Welcome!

Snodland Chess Club welcomes players of all ages and abilities from complete beginner to Grandmaster.

We are a friendly, welcoming club and we can provide free coaching to take you from beginner to winner! We particularly welcome junior members.

You can e-mail
david_lettington@hotmail.com for more details or just turn up at the club any Thursday evening.

We have teams in Kent County Chess Association and English Chess Federation competitions.


Thursday 15 May 2008

Snodland win Kent Cup!!

The Snodland 1st team scored the narrowest possible victory in the Final of the Kent "Harvey Cup".

The match against Weald of Kent was drawn 3-3, with Snodland winning 10-11 using the "board count" tie-break method. The result was incredible, considering that Snodland were 3-0 down after the first three games were finished. An amazing comeback!

This is a superb achievement in what is only Snodland's second season of competitive chess.

The overall match result was:
Snodland 1 vs Weald of Kent 2
1. David Nicholls 1-0 James Hart-Dyke
2. Matt Bunn 0-1 Albert Brown
3. David Fowler 1-0 David Warrick
4. Nick Allen 0-1 Mark Horner
5. Neil Miners 0-1 Mike Scott
6. Matthew Gazes 1-0 Dominic Oram

Well....you can't win them all!

Snodland teams reached the Semi-Finals of the Kent "Tom Fuller Cup" and "Intro Cup", but on these occasions we were not able to win, losing to 2.5-1.5 against Beckenham and 3-1 against Charlton.

Praise goes to Mark Buffey and James Mateo for winning their individual games.