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.


Saturday 24 March 2012

Harvey Cup

This week has seen us play our 2 remaining fixtures in this competition, emerging with 2 victories to make a final total of 6 wins, 2 draws and no losses ! We have therefore won our group by a clear margin and await to see who our semi-final oponents will be. On Monday we went to Weald of Kent and won 3.5 - 2.5. George, David L and Neil were victorious, Pete drew while Rob and I lost (embarrasingly so in my case, I could have resigned after 8 moves !). Today (Saturday) we defeated Hastings 4-2, the winners being Pete, Hugh and Matt G with draws from George and David L and a solitary loss (Rob). These matches sum up the season quite well in that our 3 winners in each of the matches were different players, emphasising that it's been a real team effort. Eleven players took part in one or more of the matches, and of these nine scored 50% or better. Top scorers were Rob and Pete on 5/7, but congratulations are due to all who contributed - Well done ! As a Club let's hope that we can take our good form into the three semi-finals for which we have qualified and aim to have representation at Kent Finals Day on Sunday 13th May... Report by David Fowler
 Snodland v Hastings  24/03/12
George Hollands 149 ½ - ½ Ollie Wilson 133
David Lettington 134 ½ - ½ Con Power 126
Rob Thompson 118 0 - 1 Mark Finch 121
Pete Hickey 115 1 - 0 Gary Wilson 113
Hugh Broadbent 110 1 - 0 Roger Smart 99
Matt Gazes 109 1 - 0 Joe Sharp 98
                         4 - 2

Weald of Kent  v Snodland    19/03/12
James Hart-Dyke 145 0 - 1 George Hollands 149
Henry Cove 139 1 - 0 David Fowler 142
Clive Oram 118  0 - 1 David Lettington 134
Dominic Oram 115 1 - 0 Rob Thompson 118
Mark Horner 93 ½ - ½ Pete Hickey 115
Elliot Oram 91 0 - 1 Neil Miners 77
                       2½ - 3½

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