Met Office FitzRoy Road EXETER Devon EX1 3PB

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Public Transport

- Buses

- Trains

Until 7pm the Met Office is served directly by 3 bus routes - 56 (St Davids to Exeter Airport), H1 (St Davids to Business Park), B north-bound (Digby Station - Met Office - Pinhoe station - City Centre - Marsh Barton ).

Buses 60 380 92 PR2 SR4, bus B south-bound to Sowton and Digby, and after 7pm the H1, serve Honiton Rd Park & Ride (6 minutes walk).

Two rail stations Pinhoe (Exeter - Yeovil) and Digby (Exmouth - Paignton) are about a mile walk, and both are served directly by bus B until 7pm. Bus H1 and the trains run until about 10:30pm - well after the end of our chess matches.

Home matches are normally played on Tuesday evening (6:30 - 9:30pm).

Several keen members have departed the Met Office, so for 2009-10 we will have fewer than the 4 teams we fielded in 2008-09. The B and C teams finished mid table, the A and Rapid teams 4th of 4 but each team scored a result against Exeter.

Steve Murray and Wilf Taylor play for Devon county. Steve also plays for Exmouth, Wilf for Newton Abbott, Gil Ross for Seaton. The Met Office Chess Club hosts DCCA committee meetings. Wilf organises the south-west regional qualifier for the Civil Service championships.

Below is everyone who has played for us in Devon since 2004. Grades shown are post-credit-crunch devalued New Grades or estimates.

Wilfrid RP Taylor

Andreas Keil is Civil Service Champion for 2008
Andreas Keil is the first Devon player for many years to become National Civil Service Champion.

In an outstanding 2009 season Ian Simpson (122) scored 8 wins 4 draws 0 losses for / at the Met Office, playing to ~153 (old grade) which happens to be his 2008 indicative New Grade. Ian plays an opening which all his opponents cannot counter. In his Rapidplay match he nearly beat 164 twice but missed a mate in one in the drawn game. In the Civil Service south-west qualifier (where he did lose), Ian's 3rd place takes him to the 2009 Nationals at Leeds after Sean Pope declined his place.