Best Game 2024/25 (three entries) Winner – Benjamin Humphreys “This was an excellent game from White in a French Winawer structure. They built up the position very well and the tactics flowed nicely after 18.e6! The following sacrifices 24.Bxc4! and 29.Bb5! were the cherry on top of a dominating performance.” IM Jonah Willow (judge) Best U1800 Game 2024/25 (two entries) […]
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Best Games 2023/24
Best Game 2023/24 (three entries) Winner – Michael Naylor-Eade “In a small set of unflinching, fighting games, in this one White introduces a neatly thought-out concept in a well trodden Ruy Lopez Breyer position, carrying a piece sacrifice to springboard the attack. Black defends well, and the first player has to generate a series of complex blows to break the […]
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Best Game 2022/23 (two entries) Winner – Michael Naylor-Eade “With the centre of the board keenly contested and completely congested, Black’s clever knight sacrifice on move 16 launches an overwhelming attack on White’s unsuspecting defences.” Stuart Humphreys (judge) Best U1800 Game 2022/23(two entries) Winner Neil Graham. “A perfectly executed Blackmar-Diemar Gambit by White, with a rampant Garry the g-pawn delivering […]
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County chess returned to Nottinghamshire this January with two matches played at Bramcote vs Staffordshire. U1850: Notts outrated the Staffordshire throughout; however over the board this wasn’t noticeable and Staffordshire after being behind by 31/2- 1/2 with the first four declarations, fought back and in fact held the home side on Boards 1-9. Notts won the lowest three boards which […]
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Notts entered the county arena for the first time in four seasons with a visit to Lincolnshire in the Under 1850 section. The venue was North Hykeham and we are indebted to our hosts for making the arrangements. Nottinghamshire outrated their opponents on every one of the 14 board played so it was little surprise that we ran out a […]
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The Counties and Districts Correspondence Chess Competition started on 14/4/23. Our team is in the Ward-Higgs, Division 1 section. Nottinghamshire team. 1 SIM Jonathan Tait 2419 2 CCM Gordon Anderson 2378 3 CCM Richard Webster 2361 4 CCM John Shaw 2322 5 CCE Phil Morgan 2232 6 Kevin Williamson 2120 7 Glenn Halfpenny 1800p 8 Andrew Robins 1800p We have […]
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Playing in the Second Division of the Counties Championship, our team had a successful 2022/23 season, finishing in second place and so gaining promotion to Division 1. A link to the results can be found here by clicking Continue Reading on the News page.
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With the return of “over the board” chess also comes the chance to show off your best efforts. Any games played in NCA tournaments (Rapidplay or Congress) league or county teams in the past 12 months are eligible. There are prizes for best games (open and under 1800 sections) and also for your best swindles. Please send entries to me […]
Continue readingNail-biter in NG9
On 26th February, our Notts u1450 juniors hosted Leicestershire u1450 for a winner takes all clash at Bramcote. A good natured and well fought match, prefaced with Leicestershire’s captain and a couple of their players kindly helping us with setting up some of the tables and boards. As the match started, it quickly looked like a lot of the games […]
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Back in July we reported that our team captain, Phil Morgan, had been awarded the Welsh Correspondence Chess Expert title. We’re happy to add our congratulations now that he has earned the ICCF Correspondence Chess Expert title.
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The 2021 season has now been completed. Nottinghamshire finished in third place in Division 2 of the Counties League competition behind, East Wales B and Yorkshire A. You can view the full Results here The 2022 season will begin in February. If you are interested in playing for Nottinghamshire in this competition, please contact Phil Morgan, County Correspondence Captain before […]
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Following the request for volunteers to captain teams, our thanks to David Levens, Mick Frings and Mike Swanwick, who will captain Notts U2050, U1450 and U1450 Juniors teams. The following details were supplied by Peter Sherlock, MCCU County Championship Controller… U2050 section – only Nottinghamshire have entered and will go through to the National Stages as MCCU1. Entries for this […]
Continue readingVolunteers Needed!
Following the recent online AGM there are three areas in particular where the association needs volunteers to step forward to help us get chess back on the board! Executive Committee – There are two vacancies for EC Members. If you have any ideas on how to develop chess in the county, this is the ideal place to put them forward. […]
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Congratulations to our team captain, Phil Morgan, who has achieved the title of Welsh CC Expert. He provided an update on this year’s team, which is currently participating in Division 2 of the County Correspondence competition. The event started late, in February 2021, so will officially end in January 2022. At the end of June, we stood in first place […]
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During the Coronavirus restrictions there have been no “over the board” county matches and there was little support for playing online team events.
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