Division 1 1st Camborne A Relegated Penwith B and Godolphin B
Division 2 1st= Newquay and Penwith C. Play-off for the Roberts Cup won by Penwith C
A. W. Busby Cup Camborne beat St Austell in the final
Under 115 Trophy Liskeard beat Godolphin 4 - 1 in the final.
Summer League 2002 1st= Godolphin A and Penwith

This was held in the upper sixth common room of Truro School commencing and was not decided until the last game was finished. This was won by David Saqui, who checkmated Jeremy Menadue in the last seconds of a mad time scramble. David therefore tied for first place with Gary Trudeau and Douglas Cooke on 4/5. Douglas won the trophy on tie-break and also carried off the Lloyds Bank under 18 trophy. Five players tied for 4th place on 3½.

Despite the result of the final (triple-point) event, there was no change in the top two positions. The winner is therefore Jeremy Menadue (642) with last year's winner, David Saqui (620) second. Ian George (567) was third and fourth was Douglas Cooke (555), who was also best junior.
Other prize winners and full list

This was held at the Queen's Hotel, Penzance and resulted in a win for Jeremy Menadue with 5½/6 with David Saqui 2nd on 4½. Simon Bartlett and Douglas Cooke finished 3rd on 4/6. As a result Jeremy Menadue increases his lead slightly over David Saqui in the Cornwall Grand Prix .

This was a very close match with the win only coming in the last second when Roger Grime's opponent agreed a draw in a good position but with no time left. They key factor this time was the fine performance of the bottom half of the team with no losses below board 8 (3 wins and 5 draws).
Full match score

This was won by Jeremy Menadue Truro) with 5½ out of 6. Second, on 5, were Roger Grime (Godolphin), Stephen Schofield (St Austell) and Jeremy Kneebone (Penwith) who wins the under 14 Championship.

A convincing victory for Wiltshire this time with the only win coming from Mark Hassall on board 7.
Full match score

As I did not play in this match, I can only provide the bare scores.
Full match score

Results:
Open Rapidplay: 1st=: Jeremy Menadue (Truro), David Saqui (Penwith), Colin Sellwood (Camborne) 4½/6. 4th= Ian George (Camborne), Robin Kneeebone (Penwith) 4. Under 120 grading prize: Sheila Cooke (Liskeard) 3
Under 13. 1st Peter Sirl (Truro School) 5/6. 2nd=: Joseph Grassby (Truro School), Bethany Hardwick (Devoran - Under 11 champion) 4½.
Under 9: 1st: Tully Kingsbury (Bolitho) 6/6. 2nd Kiran Bhardwaj (Treliske) 5 3rd= Hugh Thomas (Treliske), Jacob Sturtridge (Quethiock) 4
Updated Grand Prix positions

Brief results:
Emigrant Cup. 1st: Jeremy Menadue (Truro) 4½/6; 2nd= James Hooker (Penwith), Douglas Cooke (Liskeard), Craig Fearn (Godolphin) 4.
Falmouth Cup. 1st: Colin Gardiner (Falmouth) 5½ 2nd=: Chris Reeves (Truro), Maurice Richards (North Cornwall), Keith Brewer (Liskeard), Geoffrey Harper (Truro) 4½.
Penwith Cup. 1st: Kaspar Hocking (Falmouth) 5; 2nd: John Beales (Newquay) 4½.
Full results and report will appear here shortly.

There were 23 entries for the third event in this year's Grand Prix. The competition was won with 4½/5 by Roland Cole, making a welcome return to Cornish chess after a gap of several years. David Saqui was runner-up with 4. The grading prizes were won by Gary Trudeau (under 135) and John Hampton (under 110), while Jeremy Kneebone won the junior prize.
In the Grand Prix Jeremy Menadue keeps his narrow lead ovre David Saqui.
Grand Prix Standings

Although Hampshire conceded two boards beforehand, this was a very good win by the Cornwall team because it featured strong-minded play under pressure in the last games to finish. This description could not be applied to the writer's performance on board 2; this was the first game to finish and featured the loss of a piece on move six followed by resignation on move 13. This was soon cancelled out by David Lucas's win on board 13. The other winners were Stephen Schofield (board 9) who picked off black's king with an accurate mating attack, Robin Kneebone (board 7) who built up the pressure in a well controlled positional game and Jeremy Menadue (board 1) who played Dominic Tunks for at least the fifth time and avenged last year's defeat in convincing style.
The highlight of the match came at the very end. Cornwall were a point ahead but with difficult (although not necessarily inferior) positions in the last 3 games. However, the players secured draws in each one. First Colin Sellwood (board 10), facing two passed pawns for his extra bishop which seemed unable to cover everything, managed to exchange down to K + RP v K. Then David Onley), making a welcome return to the team on board 3, drew a knight ending that was made very difficult to play for both sides by the presence of advanced passed pawns on both sides. Lastly Stefan Leaver on board 11 managed the seemingly impossible task of holding a position with B + N v R with his opponent having an extra pawn and another one a move from queening. Following the eventual disappearance of all the pawns the players were left with just K + N v K + R and the game was agreed drawn. It must be said that the Hampshire player sportingly declined to make further attempts to win with Stefan very short of time, even though she would have been justified in playing on, which would most likely have resulted in a win on time. What made this performance particularly impressive was that Stefan had let slip a big advantage but avoided that most common pitfall in chess: playing for a win that was no longer there and chucking the draw away as well. His Man of the Match award is well earned!
Full match score

The annual Duchy junior congress, organised by Robin Kneebone and benefiting this year from the generous sponsorship of the Carnon Downs Garden Centre, is now an established fixture in our calendar. The decision to hold it as a one day event was rewarded by a total entry of more than 70 players. Here are the results of the various sections, which were all 7 round Swisses at the rate of 30 minutes each under rapidplay rules.

This was won by Jeremy Menadue with 6/7. He suffered an early loss to Douglas Cooke but won all his other games, culminating with a win against David Saqui featuring a clever deflecting sacrifice of a rook. Stephen Schofield and Simon Bartlett played well throughout and started round equal with Jeremy. Their fluctuating draw left them 2nd= with 5½ points. Jeremy now takes the lead in the Cornwall Grand Prix.

The grading prizes went to Stefan Leaver (under 125) and Stephen Fanning (under 100). The Under 16 Championship was incorporated into this section and was shared by Douglas Cooke and Jeremy Kneebone with 4/7.

Toby Hall frm Wiltshire came 1st with 6/7. Equal 2nd with 5½ were Theodore Anderson of Devon and James Ward of Liskeard who becomes Cornwall under 12 champion. Bethany Hardwick (Devoran) and Max Keech finished on 5.

This was won by Jasper Keech (Treliske) with 6½/7. Tully Kingsbury (Bolitho), Kiran Bhardwaj (Treliske) and Christopher Johnstone were 2nd= with 5.

This was shared by Murphy Guthrie (St Uny) and Charlie Jaycock with 6. Joe Wilkinson (Alverton) was 3rd with 5½.

There were five teams in the senior section of this annual event, which was held as usual at Ladymead School, Taunton. The Cornwall team finished with a disappointing 3/12, the only win coming from David Lucas of Liskeard on board 8.
Full results

The final results have now come in and the outcome is a tie for first place between Penwith and Godolphin A. They both defeated Godolphin B twice, shared the points against each other and finished with an identical game score of 26 - 14
Full results

Although we were not represented in the Championship itself, several Cornish players took advantage of the convenient location at the Riviera Centre, Torquay to play in one or more sections. I only know one result and that is the fine performance of Andrew Greet (now based in Cambridge) in finishing joint 1st in the strong Major Open. This qualifies him for the next year's British Championship in Edinburgh.

This was the first event of the 2002/03 Cornwall Grand Prix and was held at St Uny School, Carbis Bay on 8th and 9th June. Although this event has existed since 1998, this was the first time that it has been open to all. There was a good entry of 24 (despite its being held in the exam season) and we intend to make it a permanent fixture in the calendar.