Established 1942. Seven times Bristol & District league Champions
We had six players at the inaugural New Year Congress. It was a strong tournament with 11 players over 2100 and 19 over 2000. The standout performance was from Andy who won the whole show by a clear point with 6.5 out of 7 and a performance rating of almost 2400. He won six in …
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Two matches this week, two wins. On Monday the D team had a comfortable win at Portishead. A second win out of two for Duncan, Piotr taking his unbeaten run to five games and Scott extending his excellent record this season to 6-4-1 (+5). We missed out on a clean sweep as Mike, unfortunately, got …
Three matches this week - two wins and a draw. Two matches last week - two wins. Well done us. The big one first. A team vs Downend A (courtesy of Phil) We faced a strong Downend team, reinforced with a rising star from the B team, but we were up for the challenge. Board …
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Three matches two wins and a draw. Well done us. Firstly Phil's A team report. Back top of the table: A team bounces back It had been a rather frantic build-up to the match. Tom was away, stranded by flooding, and at least a dozen B and C team players had been tried before Joe …
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Away to Clifton A. Two full strength teams but Clifton's was stronger running out 5-1 victors to end our 100% start to the season. Card here and a 'through gritted-teeth' match report from Phil below. Someone sarcastically predicted an exciting game on board 5. The scoffer was made to eat his words as our 2 …
2 wins and a draw. A decent return The B team squeaked past Clevedon in a match where we had an average 200-point grading advantage. Wins for John and Jeremy against his old muckers and three draws took us home 3.5-2.5 and secured a much-needed win to reboot our season. Card here The C team …
Two home matches. Two defeats. Meh. The B team came up the wrong side of the result against Bath B. Early results saw Rob benefiting from an opening blunder from Stephen to win his game but Mike and John lost their matches. John was galled to have worked out his next two moves but played …
Three matches on Tuesday. Firstly the A team won well against the defending champions to make it four wins out of four this season. Match report from Phil below and scorecard here. A team report: Mike got our first win and then Derek doubled our lead, as football commentators are obliged to say. After Derek …
We had 16 last night for our blitz tournament. Matias won the top section with 6.5/7 (the dropped half-point gives him something to work on I suppose) and Scott won the second section with a perfect score. We’ll do it again.
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