Happy New Year    

Chess returns this Friday 6th January 2023    

Juniors start at 6:30pm with ½ hour chess training followed at 7:00pm with the start of the UK Chess Challenge 12 Rounds 1 game every Friday of 10 Minutes + 5 Seconds a move with prizes for our younger juniors and trophies for the winners. 
1 game = Badge 
2,3,4 games Gold Spots for your badge 
5 games the ever popular Chess Mascots 
6,7,8 games Gold Spots for your badge 
9 games Chess Book 1
0,11,12 Special Prizes     

Club Championship for Adults and older Juniors starts at 7:45pm 
12 Rounds 1 game every Friday of 25 Minutes + 10 Seconds a move    

Home Team Matches    
Most Fridays in January and February will have a home match against other clubs so please answer promptly those emails from our team captains    
Friday 13th January Juniors at Home 
Friday 20th January 2nd Team at Home 
Friday 27th January Juniors at Home 
Friday 3rd February 2nd Team at Home 
Friday 10th February Juniors at Home 
Friday 17th February 1st Team at Home    

Away Team Matches    
Help Please – we need players for away games – yes everyone likes to play at home but we need to fulfil our away commitments 
Remember players who play away matches will be offered Home games    
Tuesday 24th January 1st Team Away at Horsham 
Wednesday 8th February 1st Team Away at Hastings 
Tuesday 28th February 2nd Team Away at Horsham (Collyers)    

1st Team David Fryer 
2nd Team Anthony Stockham 
Juniors Sunanta Wannasin-Bell     

For full list of fixtures see https://crowborough.org/club/Teams-2022-23.html    

Crowborough Chess Congress All day event 6 Rapidplay Games on Saturday 25th February Details and Online Entry https://crowborough.org/club/37th-Congress.html   

Final Tournament Results for 2022 were;    

Crowborough Chess Club – Autumn Tournaments

Junior Tournament – MR3 
Medals and ribbons for all our junior members. 
TROPHIES Champion : Rufus Wright Runner-Up : Serik Thomas Runner-Up : Teddy Wilkins

Under 18 Tournament – MR2 
TROPHIES 
Champion : Suriya Velayudham 31pts 
Runner-Up : Luke Freeman 29pts 
Second Runner-Up trophy will be shared as there was no way to split the results of Leon & Noel Ishida who both scored 28pts   

Senior Rapid Play – 7:45pm 33 players competed at 25 minutes + 10 Seconds a move
https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/121982/swtable 
TROPHIES 
Champion : Charlie Wannasin-Bell 6½pts  - also presented with the Junior Regal set and board
Runners-Up : Doug Blythe and Suriya Velayudham on 5½pts   

Winter Blitz and 960 Tournament 
Blitz Championship played on the 9th December 2022 
Champion Jonathan Lawrance 5/5 
Runner-up Elena Currah 4/5 
960 Championship played on the 16th December 2022 
Champion Danniel Donaghy   

37th Crowborough Chess Congress Saturday 25th February 2023 6 Round Rapidplay tournament 9:45am – 5:30pm Details and entry
https://crowborough.org/club/37th-Congress.html

Fantasy Football
For those competing in our fantasy league a reminder that unlimited transfers are available until 11:00am on Boxing Day 
I have created a new Head to Head League for new and old players to enter starting on Boxing Day please join ‘Crowborough’   
Joining the league couldn't be easier. Simply use the link below and you'll be added automatically after you've entered the game. https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/y7wzm8
League Code: y7wzm8  

Sussex Girls Chess
Crowborough take the top places again in the Sussex Girls Under 18 Championship.
Following last years equal first place between Elena and Raina we went one better this time with Ann joining in to make it a 1-2-3.
see full results and photos on the SJC website

In the Under 11 section Lola picked up the arbiter prize for her debut in this competition and Bella scored a creditable 2 points.

Friday 9th December 2022
Junior Club as usual at 6:30pm with prize giving and a Special Anti-Chess Event organised by Jonathan

Winter Blitz Tournament at 7:45pm
Organised by Gary McCulloch
All welcome stay until the end at about 9:30pm or for the younger ones leave after a few games just let Gary know before you go.
Prizes and a Trophy are up for grabs

Friday 16th December 2022   Another Christmas special with fun games for the juniors at 6:30pm followed by another Gary Special our Christmas 960 Tournament starting at 7:45pm    

Please support these two events before we return after Christmas to the serious stuff on Friday January 6th 2023  

Friday 11th November 2022    
Junior Chess Club 6:30pm training plus next round of the junior tournament 
Rapid play tournament Round 9 starts 7:45pm in MR2 
Crowborough 2 vs Horsham 4 in the MSCL Division 3 starts 7:30pm in MR3    

Mid Sussex Chess League    
Is now in full swing and we have home matches continuously up to and including Friday 2nd December For fixture dates see https://crowborough.org/club/Teams-2022-23.html   

Club Tournaments    
As we have a home match we are extending the Rapid tournament and the Junior tournament to include Friday 2nd December. So 12 Rounds will be played giving team members the chance to play more Rapidplay games that are ECF Rated    
Top scorers at the moment are; 
1 Douglas Blythe 5 
2 Charlie Wannasin Bell 5 
3 Oliver Stockham 4½ 
4 Jon AN Lawrance 4 
5 Benjamin Pearce 4 
6 Suriya Velayudham 3½ 
7 Benedict Weis 3 
8 Luke Freeman 3 
9 Thomas W Martin 3          
For a full list see https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/121982/swtable    

Special Christmas Events    
As well as a presentation of trophies to our tournament winners on Friday 9th December we will organise a Blitz event details to be confirmed 
On Friday 16th December Gary will be trying something new and organising a Chess960 tournament.    
So mark those two dates in your diary more details to follow when I have them    

Sussex Junior Chess    
Last Sunday the SJC County Championships took place.    
I noted some good scores by Crowborough players 
The full list of winners and scores can be found on https://sussexjuniorchess.org/2022-u9u11u13u18/    
Under 13s Charlie Wannasin-Bell scored 50% with 3/6 
Under 18s Daniel Donaghy and Elena Currah came 3rd= with 4/6  

Friday 7th October 2022

CLUBNIGHTS
In 2022 we will be meeting every Friday up to and including Friday December 16th 
EXCEPT for Friday 28th October.   
The good news is that the Pantomime is not having a Friday performance this year so we can meet on the 9th December however Friday 28th October is unavailable to us due to a Flower Show taking over the whole venue for the weekend.

A special Chess960 night is being planned for our last meeting  before Xmas on December 16th so definitely book that night in your diaries.

The Autumn Rapid play tournament is in full swing see results and pairings on https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/121982/rounds
We would like to encourage players to stay on until 9:30pm so if you finish your game early please go next door to MR3 and analyse your games or play friendlies I will setup the laptop so you can check your openings etc.

MID SUSSEX CHESS LEAGUE
The fixtures are published and can be found on https://crowborough.org/club/Teams-2022-23.html   

We have 3 Teams this season in the League and 2 in the Cup so plenty of opportunity for everyone to play some long play games representing Crowborough.

4 Boards in a team and based on our current members attending the 7:45pm club the squads might be but not fixed in stone

1st Team Squad ; Arjun Kolani, Jon Lawrance, David Fryer, Benedict Weis, Daniel Donaghy

2nd Team Squad ; Oliver Stockham, Elena Currah, Thomas Martin, Daniel Longley, Michael Redman, Doug Blythe, Luke Freeman, Nick Hope, Suriya Velayudham, Raina Jithendra

Junior Team Squad; Charlie Wannasin Bell, Lucy Hopkirk, Benjamin Pearce, Risha Jithendra, Liam Finlay, Jasper Shovelton, Ann Tagg, George Tagg as well as everyone attending the junior club   

Team Captains will be emailing members with further details and checking on availability shortly so watch out for those emails and please answer as soon as you can even if in the negative. It really makes the Captain’s job easier.   

MEMBERSHIP   
Most have already done so but if you haven’t please pay your Membership Subs as soon as you possible can please.   

Membership forms Seniors and Juniors are available from Gill. 
New Members and any current members whose details have changed please complete these.   

Please pay Sep 2022 – May 2023 membership fees by electronic transfer putting your name as the reference.   

You can of course pay Gill by cash or card but electronic payment is preferred. 
£90 Adult Membership 
£65 Junior Membership
£110 Family Membership    

David FryerCrowborough Chess Club Secretary  
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