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I was glad to hear the opening night last night went well.

Unfortunately, I couldn't make it due to a meeting.

I plan to visit next week, and will bring along the Cobham trophy which an Evesham team won five times in the fifties and sixties to help show the history of chess in Evesham.

In the Worcestershire Chess Association we had a discussion about supporting a rule about minimum number of players per team and it was rejected because board points was the tie break for deciding league winners and larger clubs could field larger teams to gain an advantage on number of boards won. ...

Surbiton got the reprieve from White Rose 2 staying in Div 2. We (MK Phoenix) got the reprieve from War and Piece not accepting promotion, as I was emailed with the whole team about whether we wanted to accept it or not. White Rose 3 is not in the final list so their withdrawal in Div 3 should have ...

MK Phoenix got the reprieve from War and Piece not accepting promotion.

It looks like White Rose 3 dropped out of Div 3 to be replaced by Guildford Young Guns

And Eternal Optimists must be Coventry renamed.

Worcestershire Windmills came about after several Redditch players had played for other sides and wanted to form a more local side. Unfortunately enough players couldn't be obtained from the Redditch squad lists alone, so it was opened up to other Worcestershire players.

It also clashes with 15 fixtures in the Birmingham league and 8 fixtures in the Leamington League although some of those will not contain 1800+ players.

Dan

(edit) And 8 fixtures in the Coventry League, all of which are on the same night of the blitz

Also I went to the Worcestershire AGM last night, and found Worcester Chess Club are holding regular chess sessions at the Dice Box games cafe in Worcester, to promote more social chess https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 3235243730

Pebworth Chess Club which I have now been helping to run for the last three years as a local village social club for people to play coming out of COVID, ended up stabilising at just a few regulars and being run at twice a month. To get it back to weekly it is in the process of being merged with the ...

Alvechurch is covered by Bromsgrove District Council and therefore is not in bin crisis. Redditch Chess Club play at the Alvechurch Cricket Club during the winter season (September-April), as well as having the Alvechurch Library host it's junior club on Saturday mornings. Our Club nights in the Sum...

Just to fill in a gap. I played in the league in the early to mid 90s and possibly late 80s and back then it was for second teams plus Bucks and Berks had under 18 sides in it, so definitely not an open at that time. As others have pointed out the first teams still played in the SCCU (or WECU), so p...

There is some onsite accommodation that can be organised via Stephen Greep, as they do have guest accommodation for visitors to events, but possibly not as much as when it is out of season.

There is cheaper accommodation at least for Single occupancy at Endsleigh Park nearby.

National Club is also on the trophies, so it means they can be reused, assuming they get them all back.

Time limit has been changed to 90/30 and it appears it has expanded from clubs in leagues associated with the ECF to also include clubs that participate in a league in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. As Redditch are current (2018) holders of the Intermediate plate, we will be entering a team, but I did...

The ECF also attempted it viewtopic.php?f=25&t=713 but didn't get enough entries to continue with it.

I was given a set for a relatively recent Christmas or Birthday, and it was accompanied by a book An Introduction to Hnefatafl which has ended up having more time being read, than the game being played. The main problem I have with these games, is that they seem to be popular present ideas for me, b...