THIS WILL BE THE LAST UPDATE TO THIS WEBSITE AT THIS URL. OUR NEW HOST AND DOMAIN IS GIVEN FURTHER DOWN THIS PAGE. PLEASE USE THE NEW, FASTER HOST IN FUTURE.

As I write the Clubs Championship has just been won by Camborne for the season 2008/9. In their last match they pipped Newquay by a score of 3-2 so Newquay finish as honourable runners-up. Its been an interesting season with the winner in the top division going right down to the wire.

Godolphin B have triumphed again in Division 2. They only 'lost' two - yes, just 2! - matches over the course of 18 contested and those were defaults where they were simply unable to raise a team so really none of the other teams have been able to beat them fair and square over the board/s this season! Quite astonishing when you think about it. Liskeard A finish as runners-up and St. Austell come in a very creditable 3rd. Falmouth C also deserve kudos for a startlingly good performance.

As always I am still missing a few results for each club. In Division 2 I only have results that are completely up-to-date for Godolphin B, Liskeard A, St. Austell and Falmouth B & C teams.

In Division 1 the match results I still haven't seen are:

Falmouth & Godolphin 3rd/2/09, and
Godolphin & Truro 16/3/09

In the 2nd Division the results that I don't have are:

Truro B vs. Newquay B 6th/10/08,
Truro B vs. Godolphin C 4th/2/09,
Liskeard B vs. Newquay B 16/3/09,and
Newquay B vs. Godolphin C 27/4/09,

With regard to the new home for this chess website, the techie has finished his labours. The new address for us from now on will be:

www.cornishchess.org

PLEASE GET INTO THE HABIT QUICKLY OF USING THIS ADDRESS IN FUTURE. I'm frankly astonished that the site has lasted at the address that Ian George set it up on for as long as it has given that the hosting company went bust several weeks ago but we cannot count on that happy state of affairs continuing indefinitely so please do use the new URL. Thank you!

Because it is germane I've reproduced below - verbatim - the text of an e-mail that I received recently from Ian George. It's self-explanatory.

I have done the draws for the two cup competitions. These are as follows (home team named first in all cases):

A. W. BUSBY CUP (5 entries)

Preliminary round Tue 9th June Godolphin v Truro

Semi-finals SF1 Mon 15th June Newquay v Camborne SF2 Wed 24th June Falmouth v Godolphin or Truro

Final 6th, 7th or 8th July (depending on outcome of SF2) Falmouth or Godolphin or Truro v Newquay or Camborne

UNDER 115 CUP (2 entries) Wed 1st July Falmouth v Godolphin

Teams consist of 5 players and ties are broken on board elimination.

Will team captains please send the results to me, preferably by email, as soon as possible after the match and a copy to Gary Trudeau please, for the website. Best wishes Ian George

The season is virtually over now so I wish you all a great summer and promise to finalise the league tables just as soon as the last straggling results for this season are in. Quite possibly I'll see some of you at the AGM and the Secretaries Meeting. Be here again in the autumn!

Results for the Clubs Championship may be found here and those for the Under 150 Event here.
Click here for the League 1 table and here for the table for League 2.
For the latest results in Robin Kneebone's Swiss Team Event go here.

Two of you - Roger Grime and Ian Lewis - send me complete listings very professionally printed out of all the results that all the teams in your club have achieved so far in the season from time to time and this is very much appreciated! It makes my job a helluva lot easier! So if some of you playing in/for other clubs occasionally feel that certain of your results don't appear to have been taken into account then you might like to consider emulating the example set by these two estimable guys. If just ONE player from each club took it upon himself to do this little chore for me from time to time it would go far indeed towards ensuring that all the results posted here on the site are up-to-date and factual with no omissions or mis-reportings.

If you are looking for the current location of the report about this year's Cornish Championships it may be found here.

I almost wish I hadn't written what I did about our county side's rip-roaring start to the season with their crunching win against Gloucestershire last time out because at the most recent county match played on the 29th of November this time the pendulum swung all the way in the other direction and this time it was us who took a beating. Devon, always formidable and significantly outgrading us this time just as they do practically every year, ran out convincing winners by a score of 8 points to 4.

The match table may be found here.

In the match played at Exminster on October the 11th Cornwall prevailed quite convincingly! The match was unusually late in kicking off and play didn't begin until 3:20 PM! Not only were the boards sets and clocks very late in arriving, but the score sheets provided didn't have attached carbons that we take so much for granted and because of this I don't have scores for any of the games apart from my own. I do know that Mark Hassall played a nice game because I was playing on the board next to his and could watch the climax of his game - nice one Mark!

Played over fewer boards than usual because of mutual defaults agreed beforehand the final result was a rather comprehensive shellacking for Gloucestershire who won only one game!

The match table may be found here.

You are unlikely to see the full benefit of the updates to this site unless you flush out your cache frequently. I've even noticed that unless I flush the cache for EACH new page I load on this site then sometimes my browser will serve up an older one so it is a really good idea to get into the habit of invariably flushing your browser cache each time you load up a 'new' page!
(This is by no means a bad rule to follow when visiting your other favourite sites!)

The link to the right will be of considerable interest to just about everybody! Changes in the works!
So, according to this from next year on there are going to be revisions in the way these are calculated!
Quite a useful resource for those who are curious about these matters and would like a simple way to find out more about a particular player (opponent?) is: I know all about you! where you just enter in the name of the individual you're curious about, hit 'enter' and away you go!

Mick Ferrie has asked me to bring to your attention that some chess books that were formerly part of the Aelred Horn collection are now in his possession and available to anyone who wants them. They are FREE! One book per person initially on a first come, first served basis. They may be obtained from Mick or Colin Gardiner of Falmouth chess club. They can be reached at (Mick) 01326-250403, or 01326-375356 for Colin. If you would prefer to e-mail Mick then just click here. Click on the relevant link below for the Definitive Fixtures Pairings

The Clubs Championship
The Under 150 Event
The Swiss Team Event (the all-play-all)

Because of the inordinate difficulty that the old A team would face in mustering 5 strong players to play on a regular basis in the new event "The Clubs Championship" it has been decided that Liskeard Chess Club will not be entering a team in the event. They will have two teams in the Under 150 event. In his fixtures list for the upcoming season Ian George has used the A and B letters to refer to the two Liskeard teams in the Under 150 Event. For all other clubs it will be understood that 'A' designation means a team playing in The Clubs Championship.

Bob Jones of "The Western Morning News" has very kindly agreed to act as the judge for this event which will take place between September and May. Bob will judge the games submitted to him for consideration along with two friends of his. All are Devonians and as Bob himself pointed out to me, this ensures fairness and objectivity as the games will not be getting appraised by Cornish players. As regards the matter of how to submit games that you are particularly pleased with to him, his quote on this is:
"My order of preference for the receipt of game scores is as follows: 1. Direct out of ChessBase. This can be done easily, once one knows which buttons to press and in which order. It involves neither party in any extra work. 2. E-mailing the typed out score. 3. By snail-mail to my home address. (In the ECF Yearbook). 4. By native runner with a forked stick. In this case let me know well beforehand, so I've got a cup of tea ready for them before sending them back."
Bob is insisting upon a limit of three games per player.

At the Secretaries meeting that was held at the the British Legion in Truro on July the 17th Robin Kneebone suggested a new event - which had already been sanctioned at the AGM - so that players can contest more games in a season without overloading the already-existing playing calendar. He calls it the Swiss Team Event. Read on for the full rules.

The Swiss competition is open to teams of 4 players. Players may play for one team only. *A comment* This rule means exactly what it says! I asked Robin whether it would be within these rules for a player to play possibly for more than one team inside a given club and he said no! So now you know!

The time control will be 30 moves in 1 hour and 15 minutes with 15 minutes added for the remaining moves. Matches to start at 7:30 PM unless otherwise agreed between the clubs beforehand.

Team lists MUST be ordered by playing strength.

A team's score is the total of game points they have achieved with the single exception that if one team defaults a match on all boards then the 'winning' team will be regarded as having won by a score of 3-1 rather than a 4-0 cleansweep.

Pairings are made using the Swiss pairing system and will be done by Robin Kneebone himself. (Using SwissPerfect software.) Where teams have the same number of points pairings will take into account home/away totals.

The controller (Robin) will balance the home/away totals for each team where possible, and will determine home/away venues by lot if paired teams have the same history of home/away totals.

Colours are to be determined by the toss of a coin with the winning captain allowed to choose the colour of the top board, with other boards alternating.

Rounds will be spaced by at least one month to allow dates and venues to be agreed.

The annual secretaries meeting will determine the number of rounds (between 4 & 6) for this new event once the number of all-play-all league entrants is known.

There is no restriction on higher graded players to play for a particular team, so a club could enter two equal strength teams or could share out its car-drivers between two or more teams.

It will be acceptable for players to play for a different club than their league/cup club.

Defaults should be avoided if at all possible. Where a team is aware that they are unable to manage their next fixture the captain should notify the controller immediately and the draw will, if possible, be re-done.