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Seaton Chess Club's 57th Annual General Meeting was held on 23rd July 2025 with eight attendees. This was an opportunity to review the previous season and set the direction for the forthcoming year. The key items agreed were:
- to continue meeting at the Cricket Club on a fortnightly basis starting again on Wed 8th October 2025
- to keep membership fees the same as the previous year
It was also an opportunity to present some of the trophies for previous seasons Club Championship.
- Jon Underwood was presented the Cheeseman Shield trophy for winning the 2023/2024 Club Championship (the 2024/2025 final between Paul Hampton and Jon Underwood remains to be played)
- Trevor Hurt was presented the Caines Cup for winning the Plate Championship 2024/2025
- Tim Fox was presented the Les Porter Cup for best performing player <1450 in the Club Championship
- Elijah Sutherland was awarded the Bryn Newton Junior Trophy for the best performing junior
Many thanks to all for supporting the club and looking forward to seeing you all in the new season!
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Please join us for the club's AGM to be held in Axmouth on Wed 23rd July, starting 6.30pm. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of the club and the season's club trophies will also be awarded!
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This is to let you know that the club is now closed for the summer season and will return in the autumn. We'll announce on the website when the club is due to reopen but this will normally be around September so check back then for further details on dates and venues.
Note that we've set the date for the 3rd Jurassic Rapidplay for Sat 18th October 2025 so please keep that day free for another great day of fast chess!
Thank you all for your support of the club for another year and we wish you every success in your chess endeavours over the summer!
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It gives me great pleasure to report on some great performances from Seaton players in recent competitions. The first to report is Jon Underwood's great result of 2nd equal in the 5th Bournemouth Grand Open Congress, sharing the honours with a Fide Master and only being narrowly pipped for 1st by a Grand Master Daniel Gormally. Jon actually drew with Daniel in the last round and had a remarkable win against Billy Fellowes (weighing in with a rating of 2268), which Jon said "was the best he'd ever played!
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The game also caught the sight of GM Daniel Gornally who took the time to review the game on his YouTube blog so I would encourage you to watch Daniel go through this amazing game (without giving too much away, there's a queen sacrifice involved!)
The game is also on the website under the Games menu or follow the link here: Fellowes v Underwood 30 March 2025. Full results from the Bournemouth event can be found here.
I am also happy to report great results for Seaton players in the 2nd Bovey Tracey Rapidplay on the 5th April with Paul Hampton joint 1st in the Maestro section (results here) and Trevor Hurt joint first in the Improvers (results here). Click the links to see the full results.
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NEXT MEETING Wed 9th April 2025
As before there are ongoing issues with the Gateway, so we will be meeting in a new venue for the time being: the Seaton Cricket Club Pavilion.
The address is: Court Lane, Seaton EX12 2AT, less than 10 mins walk from the previous venue.
To access the Pavilion, go through the picket gate by the side of Court Lane as shown in the image. There is some limited parking on Court Lane itself or otherwise you can park on the main Colyford Road/Fore Street.
Hopefully see you all there for a prompt start at 6.30pm!