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Individual Champions

The club championship was initiated by Dennis Bates in 2002.
Previous to that there was a very informal sort of championship, spread over the course of the season's games in the club after which we usually decided that Max Brown was club champion again.
Dennis organised it as a proper all-play-all, so many games to be played by certain deadlines with penalties if insufficient games were completed. Since Dennis won it the first two years of its existence it has always been known as "The Bates Cup" even though the trophy provided by Dennis is in fact a shield.

Club Champions (winners of "The Bates Cup")
2002-3 Dennis Bates
2003-4 Dennis Bates and George Glover
2004-5 George Glover
2005-6 Terence Nabbs
2006-7 Terence Nabbs
2007-8 George Glover
2008-9 George Glover

The junior championship has been running for rather longer, since the club started originally as a chess club for juniors which eventually evolved into an all-ages club. Javier, Max, Terence and Stephen were all also Cumbria junior champions, Max 5 years in a row.

Junior Champions (under 18)
1990-1 Alex Airey
1991-2 Andrew Daines
1992-3 Andrew Holmes
1993-4 David Palmer
1994-5 David Palmer
1995-6 David Palmer
1996-7 Andrew Quinn
1997-8 Javier Alvargonzalez
1998-9 Max Brown
1999-2000 Max Brown
2000-01 Max Brown
2001-2 Max Brown
2002-3 Max Brown
2003-4 Max Brown
2004-5 Terence Nabbs
2005-6 Terence Nabbs
2006-7 Terence Nabbs
2007-8 Stephen Lowis
2008-9 Stephen Lowis
2009-10 Sam McStay

Minor Champion
2005-6 Bill Hardwick
2006-7 Ian Hiatt
2007-8 Ian Mackay
2008-9 Bill Hardwick
2009-10 Marco Ho

We have also started a club league for younger players, up to around 13 years old.
Junior Junior Champion
2nd
3rd
2005-6 Thomas Collier Ben Spedding Sam McStay
2006-7 Ben Spedding Camas Millar Paul van Iterson and Jason Maxwell
2007-8 Peter Sanders Chris Royle Jason Maxwell
2008-9 Jason Maxwell Chris Royle Martin Wright
2009-10 Jason Maxwell Camas Millar Chris Royle
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