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


Tuesday 21 September 2010

Snodland 6th vs Snodland 7th: 3-1



In the first competitive match of the season, Snodland 6th team managed to beat Snodland 7th team by the convincing score of 3-1. At one point it looked like the score might have been 4-0, but some strong endgame play from Daryn Gilbert enabled him to beat his much higher grade opponent.

Hugh Broadbent scored his 9th consecutive win at the club by outplaying John Simons.

The game between Charlie Palmer and William Patch was extremely hard fought, with William fighting hard in a rook ending a pawn down, but Charlie showed good technique to convert his advantage to a full point.

The diagram below is the final position in Jason Boyes vs Richard Mallery. Richard played well but let his initial opening advantage slip and Jason had a tremendous attack and bulit up a significant material advantage. Unfortunately Jason missed Richard's strong attack down the h-file and was checkmated.







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