Stan Cranmer has won the 2013/14 BCCA Handicap tournament with a perfect score of 10 out of 10. 2nd place was Andy Lindop, 3rd was Steve Clark & 4th was Paul Terry.

John Brasier is the latest BCCA member to achieve the BCCA Candidate Master (CM) Title. John won a Class 1 Trio, a Class 2 Trio & a BCCA Championship Candidates section. In addition, he came 2nd in a Silver Medal tournament, and just come 2nd in the British Championship Candidates Tournament for 2013/4. All these tournaments have earned him a total of 23 CM points – well done John!

The 2013/14 BCCA Endgame tournaments are both now completed. The E-mail tournament was won by P Douglass, and the Postal tournament by D Witt. Full scores here:- http://www.bccachess.org/chesstournaments/endgame-tournaments/results/

Correspondence Chess: Back Issues for Sale

Back Issues of Correspondence Chess are in constant demand. That is good for me and good for you because it helps keep annual membership costs down. You can see from the list (see link below) that some Issues are completely sold out & no longer available. Also, I may only have one or two copies left of certain Issues. So DON’T MISS OUT! If you are a relatively new member or chess collector or general chess reader, here is your chance to add to your collection. See updated list here: http://www.bccachess.org/magazine/chess-magazine/

BCCA member Ian Pheby has won the 16th British Veterans Championship with a score of 7/10 – well played Ian! The full crosstable can be seen here: http://www.iccf.com/event?id=39914 . This is Ian’s 2nd victory in this event as he was also joint winner in 2011/12. Ian also picks up 10 BCCA Master points for this victory: Alan Sutton earns 2 points for his 3rd place.

The British Veterans Championship is run by the BFCC and this season saw the last time of the Veterans Championship as a Postal event. From now onwards, this tournament will be a webserver event and BFCC has high hopes that the number of entries will increase significantly because of this change. So, if you are 60 years of age or older (as at 1 September 2014), please consider entering! You can enter via your BCCA Membership Renewal (either online at this site or via your Membership Renewal Form)

Congratulations to Raymond Burridge who secured the necessary 20 Candidate Master (CM) points by jointly winning his Postal Championship Candidates Section. Raymond obtained CM points in 9 separate events over the last three seasons to reach his target. Well played Raymond!

Congratulations to Leslie Eastoe who has won the 2013 Gold Medal webserver tournament in a very close fought affair with 3 players on 6.5 points and 3 wins at the end. Leslie won with an SB score of 29.25, against 28.75 for Neil Jefferson and 28.25 for David Coyne. See:- http://www.iccf.com/event?id=34120

In addition to the ‘Gold Medal’ Leslie is also awarded 10 BM Points bringing his total to over 20 and earning him the prestigious ‘BCCA Master Title.’ Well played Leslie!

BCCA has won this very tight match! With only 2 games left we lead 29.5 – 26.5 – well done to the team. See: http://www.iccf.com/event?id=39363
The Australians are after a rematch starting in one month (earlier than originally anticipated). If you would like to play (this is a webserver match) , and your ICCF rating is under 2000 (max. rating 1999) please let me know before the end of June. I can only accept players who have already renewed their BCCA membership for next season so, if you haven’t already done that, please do so as soon as possible.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes,
Neil Limbert
BCCA

World Championship Semi-Finals: BCCA members Tony Balshaw, Peter Catt & Alan Rawlings have all just began play in ICCF World Championship Semi-Finals. We wish them all good luck in very tough events.

There is a new British CC Championship in Chess 960 (or Fischer Random chess). It is been organised by Phill Beckett in co-operation with the Welsh CC Federation. It will be played on the ICCF webserver & the Entry Fee is £5.00 paid via the Welsh CCF. For full details see the following link. All British BCCA members are eligible to play. http://www.welshccf.org.uk/2014/05/first-british-chess960-correspondence.html