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Wednesday 19 May 2010

Chester & District Chess League 2009/10

FINAL LEAGUE TABLES

Division 1 P W D L F A Pts
1 Wrexham 10 9 1 0 39.5 10.5 9.5
2 Chester 10 7 0 3 30.5 19.5 7
3 Colwyn Bay 10 5 2 3 30 20 6
4 Caergwrle 10 4 1 5 20 30 4.5
5 Rhyl 10 1 2 7 16 34 2
6 Holywell 10 1 0 9 14 36 1

Division 2 P W D L F A Pts
1 Buckley/Mold 12 7 4 1 37 23 9
2 Capenhurst 12 7 2 3 35 25 8
3 Frodsham 12 7 2 3 34.5 25.5 8
4 Colwyn Bay 2 12 4 3 5 32 28 5.5
5 Chester 2 12 4 3 5 30.5 29.5 5.5
6 Chester 3 12 4 3 5 29 31 5.5
7 Caergwrle 2 12 0 1 11 12 48 .5

Division 3 P W D L F A Pts
1 Buckley/Mold 2 10 9 0 1 27.5 12.5 9
2 Wrexham 2 10 6 2 2 24.5 15.5 7
3 Chester 4 10 4 1 5 20.5 19.5 4.5
4 Rhyl 2 10 3 2 5 18 22 4
5 Chester 5 10 3 2 5 17.5 22.5 4
6 Corwen/Ruthin 10 0 3 7 12 28 1.5

Thursday 13 May 2010

Calling all members

The club AGM will be held on Wednesday 19th May at 7.30 pm. Please try to be there.

We have a winner !

Congratulations to Gerry Williams who beat Matt West in the final of the Buckley Mold Chess Club Championship.

Well done to both players for getting to the final.

Sunday 9 May 2010

Game 11 drawn

The score is now 5.5 each in the World Championship match between Anand and Topalov. One game to go, and Topalov has white. The final game is on Tuesday, with tiebreaks, if required, on Thursday.

Club Championship Results

Group A

1st - Gerry Williams - 9 pts.
2nd - Keith Evans - 6 pts.
3rd - Jim Hanson - 5 pts.
4th - Liam Jeffries, Frank Salt - 4 pts.
6th - Bill Davies - 3 pts.

Group B

1st - Matt West - 7 pts
2nd - Quentin Dodd - 6 pts
3rd - Stephen Dunning, Gordon Sommerville - 5 pts.
5th - Brian Lowens - 2 pts.

We hope to have a final played between Gerry Williams and Matt West, colours to be picked on the night.

Friday 7 May 2010

Game 10 drawn.

The World championship match between holder Anand and challenger Topalov is going down to the wire. The score is 5-5 with two games to go, both of which will have to be played. If it is still equal, there will be rapidplay tie-break games.

Thursday 6 May 2010

Game 9 is drawn.

Anand had a clear win but threw it away twice. The score is 4.5 each with three games to go. Topalov has two whites to Anand's one.

Wednesday 5 May 2010

President of FIDE has met aliens.

This is the substance of a report from the BBC:

A Russian MP has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate claims by a regional president that he has met aliens on board a spaceship. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern region of Kalymkia, made his claim in a television interview.

MP Andre Lebedev is not just asking whether Mr Ilyumzhinov is fit to govern. He is also concerned that, if he was abducted, he may have revealed details about his job and state secrets.
The MP has written a letter to Mr Medvedev raising a list of his concerns.

In his letter he says that - assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke - it was an historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin. He also asks if there are official guidelines for what government officials should do if contacted by aliens, especially if those officials have access to state secrets.

Mr Ilyumzhinov said in an interview on primetime television that he had been taken on board an alien spaceship which had come to planet Earth to take samples - and claims to have several witnesses.

He has been president of Kalmykia, a small Buddhist region of Russia which lies on the shores of the Caspian Sea, for 17 years. The millionaire former businessman has a reputation as an eccentric character. As president of the World Chess Federation, he has spent tens of millions of dollars turning the impoverished republic into a mecca for chess players - building an entire village to host international tournaments.

Saturday 1 May 2010

Anand 3.5-2.5 Topalov at half way

My apologies for not updating the blog for the last couple of days, but I have been away. To bring things up to date, Anand won game 4 to take a 2-1 lead. Games 5 and 6 were drawn. Anand has white in game 7 on Monday. The game below is game 4.