Last night saw our Annual General Meeting being held in front of a record attendance of 43 members plus a few guests and potential new members, after receiving 15 apologies for absence (mainly due to holidays).
The main highlight of the night was as usual, the Presentation of Trophies. This year the guest presenter was our top player Richard Lee who continues to attend the club every week despite a 100 + mile trek each way ! Before making the awards Richard told the assembled audience that he felt priviliged to be asked and how proud he was to be associated with such a friendly club which in his words; is the best he has come accross in 20 years or so of competitive chess, which includes playing 4NCL chess for Cambridge University.
The presentation took much longer than previous years due to the volume of awards. There were 15 internal club trophies presented, plus 7 NSDCA league trophies and the South Cheshire Shield. To supplement this there were further awards made by Steve Ballantyne to individual members of the victorious South Cheshire Shield “A” team and the Perry Trophy “A” team.
After the prolonged meeting, we held a four team Blitz competition with 28 players staying behind until after 10.30pm. The four highest rated players in the club were assigned to different teams with Gee Cross’s team (Crewe 4) emerging as the winners on board difference just ahead of Crewe 2 led by Harry Gardiner. Full details are shown on the LMS under AGM Team Blitz
