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Club Championship Update

Last night saw my annual attempt to beat Bob Fenn in the Club Championship fail yet again.  Despite having the White pieces against him for the first time in my chess career, I couldn't win the game.

I mistakenly allowed a tactical mess to ensue and by overlooking the need for a one move "time-out" from my attack to defend my poor f-pawn, had to fight for the draw, which I secured after a tough fight.  Although I'm sure Bob had a won game and let me off the hook.

Bob has very much been a bogey player for me the last few years and I will need to do a lot of work to try and bring home the full point next time.

George Hollands (167) 1/2 Vs 1/2 Bob Fenn (116). 

Snodland Win in Tom Fuller Vs Sittingbourne

Last night Snodland hosted Sittingbourne in the Tom Fuller, emerging victorious 3-1.  The Captain's (Rob Thompson) decision to rotate the squad paid dividends.

Hugh Broadbent (125) 0 Vs 1 Peter Blundell (121)

Jerry Pol (118) 1 Vs 0 Gary Clifford (118)

Peter Hickey (97) 1 Vs 0 Ron Browning (111)

Neil Miners (92) 1 Vs 0 Rufus Edwards

Club Championship 13/14 Round 1

Thursday 12 September saw the opening round of this season's Club Championship with the following results...

Group A 

Tyrone Jefferies (118) 0.5 Vs 0.5 Neil Miners (92)

William Patch (51) 0 Vs 1 David Fowler (149)

Robert Thompson (125) P Vs P Peter Hickey (97)

 

Group B 

Richard Mallery (55) 1 Vs 0 Bye

Bob Fenn (116) 0 Vs 1 Hugh Broadbent (125)

Jerry Pol (118) P Vs P George Hollands (167)

 

Next round is scheduled for Thursday 3 October...

Presentation Evening

I have just found some photographs of the Presentation evening taken by Neil Miners on 13/06/13 which show the Chairman, Rob Thompson presenting trophies to the following Trophy winners:-
A league, George Hollands. George also won the Challenge Cup and Quick play trophy.

B league, David Fowler

Most improved player, Matt Gazes

Best game of the season, Bob Fenn

C League was won by Neil Miners (no photo)
Well done to all the winners.

Blitz Chess Championship 2013

Congratulations to George Hollands who won Snodland Chess Club's Blitz Championship 2013, with the excellent score of 11/14. Runner-up was David Lettington with 10/14 and in joint 3rd place were Matt Bunn and Matt Gazes, both on 9/14.

George Hollands

 

Harvey Cup team qualify for Semi-Finals

The Harvey Cup team made sure of home draw in the Semi-Final with a solid draw against Weald of Kent Chess Club. Snodland took a 3-1 lead but were unable to hold either of the remaining games.

Another win in the Harvey Cup...

Tom Fuller Cup result

Another nice win for Snodland's Tom Fuller Cup team:

En Passant Cup result.

It was good effort, but we were beaten by a good Tunbridge Wells team in the En Passant Cup....

Back to winning ways.

Snodland were back to winning ways with an excellent team performance against Maidstone, who out graded us on 5 out of 6 boards.

Unbeaten run comes to an end...time to start another?

Sadly, Snodland's 11 month, 25 match unbeaten run in competitive matches came to an end in a hard-fought match with Rochester Chess Club.

Harvey Cup result 18th October

Another win for Snodland!

Team battle to hold draw

Snodland's Tom Fuller Cup team had to battle hard and come back from 2-0 down to hold a draw against Weald of Kent....but the unbeaten run extends to 25 matches.

The first competitive match of the season...

Snodland's KCCA Fixtures 2012-13

Snodland has entered 4 KCCA competitions this year. Our fixture list is published below:

Snodland go National!

Snodland Chess Club have entered the Four Nations Chess League  (4NCL) Rapidplay competition for the first time ever.

The event will see Snodland compete with the best in the UK for a prize fund of £1000.

Five club members, Matt Bunn, George Hollands, David Lettington, Rob Thompson and Matt Gazes make up the squad for the competition which occurs on 29th September in Milton Keynes.

Four players will play in each round, with one player sitting out. There are seven rounds in total and, in each game, each player will have 10 minutes on the clock, with an additional 10 seconds per move, which is added automatically by the digital timer.

Good luck to the team!

Club Championship to start

The Snodland Club Championship is about to start. We look set to have fifteen players competing for the title of Club Champion (known as the A-league Champion) this year, with the top seed being Matthew Bunn.

The club will also award titles to the Most Improved Player, the B-league Champion, C-league Champion and Speed Chess Champion. Once the season draws to a close we also hold our popular knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.

Good luck to everyone taking part!

4th Len Hammond Memorial Match

Snodland Chess Club will kick off the new season with a friendly match against local rivals Maidstone on Wednesday 19th September. The match will be held in honour of Len Hammond who played for both clubs. Maidstone have managed to win all three of the previous encounters, so hopefully it will be our turn this year!