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County Championships 2009 July/August 2009 NEWSLETTER OF THE ENGLISH CHESS FEDERATION £1.50 COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009 David Lettington (left) presented with his award by Peter Soulsby MP The Counties Championship, the last under the current gradings bands, were held on July 4th 2009 at Moat College, Maidstone Rd, Leicester. The event was opened by Sir Peter Soulsby, M.P. of the constituency the school is situated in, Leicester South and a chess player in his youth. During his opening address, he praised the ECF for the Chess For Schools Project, of which he was fully aware and expressed his pleasure at being asked to open the event. The Counties Championship trophies were on display, and the Open Trophy caught his eye as a fine piece of silver ware. [continued on Page 3] Editorial As reported in the last issue of Chess Moves, Sophie has left the ECF after nine years. Her replacement is Andrew Walker, who has certainly had a ECF Awards Nominations for baptism of fire, coming into the office ECF News at such a busy time. Also joining the Player of the Year Election at the ECF AGM team at Battle is Kirstie Lapworth, The voluntary posts to be elected at who is the co-ordinator for Chess For the AGM on 17 October 2009 are: Schools. Welcome to them both. • President; International Director Stewart Reuben • Chief Executive; was unexpectedly taken ill whilst on holiday and is currently in hospital • Director of Finance; but is recovering well. Get well soon, • A minimum of 2 Non-Executive Stewart, from all of us at Battle! Directors; Cynthia Gurney • Up to 5 Executive Directors (there are currently 4 – the Directors of Marketing, Home Chess; • International Chess and Junior Obituaries Chess and Education); • The FIDE Delegate; Paul Sanders • The Chairman of the Finance It is with deep regret that we have Committee; to report the death of Paul Sanders • Members of the Finance at the age of 59. Paul was a long ECF Director of Marketing, Peter Wilson Committee; time member of Negas Chess club congratulates David Howell on again • The Chairman of the Governance - later the St Vincents Chess Club. being voted as ECF Player of the Committee; He had been a regular player for Year and thanks all those who took • Members of the Governance both clubs from the 1970s until the the trouble to vote. In second place Committee. last couple of years. He regularly this year was Nigel Short and in third position, Stuart Conquest. Each candidate for a Post must be supported the Hull Congress for either: many years and was a popular (a) A retiring Director, FIDE Delegate competitor at local and Yorkshire President’s Award or Chairman of a Standing venues. Committee seeking re-election to the same Post; or Alan Phillips British Chess (b) A nominee of the Board for a Post; Champion 1954 or It is with deep regret that we have (c) A person proposed by any of the to report the death of Alan Phillips, following full* members: who passed away peacefully at (i) any Director; 3am on Wednesday 24th June in (ii) the FIDE Delegate; Warrington Hospital. (iii) the Chairman of a Standing Committee; L-R David Anderton (ECF), Sarah Eatwell (UCH), Cynthia Gurney (ECF) and Colin Monk (UCH) (iv) any two Trustees; Contents (v) any Representative Member of a On the 19th May 2009, the University County Championships .........................FC, 3 Constituent unit; ECF News ....................................................... 2, 3 Centre at Hastings was presented National Club ...........................................4, 5, 6 with the President’s Award. The library (vi) any two Representative Members of Counties; International News..................................... 7, 8 now houses well over 7000 books. Grand Prix ...........................................................8 The catalogue can be viewed at (vii) any two Direct Members’ Junior News ..................................9, 10, 11, 15 www.nch.ac.uk Representatives; Littlewood’s Choice ..................................... 12 (viii) any two of a Trustee, a Book Reviews ................................................. 13 British Championship Representative Member of a Results Round-Up ......................................... 14 County and a Direct Members’ Calendar of Events ....................................... 16 2009, Torquay Representative; or At the time of going to press, there (ix) any five Individual** Members or Copy Deadline are 767 entries for the 2009 British Representative Members. Championships, an increase of roughly * Full Members are Constituent Units, 10th September 2009 200 on the same time last year. County Associations, Chess Leagues, 2 CHESSMOVES – JULY / AUGUST 2009 Chess Congresses, Other Organisations, the Directors, the FIDE Delegate, the Chairmen of the Standing Committees, County Championships [continued from the front page] the Trustees (of the Permanent Invested Fund), Patrons, the Past President and the Past Chief Executive. The matches featured two ** Individual Members are any of the Full Members listed “Wars of the Roses” in the above. Open and U175.. The former was won by Yorkshire by Updated brief job descriptions for these posts setting out 9 pts. to 7 after the last the responsibilities envisaged by the Board will be published game finished, after 5 on the website at: http://www.englishchess.org.uk/ no later hours of exciting chess. We than 17 August 2009 and will be available in hard copy form saw two fresh faces in the from the Office. A note of which incumbents will be seeking Minor Counties final where re-election, will be similarly available from that date and will Hertfordshire’s higher ratings be sent to each earlier enquirer automatically. eventually told against The April 2009 Finance Council Meeting discussed the a gallant Leicestershire merits of moving to a structure with a figurehead President, team by 10-6, the match a non-executive Chairman and a Chief Executive. The Board being decided by wins for proposes to take this forward through a formal paper at the Hertfordshire on boards AGM: if this receives general support, appropriate changes Peter Soulsby MP 5,6,7 and 8. to the Articles will be proposed in April 2010 to enable the Part of the great Northern battle at U175 saw an easier win October 2010 elections to take place on the new basis. for Yorkshire by 11-5 over their neighbours from Lancashire. To be eligible for election, nominations with the required Some games were intense, but the White Roses tended to level of support, must be received at the ECF Office, The have the edge. Watch Oak, Chain Lane, Battle, East Sussex TN33 0YD no later A remarkable treble was completed in the 150 where than 13:30 on Wednesday 9 September 2009. Yorkshire successfully defended their U150 title against Managers and other Officers are appointed by the Board Warwickshire by 9½ to 6½. Again, some excellent chess by all and by individual Directors and are not subject to election players concerned. by Council. However, this is an appropriate time for anyone Suffolk regained the U125 trophy which they had last held in interested in this type of essential work to indicate their 1995 by a 10-6 win over Kent. The defeat for the men of Kent interest to the Board through the ECF Office. was softened by the presentation to David Lettington as a member of the Snodland club with the award for “Small Club Proposals for Discussion and of the Year” by Peter Soulsby, who was very pleased to make this award. The fact that Suffolk did not lose a game on the Decision at the AGM lower half of the match went along way to their win. It is open to full members as specified in (c) (i - ix) above to Whilst the North was fighting over the higher graded trophies, submit proposals to the AGM of ECF. It is recommended that there was an internal SCCU fight over the U100 trophy with proposers should consult the Chairman of the Governance Kent gaining their third win at U100 level over Surrey by 6½ Committee to ensure that their proposed papers are in an - 5½, so the Surrey team failed by the narrowest of margins appropriate format and are sound from a constitutional to gain their third success at this level. The event ran very point of view. John Philpott may be contacted by e-mail smoothly, to the extent that the anticipated “Mass Exodus” at [email protected] or by at 7.25 p.m. was actually 5 minutes early! Great credit is due telephone at reasonable hours on 020 8527 4063. to the controlling team of David Welch, Adrian Elwin, John For inclusion in the agenda for the AGM final papers must be Shaw and John Wickham. received at the ECF Office, as above by 13:30 on Wednesday The heat on the day meant 9 September 2009. that Julie Johnson’s skills at ECF Vacancies, Director of Finance, Manager of serving the excellent repast Congress Chess , Manager of Prisons Chess, Manager she had created were tested of Chess for Schools, Publicity Officer to their limits, with copious Details for these vacancies may be found at www. quantities of cold soft drinks englishchess.org.uk – scroll to the bottom of the home page being consumed. Thanks and click on the ‘Vacancies’ link are also due to Chris Majer who followed up his draw for Hertfordshire by assisting in the prize-giving afterwards. My grateful thanks to all of ECF EMAIL ALERT them, and to Moat School, Register your email address at who took steps to assist keeping the temperature www.englishchess.org.uk down and to make us all to receive news items as soon as they are known to us comfortable Cyril Johnson Cyril Johnson presents Yorkshire with the trophy CHESSMOVES – JULY / AUGUST 2009 3 National Club Championship The National Clubs Finals were split between Golden Lane in of a draw, which meant that Wood Green retained their title the Barbican and Syston Social Club on July 12th 2009.
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