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BOOKS, BOOKS & MORE BOOKS!!! Massive sale of chess books - don't miss it!!! Click HERE for list of hardbacks Click HERE for list of softbacks 4NCL The 4NCL tournaments for 2008 have recently finished and on Games/WECU we give the games played by Jack Rudd and Andrew Greet. TORBAY LEAGUE KO FINAL Plymouth won the KO final played at Newton on 7th May, by 2½ points to 1½. Newton Abbot were penalised 2 points for including an ineligible player. DANNY KING'S POWERPLAY 6
Danny King continues his Powerplay series with 5 hours of videos on "Pawns, Pieces and Plans." If you want to know how to play with or against the isolated queen pawn, deal with central passed pawns or when to exchange pawns then read the review on the "ChessBase" page. NEWS FROM THE ECF ANOTHER RESIGNATION Significant resignations from the ECF. What is happening? See HERE for details. If you want to know what is happening to a trip to HERE. TORBAY LEAGUE Teignmouth have won Division One by the margin of one match point. See News/Torbay for all results.
MICHAEL ADAMS IN BAKU
Three players tied for first place including Michael Adams' final round opponent, Gashimov, who drew this game. See Games/Others for annotated games, score table and all games played to date. Go HERE for a video interview with Mickey. ENDINGS FOR BEGINNERS Today (19/4/08), we start a series of articles that we hope will be of use to beginners (and possibly a re-fresher for more experienced players). These articles deal with significant endings that may arise in play. Click HERE for the starter. Teignmouth Rapidplay Results. The 27th Teignmouth Rapidplay Tournament was held on Saturday 12th April. There was maximum entry and a good day was had by all who attended. Thanks go to Ray Chubb for his impeccable administration of the event. See the Results on News/Teignmouth.
Winners of the Junior Tournament The photograph above shows on the left Adam Batten, centre, Nethaniel Cleland and on the right Jeff Leung. Nathaniel is holding the Ian Mason Memorial Cup.Nathaniel is holding the Ian Mason Memorial Cup. Ian Mason was well known for his chess enthusiasm and teaching chess at a number of Teignmouth schools. For more photographs see The Players Gallery. John Dunleavy † It is with considerable sorrow that we report the death of John Dunleavy today - 10/4/08. John was an extremely active administrator in all aspects of chess in Devon and was instrumental in the modernization of the English Chess Federation. We extend our sympathy to his family and register our heartfelt appreciation of John's unswerving dedication to the promotion of chess on both a national and local platform. For obituary see News DCCA.
OPENING BLUNDERS Are you missing something when playing your favourite opening? Could you have won that game more quickly than you in fact did? more games included HERE "CHESS SUCCESS - planning after the opening" Batsford have released another book under the authorship of the popular Neil McDonald. If you are stuck for ideas when out of the opening, this book is for you. See the Reviews page. THE WINTER-WOOD TROPHY
Bob Jones has revived this old Devon
County competition and the draw and results can be seen on News/DCCA
and the games played for this year's club champion can be seen
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58th Annual Paignton Congress at Oldway Mansion, Paignton Sunday 31st August - Saturday 8th September 2008
Photo courtesy of Roger Neat Play at the most beautiful venue in the U.K.
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DCCA On 24th March 2006, the DCCA Council demonstrated their confidence in this site representing and promoting chess in Devon by underwriting the running costs for the next five years. However, this confidence cannot be satisfied without the support of clubs and organisations. Information is needed in order that pages can be constructed for each club etc - please see the pages of Teignmouth and Plymouth for the type of data that is the norm. As yet no significant contributions have been received from Torquay Boys' Grammar School, Brixham, South Hams, and clubs in N. Devon. Please contact bill@frostw170.fsnet.co.uk for more information. Visitors to Chess Devon since 8th December 2005
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