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The 2016/17 season of the BCCL (webserver) has just got underway with three Divisions, 22 teams & 176 players! The Divisions are organised on the Hutton system so each player only plays two games. BCCA has entered five teams (40 players).
The Divisions & games can be seen here:-
Championship: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=63471
Division One: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=63472
Division Two: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=63473
Paul Terry has won the 2016 Postal Silver Medal tournament with a perfect score of 8/8! Congratulations & well played to Paul. He wins a Silver Medal & 6 BCCA Candidate Master points.
The crosstable & games can be viewed here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=57644
The Welsh CCF will be arranging & setting up the 4th British WS Team tournament starting in January 2017. The full tournament announcement can be seen here: https://chesscmscontent.blob.core.windows.net/downloads/30d2d992ae52482199292e25838d4213/bwstt.pdf
BCCA will be entering multiple teams again so, if you wish to play, please contact Neil Limbert before December 10. All standards of player are catered for. Once again, BCCA will cover the Entry Fee so players have nothing to pay. Each team consists of four players & each player will normally play six games. You can see the Season Three Divisions below:-
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=53439 for Division One
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=53441 for Division Two
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=53442 for Division Three
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=53464 for Division Four
BCCA member Fred Clough has written a very good article for the Welsh CC Federation website entitled: “‘SNAIL MAIL’ – Postal Chess Before Computers Arrived.- Some Reminiscences.” This is well worth a read with three exciting annotated games. You can read the article here: http://welshccf.org.uk/content/66
Yosua Sitorus has won the 2016 Webserver Silver Medal tournament No.1 with a superb score of 9/10! The final crosstable can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=57633
In addition, the 10 CM (Candidate Master) points earned for finishing 1st have taken him to 20 CM points: he is therefore also awarded the BCCA Candidate Master Title!
Congratulations to Yosua! Two medals & a certificate will be winging their way to Indonesia shortly.
The Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation are organising the third team event for their member organisations (currently BCCA, SchemingMind, SCCA and NATCOR; the Welsh Chess Union have honorary affiliation and may also enter one or more teams).
This tournament is their way of thanking their member organisations for the support they have given the WCCF over the past year; all ICCF server fees will be covered by WCCF, and there will be no entry fee.
The tournament will be a single rounded All-Play-All with five boards, the time control will be 10 moves in 50 days with 45 days leave per calendar year, all other standard ICCF rules will apply, there will be no end date.
Examples of the previous events can be seen at:
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=44584
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=56581
BCCA will be entering a number of teams. If you wish to take part applications should be made to Russell Sherwood (russell@bccachess.org) by 7th November 2016.
Russell Sherwood
BCCA Match Captain
Ian Pheby has won the 2016 Postal Gold Medal tournament with a superb score of 7/8. Congratulations to Ian! Stan Cranmer & Phill Beckett finished in equal 2nd place & earned 1 BCCA Master point each. The final crosstable can be seen here: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=57643
We have a challenge for a Match from Scheming Mind,
This will be server based following on the following format https://www.iccf.com/event?id=53218
The SM team is forming with ratings from 2400 to 1600 so something for everyone!
If you are interested in taking part can you please get in touch by 21st October.
Russell Sherwood
russell@bccachess.org