1 Birmingham & District Chess League: Bulletin 1, 2008/9 This Bulletin contains the initial player registrations and the quick-play elections for 2008/9 for all Clubs except Aldridge and Kynoch. There are also many news items (and not just on the front and back pages). Wanted!!: Budding Journalists, Correspondents, Problemists, Game Annotators ...etc.. This year I am hoping to expand the content of the Bulletin to include more input from league members. So if you want to share some news, an opinion, a game, or anything else, then please write to me at 28, Birchwood Road, Birmingham, B12 8BP. I don't promise to publish everything but I will consider printing any submissions that are to do with chess, not libellous or abusive, and of manageable size (Be concise!). No Home ... New Home County Chess – so near but yet so far There have been a number of recent changes to club Sadly Worcestershire's Under 125 team perished 10-6 at venues. the hands of Sussex in the Semi-finals of the National County Championship. As reported last season Sussex Mike Rees of Northfield Checkmates writes: "Owing to had earlier put paid to Warwickshire's chances. To add a change of circumstances Northfield Checkmates have insult to injury for both Midlands' teams, Sussex then found themselves without a venue. We have been offered managed to lose to Norfolk in the Finals. joint use of St. George's club rooms on Monday evenings so for the foreseeable future we will be there (see Rumours of Dave Brelsforth's retirement as Captain of handbook for details). All days and dates in the BDCL Warwickshire's U125 side may prove to be premature. handbook are correct". He still wants the Big One! Halesowen report that they now have a new venue at Individual Tourneys: The Clock is Ticking ... Hasbury Inn, Hagley Road, Halesowen, B63 4QQ. Tel: 0121 585 8708. This venue is different from that recorded Entries for the individual tournaments must be sent in by in the Handbook Their club night will be Wednesdays. 1st October to Graham Humphreys – his contact details Most of the fixtures have already been re-arranged. (see and details of the tournament itself are in the BDCL elsewhere). Your club secretary should have been Handbook [pp. 5 & 39]. The cost is £2.50 per player. provided with details of how to get to the new venue. Ideally you should enter through your Club Secretary, but N.B. Halesowen's Div 6 Team has been withdrawn. Graham will probably not complain too much if you approach him directly. There are likely to be enough Redditch have also moved (for the second time in 12 places available for everybody who wants to compete. months?). Full details are in the Handbook. Players may enter the tournament for the division in which they play or for a higher division. Rushall moved last season, but if you haven't yet been to their new venue then make sure that you check your Also ..: It has been proposed that the BDCL should Handbook before you set off! organise Individual Tourneys that run over the summer months . What do you think of this idea? Would you be Les Andrews, Secretary of Aldridge & District, has likely to play in such a tournament? (Answers to changed his email address. It is now: Bulletin Ed. or to your Club Secretary as this item may [email protected] . be raised again at a future League Management Meeting). Obituary – Dennis Beckett “With deep sadness Greenlands CC report the passing of Dennis Beckett, President and founder member of the original St. James Club, in early June after a long and plucky fight against cancer. A sterling example of his generation, brought up in World War 2, he was a robust yet likeable character with a good sense of humour and a keen interest in the game of chess and in encouraging others, especially younger players (notably Keith Arkell, now a G.M.). Dennis's forte was organisation and under his leadership St. James was one of the largest and strongest clubs around, competing in BDCL, Worcester County and District leagues, winning several trophies and one year achieving the “triple”. When he finally laid down the baton he was voted life membership and became our first President. His stalwart presence will be sorely missed”. L J Wheatley 2 Quickplay Elections (by Division and Team) Quickplay Finish - Teams' chosen options are listed below and can also identified by the addition of the abbreviations "qp" or “adj” in the Registrations section of this bulletin. Q/P Adjs N/K Q/P Adjs N/K Finish Finish Division 1 Division 2 Bushbury X Birmingham X Halesowen X Boldmere St. Michael's X Kynoch/Barn X Lichfield X Lichfield X Olton A X Olton X Olton B X Shirley & Lucas X South Birmingham X Solihull X Stourbridge A X South Birmingham A X Stourbridge B X South Birmingham B X Tamworth & District A X South Birmingham C X Tamworth B X Sutton Coldfield X Warley Quinborne A X Walsall Kipping X Warley Quinborne B X Wolverhampton X West Bromwich X Division 3 Division 4 Boldmere St. Michaels X Birmingham X Bushbury X Mercia X Greenlands X Mutual Circle X Halesowen X Northfield Checkmates X Mutual Circle X Olton X Redditch X Rushall X Shirley & Lucas A X South Birmingham X Shirley & Lucas B X St. Georges X Solihull X Sutton Coldfield X South Birmingham X Walsall Kipping X Sutton Coldfield X Warley Quinborne X Walsall Kipping X Westminster X Wolseley X Wolverhampton X Division 5 Division 6 Aldridge X Boldmere St. Michaels A X Boldmere St. Michaels X Boldmere St. Michaels B X Bushbury X Greenlands X Halesowen X Kynoch/Barn X Kynoch/Barn X Mutual Circle X Lichfield X Olton X Mutual Circle X Redditch X Shirley & Lucas X Solihull X South Birmingham X Tamworth & District X West Midlands Police X West Midlands Police X Westminster X Wolseley X 3 Birmingham 6b adj 6 adj 2 qp 2 qp Berenbaum, Luke Allsop, Brian Farmery, Robin Fender, John Carrington, Malcolm Collett, Richard F Giles, Alan Gee, G Jim French, Barry Hunter, Gareth Grant, Andrew B Karim, Amkar Hillman, Robert Johnson, Stanley Homewood, L Brian McConkey, Chris C Huynh, Sang Lloyd, John E Mieleniewski, Andrew Pearson, Russell Jones, Aaron Smith, David Slobodyuk, Yuri Pready, Alex D Osborne, Giles Smith, Peter Smith, John Sturch, Alan 4 qp Thomas, Colin Halesowen 5 qp Carter, William Andrews, Stuart Hill, John Bushbury 1 adj Brown, Charles L C Hopkins, Brian D Ambrose, Andy R Caithness, Ian Hopkins, Steven 1 adj Bethel, Mark A Cooper, Paul Kingsley, Laurence Cooper, Dave Edge, John A Dodgson, Joe Rowe, David Cooper, Lawrence Fishburne, Stewart K Fone, David W Schroeder, Mark Crombleholme, Alan Hunt, Malcolm Gray, Jackie Scott, Henry Grinsell, Lee Jackson, Dale Griffin, Nicholas Wright, Alan Laight, Derek Hall, Arthur Parry, Richard 3 adj Kirk, Colin Boldmere St. Staniforth, John Clark, Maureen Marriott, John Michael's Curry, Don S Marriott, Nicholas 3 adj Grimes, Robert McLaughlin, Ian B Monks, Gary 2 adj Baggott, Peter Hadley, Mike Short, David Biddle, Michael Button, John Peck, Windsor A Smith, Richard H Fagan, Joe Harris, Steve Wyle, Graham J Smith, Roy E Lake, Andrew Pinfold, Philip Smitton, Stuart Mildenhall, John Podlesak, Mark 5 adj Swain, Jarrod Thomas, Keith Staley, Phil Bessant, Craig Wingrove, D Richard Wilson, Alexander Borley, Martin 5 adj Digger, Derek C 3 adj Booth, Keith Evans, Joyce H Mercia Bennet, Loxley Brodie, Robert Evans, Paul J Brelsforth, David Buckley, David Hadden, Christopher 4 adj Edwards, Steven Collabella, Tony Martin, Daryl J P Bateson, Chris Harrington, Michael Keates, Doug McNeill, Alasdair Butler, Marcus Hussain, Adrian Molineux, David Southcote, John W Francis, Ken A J Loach, Peter O’Donoghue, Paul Taylor, Julian Lane, Chris Pinfold, O. William Taylor, Tony May, Ken 5 adj Schroeder, Alf Vile, Mark Perks, Derek W Dixon, Bill Scott, Phil Wootton, Jason T Phillips, John Fryer, Steven Whitehead, Jeremy Price, Rod Goodby, Eric Lichfield Rich, John Johnson, Alan Greenlands Share, Mike Lakin, John 1 qp Smith, Barry Webb, Dave Phipps, Malcolm 3 adj Collins, Peter M Worthington,Dave Bott, Douglas Keaveney, John S 6a adj Ellis, Ian Lamb, Graham H Choi, Leo Hurney, Kevin Maher, Mike P Harman, Geoff Peters, Roy Staples, Maurice J Smith, Geoff Truscott, Ian Wallace, Paul A Taylor, Ross Wheatley, Laurence J Wyer, Tom Wiggins, Andrew 4 Mutual Circle Lloyd, Alan D Day, Kevin (9/9) 3a qp 3 qp Reynolds, Robert Krzysztof, Krowicki (9/9) Asbury, Jon Boynton, Peter Smith, Richard Ryder, Neil Child, Kieran Evans, Chris Turner, Richard, Dale, Jonathan Evans, Garry 2a qp Wood, Penny Freeman, John Fisher, Dominic Cheshire, David J Long, Matthew (12/9) Huq, Robin Hodgskin, Paul Rushall Purcell, Rob Paffard, Mark Holt, Trevor J Ward, Eric McDonald, Jim 4 qp 4 adj Reynolds, Richard C Allen, Syd 3b qp Goray, Satnam S Wallman, Robert Bell, Darren Christie, Gordon Lewis, Lionel Carr, Matthew Gilbert, Kim Robinson, Sheila 2b adj Colwell, Steve Jimenez, Frank Singhal, Saket Allen, Ken Cooksey, Shane Rawson, Louis Tallis, Mark Brown, David Dolan, Ray Warden, Mike Wells, Phil Chadaway, Steve Greenwood, Matthew Warren, Ken Cottom, Andy Greenwood, Peter 5 adj Liszewski, Richard Hadley, Kevin D 5 qp Al-Samir, Mehdi Llewelyn, John Hancox, Ray J Ball, Roger Homer, John Harris, Phil Cox, Tom Price, Dave 4 adj Hennion, Josh Csepregi, Gabor Thompson, Peter Archibald, Warren Jarnis, David Donovan, John Walker, Mike B A Gillespie, Jim Leary, Peter Foster, Nigel Webb, Andy Goldwater, Tony Parker, Nigel Healey, Roger Woollaston, Alan Kerr, Mick Parker, Richard Hemmings, Howard Singh, Peter Sanders, Gordon Knee, Barry 6 qp Stockwin, David Sangha, Manpreet McGuirk, Peter Aldridge, Chris Styles, Calvin Phillips, Gary Carroll, Colin 6 adj Turner, Peter Purcell, Philip Choudhury, Shakeel Clulee, John Wilcox-Banks, Simpson, Richard Evans, Garth Evans, Tom Charlotte J Heeney, Paul Garner, Bramwell Wilcox, Steve R Solihull Hollows, Robert Kerr, Courteney Iqbal, Joel Lawson, Keith St.