Author Archives: Jeremy-Hamm

Report by David G Mills From 6th – 9th May 2011 I acted as a volunteer assistant at the Braille Six Nations Team Chess Tournament staged at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. By good fortune there was no play on … Continue reading →

Another double match report. Apologies for the delays. Bradford Central was a tough fixture: not so much the match itself as the organising of it. Many of our usual players were unavailable and by mid-week before the match I was … Continue reading →

This is a combined report for the February back to back matches. I couldn’t face the keyboard after the traumatic York B game, didn’t have time after the Bradford game and so am playing catch-up now. The story of York … Continue reading →

Not much to report about this match. Facing a weaker than expected Harrogate (including one default), the progress of individual games went as the grading differences suggested they would, with us emerging as pretty emphatic 7-1 winners. In terms of … Continue reading →

4 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses – 5-3, quite happy about that. It was particularly good to see Mike prevail against the very promising young player Greg Eagleton, after he had gone down to the same player 3 (?) years … Continue reading →

Following our last couple of matches, it was a relief to win fairly comfortably against Wakefield – 6-2 was the final result. Both Carl and Farshad won very quickly against weaker opponents on Boards 7 and 8. Mike J also … Continue reading →

This hadn’t been an easy match to organise – not least because, with the exception of Jon Nelson, all our top players (Andrew, Kieran, Paul C, Peter H, Dave L) were missing! But somehow we ended turning up in Halifax … Continue reading →

We’ve faltered in previous years against Rose Forgrove, so perhaps the final 4-4 result shouldn’t have been as surprising as it was. Of course we should have done better: just look at the grading gap (our average grade was 184 … Continue reading →