We are moving to the Malpas Unionist Club on Monday 9th September, 6.30pm.
To celebrate, we cordially invite members of the Gwent League to come and join us for a 10 min Rapid play competition.
The competition will start at 7.00pm at the above Venue.
Clocks will have 10min each with 10 sec increments from move 1. No writing of moves.
We hope to see you there!
The Gwent League Fixtures (provisional) are out.
I have put the games for Malpas on this website.
Please, if anyone can see any errors, let me know asap.
Away teams (and home team members) are kindly advised that home matches are to start promptly at 7pm.
Good Luck to all Teams in the Gwent League!!
There is an event hosted by Newport Chess Club on Wednesday the 4th September 2024 at 7pm held at the Pen and Wig, Stow Hill, Newport. It is a Chess 960 event.
Chess 960 is played with randomised positioning of major pieces although they are matched for both white and black. This enables players to benefit from no preparation in play.
Those who wish to enter just turn up. I believe this is a free event i.e. no prizes. Just for fun!
Congratulations to James Lavender, Lee Davis and Peter AC Varley for jointly winning the Gwent Closed Championships with 3.5/5 points. A hotly fought contest which allows them to jointly be names Gwent Champions. James did well to hold onto this title.
Congratulations to Ron Williams who came joint first in the U1600 section with Bob Hurn on 4.5/5.
Can we at Malpas, thank Chris Dixon for organising the Venue at the Sebastopol Social Club.
Thanks also to the organisations skills of Jon Gilbert and arbiter John Thornton.
A great Weekend and long may it continue as an annual event in Gwent.
Dave N
Can I make members aware that the timing of the Gwent AGM will be as follows:
Wednesday 26th June 2024 at 7.15pm at the Sebastopol Social Club (Pontypool Chess Club Venue)
Please inform Dave N if you wish to attend.
The Quickplay schedule has been released and the Malpas games are published below:
We are gearing up at after Easter to get the ball rolling with spreading the word about the Newport Chess Congress. Here is a flyer. Details can be found at https://newportchesscongress.uk Please feel free to start spreading the word!
Can I gently remind those who have yet to pay their subscriptions that these should be made soon. Jon Gilbert has to pay zone fees to the WCU by the end of October.
If Dave Norris could receive the subs then he will forward payment to Jon Gilbert.
Many thanks
David
We are having a club night on Wednesday 27th Sept 2023 at 7pm. We have some new members who wish to join our club so can we give them a nice welcome.
Afterwards, we can play fun chess!
So all welcome, hope to see you there!!
The Gwent fixtures for Division 1 and Division 2 are now available and the Malpas games can be found under the Gwent League item on the menu of this site.
Note that Division 1 is a 4 board league team; whereas, Division 2 is a 3 board league team.
Also the names of the players are provisionally allocated to the teams under the sub-menu Teams.
Hope this all makes sense!
