Volunteers
David Hardy • 10 January 2025
We are always looking for volunteers especially those who could help our beginners and intermediate groups - being the greatest player isn't strictly necessary just patience and good inter personal skills will be enough!!!
Very pleased to inform everyone that we have been given funding to buy 2 x Chess Up 2s to help our beginner and intermediate players. Although some of our first team players seem to like playing against it too.
We have recently hooked up with another junior club from over the hill and have matches planned for 16 April at home and 29th May away. - should be fun.
Pleased to say that recently we have had a host of new members recently plus a few returners George, Shlok and Veer. We can always cope with more so feel free to invite your family and friends regardless of ability
I'm pleased to announce that I have joined Sacha as being a qualified ECF Arbiter after passing the course in February
In honour of the 10th World Champion Boris Spassky who passed away recently I showed his positional masterpiece from when he was a mere 11 years old. I also gave the audience a brief overview as to what made him a chess legend.
Matches continue to be played every week now with last week seeing us beat 3Cs 4-2 to consolidate our position in B Division in the Manchester League. A hard fought draw away at East Cheshire this week saw us stay top of A Division in the Stockport League.
The EJCOA event we hosted last Sunday was a great success where 37 players entered. William and Sithun from the club qualified for the finals in July. Thanks go to our Senior Arbiter, Sacha for his efforts on the day that kept all running smoothly.
In the last few weeks new members have continued to join and in what was a nice surprise a couple of old members came back, namely Shlok and Veer
2025 started off as we finished 2024 with a team victory this time against Chorlton by 6-2. There will be sterner tests ahead but we should be confident going forward. If you have any family or friends who would like to learn how to play or improve their game please invite them along.
With Dave being away the Tuck Shop King grasped the opportunity to trial new opening hours. Having opened at the usual 7:30pm and dealing with the initial rush he decided that any late stragglers could still make use of the shop, leaving the till open for a further 15 mins. It is felt this was just a blatant opportunity to grab last minute Christmas spending....
