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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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Find the Continuation 169

July 5, 2010
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The position is White to play but can you find the move to finish black off quickly in CC169. Ian Watson offers another test of your tactical skill. Solution to follow in the next instalment of ‘Find the Continuation’

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Games from CC 177

July 3, 2010

Each issue of our magazine includes several games by BCCA members, a large number of those games include annotations that are tremendous value in helping us understand the concepts behind the moves and the thoughts of the players. This page provides some of those games, please join BCCA to receive the full range of games [...]

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Sonneborn-Berger (S-B) Tiebreak System Fair?

June 30, 2010

Is the Sonneborn-Berger (S-B) tiebreak system fair? (From Leslie Eastoe) Alack, alack, a woe is me, I’ve been undone by the cursed SB, Equal points with Dr Brown, Yet it’s he alone who wears the crown…. I have never approved of the SB tie break system, but it has never before affected me in such [...]

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Correspondence Chess Issue No. 178

June 20, 2010

The latest issue of the award winning BCCA magazine has now been posted to all members. Once again we are treated to excellent articles and commentary, included in this issue – News New ‘Selected Openings’ for 2010-11 Seven Deadly Sins of CC Blumenfeld Gambit games Crossword Tribute to Alan Hurdle Book Reviews British Chess Solving [...]

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Correspondence Chess Issue No. 177

March 22, 2010

36 pages of great correspondence chess news, reviews and articles that include a discussion on tie-breaks, book reviews, puzzles and games from the world of chess.

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