SOUTH LAKES CHESS CONGRESS 2012
8-10th June 2012 at The Cumbria Grand Hotel, Grange-over-Sands
Download the Entry form HERE
Radio Cumbria Chess Interview
Syd Cassidy was on Radio Cumbria on Thursday 24th November 2011 to discuss being awarded the ECF President’s Award 2011 for his outstanding contribution to Cumbrian Chess over the past 15 years!
Listen to the Radio Cumbria interview below:
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The Open Cumbria
Individual Chess Championships
The 5 round Cumbria Chess Championship
takes place over 24th-26th February 2012 at
The St Mary’s Centre,
Walney Island,
Barrow-in-Furness.
With OPEN, MAJOR, MINOR
Championship sections.
Entries by 22nd February.
Download the entry form here.
October 2011
Carlisle Rapidplay
Read more about the Carlisle Rapidplay 2011 on Dan’s Blog.
A 5 Round Swiss Tournament – Sunday 9th October – Working Man’s Club Carlisle.
Results can be found on our Tournaments page.
Welcome to the New Redesigned Cumbria Chess Association Website.
Over the next few weeks expect to find various new features and activities appearing, including user logins which will give Cumbria Chess members access to Blogs, Chat, Forums, and the ability to connect and share with friends. There is plenty to do so please be patient if some updates are slower than others. But hopefully The Cumbria Chess Association Website will not only showcase information and news about Chess in Cumbria and further afield but provide an entertaining and lively Chess Community!
September 2011
Add chess to the school curriculum -
Martin Gill writes:
I thought I’d take advantage of the new government e-petition thing and start a petition to add chess to the school curriculum. If we want to serious improve chess in this country, then dramatically increasing the number of children who play is no bad thing. It worked for Russia!
Please sign here:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/15863
Also I know George Osborne, for one, is a chess fan. He has talked about following Kasparov & Karpov in interviews.
Martin
August 2011
Message from Eggert Fruchtenicht – Cumbria League Controller.
Dear All
Now that Syd is enjoying retirement I have been given the great pleasure of controlling the Cumbria League Championship.
There are a few of issues I would like to raise;
Hopefully you’ll find that things will run as smoothly as when Syd was handling them although I’m not making any promises, so please be a little patient
There are some changes imposed on us from the ECF. There will be new Grades issued twice a year from this season onwards and that will affect the nominated players list although we won’t need to worry about this at the start of the season.
If any of you have any considerations or suggestions as to how this can best be managed then please post them to me (eggertchess@hotmail.co.uk).
I will post the outcome here later in the year and pass it to the Club Secretaries / Match Captains.
Not having done this before I’m slightly worried of getting anyone’s results wrong so please help me by making your results sheets as legible as possible. I know what my own handwriting is like.
Lastly, please get your team nomination to me as soon as you can.
I have contacts (at least email) for most Club Secretaries and or Match Captains. It would be nice to have contact phone numbers and possibly a “best time” to reach you. I don’t want to pester anyone, but if timescales get tight, particularly near the grade change, it’d be nice to make sure there are as few delays as possible to the league calendar.
Eggert
August 2011
Eggert Fruchtenicht from Penrith Chess Club is the new Cumbria League Controller.
Eggert will organise the Cumbria League Championship and Whitaker Cup competitions and othe Cumbria events as required.
The League Controller ensures the rules of the competitions are adhered to in terms of match organisation and nominated players and will deal with any disputes.
Eggert will also ensure that match fixtures, results and league tables are regularly updated on the website.
Contact details below:
eggertchess@hotmail.co.uk
Martin Gawne from Barrow Chess Club is the new Cumbria Grader.
Martin will liaise with Eggert on grading Cumbria Match results and with Club Secretaries for internal Cumbria Club games. Grades will now be updated twice a year, so players will have a new official ECF grade by the end of January 2012 and then again in July 2012.
Contact Details below:
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