Brown Jack Chess Club

 05/06  Club awards & individual successes

Pablo Padilla - Overall Brown Jack Player of the Year

Robbie Coats - Annual club tournament winner

Mike Rabbitt - Best Wiltshire League team player

Pablo Padilla - Best 4NCL player

Josh Hall - Best National Club Championship player

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 Aug 06

Bev Schofield reports that one of the England
teams playing in Poland at the 7th midzynarodowy druynowy

turniej szachovy (a biennial event), has won the competition

against tough opposition.
The event in Poland was at a place called Jastrzebie Zdrj.

It is a 9 round, 4 board  competition for 34 teams representing

(mainly) eastern European cities.

The team was Dan Hall (Wilts), Vedantha Kumar (London),

Robbie Coats (Wilts) and Selina Khoo (Surrey). Playing as
'Liverpool' they beat Zilina, Orlova, Euroregion Slak Cieszynski,
Frydek-Mistek, Kijw and Tallin. They drew with Rowne (Ukraine)

and St Petersburg (number one seeds and defending champions).

They also finished ahead of other teams such as Minsk, Budapest,

Oslo and Koln.
They managed to do the double by also winning the football

competition!! with Miss Selina Khoo in goal. So Liverpool top

Europe again!  Having recovered from the shock the parents

now have the task of getting the mountain bikes they have each
won back from the airport this afternoon and sorting out the extra

payment to Easy jet for the shipping!

 Aug 06

Bev Schofield reports that a number of Brown Jack

Juniors attended the British Championships in Swansea. We

managed to produce 2 winners in Championship events.

Nicola Thomas won the U-150 Graded British Championships

and Daniel Hall won the U-16 British Championship - his third

age group Championship in a row having also been U-14 and

U-15 Champion. 

 May 06

Richard Hall reports that Wiltshire juniors won the ECF

U18 County Team Championships over the weekend 20-21 May.

He has provided a comprehensive breakdown of the individual results

and hopes to provide a further report in due course. Congratulations

to all the juniors, particularly the Brown Jack contingent. This may be

the first time Wiltshire have won a National team event.

 Feb 06

Bev Schofield reports there were good performances by club juniors

at the Wiltshire Schools Congress. Champions were as follows: U-11

Harry Cleeves, U-14 Jack Cleeves, U-18 Robbie Coats. Club juniors

also had a successful start to the new year. Harry Cleeves gained a

'half norm' for the U-11 England trial at the London Junior U-12

championships, but confirmed his place by winning the Wiltshire

Closed all-play-all, and gaining the Wiltshire nomination.  He made

doubly sure by winning the South of England U-11 championships

this month. Robbie Coats continued his outstanding season.  He

gained a half-norm for the National Junior Squad by coming joint

3rd in the London Junior U-16 Championships, then put in a winning

performance at the Horsham U-18's. This month he gained his second

half-norm for the squad at the English U-16 Closed championships

and can now expect to be called up for England duties abroad. He

joins fellow junior internationals at the club - Robbie Dams, Nicola

Thomas, Lewis Martin, Jack Cleeves, Daniel Chan and Josh, Dan

and Toby Hall. Daniel Hall won the English U-16 Closed

championships this month with 4½/5. He is now away in Florida with

the National Junior Chess Squad.

 Nov 05

Bev Schofield reports Robbie Coats had a very successful

month, winning both the Gold Section of the Musketeers

Tournament and jointly winning the U-18 section of the Berkshire

Junior Congress on Sunday. Josh Hall came joint 3rd in the Open

at the Oxford University Rapidplay.

 Sep 05

Over the summer months Peter Richmond won the 2005 Wiltshire

Major (Open) Championship with 3½/4.

Thanks to Bev Schofield and Helena Thomas for the junior information.

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