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 31 March 2011

Club Championship Results

Results from tonight's games played

                            A League

148  Chris Marshall      0-1    George Hollands 133
  99  Hugh Broadbent   0-1    Ben Spink           191

                           B League

117  Tyrone Jefferies    0.5-0.5 Bob Fenn        133
130  Robert Thompson    1-0    Nick Allen      118

Tuesday 29 March 2011

Kent League Intro-Cup Semi-Final Snodland v Sidcup 9th April 2011

Kent League Intro Cup

The first of the Club's semi-final matches in the
Kent Leagues will be played on Saturday 9th April
2011 at home against Sidcup starting at 2.30pm.

Your support for the team will be most welcome.

Saturday 26 March 2011

26 March 2011 Stevenson Cup Hastings 2 v Snodland 2

        


Stevenson Cup Result

    Hastings 2                  v         Snodland 2

162  Paul Kelly        1-0       Ben Spink             191
149  Steve Blewitt   0-1       Zibby Koncki        170
139  Neil Ward       0-1       Chris Marshall       148
135  Mark Finch     0-1       James Hart-Dyke   145
124  Roy Webb    0.5-0.5   Tyrone Jefferies      117
  98  Robert Smart  0-1        Rob Thompson      130
                             1.5-4.5

*  Snodland White on odds


Intro Cup Result

             Hastings 5              v          Snodland 7

99   Steve Oakman     0-1            Nick Allen    118
e80  B Allum             0.5-0.5        B Stevens    e80
44   Harry Stephens    1-0            Jason Boyes  45
e40  L Steuart            0-1           William Patch  52
                               1.5-2.5

*  Hastings White on odds

Stevenson Cup  - Snodland storm into the semi-finals of the
Stevenson Cup with a superb win against Hastings.  This win
makes it three in row for Snodland who finish strongly as runners
up to winners Folkestone in this division.  The win books a semi-final
clash against the unbeaten Lewisham Club next month.

The Snodland Intro team finished their season with a fine win
against the Hastings fifth team.

Friday 25 March 2011

Thursday 24 March 2011 Harvey Cup Snodland 4 v WOK 1

148  Chris Marshall         1-0        James Hart-Dyke  145
132  David Lettington    0.5-0.5    Henry Cove          137
130  Robert Thompson  0.5-0.5   Mike Matthews     118
125  Matthew Gazes     0.5-0.5    David Warwick     114
117  Peter Hickey            0-1       Dominic Oram       111
85    Neil Miners              0-1       Clive Oram            107
                                     2.5-3.5

*  Snodland playing White on odds

A disappointing result for the Snodland fourth team in their
final home match of the season. The only winner being
Chris Marshall maintaining a three match unbeaten run
playing for the Club.

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Lewis Cup - Hastings 1 v Snodland 1

The  Lewis Cup Snodland team lost narrowly to Hastings on Sunday 20 March 2011 and will be
unable to qualify for a semi-final place, the teams were:

Hastings 1                                  Snodland 1
192 Richard Almond   1-0        Ben Spink                   191
181 Robert Elliston    0.5-0.5   Steve Giddins              198
164 Ray Brooks          0-1       Zibby Koncki              170
162 Paul Kelly            0-1       Matt Bunn                   160
155 Jim Wheeler         1-0       David Fowler              136
109 John Driver          1-0       Pete Hickey (117)       120
                                3.5-2.5

Friday 18 March 2011

Another great win!


Snodland managed to score another win and put themselves into contention in the Stevenson Cup. A 3.5-2.5 win over nearest rivals Maidstone put is into third place (only top two qualify for the final stage) with a game in hand of the team above us. If we win the final match, we are guaranteed to get a Semi-Final spot.

Two very nice wins from Ben Spink and Chris Marshall, combined with a short draw for Zibby Koncki and long, drawn out escape from David Fowler just gave Snodland the edge.

Wednesday 16 March 2011

Excellent result - Snodland vs Sittingbourne


Surely Snodland's best result of the season thanks to two excellent results from David Fowler and Chris Marshall.

Wednesday 2 March 2011

Snodland player challenges Nigel Short

Snodland player George Hollands played Nigel Short in a simultaneous display at Coulsdon, things were going well for a long time..... But Nigel didn't get to become World Championship Challenger without being able to play pretty well. The game is below: