The games from the 2017 West Wales Open can now be downloaded from the Games page.
 | Welsh Chess Union (Undeb Gwyddbwyll Cymru)Patron: Lord Greg Mostyn |
| Welsh Chess Union (Undeb Gwyddbwyll Cymru)Patron: Lord Greg Mostyn |
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The games from the 2017 West Wales Open can now be downloaded from the Games page. At this year’s Quadrangular, held in Liverpool on 2-3 December, the Welsh Under 14 team won by a convincing margin. The team of Chirag Guha, Ifan Rathbone-Jones, Anton Petkov, David McIntosh, Caspian Fowler, Duncan MacDonald, Neirin Leggett, Sithika Medagedara, Neil Stevenson and Robert Goodwin netted 20.5 points out of a possible 30, 4 points more than a combined Ireland & The Midlands team. At the Cardiff Stadium event, held on Tuesday 28 November, St John’s College Cardiff took top spot, winning all five of their matches by a comfortable margin. Rhydypenau came second in division one, and the winners for the previous three years, The Dell, came third. Continue reading St John’s dethrone The Dell at Cardiff Stadium In the third and final Welsh Junior Congresses to be held this autumn Daniel Chung won the Open section. Yuxuan Wu came second and Joel Chung third. Games from WCPL Rounds 1 and 2 can now be downloaded from the Games page.. On Monday 20 November St John’s and Chepstow B enjoyed success in a qualifier for the regional round of ECF Under 19 Open (formerly The Sunday Times and then The Times Championship). In this event, played at Bristol Grammar, St John’s put in a very impressive performance, winning all three games. Chepstow B, a very young side with five players in year 7, also tasted success, winning two of their games – just enough to get through to the next round. Continue reading Chepstow and St John’s qualify for the regional round of the Under 19 Open At the Musketeers junior congress in Cheltenham on Saturday 18 November, Harrison Postans won the U12 championship with 5/5, and Lewis Wynn finished joint second in the U10 boys.
Continue reading Welsh success at Musketeers junior congress At the 2017 West Wales Congress between 17th-19th November, the winners were: West Wales Open 1st= Tim Kett and Gerry Heap 4/5 3rd= Adam Musson and Sven Zeidler 3.5/5 West Wales Major 1st= Roger Greatorex, Roy Thomas, Stephen Horrell, Stephen Williams and Tomaz Miga 3.5/5 West Wales Minor 1st Albert Easton 4/5 2nd= Sean Denton, Eleanor Collins and Joel Chung 3.5/5
Sad news has reached us that Beryl Hughes passed away in hospital last Monday, aged 86 after a short illness. She was Welsh Ladies Champion in 1975 and 1999. In recent years she had been a member of Caerphilly club, but moved this season to Cardiff club. As recently as last Easter, Beryl had won the John Bishop Minor tournament at the Welsh Championships. An English graduate she was author of the book Shakespeare’s Friends revealed.
The funeral will be at Thornhill Crematorium, Briwnant Chapel, Cardiff on Thursday 23rd November at 3.00pm.
For those interested in competing in the Bristol Congress (24th-26th November), the details can be found here. |
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