Paul May
15 Jun 2023
Results of the Club Blitz comp and Player of the Season
A record 17 players turned up for the annual swiss handicap blitz competition last night.
We didn't handicap this year's winner Paul Brencher enough as he won all 8 games, although some with only a few seconds spare - Congratulations Paul!
Dan Hill was 2nd with quite a few players in joint 3rd. Notable performances from Oliver Smith and John Grasham who each won a prize for winning their u1400 and u1700 sections (Both beating me!)
Player of the Season
We also announced this year's player of the season who once again was Titas Lukauskas with a fantastic 9 wins out of 9 for the season. He played a major part in the C teams unbeaten season where they came top of division 3 winning the below trophy.
Unfortunately Titas was unable to attend and the live video feed didn't work, so we missed the acceptance speech.
Ruben Wilberg was 2nd with a 75% success rate and David Wells claimed 3rd place with 9 points out of 13 games.
Gambit Trophy
Congratulations to Duncan Stables who won this year’s Gambit Trophy. It's awarded to the player with the most points accrued across all the Leeds Chess Association Competition's and it's the first time that someone from our club has won this trophy. A special shout out to John Grasham who finished 8th after leading at the mid-point of the season.
Thanks to John Grasham again for running the Blitz competition this year. He can be seen here at the recent Leeds AGM collecting the Division 2 trophy for the unbeaten B team who topped the table this season.
Dates for your Diary
12th July 7pm – Club Night (Boston Spa)
9th August 7pm – Club Night (Boston Spa)
13th September 7pm – Club Night (Boston Spa)
We have 3 club nights remaining over the Summer and are looking for suggestions as to what people want to do at each of these club nights. Suggestions so far are :-
A Simultaneous event by a couple of the stronger players.
2 player team event (Where each player in the team takes turns to make a move, but they're unable to discuss strategy or tactics with their team mate)
Rapidplay competition.
Just turn up and play friendly games.
Please let me know your ideas and preferences.