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Hiyall, Today the Wyvern League is launched ! This will be an individual friendly competition between members of Somerset Wyvern. It wiil involve groups of 4 or 5 so 6 to 8 games against members on similar grades. They will be 3 day daily games. I thought the fun part of the Blitzes was playing against fellow club members and I thought this idea would give us the chance to meet each other with similar rankings. Although our Wyvern Championship does this it isn't "level gradings" and takes a long time to complete. With many new members, some of whom are very young, I thought this would give folk the chance of a more friendly game of chess. Please let me know what you think and enter here if you wish to take part. Cheers Alan

In preparation for when Arsene goes I intend to start practicing my team selection and man management skills. Seriously now that we have more and more matches to play, I shall be withdrawing some players from some matches (when we have more than is needed). This will not be done on results but on trying to balance gradings with the opposition and, more importantly, trying to give everyone reasonable opportunities. Please let me know what you think about this - I'd hate to upset anyone. I do feel the one area of Somerset Wyvern we could improve on is the feedback and participation in discussion. While we're on the subject of matches - with the recent influx of new members, am I arranging enough matches, too many, let me know what you think. Thanks for your support, Alan