Welsh Chess Union (Undeb Gwyddbwyll Cymru)

WCU Junior Congress Results 23/11/19

The third Junior Congress of the season was held at the Cathedral School, Cardiff with 70 entries.

Section prize winners were

PREMIER

1^st Oliver Sapsford

2^ndTycho Twohig

3^rd Govind Anandkumar

MAJOR

1^st Bindu Doddi

2^nd Gruff Dafydd, Macsen Evans, Lucy Taylor, Vedant Lutchman Singh

STARTERS

1^st Harris Kumar

2^nd Luca Davies, Louise Davies, Fraser Hughes

2019 Welsh Secondary Schools Championships Results 23/11/19

Held at the Cathedral School, Cardiff this year’s Championships attracted 12 teams, the largest number of entries for quite a few years.

Successfully defending the title the won in 2018 were Chepstow School

2^nd St John’s College, Cardiff

3^rd Whitchurch High School

2019 South Wales Autumn Blitz Results 24/11/19

14 players took part in this 11 round event.

The final results were:

1^st Daniel Kosuzek

2^nd Jose Camacho Collados

3^rd Grzegorz Toczek

Rating Prize: Ryan Cheung

WCU Selection Policy and Appeals Process Draft Proposals

Since the 2018 Olympiad, following advice from FIDE, the Management Board has drawn up draft proposals regarding selection and appeals process policies which can be downloaded below.

The Management Board would welcome feedback from members and any comments should be forwarded to Mark Adams by 29/11/19.

It is important to remember that these are only proposals at present and therefore will not apply until at least the 2022 Olympiad. For the 2020 Olympiad, the current Selection Policy applies.

WCU Selection Policy Proposal

WCU Appeals Process Proposal

Cardiff Schools Championships – 20th November 2019

The Annual Cardiff Schools Championship, now in its 8^th year, was once again held at Cardiff City Stadium. The event attracted 37 teams with about 400 students present.

We would like to thank all who supported this event with help in so many ways.

This year the event was supported by “Mostyn Estates Ltd” and we sincerely thank them for this support.

Rhydypenau Primary School (A Team) were crowned champions with St John’s School (A Team) second and Caedraw School third.

Other prizes were awarded to Peterston-Super-Ely School (A team); St Joseph’s School, Clydach and Ysgol y Wern (C team)

It has been decided that this year the games from the event will NOT be rated.

First Rank Edition 29

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2019 European Club Cup Ulcinj, Montenegro, Nov 9th-17th

White Knights chess club is Wales’ only representative in this year’s European Club Cup. The team comprised Alan Young, Jason Garcia, Allan Pleasants, Peter Bevan, David Buttell, Adam May and Tomasz Miga.

We were ranked 65 of the 66 teams and the bottom ranked team Tatvan from Turkey even had a GM and IM in their team. There were going to be some tough matches ahead.

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