Month: December 2022

Shrewsbury Chess Club’s players can look back on a satisfactory first half of the season – with one team top of its division and all performing competitively. The club’s A team lies top of Shropshire Rapidplay League division one at Christmas – albeit having played three games more than its nearest pursuers – and is… Continue reading Teams in Good Shape at Christmas Break

It is a lifelong quest that never truly ends for chess players. The more we play, the more patterns we pick up, the more mistakes we make, the more inspiration we have. We win, draw and lose games with the whole spectrum of emotions that comes with each result. This journey along the road to… Continue reading Taking the Journey Along the Road to Improvement

Shrewsbury A are top of the charts at Christmas – in Shropshire Rapidplay League at least. Francis Best’s side won two out of three fixtures at the latest evening of rapidplay league matches at Telepost on Monday night, writes Peter Kitchen. The results took Shrewsbury to the top of the division one table on game… Continue reading Shrewsbury Are Christmas Number One in Rapidplay League

Tony Purser has made the draw for this year’s club championship and the website page has been updated to reflect this. Club members will also have received an email from Tony containing contact details for each player. There is the usual half point incentive to complete games on time. Good luck and enjoy the games!

Lightning struck twice as a Shrewsbury side suffered a second 3-1 online defat to Oswestry B in the space of a week. This time it was Shrewsbury A who were no match for their opposition from up the A5, just eight days after Shrewsbury B suffered an identical fate in a Shropshire Online Chess League… Continue reading No Christmas Cheer as Oswestry Play Scrooge

Shrewsbury A were condemned to their first Shropshire Chess League division one defeat of the season, going down 3.5-1.5 at Newport A. The visitors, missing two first team regulars, fought valiantly against their full strength hosts and the first three games to finish all ended in hard fought draws, writes Peter Kitchen. But defeats for… Continue reading Unbeaten Start Goes up in Smoke at Newport

Shrewsbury B slipped to another defeat in division one of Shropshire Online Chess League – this time at the hands of Oswestry B. Captain Mark Smith was outgunned by a spectacular attack by Rudy van Kemenade on board two, and Ivor Salter was ground down by Peter Fisher in a long ending in 74 moves… Continue reading Battle of the B Teams Ends in Defeat

Tony Purser unbelievably fought back from losing his queen to win the deciding game and give Shrewsbury C their first Shropshire Online League division two victory of the season. Purser’s heroics helped the C team defeat Newport A 2-1 to hand Richard Vernon his first victory as the side’s captain, writes Peter Kitchen. But there… Continue reading Purser Fights Back from the Brink to Hand C Team First Win