 21 and has been playing chess since she was 8. Chess highlights include 6th place at the European Schools Chess Championships in 2014 and British U18 Woman Champion and 3rd= overall British Woman Champion in the main section of the B...
