The 2016 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the BCCA will take place at 2pm, October 15, at the Carrs Lane Church Centre, Birmingham. This meeting is open to any current member of the BCCA. If you wish to see how the Association works, or have your say on current matters, you are very welcome to attend.  A copy of the Agenda is available from the General Secretary (Neil Limbert) upon request.

Two of the Medal tournaments that started in February 2016 have just finished. Richard Akrill has won one of the WS Silver Medal tournaments with an excellent score of 7/8: the crosstable can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=57635 Also,  David Picken has won the WS Bronze Medal event with a score of 6.5/8: the crosstable can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=57636

Congratulations to both players! They have already received their Medals.

John Brasier is awarded the BCCA Master (BM) Title, after his latest victory in a Class 3 Trio took him over the magic 20 point barrier. Congratulations & well played to John!

Russell Sherwood has won the Handicap tournament for 2015/6 with an undefeated record of 9 wins & 2 draws. 2nd place was Stan Cranmer & 3rd place was Raymond Burridge.

The CM points earned by Russell have also taken him past the 20 point barrier & earbned him the BCCA Candidate Master (CM) Tiitle. Well played Russell!

Today is Day 1 of the annual ICCF Congress which is taking place this year in Bremen, Germany. Three of our members have been awarded Titles: Russell Sherood, Helen Sherwood & Tony Balshaw – see photo of their Certificates below:-

In addition, BCCA member Andrew Dearnley has been awarded a Bertl von Massow Silver Medal for 10 years continuous service to ICCF. A photo can be seen of the EFCC website here: http://www.iccfengland.org/

Ian Mason & Dawn Williamson have both been awarded the BCCA Candidate Master (CM) Title having achieved the necessary 20 CM points. It has been a good week for both players- Ian has won the Silver Medal tournament as well, and Dawn has also been awarded the ICCF LIM (Ladies International Master) Title. Congratulations to both players!

The only remaining Medal tournament from 2015 (Silver Medal No.2) has been won by Ian Mason – congratulations to Ian! It was a very close at the end with Ian narrowly pushing Dawn Williamson to 2nd place on S-B tie-break. In 3rd place was Alex Relyea.

The final crosstable can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=52160

Gary Maguire is BCCA’s latest Candidate Master.  His superb victory in the 2015/6 British Championship Candidates tournament took him over the required 20 point mark.  His other points came from a combination of Class 2 & Class 1 Trio’s.  Well played Gary!

You can see a full list of all Title holders & current Title points awarded (for non-Title holders) under “BCCA Members” – “BCCA Titles”.

Current BCCA President Stan Grayland has been awarded the BCCA Master (BM) Title having accumulated 20 BM points: well played Stan! The points were awarded from winning the BCCA Championship in 2014/5; coming joint 2nd in the 2015/6 Championship, and winning the 2012 Postal Gold tournament.

The full list of BCCA Title holders can be seen here: http://www.bccachess.org/members/bcca-titles-within-reach-of-every-player/current-title-holders-and-year-awarded/

The current accumulated Points lists of all BCCA players can be seen here: http://www.bccachess.org/members/bcca-titles-within-reach-of-every-player/title-points-awarded/

Brian Thompson won the inaugural BCCA Rapidplay Cup with a score of 4.5/6. Well played Brian!

I hope members will support the 2nd Rapidplay Cup (start date 1 January 2017) which you can enter online now or via your Renewal form.