Bill Hewitt wins 2018 A O Jones

The first Open A O Jones attracted 28 entries.

The eventual winner Bill Hewitt, led from the start and only drew in the last round against the top grade Adam Rakos.

Apart from his draw with Bill, Adam Rakos also drew with Andrew di Vetta.

Alan Young (winner for the last 3 years) lost in the first round to Sipho Donovan, before completing four straight wins.

The win Chris Boyd enjoyed the most was against his old chess tutor from Newport, Robert Taylor, and the only game he lost was to Moss McCarthy.

Tomasz’s only loss was to Adam Rakos

The final results were:

Winner with 4.5/5 – William Hewitt

Joint Second place with 4/5 – Adam Rakos, Alan Young and Chris Boyd

Under 1900 Grading Prize Winner with 3.5/5 – Tomasz Miga

Under 1500 Grading Prize Joint Winners with 2/5 – Janet Evans, Sean Denton, Tomos Roberts and Aidan Reilly

UK Land Chess Challenge 2018: An opportunity to qualify

A local round of the UK Land Chess Challenge will be held on Sunday 18 March in Chepstow. It will provide an opportunity for children that have not had a chance to play in the UK Land Chess Challenge through their school or local chess club, and a second chance for children that have already participated in this competition this year.

The competition in Chepstow will take place in Chepstow Methodist Church (NP16 5DA) from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. Richard can be contacted on 01291 629640, or by e-mailing richardstevenson@zoho.com

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CANCELLED: Welsh Secondary School event

Due to the poor weather, and only slight signs of improvement over the next 24 hours, the event for Secondary School Chess players that was due to be held on 3 March has been cancelled. A date for the event in the summer term will be announced shortly.

URGENT!! 2018 WCU AGM

Please note that due to the adverse weather conditions, the 2018 WCU AGM scheduled to take place on Sunday 4th March has now been cancelled.

This will now be rearranged and a new date announced in the near future.

ECU Newsletter February 2018

The February 2018 ECU Newsletter can be downloaded from here.

Welsh Junior Championships 2018: Week-end one results

At the first week-end of the Welsh Junior Chess Championships, held at Chepstow School on 24-25 February, Susana Fraser and Ifan Rathbone-Jones shared the Under 14 title, Ellison Smith won the under 12s, Sridatta Dantu and Ben Jaberansari shared the under 10s and Govind Anandkumar won the under 8s.

Llya Taylor won the under 10 Major, and George Siddall won the under 8s Major.

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Lord Greg Mostyn WCU Patron

Today, the Welsh Chess Union has the great pleasure to announce that Lord Greg Mostyn has agreed to become a patron of the Welsh Chess Union.

We look forward to working with him and to meeting him at events around Wales.

WELSH JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – THIS WEEKEND (24th and 25th FEB) CHEPSTOW LEISURE CENTRE

Please note that until next Sunday there are major roadworks on the A48 in Chepstow due to gas main replacement.

Last weekend these works caused major disruption around the Chepstow area and between the M48 and town (A466). If you are travelling on this route and using High Beech Roundabout please allow extra time to arrive.

An alternative route travelling from the west is to leave the M4 at J24 (Coldra) and then take the A48 to Chepstow. When you get to Crick turn left and follow signs to Shirenewton. When in Shirenewton follow the signs to Chepstow. This brings you into Chepstow near the racecourse above the dsiruption. You can access Welsh Street from there.

GM Matthew Turner dominates the Dyfed Congress

At the Dyfed Congress, taking place at Fishguard Hotel over February 16-18, GM Matthew Tuner won the Open section and the Saturday evening Blitz competitions with perfect scores.

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2018 WCU AGM 4th March 2018

The Agenda is now available here.

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