The champions of the webserver BCCL (British CC League) are the Scheming Mind Hounds team. Congratulations to Phill Beckett (Capt) & his team. The crosstable can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=49415

The BCCL consists of 8-player teams, where each player plays 2 games v one opponent. There are three divisions (Championship, Division One, Division Two) with 9 teams in each division – over 200 players in total!

Eric Nettles has won his final game in the Tom Paterson Memorial & is the only player to finish with a perfect score of 8/8! Congratulations & well played to Eric! He wins the £80 1st prize & the Millard Silver King.

There is still one game remaining in the tournament which will decide the minor placings See:

http://www.bccachess.org/chesstournaments/paterson-rodford-memorials-start-dec-2014/

The latest BCCA magazine (CC194) is being posted over the next few days. Includes articles by Stan Grayland, Tim Harding, Paul Terry, Mike Read & Hamilton McMillan. It also includes the last quarterly book sale from the Hawley library.

Two more players have reached the magical 20 CM points barrier and are awarded the BCCA Candidate Master (CM) Title. Brian Thompson won the British Candidates tournament (to add to a previous BCCA Candidates victory & a 2nd place in the BCCC Candidates in 2012/3), and Derek Gallimore won a BCCA Postal Candidates taking his total to 20. Congratulations to both players.

Dave Grobler has been awarded the BCCA Candidate Master Title following his tournament victory in the BCCA Candidates A for 2014/5. He also earned CM Points for his victory in the 2014 Silver Medal tournament, and for his 2nd place in the 2013/4 BCCA Candidates D section. Congratulations to Dave!

You can find the full list of current BCCA Masters (BM) and BCCA Candidate Masters(CM) here: http://www.bccachess.org/members/bcca-titles-within-reach-of-every-player/current-title-holders-and-year-awarded/

Also, you can see the full list of Title points accumulated for all players who have yet to be awarded a Title here: http://www.bccachess.org/members/bcca-titles-within-reach-of-every-player/title-points-awarded/

Les Ellis has finished all his games scoring 6 out of 8. He therefore joins Tim Harding at the top of the leader board. Both will now have to wait to see if anyone can catch them & then the tie-break (sum of opponent’s scores) will be used for players on equal scores.

Tim Harding is the new leader in the clubhouse having finished his games with an excellent score of 6 out of 8.  Tim will now to have to wait to find out whether anyone else can match his score, or indeed overtake him.  105 games in the tournament have now finished with 31 games ongoing.  The tournament table can be seen here: http://www.bccachess.org/chesstournaments/paterson-rodford-memorials-start-dec-2014/ (Change the “Show … entries” number to “50” to see the full list of players) and all the games can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=49085

BCCA President Stan Grayland has won the 2014/5 BCCA William Mason Championship Final. The crosstable can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=45557 Although there are still four games ongoing, Stan cannot be caught. Well played Stan!

The Points Awarded Lists have now been updated for the BCCA Master (BM) & BCCA Candidate Master (CM). Check out this link: http://www.bccachess.org/members/bcca-titles-within-reach-of-every-player/title-points-awarded/ to see where you are in the list & how many points you need for one of the Titles. (Remember to change the “Show … Entries” to 100 to see the full lists)