Congratulations to Graham Pattrick on winning the Trio with a perfect score of 4/4 – very well played. Graham has been awarded 2 BCCA Candidate Master Points and promoted to Class 2, The other players were Raymond Cox and Wilfred Watson.
BCCA AWARDS FIRST CANDIDATE MASTER TITLES!
Almost 2 years after the BCCA Titles were first launched, two players have now earned the BCCA Candidate Master(CM) Title inside two days!
Jason Kirk reached the 20 points required for the CM Title by winning a 2011 Bronze Medal Tournament; winning a 2012 Silver Medal tournament; and now winning the 2012/13 Postal Championship Candidates C.
Neil Jefferson reached the 20 points required for the CM Title by winning a 2011 Silver Medal tournament, winning a webserver Trio Class 1 and a webserver Trio Class 2; and now winning Reserves D of the 2012/3 BCCA Championship.
Congratulations to both players who will be awarded BCCA Silver Medals & Candidate Master Certificates”
John Fenby wins Class 1 Trio TR41
Class 1 Trio TR35 Decided on SB Score
Congratulations to Keith Dudeney and Mark Smith who drew on points with 2.5 each but Keith had the better performance in their individual games and goes through with an SB score of 4.75 against Mark’s 3.25 – Keith is now promoted to Class 2 and has been awarded 2 BCCA Candidate Master Points. Peter Coast was the third player in this close fought Trio.
Colin Glanville wins Class 2 Trio TR6
This was a close fought ‘Trio’ with Colin clinching the win with 2.5 pts, Trevor Brotherton came second with 2 pts and David Cook in 3rd place with 1.5 pts. Colin is promoted to Class 3 and has been awarded 4 BCCA Candidate Master Points, Trevor remains in Class 2 and David returns to Class 1. Well played to one and all.
Webserver Trio C1/TR30 – Winner
Latest Gambit Tournament News
Fred Clough has updated the results for the Gambit and Counter Gambit Tournament.
It is still all to play for in the Gambit Tourney (Post)
Crammer and Wright are fighting it out on 5.5 each in the Counter Gambit (Post) but Crammer has two games pending as opposed to one for Wright. Neil could also enter the fray though he has just lost a game to Wright.
Fred himself cannot be caught in the Counter Gambit (Email) with a score of 6.5/8 – well played. Second place is still open and looks like it will be a close finish.
Wm Mason (BCCA) Championship 2011-12 Download
The 2011-12 BCCA William Mason Championship was the last to be played under Postal rules. All 55 games are now available via the download PAGE
There are some fantastic games here! Many of the competitors seemed to be in a determined mood as short games are few & far between. Even though there were more draws than usual, the games were fully fought out. So I recommend strongly these games are added to your database.