Achievements, Trophies & Tournaments

Tonight we celebrated achievements and finished our rapid tournament from last week.

First of all, we took time to honour Mike Ward who has given many many years of service to Taunton Chess Club.   Mike will be stepping down as the club chairman and tournament organiser, but his contribution is more than that.  He is known as the guru of chess rules, if you don’t know; you ask Mike as he knows the rule book so well.  Fortunately Mike is not leaving us, he will still be around for a long time pushing his queen and pawns around the chess board.  We want to say a big thank you to you for all that you have done and we hope that we continue to build on the foundations you have laid.

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We continued the Rapid Tournament from last week.  Poor Chris had a big task on his hands this week as the computer software was down and so it was a paper and pen exercise to arrange matches between rounds.  At the end of round 6 we thought that we could almost predict the winner but we were proved wrong in round 7 when Arnold and Simon drew their games forcing a 4 way draw with 4 players (Arnold, Frey, Niall & Simon) on 5.5 points.  We then drew lots to see who would play each other for a 5 minutes rapid semi final.  Frey and Arnold battled it out on one board and Niall and Simon on the other.  This was followed by a grand final between Arnold and Niall.  See below to see who was victorious.

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WInner – Niall

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2nd Place – Arnold

Semi-Finalists, Minor Winner & Runner-up

Junior Players

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A big thank you to Chris for organising the event and I’m sure we will keep it in the diary for next year.

 Major & Minor Club Tournament

We also took the opportunity to present our annual Minor and Major trophies.  Throughout the year, members are placed in a club tournament according to their grade and they play each other all year round.  At the end, the successful winner gets their name added to the trophy and then they have to find a shelf at home to admire it for a year.  A big congratulations to this year winners:

Major Tournament – Arnold Acibar

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 Minor Tournament – Nathanael Tretheway

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Here are some pictures from the tournament.  Taunton Chess club will be open for 3 more weeks before closing for the season until September.  If you are interested in chess and would like to try the club out, please come along and like our facebook page to keep up with news of when we will reopen.

Club Reopening

GREAT NEWS – We are reopening the club. Please see below for dates:
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Tues, 7th September 2021- current members only
Tues, 14th September 2021 – new starter members
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If you haven’t heard from us via email or FB messenger, please get in touch at tauntonchessclub@gmail.com and we can send you further information and some extra things we have put in place.
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Look forward to hearing from you!

Taunton Juniors Pre-club Sessions

Update September 2021 **** We will advise you once our junior sessions are up and running again *****

From January we will be starting some pre-club sessions for the junior members of the club where Chris Greenaway will be helping them to improve their game.  There will be 2 groups, beginners and advanced, and we will let you know via the WhatsApp group which group your child has been allocated to.

Please see below to see the timetable for when sessions will be held.

JUNIOR PRE-CLUB SESSIONS AT 18:45 – 19:30

January 07/01/2020 NO LESSON
14/01/2020 Beginner class lessons
21/01/2020 Advanced class lessons
28/01/2020 Beginner and Advanced class
February 04/02/2020 Advanced class lessons
11/02/2020 NO LESSON
18/02/2020 Beginner class lessons
25/02/2020 Beginner and Advanced class
March 03/03/2020 NO LESSON
10/03/2020 Beginner class lessons
17/03/2020 Advanced class lessons
24/03/2020 Beginner and Advanced class
31/03/2020 NO LESSON
April 07/04/2020 Beginner class lessons
14/04/2020 NO LESSON
21/04/2020 Advanced class lessons
28/04/2020 Beginner and Advanced class
May 05/05/2020 Beginner class lessons
12/05/2020 NO LESSON
19/05/2020 Advanced class lessons
26/05/2020 Beginner and Advanced class