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Upcoming Events The scheduled county match with Somerset is ON! Anton Barkhuysen says it will be a 14-board match. A report about the recently concluded annual Cornish chess championships will appear here this weekend. I'm basically waiting for a .pdf table to be sent to me and will post it when I have it. Greetings Everybody! Especially Juniors! We need more YOUNG players! If you're reading this and you're under 15 or are perhaps the parent of a youngster who is keen on chess but are unsure about how to meet up with other players then please click here for the information you're seeking. It'll be nice to have you on board! We realise that people who are newcomers to the game and unsure of their playing ability may feel intimidated by the formalism of full competition chess so a supplementary event - the Penwith Cup competition - will be held concurrently with the other major Cornish championship events. Full details can be obtained by using the Cornish Championships link at the top of this page. The Last County Match of 2009 Our Match Captain for the county matches - Anton Barkhuysen - recently sent out an e-mail notice to the membership that the match with Hampshire fell through because the venue was unavailable. In case anyone isn't on Anton's e-mailing list I'm just posting a notice here that that match will not now take place and the next one - the last of this season - will be the encounter with Somerset on March the 13th. The venue has yet to be confirmed, I will post it here as soon as I know. Out of idle curiosity I checked where our site ranks in the global hierarchy of websites on the Internet and you will no doubt be enthralled to hear that we check in not far short of the 16 millionth place! So there! So now you know! Congratulations to Colin Sellwood who flew the flag honourably for Cornish chess recently with his stellar performance in the Under 155 event at Exeter. He scored four-and-a-half out of a possible five maximum!
In the match that took place between Devon and Cornwall at the Liskerret Centre on Saturday the 5th of December, not altogether surprisingly Devon ran out as the comfortable winners. They've outgraded us heavily for years and Cornwall generally feel that they've done well if they manage to win just a couple of games. That was the case this time too with only Jeremy Menadue on Board 1 and Robin Kneebone on Board 5 playing well enough to win their games. We drew 6, defaulted on 2 and lost the rest! The fixtures and individual results can be found here. Glad Tidings After a spell with nothing much to report it gives me pleasure to be able to say that there are now some interesting developments going on in chess in this county. Roger Grey recently informed me that Penwith chess club may well be re-forming shortly! According to him the players might be: David Saqui, Stefan Leaver, Neil Wride, Richard Humpleby, Geoff Amos, Don Turtle, Alex Markin, Percy Gill, Robert Dunn, Roy Summers, Robin Kneebone and Roger himself. This sounds like a revival! To Falmouth chess club goes the credit for being the instigators of a recent FM radio broadcast that dealt with chess in Cornwall.Unfortunately it has not been possible to post some files about it here as I had hoped. If anyone has more information by all means let me know as I'm sure we'd all enjoy hearing it. Results & League Tables Premier Division Minor Division The new gradings for this season have been released by Ian and
are downloadable by clicking on the link above. May I remind
everybody that because of the revised way the gradings have been
calculated this season, old gradings limits that used to apply to
some events are no longer applicable and have been 'upfloated' to
reflect everybody's generally higher gradings. The pertinent new
limits are: 164 or below to be eligible to play in the Minor
League, Please note Ian George is responsible for posting the various tables for this website. (He has special software for doing this that I don't.) As before when submitting results please send copies to him as well as myself. Thank you. Kerrier Cup Results Robin Kneebone has been officially adjudged the winner of this event. Download a pdf document about it from the link at the top. The Revised Grading System An
explanation of how the gradings are computed. Association and Clubs Officers, Organisers & The Official Rules Names, addresses, phone
numbers/email addresses Short details of each club with a link to its own page. |
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Archive Links to all sections, including county match results, winners of team and individual competitions and a games collection. |
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Web Site Update This site is gradually being updated. Until this is complete, you will find that some links currently do not work. In some cases, where you have clicked a link to a page that has not been created yet, you will get an error message and will need to use your back button to return to the page you came from. Only 5% of the links on this site are problematic. These are gradually being repaired! If you would prefer a different text size onscreen as you're reading this then you have a couple of options: one is you could avail yourself of the facility built in to virtually all modern browsers for changing the font size. In both Internet Explorer and Firefox click on the 'View' menu and then select 'text size' and choose the option you want. (In IE you have to close the browser and then re-open it to see the change.) The other is, you could try using a different browser or another version of your browser! For more information about this latter option click here. Reporting of Results Team captains can report league and cup results online. Simply go to the result form and click on the link to my e-mail address to send a result to me. Or, you can be traditional and send a card to me by snail-mail. Your choice! I quite appreciate receiving the cards because they give me some permanent hard-copy of the various results over a season. If somebody would be so kind as to give me the master template for printing these results cards I will happily post it somewhere on this site. |
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Contact me I hope that all visitors to this site will find something of interest to them. If you have any comments, suggestions or anything to say about chess in Cornwall, please send me an email at Gary Trudeau Gary Trudeau |