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The latest results from the Championship have yet to be added to the league tables but here they are – Championship: McLaughlin 1-0 Coleman, still very tight between Mr McLaughlin and Mr Mulleady . The title should be decided  with their unfinished game . Candidates B: Grobler 1-0 Tymms, Tymms 1-0 Grobler, McMahon 1-0 Tymms.  Mr McMahon qualifies [...]

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Chess Today Newspaper

July 25, 2010
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Chess Today is a daily newspaper delivered by email, it is a unique product that is a great joy to see popping into my  ’Inbox’ each day. During the stresses of the day it is stimulating to open the CT email and read through the fresh unique content that is the Chess Today PDF. A [...]

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Email Winners Tournament ewt09

July 20, 2010

Our new Email Tournament Director, Ron Cooper, reports his first result by announcing a win for Derek. Gallimore in ewt09. The tournament table may be found here.

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New Tournament Directors for Email and Webserver

July 19, 2010

The BCCA sadly seem to have lost all contact with Maurizio di Marino.  I am pleased to be able to say however that, in his place, we have two new Tournament Directors.  Ron Cooper has taken over responsibility for email tournaments whilst Tony Cannon has taken over responsibility for Webserver Tournaments. (Contact Details) We wish [...]

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BCCA Championship Update

July 19, 2010
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The latest results in the BCCA ‘William Mason’ Championship ensure that the title remains very much open between JR Etherington 6½/10, Peter Mulleady 6½/9, Alan Sutton 6/9 and K.W. McLaughlin on 5½/7. Results were, Coleman draws with Coyne, Coleman draws with Eastoe, Ling draws with Coleman, Mulleady 1-0 Crook, Crook 0-1 Ellis, Crook 1-0 Coleman [...]

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Your Opinion Please

July 12, 2010
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The BCCA website provides options for visitors to comment on news and articles whilst also allowing tournament officers the opportunity to update the site with the latest results or news  of their events.  It’s early days but so far we have seen a huge rise in traffic to the website.  We are aware of the [...]

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BCCA Webserver Round Up

July 11, 2010
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The 4th Webserver Final is led by Mark Eldridge on 5½/7 after draws for Terry Taylor v Anthony Balshaw and Dominique Conterno v Ian Mason plus a win for Mark Eldridge versus Michael Blake.  Meanwhile in the next phase of preliminaries to determine qualifiers for the 5th Webserver Final, GAD Crook leads Group 20 on [...]

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Medals or Cash

July 10, 2010
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‘Correspondence Chess’ recently carried an excellent article on the various trophies held by the Association.  An offshoot of the discussion regarding the future of the BCCA trophies was the suggestion from several players that we should award medals to certain tournament winners: for example, the BCCA champion, 2nd and 3rd, Handicap tournament prize-winners, Webserver tournament [...]

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European News Round-Up

July 10, 2010
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BCCA Membership provides a route to International play through our affiliation to the British Federation for Correspondence Chess.  If BCCA players wish us to spotlight their current International endeavours please drop me a line here. 7th European Team Championship Final.  Curently 12/15 In this international title event England are represented by GM John Pugh, SIM [...]

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