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The Sept 1st Junior Rapidplay Rating List can now be downloaded from the Grades Page. This includes the UKCC Southern Challengers event. There is currently an issue with updating the live ratings which we hope will be resolved shortly. Entry forms for many events have now been added to the Calendar. Things are pretty much back to normal now although we are still looking for a permanent Rating Officer for the Gwent Zone. Please spread the word or contact me if you’d like to know more about the role.
We have now embarked on a major overhaul of all the sites. This is still very much in its early stages though. Matthew Lunnon (East Glamorgan) is doing the programming for us. If there are features of the old sites that you didn’t like or features that you did, please let me know. If you have ideas for new functionality that you think would improve the rating service, please also let me know.
All five zonal websites have now been moved to the WCU domain. Many of you are already accessing them successfully but only by redirection from their old homes. The best way to access them from now on is to point your browsers here :-
East Glam – https://www.welshchessunion.
North Wales – https://welshchessunion.uk/
West Wales – https://www.welshchessunion.
If you run into any problems with the sites, please contact me.
Paul Orton, National Rating Officer ratingofficer@welshchessunion.
All games from the 2019 South Wales International are now available for download on the Games page. This can be downloaded here. If any team would like to join the Welsh Premier League for the 2019-2020 season please contact Kevin Staveley by 15th August.
The event was well organised in Ireland this year, with the only obvious glitches being the live boards sometimes being wrongly attributed, and a problem for one group in getting from arrival at Dublin airport to finding the transfer bus, where when we did find it, the driver was expecting to take groups of French and Welsh golfers to the excellent Carrickdale hotel on the outskirts of Dundalk. Our girls are often competitive with the other countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Netherlands, and although finishing 5th on 6.5/15 were unlucky not to score more, with amongst other disappointments, Susanna Fraser losing on time trying hard to win with Q+K v R+K (Susanna showed remarkable strength of character to recover from this result) and Rachel McIntosh losing on time in a holdable position with K+R+P v K+3Ps, having missed a winning line in a R-ending a few moves earlier. Gilbert: Shayanna Sivarajasingam 1W 3D 1L – 2.5 Susanna Fraser 1W 1D 3L – 1.5 Rachel McIntosh 1W 1 Forfeit 1D 2L – 2.5 The other events are all open (i.e. mixed boys and girls) and it is evident from results that at the moment, the older the players are, the further we are falling behind the other countries. This is clear from the ratings of the players and the results. Although all our players played a lot of good chess, with some occasionally good individual results, the ratings don’t lie, and what often happened was that generally higher rated opponents were eventually able to overcome stout resistance, sometimes recovering from lost positions to triumph in the end. Stokes (U12): Ethan Chung 2W 2D 1L – 3 Daniel Chung 3D 2L – 1.5 Yuxuan Wu 2D 3L – 1 Bence Szakmany 1W 1D 3L – 1.5 Milo Davies 3W 2L – 3 Tom Davies 1W 1D 3L -1.5 Total 11.5/30 6th Position Robinson (U14): Venetia Sivarajasingam 2W 2D 1L – 3 Madeleine Smith 1W 1D 3L – 1.5 Ellison Smith 1W 5L – 1 Neil Stevenson 5L – 0 Joel Chung 1W 1D 3L – 1.5 Harrison Postans 5L – 0 Total 7/30 6th Position Glorney (U18): Chirag Guha 2D 3L – 1 Imogen Camp 5L – 0 Hugo Fowler 1W 4L – 1 Ifan Rathbone-Jones 1W 2D 3L – 2 David McIntosh 5L – 0 Total 4/25 6th Position The players were supported by a number of parents, along with team manager Ian Eustis and coaches Nick Evans and John Thornton Full results and games using the live games link can currently be found via www.glorneycupchess.org. Report by John Thornton
This can be viewed here. I would like to apologise to Welsh chess players for the current slowness in getting your games rated since July 1st.
As you probably know, Robert Taylor hung up his boots after 12 years of sterling work as National Rating Officer and was replaced by myself. He also resigned from his job as Gwent rating officer, as did Pete Heaven (East Glam) and Glyn Sinnett (West Wales). Only two of these three zones have found new rating officers (Ben Rowlands in West Wales and Edwin Allen in East Glam) and so we are struggling to cope with the extra workload. The problem is unfortunately most acute in the two zones with the greatest number of players – East Glam and Gwent.
I have personally had some fantastic help from Robert and Pete and I can promise that the situation *will* be turned around. In the meantime I hope that you will not find the delays in rating too intolerable – they won’t last for long!
We are still, of course, looking for an enthusiastic person to take over the Gwent vacancy. Please get in touch if you are interested!
Paul Orton, National Rating Officer ratingofficer@
In the 2019 South Wales International Open, GM’s Korneev, Chatalbashev and IM Comacho tied for first place with 7/9. 64 competed. In the Challengers, Ryan Cheung finished first with 5/7. 9 competed. Any prizes outstanding will be paid by bank transfer by Monday night (15th July) Full results and prizes can be downloaded here. |
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