Author: David Price

Wednesday, Crewe hosted 3 teams all captained by Dave P the Under 150 Cup, E team and F team.

Crewe faced Newcastle in the U150 cup, Board 3 was the first to finish and no surprises as Doug and John agreed a draw. Board 1 fell to Newcastle and shortly after Dave P was happy with a draw. Newcastle secured the win after a draw on board 5. Nev played on but after a long game a blunder gave Newcastle 3.5-1.5 win

Crewe E  played against Meir C and and as always fought hard.  Amy had another good win. Chris was the last to finish and a very good game to watch but despite his efforts the team only managed a draw as Meir C being the first team to steal a point from Crewe E.

Crewe F faced Cheddleton G. Thanks to Josh who played his first game for our F team. Tough games all round for our  team and we only managed 2-2 draw. But it was nice to see Harry use his time wisely and secured a good win on board 2.

Monday our F team played against Meir B.

Les was the first to fall in super quick time and was checkmated in only 16 moves!

Board 3 was next to fall, then Captain Dave P secured our teams first win of the night. All eyes on board 2 Simon, the game could have easily fallen in favour of Meir but Simon fought on and his win meant a 2-2 draw.

Wednesday was another busy night at the mal’s with the B team playing against Kidsgrove and our C team against Fenton C. It was great results for both teams the B team had a convincing win 3-1. The C team went one better and won 4-0

For those of you waiting for the January grades they are now out

Well done to all the players who’s grades have improved

Amy has jumped from 83 – 118

Harry Gardiner moved from 31-76

See player list for all grade changes.

Another great weekend at the IBIS Styles hotel

We attracted 110 players and I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend

and we hope you will all return next year.

List of winners below click on the links for full results

Pleased to report 20 players out of  the 110  received a prize

 Open

First Place shared between Jonathon Blackburn and Stuart Clarke

Third Place shared between  Francis Rayner and Jonah Willow

Grading Prize Tim Hilton

Full results Open

Major

First Place Robert Clegg

Second Place shared between Ifan Rathbone-Jones and Martyn Harris

Grading Prize Stephen Lloyd

Full results Major

Intermediate

First Place shared between Chris Rhodes, Khalid Khokhar, Lukasz Holcman and David Buckell

Grading Prize shared between Samuel Parry and Brian Crompton

Full result Inter

Minor

First  Sajjad Dehgan-Affifi

Second Place Colin Gardiner

Third  Place shared between Alan Kelly and Dennis Bonner

Grading Prize Nigel Gardner

Full results  Minor

A big thank you to all

Crewe entered one team in the under 130 Newcastle jamboree last night. On paper we were out graded against most teams. The underdogs Doug,Dave P,Les and Nigel had a good start in the first round with 2 wins and a draw putting the team on 2.5 points out of a possible 4. In the second round it was a fight between Crewe, Fenton and the host Newcastle. The Crewe team were fantastic in the second round and won all their games. This put Fenton third  on 4.5 points Newcastle Second on 5 points. Crewe were clear winners on 6.5 points and win another trophy to add to our collection.

The U130 Cup team managed a 3-2 win tonight at Newcastle in the semi-final. Draws for Doug Barnett, Dave Price, Mart Gill and Chris Rhodes were just enough as Ola Titiloye provided the solitary win. We will meet Cheddleton at home in the final currently scheduled for 26th April.

Hello All, The Results so far in 2017

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