Author Archives: Michael Blake

The following results have been reported in the following Selected Openings and Gambit Tournaments SOT Main Theme Thornton 1-0 Wood Wood 1-0 Thornton Grobler 1-0 Crawshaw Crawshaw 1-0 Grobler Crawshaw 1-0 Wood Grobler draws with Gallimore Gambit A Wright 1-0 Clough Thompson 0-1 … Continue reading →

The following new tournament has recently begun. Et A78 N. Aitken Greg Hughes Derek Gallimore Guy Whitehouse

The following email tournament has recently started, these tournaments may be entered at any time. Et A77 G. Hughes Hilary Walsh A. Dawkins A.R.A. Baker

The following results have recenly been reported in the BCCA Championship. Championship Braunton 0-1 Ellis Eastoe 1-0 Braunton McLaughlin 1-0 Braunton Ellis 1-0 Brotherton Gould 0-1 McMahon Candidates A Cranmer draws both games v Picken Tymms 2-0 Picken Grayland 2-0 … Continue reading →

The start list for the 2011 BCCA Medal Tournaments have been announced. The winner of each group will receive an engraved medal of the appropriate colour with S-B tie break being used where required. The 1st and 2nd placed players … Continue reading →

In the Counter Gambit Selected Openings Tournament, there are double pairings where each player will play two games , one with white and one with black , against each of the other competition. In each game Black selects the opening from the … Continue reading →

The 2010-11 Selected Openings Tourney Gambit (Section A) features four fighting gambits where each player will plays two games against each other but in each game the player of the White pieces chooses which gambit line they wish to play. … Continue reading →

The 2010-11 Selected Openings Tourney Gambit (Section B) features four fighting gambits where each player will plays two games against each other but in each game the player of the White pieces chooses which gambit line they wish to play. … Continue reading →

The 2010-11 Selected Openings Tourney Main Theme is the Queens Indian Defence Modern Main Line from the position after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb7 6.Bg2 Bb4 7.Bd2 c5 with White to play. This is a … Continue reading →

‘William Mason’ Championship results are reported by Dave Grobler, we have our first results in the top section with a couple of draws being reported in the games Hill v Eastoe and McMahon v Eastoe. Other recent results to be … Continue reading →