Your last opportunity to play as a club is this coming Tuesday 28 May 19:30
The Club is closed for all of June, July and August.
The Club reopens Tuesday 3rd September 19:30
Your last opportunity to play as a club is this coming Tuesday 28 May 19:30
The Club is closed for all of June, July and August.
The Club reopens Tuesday 3rd September 19:30
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on
Tuesday 30 April 2024 at 19:30
No Chess will be played that evening.
A fun day was had by all who attended, games moved rapidly and the only noise to be heard was the clicking of the timing clocks, more intensly as the games neared an end.
All of the participating juniors received a medal for participating:
Louis won the First Junior trophy
Alan Stonebridge won the First Senior trophy
Josh was Second in the Under 1500 category
Louis Mallender won the First Under 1500’s Adri won the Third Overall trophy
Arnold Acibar came Second Overall
And finally Niall Homer was the winner of the First Overall trophy
We look forward to holding another tournament next year.
Dr Mike Watson died the weekend of 20/21 Jan 2024
Mike was rushed to hospital at the weekend and died surrounded by his family.
Mike has been a stalwart and long-standing member of the Club for many years, and most recently our main tea and coffee person raising money for MIND.
He was a very intelligent and friendly man who loved his Chess.
Mike was a Doctor and worked in Africa for some years, wrote 3 books and was a General Practitioner.
He will be greatly missed by us all at Taunton Chess Club.
Taunton Chess Club Rapid Tournament
Saturday 20 January 2024
Play will commence at 9:30 and finish by 16:45
Prize giving and photos 17:00 to 17:30
Fee: £5 for each entrant
Payment & completed forms to be received by Saturday 13 January 2024
Completed entry form to be handed to Roger Newton
or emailed to tauntonchessclub@gmail.com
NO late entries or entries on the day will be accepted
Payment can be made by electronic bank transfer or cash.
Name: Taunton Chess Club
Sort Code: 30-90-90
Account Number: 44813260
Please use your full name as a reference on the payment.
There will be 8 rounds. Each player has 15 mins on the clock, no increments.
Non Cash Prizes:
1st Overall; 2nd Overall; 3rd Overall;
1st Under 1500; 2nd Under 1500;
1st Junior, Under 16’s
1st Senior over 65
Please note that this tournament is not eligible for ECF grading and games are therefore unrated.
Sandwiches and drinks will be available to purchase.
Please download the application form here
Div 2 West | Div 3 West | |||
Taunton v Wellington | Tues 3rd Oct | |||
Sedgemoor v Taunton | Mon 16th Oct | |||
Taunton v Weston | Tues 31st Oct | Sedgemoor v Taunton | Mon 30th Oct | |
Taunton v Wellington | Tues 7th Nov | |||
Glastonbury v Taunton | Mon 13th Nov | |||
Taunton v Wells | Tues 28th Nov | |||
Yeovil v Taunton | Wed 6th Dec | |||
Taunton v Weston | Tues 12th Dec | |||
Taunton v Yeovil | Tues 9th Jan 2024 | |||
Wellington v Taunton | Wed 24th Jan | |||
Taunton v Sedgemoor ** | Tues 30th Jan 2024 | |||
Taunton v Sedgemoor | Tues 6th Feb | |||
Taunton v Yeovil | Tues 13th Feb | |||
Weston v Taunton | Thurs 22nd Feb | |||
Wellington v Taunton | Wed 28th Feb | |||
Taunton v Glastonbury | Tues 5th Mar | |||
Yeovil v Taunton | Wed 20th Mar | |||
Weston v Taunton | Thurs 28th Mar | |||
Wells v Taunton | Thurs 11th Apr | |||
** may need re-arranging because of KO cup semi-finals |
Somerset Knockout Competition
Yeovil v Taunton | Wed 22nd Nov |
CUP SEMI FINALS Week of 29 Jan 2024 |
We are live!
We now have a Taunton Chess Club online shop to order t-shirts, polo shirts, hoodies and caps with the Taunton Chess Logo. Junior and adult sizes available.
A big thank you to our club member / logo designer, Sophia Wainwright and to Stud Sports / Macron SW for helping us create the online shop.
Items can be bought online for delivery to your home and you can even personalise them for an additional price. Head over to the menu tab “club clothing” to place your order.
When:
CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Where:
St Michaels Church
Pitts Close
Galmington
Taunton
TA1 4TP
Cost:
£2 per session to help with additional costs.
(This charge still applies if you are a club member)
The sessions will be led by Chris & Niall who are both DBS checked, and Niall is the clubs safeguarding officer.
All equipment will be provided just bring yourself along and maybe a notebook and pen if you want to make a note of any tips you may pick up!
Can we also ask you to fill out the form below and return to either tauntonchessclub@gmail.com or hand to Chris and Niall on Tuesday.
Taunton Chess Club junior form
We look forward to seeing you there.
The first match of the 2022/23 season on Tuesday 11th Oct starred the Taunton Knights against visitors Yeovil.
The gradings suggested that Taunton would win 2 ½ to 1 ½ but you will have to read on to discover the actual result.
Ioannis on Board 1 unexpectedly lost following a slight miscalculation (blunder?), whilst Richard on Board 2 duly won against his lower graded opponent. Even though you outrank your opponent you still have to play well to win. Well done, Richard.
On Board 4 Mike Ward was easily beaten by an opponent who outgraded him quite significantly so no real shame in losing that one Mike.
On Board 3, Phil who was playing with the Black pieces made a poor start but recovered to finish in an end game with a Rook and Bishop versus White’s Rook.
At one point there seemed to be loads of pawns but the next time I looked they had all gone. I thought this was going to be a draw and we would lose but he played very well and his opponent resigned before an inevitable mate.
2-2 was the final result. Well done everyone. It is great to be back playing OTB matches against other clubs.
And good luck to our Bishops who visit Weston Super Mare on Thursday.
Beware decommissioned oil rigs!