In the current difficult environment, some people have time at home to be creative. How about this idea sent to us from Katie, a stay at home mum who loves crafts, DIY and runs a blog called Handsomehome.co.uk
How to build a wooden chess set:
https://www.handsomehome.co.uk/how-to-build-a-wooden-chess-set/
The January 2020 English Chess Federation grading database is now out
Camberley Chess Club organised a rapid play tournament on Tuesday 17th December.
From Tuesday 8th October 2019, Camberley Chess Club will now be meeting at the earlier time of 6:30pm. Previous it has been 7:30pm.
This change will help all those who want to start earlier, in particular juniors and anyone else who prefers this earlier start time.
Home matches in the Berkshire Leagues or Surrey Border Leagues will continue to start at the normal time of 7:30pm
Camberley Chess Club supported the Camberley Farmers’ & Artisan Market for the first time on the 21st September 2019.
There was a lot of interest with members of the public coming and sitting down to play chess and meeting some of the members of the club.
The 2019 event was held on Saturday 14th September from 10am, to 6pm.
http://results.utuswiss.co.uk/TournamentPage?Tournament=d6bdfab9-cd04-4e2f-85ae-c5d55710c530
First Place: Clive Frostick
Camberley Club Champion: Colin Purdon
Junior Award : Ranesh Ratnesan
U150 grade Award : Jessica Mellor
On the 3rd of September 2019, Paul Sloane, long serving club member, provided a chess chat on one of the club nights. He gave us all some innovative words of chess chat wisdom on his chosen area of expertise – playing the Caro-Kann as black.
The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 c6. The Caro–Kann is a common defence against the King’s Pawn Opening and is classified as a “Semi-Open Game” like the Sicilian Defence and French Defence, although it is thought to be more solid and less dynamic than either of those openings.
If you would like to see and play through other Camberley Chess Club games click here
Long time club member Colin Lyne analysed a couple of high class games on the demonstration board. He ran a quiz based on what the best moves were and why, at various key points in the games.
The quiz winners were Colin Purdon and Julien Shepley pictured here receiving their chess book prizes from Colin Lyne (R).
Camberley Chess Club have just launched a Twitter account. You can view it here https://twitter.com/camberleychess/
The club meets every Tuesday evening from 7.30pm at:
Camberley Baptist Church Hall, 15 Frimley Road, Camberley, GU15 3EN
There were fourteen entries for the 2019 Khyber Cup with the following results after five rounds :
The time control was R20’ + 10”. The rain just about held off but threatened in the morning to wash us out. Lunchtime food and drink was provided by The Alexandra Public House in Cove and the sun made a welcome appearance during the afternoon. Huge thanks to all of those who provided tables and chairs plus post prize giving food arrangements: cake ! John.
