The Executive Committee  has decided to extend its demonstration of support for Ukrainian chess players by offering free membership for the current and next membership year to all Ukrainians who are not already BCCA members.

So much of our chess is played via webserver that the traditional postal format can be forgotten.

The BCCA still organises postal chess, however, and the postal medal tournaments have now started.   More details and the cross tables can be seen by clicking on the links below:

Postal Gold

Postal Silver

Postal Bronze

Your Executive Committee  will be meeting on 2nd April.    Further details will be provided as the date approaches and we expect to provide a report to members afterwards.

The bibliophiles amongst us may wish to visit our CC Literature page – see: CC Literature – which includes two new entries, namely Diamond Dust (Jonathan Berry) and The Write Move (Tim Harding).

Watch this space as we expect to include more material in due course.

The BCCA enters several teams in the Champions League – see: Champions League  for more details.

Also, the teams this year are performing strongly overall under the able guidance of the BCCA team captain, Stan Grayland, as shown by the table below:

This season  CL9  , BCCA have six teams entered and their status as of  16/03/2022  is :-

Preparations for the publication of the first BCCA rating list are proceeding at pace with the objective being to publish the first list in early May.

Games completed in the William Mason  Championship, Candidates and reserves and Medal Tournaments have been submitted and we expect the games in the Handicap and Trio events to be completed shortly.   Further details on the calculation of BCCA ratings can be found here: BCCA Ratings

Separately, we are working at increasing the number of BCCA events which are rated by the ICCF.      Further information on that will be provided shortly.

In order to celebrate the illustrious history and hopefully bright future of the BCCA through a recognition and historical and contemporary luminaries, we have created a Hall of Fame.

The first inductee is William Mason and you can read about his contribution to the BCCA here: Hall of Fame.  

We intend to add further entries.   Watch this space for these.

Congratulations are in order for our president, Stan Grayland, who was unanimously elected to become a Life Patron of the EFCC at their Executive Committee last Saturday, in recognition of his significant contribution to the EFCC over many years.

Stan has also made an immense contribution to the BCCA for many years (indeed, decades) and is fully deserving of the patronage bestowed on him.

A full list of EFCC patrons can be found here: EFCC Patrons.

The ICCF has announced a new event, a “Peace Open” to support the Ukrainian people.

More details can be found here: Peace Open .

The 2021/22 Silver Medal Tournament finished yesterday with a fine result for Robert Bruce, winning the event with ten wins and a draw, edging half a point ahead of Michael Farmer in second.

The full table can be seen here: Silver Medal Result 2021/22.