All BCCA Tournaments
New Member, Stephen Woodhouse has won Class 1 Trio No.73 with a score of 3.5/4 and has been promoted to Class 2. The other players were Jim Fox and Christopher Greenhill. All players are to be commended on their quick play – the Trio was finished in less than 2 weeks.
Two New Members, Malcolm Winter and Roy Summers are joint winners of Class 1 Trio No.67 with a score of 3/4 and have both been promoted to Class 2, the other player was David Gosling
Congratulations to David Coyne who remains undefeated after his fourth Class 3 Trio with a win in BCCA/C3/Tr6, very well-played Sir. David has been awarded another 3 BCCA Master Points towards his BCCA Master Title. The other players were Graham Pattrick and Phil Beckett. Remember the Trio’s Tournament is a good way to build up your Masters points.
ICCF have announced a reduction in entry fees from the 1st January 2014 which in the current economic climate is to be commended.
ICCF Tournaments: (* subject to suitable qualification ***)
(Fee scale valid for entries via BFCC from 1/1/2014)
• Open Class £5.00
• Higher Class*** £5.00
• Master Class*** £8.00
• Thematics £8.00
• Master Norm*** £22.50
• GM Norm*** £26.00
• World Championship (Preliminary & Semi-Final)*** £26.00
• World Cup & Veterans World Cup, Jubilee World Cup & Chess 960 World Cup £8.00
All BCCA members are entitled to take part in ICCF tournaments. You can enter online direct with ICCF or you can pay via the BFCC Website, Tournament Entry or you can send a cheque payable to BFCC to Andrew Dearnley. Please note that if you use the ICCF Direct Entry System prices are in Euros and work out a little dearer than BFCC
This tournament starts on the 5th January and we have 4 BCCA members taking part:-
Mike Donnelly, John Rhodes, Richard Hall & John Pugh.
It is being played on the ICCF webserver, the average rating is 2504 with significant cash prizes available:
1st place £300
2nd place £200
3rd place £100.
For every game won a player will receive £25.
The cross table is available HERE Good Luck to all players especially the BCCA Members, we are sure this tournament will be a fitting tribute.
We have had a flurry of results in the Webserver Trios, starting with J Etherington’s win in Class 2 Trio No.15 gaining promotion to Class 3 and 4 BCM Points. Frank McMahon has won Class 1 Trio No.59 and promotion to Class 2 plus 2 BCM Points. Finally, Mark Smith is the winner in Class 1 Trio No.50, Mark has also gained promotion to Class 2 and 2 BCM Points. Well played to all.