Mark Dvoretsky (9.12.1947 to 26.09.2016)

Sad to report, but today, the Russian Chess Federation announced that the well-known Russian chess coach and author Mark Dvoretsky had died.

More details here.

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Jim's Extravaganza

Our annual curtain raiser for the new season.

7.30 pm - Wednesday 31st August

New players welcome!

Latest ECF Grades are now available

The ECF Grades for July 2016 have been published:

Aldridge, David  136
Barber, Andrew  156
Barnes, Ben    M  59
Dodd, Quentin RH  127
Dunning, Stephen  120
Goodwin, Robert  75
Hanson, T Jim  68
Heitch, David  110
Hughes, Jonathan  103
Jeffries, Liam  144
Kemp, Jack    M  64
Lowens, Brian  114
Medagedara, Sithika  68
Owens, Richard  131
Pearcey, David  152
Rathbone-Jones, Ifan  128
Salt, Frank  134
Shaw, Brandon  8
Shorrock, Simon  78
Sommerville, Gordon  110
Thomas, Mark  161
Walker, James  41

Our three trophy winners at the Wirral league AGM.

Buckley Mold junior Jack Kemp being awarded the trophy for best junior player in the Wirral league with the fantastic score of 6.5/8. Well done!

Quentin Dodd being presented with the shield for (joint) best player in Wallasey League division 3 with a score of 5.5/6. Congratulations.

The trophy for our Second team winning the Wallasey League 3rd division being presented to Captain Richard Owens at the Wallasey League AGM.