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Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Saturday Morning Chess Session
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
North Staffs High School Championships.
I have just received the following from Jonathan Blackburn, the County Junior Secretary :
On Wednesday February 15th, Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews
Academy will host the North Staffordshire High Schools championships. Currently
11 schools from all around will send teams of 4 (some more than 1 team!) to see
who will be crowned Champions. While it is a competitive event, the focus is on
continuing to build upon the recent resurgence of chess at this age range, and
provide extra-curricular opportunities for the pupils within these chess clubs.
A big thank you goes out to all those teachers giving their
time to run these clubs and bring their pupils to the event! As well as to
Chess in Schools & Communities who have provided many of the schools with
the equipment to run the clubs.
Monday, 6 February 2023
Junior Chess Clubs
Monday, 9 January 2023
Shropshire Congress 2023
Congratulations to Jonathan Blackburn of Alsager on winning the Open Section at this weekend's Shropshire Congress, with a score of 4.5/5.
Other standout performances were from Carmel Barwick of Crewe, who finished joint 2nd in the Intermediate Section with a score of 4/5.
Chris Hankey of Fenton was joint 4th in the Major with 3.5/5.
The highest placed NSDCA players in the Minor Section were Nigel Gardner of Crewe and Lea Podmore of Fenton, both finishing joint 6th with scores of 3.5/5.
Very well done to all the other NSDCA players who took part.
The full results can be viewed at www.chess-results.com and searching for Shropshire Congress.
Thursday, 5 January 2023
FIDE Laws Of Chess 2023
The FIDE Laws Of Chess have been updated and can be viewed here, or from the link on the left hand side of the page.
Monday, 5 December 2022
Stafford Chess Club - Change Of Venue
Thursday, 24 November 2022
NSDCA UK v NSDCA Europe
The annual UK v Europe match has been provisionally scheduled for Monday 5th June 2023. The match will, hopefully, be played at The Tollgate in Blurton. Can Club Secretaries please forward me the names of anybody who would be interested in playing for the Europe team. That is to say, anybody who is a national of any European country, or who has European heritage. This match was last played as part of the 2018/2019 season, prior to the Covid pandemic, when Europe won by 5.5 - 2.5. You can click here to view the score card from that match - https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/23410.
Sunday, 13 November 2022
Macclesfield Chess Club - Change Of Venue
Please note that, with immediate effect, Macclesfield will be playing their home matches at the Silk Trader, 37 Brook Street, Macclesfield, SK11 7AD. There is no pub car park, but there is on-street parking on Daintry Street, which is more or less opposite.
Friday, 11 November 2022
Shropshire Congress
The Shropshire Congress, for those who are interested, is being held in Telford over the weekend of 6th/8th January. Full details can be found here - https://www.shropshirechess.org/shropshire-congress/shropshire-congress-2023/
Thursday, 3 November 2022
Missing Clocks
Robert Milner has asked me to post the following:
LOST, STOLEN OR STRAYED
Between the hours of 10 p.m. and 10.45 p.m. on Friday 21st October at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church, Ostler’s Lane, Cheddleton, ST13 7HS – the home of Cheddleton and Leek Chess Club – in the presence of ten people – a Viso Aluminium Case (cost price unknown, replacement price £82.91) containing ten digital chess clocks (cost price £689, replacement price £549.50) completely vanished. No-one present seems to have witnessed their departure and no-one saw any other person enter the room from which they went.
Naturally the police have been informed and are looking into this matter and we would just like to warn all other clubs to take extra special care of their equipment in the light of this happening. If anyone anywhere can shed any light on this event or the present whereabouts of any of the eleven items described above, their devoted but grieving owners would be delighted to hear through Robert Milner (email windycheddleton@gmail.com) on their behalf.
Robert Milner