NEWTON ABBOT

SEASON 2011 - 2012

 

 

CLUB OFFICIALS 2010/11

 

PRESIDENT:           SECRETARY:

Andrew Kinder    

Trefor Thynne
The Farriers     54 Silverwood Avenue
Kingston   Milber
Kingsbridge TQ7 4PP  Newton Abbot TQ12 4LG

Tel: 01548 810750                                    

 01626 337876
Email:ask.27@btinternet.com  email:tthynne@tbgs.Torbay.sch.uk
   
TREASURER: COMPETITION SECRETARY
Dominic Mackle  Vacant
Prospect Cottage    
2 Bradley Road   

Newton Abbot TQ12 1LT

 
Tel: 01626 356868  

 

The Newton Abbot Chess Club was reformed in 2004 and is affiliated to the Devon County Chess Association, the West of England Chess Union and the Torbay Chess League.

The club meets on Thursday evenings, from 23th September, weekly at 7pm at The Courtenay Centre, Kingsteignton Road, Newton Abbot. The club takes part in internal competitions, and are also prominent in the Torbay Chess League where they have teams in Divisions 1, 2 and 3 as well as the Rapidplay tournament. The club also has a team comprising solely of youngsters and all youngsters are encouraged to come to the club where they can take part and learn to play chess.

The club also have teams in Devon County competitions, namely the Bremridge Cup, the Schofield Cup, the Bloodworth Cup and the Knockout Cup.

The club has claim to many of the top players in the county but this should not deter anyone from joining as the club caters for both the social and serious player.

Fees have been set for 20010/11 at £40 for senior players and £20 for juniors, with a weekly match fee of £2 for seniors and £1 for juniors.

Anyone interested in playing chess is welcome to telephone any of the above-mentioned officers for information.

 

 

                Newsletter   December 2011

To all members:

   The first half of the season has whizzed past and we are coming up to the Xmas break so, as usual, I shall attempt a brief retrospective.   We were pleased to welcome two new junior members at the beginning of the season: Vignesh Ramesh and Jamie Gidley plus most of the familiar faces from last year. We have (temporarily) lost  Wilf Taylor who is on a post-retirement trip to Australia  and one or two others who have not rejoined but in general membership remains healthy and we are able to sustain teams in all the team competitions run by the Torbay League and DCCA.

  The first two events of the season, the Simultaneous Display by GM Keith Arkell and the 10-second Buzzer Tournament both proved enjoyable. Congratulations to Andrew Kinder, our President, for his fine win in the Simul .  The club owes a debt of gratitude to John Allen and Jim O’Grady for their generous financial support of the Arkell evening and to Jacquie Barber-Lafon for the terrific success of her Raffle which raised over £100 for club funds. Thanks to these members our financial position should be healthier this year.

  As members are aware, we have tried a different format for the club championship this year with a Swiss pairing system being used.  The aim is to play 7 rounds at roughly one per month. So far the new system seems popular. After 2 rounds only Andrew Kinder, Alan Brusey and Mark Abbot have  2 out of 2 with top-seed Dominic Mackle have dropped half a point to the club’s most improved player, Alex Billings.

In the Torbay League we got off to a bad start in Division 1 losing to TBGS but then beat Torquay convincingly with Paul Brooks scoring a notable win against Andy Dunn. Paul’s Division 2 team is unbeaten with a win against Brixham and draws with Torquay and Teignmouth. Roger Hocking’s division 3 side has played 4 games drawing 2 and losing 2 (though one of the losses, a 2-2 draw on the night came about because we had inadvertently exceeded the grade limit. If you want the whole story ask the Secretary whose fault it was! ).  In Division 4 Vitali Chornenkyy’s team has drawn its only match to date against Plymouth. The Rapidplay team under our President’s iron grip has had 3 wins by the same score (5-3) against South Hams, Torquay and Brixham and John Allen’s Knock-out cup team edged a tight match against Teignmouth (3 ½ - 2 ½) and will now travel to Plymouth (date not yet fixed).

In the DCCA competitions the Div 1 Bremridge team plays its first match on December 17th against Teignmouth. John Allen is captaining the Div 2 Mamhead team which drew  2-2 with Barnstaple whose team notably included IM Jack Rudd and up-and coming Devon junior Theo Slade (aged 11). Alex Billings is captaining the Division 3 Schofield team and they have beaten Tiverton and drawn with Teignmouth.  The Div 4 Moyle team captained by Jim O’Grady drew 2-2 with Exeter.

John Fraser’s team in the Bloodworth Shield (junior division) gets under way on December 16th at Exeter and, finally, our Peter Rooke Knock-Out Cup team will host Teignmouth in February (date to be confirmed).

So a great deal has gone on already.  Several members competed in the ever-popular Torbay Congress at the ERC in Torquay and pride of place in the results goes jointly to Dominic Mackle, joint first in the Open with two others one of whom was GM Keith Arkell and to Jacquie Barber-Lafon with 4/5 in the Minor which she looked odds-on to win after 4 rounds when she had a 100% score.  Dominic, incidentally, qualifies for the 2012 British Championship to be held in Newcastle.

In October the club hosted the now traditional DCCA Team Rapidplay event. Entries were up again with 12 teams taking part. Tiverton were this years winners.

Some of the club’s juniors competed in the Devon Junior Championships at Teign School on December 3rd. John Fraser did well with 4.5/6 in the unde 15s and Vignesh Ramesh scored 5/6 in the under 11s.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  Xmas break: the last club session before Xmas is Thursday December 15th and the first session of the new Year will be January 5th.

Junior Tournament:  Vignesh Ramesh is the runaway leader in this tournament with 10 wins out of 10 followed by Rafe Whitehead with 7/7. (Well done to Rafe, by the way, for his first senior  win in Torbay League match against South Hams). Juniors are reminded that these games should be played with clocks and that 2 games will be played against each other player.

JANUARY MATCH FIXTURES:

Thur  5th      TL2 Torquay                         H       7 p.m.

Sat 7th            DCCA 2 Mamhead Tiverton  A        2.30 p.m.

Sat 7th        DCCA 4 Moyle Tiverton        A         2.30 p.m.

Tues 10th   TL3 Teignmouth                    A        7 p.m.

Thur  12th   TL R-P  Plymouth                 H         7 p.m.

Sat 14th    DCCA1 Bremridge   Exeter    A         2.30 p.m.

Tues 17th  DCCA Junior Bloodworth  Broadclyst PS    A   4 p.m.

Wed 18th  TL4    Torquay                       A          7 p.m.

Thur 19th   TL1  Teignmouth                  H          7 p.m.

Thur 19th TL R-P  South Hams                   A         7 p.m.

Tues 24th  TL2 Teignmouth                         A        7 p.m.

Sat  28th DCCA 2 Mamhead Teignmouth    A        2.30 p.m.

 

I conclude by appending a couple of games played by club junior members this season.

Game 1 DCCA Schofield Cup  Newton Abbot v Tiverton 12.11.11

White: Alex Billings 157    BLACK Keith Atkins   146

1 d4 g6 2 e4 c6 3 c4 Bg7 4 Nf3 d5 5 exd5 cxd5 6 Nc3 Nf6 7 Bg5 dxc4 8 Bxc4 Nc6 9 h3 0-0 10 Qd2 Bf5 11 d5 Nb4 12 0-0 Qc8 13 Qe2 Re8 14 Rfd1 h6 15 Bf4 Nh5 16 Bh2 Nf6 17 Rac1 e5 18 a3 Nc2 19 Nb5 e4 20 Ne5 e3 21 Rxc2 Bxc2 22 Qxc2 exf2+ 23 Kf1 Qc5 24 Qd3 a6 25 Nc3 Nh5 26 Nxf7 Qe7 27 Ne5 Qd6 28 Nxg6 Re1+ 29 Rxe1 fxe1(Q)+ 30 Kxe1 Bxc3+ 31 Qxc3 Re8+ 32 Ne5 Nf6 33 Qg3+ Kh7 34 Qg6+ Kg8 35 Qh6+ Kg8 36 Qg6+ Kh8  37 Qxe8+!   1-0 A nice finish

Game 2 TORBAY CONGRESS (Intermediate Section)

White: Chris Webb 140 Black: John  Fraser 125

1 d4 Nf6 2 Bf4 d5 3 e3 e6 4 Nf3 c5 5 Be2 Nc6 6 0-0 Be7 7 Nc3(?) a6 8 h3 0-0  9 dxc5 Bxc5 10 Na4 Be7 11 c4 dxc4 12 Nc3 Nd5 13 Bxc4 Nf4 14 exf4 b5 15 Bb3 Bb7 16 Re1 Qxd1 17 Raxd1 Rfd8 18 Ne5 Nd4 19 Rc1 Nxb3 20 axb3 Bb4 21Re3 Rac8 22 Ra1 Rd2 23 Nd3 Bxc3 24 bxc3 Rxc3 25 Nb4 Rxe3 26 fxe3 Rxg2+ 27 Kf1 Rb2 28 Nxa6 Bxa6 29 Rxa6 g6 30 Rb6 Rxb3 31 Ke2 Kg7 32 Kf3 h5 33 Ke4 Rb1 34 Ke5 Rh1 35 Rxb5 Rxh3 36 e4 Rh1 37 f5 exf5 38 exf5 Rg1 39 f6+ Kh6  40 Kd6 Re1 and Black soon won  0-1

Good technique from John against a higher- graded player.

Finally may I wish all members an excellent Xmas break and look forward to seeing you refreshed for the battles ahead in the New Year.

 

Trefor Thynne

Club Secretary  15.12.11

 

Club Championship round 3

White                                          Black

A Kinder (2)                               A Brusey (2)

D Mackle (1.5)                         M Abbot (2)

T Thynne (1.5)                         A Billings (1.5)

P Brooks (1)                             J Allen (1.5)

J O’Grady (1)                            J Gorodi (1)

F Sugden (1)                         J Barber-Lafon (1)

R Whitehead (0.5)                V Chornenkiy (1)

J Leung (0.5)                         S Head   (0.5)

J Fraser  (0.5)                        C Rochford (0)

V Ramesh (0)                         J Gidley (0)

Games to completed by January 12th 2012

PLEASE ENTER YOUR RESULT ON THE NOTICEBOARD  AS SOON AS THE GAME IS COMPLETED (OR NOTIFY THE SECRETARY).

TFT
14.12.11

             

DCCA FIXTURES 2011-12

DIV 1 Bremridge    (Trefor Thynne)  6 boards no limit

Teignmouth      Home      17 December 2011

Exeter               Away      14 January 2012

Exmouth          Home       18 February 2012

Tiverton           Away        21 April 2012

 

DIV 2  Mamhead  (John Allen)  4 boards under 640

Barnstaple       Home     26 November 2011

Tiverton           Away        7 January 2012

Teignmouth      Away     28 January 2012

Exmouth          Home     24 March 2012

 

DIV 3 Schofield  (Alex Billings) 4 boards under 560

Tiverton         Home       12 November 2011             Teignmouth    Away        10 December 2011

Teignmouth   Home       18 February 2012

Tiverton         Away        21 April 2012

 

DIV 4  Moyle (Jim O’Grady)    4 boards under 480      

Exeter           Home      26 November 2011

Tiverton        Away         7 January 2012   

Teignmouth   Away        4 February 2012

 

Knock-Out Cup (Peter Rooke Cup)  (Trefor Thynne)                         8 boards under 1120

Round 1 bye

Round 2

Newton Abbot home to either Tiverton or Teignmouth

(before 28 February 2012)

 

Junior Division (Bloodworth Cup)  (John Fraser)

4 boards maximum individual grade 135)

Exeter Juniors            Away        16 December 2011     5 p.m.

Broadclyst P.S.           Away         17 January 2012        4 p.m.    

Torquay Boys’ G.S.      Home         8 March 2012           7 p.m.                    

Members please note:

All the above dates are Saturdays (except the Junior Division)

Home matches of 4 boards are booked in the Club Room (small room where cupboard is) as the rental is much cheaper. When two matches are being played on the same date the normal club room has been booked.

Trefor Thynne

Secretary

27.10.11

 

 

 

 CLUB COMPETITIONS FOR SEASON 2011/2012

SWISS TOURNAMENT – ROUND 1

WHITE

BLACK

RESULT

1 MARK ABBOT

DOMINIC MACKLE

 

 

2 TREFOR THYNNE

ALAN BRUSEY

 

 

3 ANDREW KINDER

JEFF LEUNG

 

 

4 FREDDIE SUGDEN

JOHN ALLEN

 

 

5 ALEX BILLINGS

PAUL BROOKS

 

 

6 JOHN FRASER

JOHN GORODI

 

 

7 JAQUIE BARBER-LAFON

SAM HEAD

 

 

8 JIM O’GRADY

CHARLIE ROCHFORD

 

 

9 VIGNESH RAMESH

JOHN DOIDGE

 

 

10 JAMIE GIDLEY

RAFE WHITEHEAD

 

 

 

RAPIDPLAY SECTION 2011/2012

 

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Tot

1.J.E.DOIDGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.A.BRUSEY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.J.BAR=LAFON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.P.BROOKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.V.CHORNENKYY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.J.GORODI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.T.F.THYNNE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.F.SUGDEN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.R.WHITEHEAD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.J.O’GRADY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.P.DARLOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.J.GIDLEY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.A.KINDER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14.J.ALLEN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.D.MACKLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.V.RAMESH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.J.LEUNG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.J.FRASER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19.S.HEAD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20.C.ROCHFORD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21.D.WHITE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HANDICAP 2011/2012

 

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PTS

1.A.W.BRUSEY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.J.E.DOIDGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.J.BARBER-LAFON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.P.J.BROOKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.V.CHORNENKYY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.J.GORODI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.T.F.THYNNE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.F.SUGDEN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.R.WHITEHEAD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.J.O’GRADY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.M.KATZ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.J.GIDLEY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.D.WHITE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14.V.RAMESH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.C.ROCHFORD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.P.DARLOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.D.MACKLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.A.BILLINGS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JUNIOR TOURNAMENT 2011/2012

 

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PTS

1.A.CHORNENKYY