English Chess Forum

Malcolm Pein and his team did indeed do a great job organising and putting on and introducing the London Chess Classic and its related Open at Olympia over a number of years. Indeed he also put on a number of graded events during the periods these other events were running and also daily Blitz event...

Great double achieved by Mickie Adams and John Nunn!!

Many Congratulations. Mickie finished with a very fine win and john managed a win and then got the right results as well to place him on the top by tie split!
Bad Luck Terry-he put up another stella performance!
ATB, Owen.

Richard I would be happy to hear any ideas you may have about setting up some training sessions in a SEN school or in one or more chess clubs, and in whether or not you would be available to give any training for the ECF. Please send your response and any ideas to me directly at: accessibility.manag...

Roger I am glad to see this issue has been raised. As you may know I am the Newly Appointed ECF Manager for Chess Accessibility and one of the areas I am interested in is finding out how many clubs have players who have impairments, and one of the less obvious ones is SEN/ADHD/possible autism. Pleas...

Yes nice chap played Table Tennis with him during the Halsberg European Junior event of 1978-79. Event where Pia Cramling first broke through!
Owen.

Very sorry to hear about Martin’s passing-he was a true gentleman and did a great deal for the Surrey chess scene. He was also a very keen player and I saw him on numerous occasions hold or win tricky endgames-which I believe was his forte. He will be greatly missed by SCCA Members and in particular...

Ps didn’t see the entries on this event on the Seniors part if the site -by all means transfer them there if you want to…Owen.

Quite confused by the regularity of venues used within Italy 🇮🇹. No offence meant to John or Stephen-indeed John has won the event on Tiebreak-abd Terry despite a great effort had just missed a medal on tiebreak having finished first equal on pts 7/9-a fabulous effort by him. Abd a gréât World ÉCU d...

In the EU Seniors Over 65 event in Assisi good luck to Terry Chapman who is first equal and on top board going into the last rd. Go Go Terry!

Terrible thing-good luck and Courage Gawain!

Nick fun game! By the way did you mean Carl Plasa -I beat him a few times as a Junior in school matches although he was a very promising player- haven’t seen him about fir a while?

Nick many congratulations to you and your wife! Have a great family life.

ATB, Owen.

Well I agree that any victims deserve to get some further chance of `closure', but also I think we owe it to the victims to try and find out just how many complaints were made and what exactly was done about them-and a look through records and some interviews might help to achieve that. Whoever migh...

Yes nice to reminisce a bit. Mind you I doubt I am the only player who used to end up with bruised knees from those very solid and thick table legs!!

I was saddened to hear of Michael's death -although he had made it to a good age-he was an integral part of my Surrey Open team that won the National County Title for the first time in 54 years-and I recall that although he was a very humble chap he nevertheless amused myself and others in our drive...