World Chess Championship Game 3

The third game was another DRAW, but this time there was real fight. Anand, with black, came close to getting a decisive advantage over the challanger, Carlsen.

Score: Anand 1.5-1.5 Carlsen.

Coverage at: FIDE, ChessBomb, and Chess.com

World Chess Championship Game 2

The second game of this year's world championship was again a DRAW. Challenger Magnus Carlsen had black and responded to Vishy Anand's 1. e4 with the Caro Kann. He has obviously been following my games closely!

Score: Anand 1-1 Carlsen.

Coverage at: FIDE, ChessBomb, and Chess.com

World Chess Championship Game 1

The world Chess Championship between challenger Magnus Carlsen (Norway) and reigning champion Viswanathan Anand (India) began this morning.

Game 1 had Carlsen with white and was DRAWN after 16 moves.

Score: Anand 0.5-0.5 Carlsen.

Coverage at: FIDE, ChessBomb, and Chess.com

FIXTURES & RESULTS

Chester & District League
Buckley Mold 1 (Division 2)
Buckley Mold 2 (Division 3)
Knock Out

Wirral League
Buckley Mold 1 (Division 1)
Buckley Mold 2 (Division 2)
Buckley Mold 3 (Division 3)
Buckley Mold 4 (Division 4)
Knock Out

NEW SEASON

The new season begins on:

Wednesday 4th September

with our annual quickplay competition, Jim's Extravaganza! All welcome, even if you haven't been before.

JUNIORS start the week before on the 28th August.

Junior News

On Saturday 1st June, 2 juniors from Mold & Buckley Chess Club played against a strong team from South East England at Monmouth. Well done to Ifan Rathbone-Jones and Macey Taylor for taking part. Macey won both her games!

On Wednesday 5th June, our club juniors had their own competition along the lines of our annual "Hanson Extravaganza". The top three were:

1.   Macey Taylor.
2=  Ifan Rathbone-Jones.
2=  Will Casey.

Well played, everybody.

John Coleby Memorial Shield

At last night's AGM, youngster Ifan Rathbone-Jones was awarded the John Coleby Memorial Shield for his excellent results in the 2012/13 season. He is also due to play for Wales youngsters against England in the coming weeks. Well done, Ifan.