The AGM for Seaton Chess Club will take place on 9th September 2021 at 6.30pm.
The intention is to have it in the garden so it will be socially distanced.
Please attend if you can as there will be some important decisions to make for the club so we need as much representation as we can.
For further details on location please get in touch with the Secretary:
Seaton player Steve Dean continues his reign as champion of U160 quickplay chess by winning the graded section of the DCCA Online Winter Grand-Prix.
Steve beat fellow Seaton player Charlie Keen in a tense final 2.5 - 1.5. To catch up on some of the games along with live commentary, visit Tom Thorpe's twitch site: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/955424087
No less than four Seaton players are featuring in the Semi-Finals of the DCCA Online Winter Grand Prix.
The Grand-Prix ran between 18th January and 26 February 2021, and incorporating six 9+3 Rapid and six 5+2 Blitz events. A player’s “Grand-Prix score” was calculated based on a player's best three results in both styles of event. The final standings can be found here.
We are now in the Semi-Final knock-out stage with Paul Hampton and Jon Underwood competing in the Championship and Steve Dean and Charlie Keen in the Graded (U160) event.
Live commentary of the games will be broadcast by Tom Thorpe on his twitch account https://www.twitch.tv/chesster1883 so please tune in to cheer on the players!
Good luck to everyone and here's hoping for an all Seaton-final!
Seaton Chess Club were pleased to host Gloucester Chess Club Wotton Hall in an online 10 board friendly match on 26th January 2021. The match involved 2 back to back games of 30 minutes + 10 seconds increment.
We lost the first round 3.5-6.5 but managed to tie the second 5-5 so well done all.