The latest reported results in the Selected Openings and Gambit Tournaments, are

MAIN THEME
Thornton 1-0 Wood, Wood 1-0 Thornton, Grobler 1-0 Crawshaw, Crawshaw 1-0 Grobler, Crawshaw 1-0 Wood, Grobler ½ Gallimore,
Wood 0-1 Gallimore, Wood ½ Grobler, Gallimore ½ Grobler

GAMBIT A
Brook 0-1 Thompson, Brook 0-1 Clough, Brook 0-1 Wright, Wright 1-0 Thompson, Wright 2-0 Grobler, Thompson ½ Wright, Wright 1-0 Clough, Thompson 0-1 Clough, Grobler 1-0 Brook, Clough 1-0 Brook

GAMBIT B
Richardson ½ Witt, Witt 0-2 Gallimore, Richardson 2-0 Thornton, Richardson 0-1 Witt, Gallimore 1-0 Richardson, Jolly 0-1 Witt

COUNTER GAMBIT
Gallimore 1-0 Wright, Wright 1-0 Thornton, Thornton 0-1 Wright, Wright 1-0 Richardson, Gallimore 2-0 Cranmer, Richardson 0-1 Cranmer
Cranmer ½ Richardson, Thornton 0-1 Cranmer, Wright ½½ Cranmer, Cranmer 1-0 Thornton, Richardson 2-0 Thornton, Gallimore 1-0 Richardson

SOT MAIN THEME
Wood 0-1 Gallimore, Wood ½ Grobler, Gallimore ½ Grobler

This 15-man ICCF international event started in July 2009 and the winner has just been confirmed. It is Panu Laine of Finland, who scored 101⁄2/14 with IM and SIM Norms. Congratulations to Panu! We are very fortunate that Panu has already annotated some games for this magazine and I hope he will look at some of his games from this tournament in a future issue. There is still 1 game remaining in the tournament but it will not affect the major placings.

Tournament Controllers Dave Grobler & Nigel Aitken provide the latest results in the BCCA William Mason Championship, webserver sections finished on the 31st July, postal sections are still in progress. K W Mclauglin and Leslie Eastoe are joint leaders in the 2010/11 Final.

From the Candidates Tournament D J Finnie, Anthony Balshaw & David Coyne have qualified for the 2011/12 final, the remaining places are still to be decided.

In the Reserves Tournament A Copsey, J Redwood, M R Wilson & L Rhodes have qualified for the 2011/12 Candidates Tournament.

Ron Cooper reports the start of a new email tournament with the following players, D.G. Gallimore, J. Etherington, A. Tolliday and J. Everson. Email tournaments may be entered at any time of the season, please contact Ron for further information.

Recent results in our Selected Opening Tournaments,

SOT Main Theme
Thornton 1-0 Wood
Wood 1-0 Thornton
Grobler 1-0 Crawshaw
Crawshaw 1-0 Grobler
Crawshaw 1-0 Wood
Grobler draws with Gallimore

Gambit A
Wright 1-0 Clough
Thompson 0-1 Clough
Grobler 1-0 Brook
Clough 1-0 Brook

Gambit B
Richardson draws with Witt
Witt 0-2 Gallimore
Richardson 2-0 Thornton
Richardson 0-1 Witt
Gallimore 1-0 Richardson
Jolly 0-1 Witt

Counter Gambit
Wright draws both games v Cranmer
Cranmer 1-0 Thornton
Richardson 2-0 Thornton
Gallimore 1-0 Richardson

The BCCA ‘William Mason’ Championship for 2010-11 is our premier event and determines who will be the club champion each year. The Championship is a promotion tournaments and this season we have a Championship section, four ‘Candidates’ sections and a five ‘Reserves’ sections.

You can view the latest tables here.

The Championship itself is still wide open with just a handful of results report to date. Led by L.G. Eastoe but all players still have enough unreported results to win this one. The Candidates comprises four sections with the winner gaining the chance to compete at the highest level. Candidates A is led by Stan Grayland on a very impressive 4/4 whilst Candidates B is led by our President Jonathan Rashleigh. Candidates C & D demonstrate the difference between web-server play and normal post or email move transmission. Both of the these sections are being played on the web-server and almost all games are completed whilst the non web-server events are still wide open. Candidates C is led by Anthony Balshaw on 7.5/9 whilst Candidates D is led by David Coyne on 8.5/10 closely followed by Antony Cannon with 6.5/8.

The five Reserves sections are also split between web-server and postal play, the three postal sections are wide open although Reserves A is led by A. Copsey 5/5, Reserves B is led by P. Hulse 3/3 and Reserves C has M.E. Hardwick on 2.5/3. The web-server sections have more games completed, Reserves D is led by Dr. M.R. Wilson on 8/8 whilst Lawrence Rhodes leads Reserves E with a fantastic 10/10, very well done!

The following new tournament has been started.

Et A80

1. R.Cooper
2. J. Halliday
3. G.D. Dennison
4. T. Brotherton

The following new tournament has recently begun.

Et A79

1. Anthony Tolliday
2. A.R.A. Baker
3. J. Etherington
4. A. Dawkins