12th June
New Forum Post - Match Timings
Peter Larwood has contributed to the match timing debate. Please visit the Forum
8th June
New Forum Post - Match Timings
Barry Maufe has posted his views on the proposal to simplify match timings. See Forum in the main menu
Also view Best Match Averages 2019 from the side-bar
5th June
New Forum Post - Match Timings
Hastings Chess Club has posted a response to the committee proposal on simplifying match timings. See Forum in the main menu
23rd May
The Best Match Averages for the season have been computed and can be viewed in the News sub-menu
18th May
Notice of MSCL AGM at Lewes Chess Club Tuesday 25th June 2019 at 7.45pm
The AGM will be held at:
St Mary's Supporters Club, Christie Road, Lewes, Sussex BN7 1PLPlease view the full text via the News sub-menu
11th May
Forum Post - Match Timings
The committee has considered the Match Timings used in the league this season, and written a proposal to simplify and improve them. Visit the Forum to read about it. Any member of the MSCL may comment on these proposals.
Please send your views to The Forum Editor
10th May
Round-up of the League Season
Peter Farr has written a report on the performance of our league teams this season. Visit the news section or local menu to read it
26th March
Results Form
Please download the new Results Form again. There were some minor errors. Apologies for the inconvenience
25th March
New Results Form
Please find an updated Results Form in the Download section.
24th March
Weald Congress
The Weald Congress will take place 13th/14th July at Copthorne.
It will be a 5 round Swiss in 4 sections - Open, Major (U175), Intermediate (U140) and Minor (U110) with a prizefund of £1750
The entry form may be found in the download section
Also visit the website
7th March
Handicap Knock-out Cup
Congratulations to Worthing who have won the MSCL Handicap Cup for the first time in their history
Click on the link in the sub-menu to read the whole story
1st February
Results Form Again
Please find an updated Results Form in the Download section. Some players were missing from one of the lists. Apologies for the inconvenience
27th January
New Results Form
Please find an updated Results Form in the Download section. There are also accompanying notes
15th December
Timecontrol Guide
A short guide to this season‘s timecontrols has been added to the Rules section
2nd December
New Results Form
Please find an updated Results Form in the Download section. There are also accompanying notes, similar to the Help cell on the form itself, with a little more detail
21st November
Hastings Captain Order
Please note a correction to the Hastings club page. The captains for the 3rd and 4th teams were the wrong way round
12th November
World Chess Championship Evening
Friday November 16th 2018 at 8pm
Crowborough Chess Club invites all members and non members to a World Chess Championship evening with commentary.
Light refreshments will be available.
The World Chess Championship match is being held in London between the 9th and 28th November 2018.
This much anticipated match is between reigning champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the challenger Fabiano Caruana of the USA and consists of 12 games with the 6th game being played on Friday 16th November 2018. David Fryer & Trevor Norton will host the evening and provide:8:00pm - a background to the World Championship match
8:15pm - play through and comment on the meeting room‘s TV screen games from round 1-5
9:00pm - short break for replenishing drinks and snacks
9:15pm - presenting commentary and video from the match on Game 6 that started at 3pm
Questions & answers throughout.
Venue - Crowborough Community Centre - downstairs in Meeting Room 2
When - 8pm to 10pm Friday 16th November 2018
Cost - free to members and £3 for non members.
19th October
Results Form
Please find the new Results Form in the download section. It may be used for all competitions
17th October
Sussex County Chess Association - McArthur Cup and Paul Watson Trophy
The rules are now available in the download section
16th October
Sussex County Chess Association - McArthur Cup and Paul Watson Trophy
A message from Peter Farr about these competitions- see link in right menu
SCCU Executive Committee and Special General Meetings, and ECF and BCF Council Meetings
Julie Denning has posted her comments on these Meetings. See the menu on the right.
The nominations table has recently been updated
11th October
Sussex County Chess Champion tournament [knock out]
If you would like to take part in this competition or require details please contact:
Robert Elliston on 01580 200609 or Email
2nd October
The first result of the season has been posted. It was a Knock-out cup match between Crowborough and Woodpushers 2. See Results section
The whole site now uses secure transfers, normally indicated by a padlock symbol to the left of the web address. If this causes you any problems, please contact the webmaster
28th September
The club pages have been updated and we have a new one - Collyers. They will enter a team in the Rapid-play league this season
Fixture List
The fixture lists for the new season can be found under Tables - Fixtures in the main menu. This time we only have 3 divisions of 11 as it was felt that there were insufficient team entries to sustain 4 divisions.
Play through Games on the site
The Games page has been reinstated after a number of years of dormancy with just 2 to start off with, kindly submitted by Andy Briggs of Woodpushers. They may be found under Archive - Games.
19th September
SCCA AGM
The Sussex County Chess Association (SCCA) is holding its AGM on Tuesday 25th September, starting at 7:45 pm at Lewes Chess Club. Click the link on the sidebar for details
New Match Card
An error was discovered in the match card template which has been corrected. Option C should have 35 minutes to finish. Please download the updated one. Sorry about the inconvenience.
17th September
Welcome to the new season
The MSCL committee has decided to reduce the number of leagues from 4 to 3 this season, in view of the reduction in overall team entries by 1 or 2
There will be 11 teams in each division
New Rules
Following extensive discussion at the AGM on the use of digital clocks and other timecontrol issues, the rules have been updated - see Rules pages. They may also be found in the download section in pdf format.
Explanatory notes may also be downloaded. Please read these carefully - especially if you are a captain, as the new options are rather complicated.
Captains will also have to be able to set their clocks to any of the new timecontrols that their club may employ, as players may mutually agree (at the beginning of a match) to use a different one from the standard G/65 +30
New Match Card
To accompany the new timecontrol rules a new card has been prepared which can also be found in downloads. It has an extra box per game for entering the timecontrol actually used. This is now a requirement. The reverse of the card details the shortform nomenclature needed to enter the timecontrol
The new result submission form (when available) will also have this field
There are no changes to the Knock-out or Rapid rules
Other Downloads
There are recent minutes etc in the download section
Archive
Results, documents etc for the past season have been moved to the archive section
Club Pages
Most of these have been fully updated for the new season. We had to obtain GDPR consent for everyone whose details are given, and one or two are still outstanding