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Membership - 30th AugustWe now have twenty eight chess players in our club! and four teams in the Norfolk league....The Crusaders, The Bishops, The Templars and The Knights. In the past few months eight new players have joined up.
Upcoming Competitions - 26th AugustDear Norfolk Chess Players,
With about a month to go I have 24 entrants in the Norfolk Championships, which means we are half full. While there is plenty of room currently I would suggest that you enter early to avoid disappointment. A list of those entered to date can be found on this link: https://www.c4results.org.uk/chess/php/DisplayEvents.php?EventId=15 The time limit this year will be 90 minutes for the whole game plus 15 seconds per move from move one. A copy of the entry form is attached and I have also attached entry forms for: Cambridgeshire Rapidplay 23 September 2018 36th Bury St Edmunds Congress 20/21 October 2018 Lowestoft Rapidplay 18 November 2018 Hope to see several of you at these events. Regards John Wickham (sent by Brian Cunningham) Preseason Match vs N&N |
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Thursday 27 September 2018 - Note the date!
As part of the pre-season programme, we have accepted a challenge from the Norfolk and Norwich Club of a 100-board match (two teams of ten players, each player from one team plays games against the ten players from the other team - 5 minute blitz). The venue will be our home turf of the Coachmakers Arms - start around 7.30 p.m.
Requests for availability to participate in the match will be circulated about mid-September.
As part of the pre-season programme, we have accepted a challenge from the Norfolk and Norwich Club of a 100-board match (two teams of ten players, each player from one team plays games against the ten players from the other team - 5 minute blitz). The venue will be our home turf of the Coachmakers Arms - start around 7.30 p.m.
Requests for availability to participate in the match will be circulated about mid-September.
Richard’s Report on the Club Website - 5th July
At the AGM last season, it dawned on us that the numbers were reaching a crucial level, and something had to be done about it and fast ….or we would be facing a slow and tortuous extinction. Indeed, we were forced to cull on of our teams, The Templars, for this very reason.
We had toyed for around three years with the pushing ahead of the website as a means of attracting players as well as a means of communicating and enjoying chess reports, games etc, though nothing was ever really done about it.
The falling attendance was a wake-up call.
We had around fourteen members at that time.
The first thing we had to do was to make the website more attractive and to add more spice to it.
To this end, with his keen and insightful ideas Brian Cunningham proved invaluable and we bounced many projects back and forth, and spent countless hours polishing up the website. We agreed to have members add anything that wanted to put out on the website within reason.
We also added a couple of “roving reporters” Nathan and Harry, and were delighted and impressed by the coverage, and banter.
Suffice to say it was a raging success and month by month we watched as more and more players responded…the number of hits zoomed, and even more surprised we were that the number of newbies increased to dramatic proportions.
It hit a plateau a month or so ago and we now have double the number from last season, though I am sure quite a few of those members (five or six) will drop out through one reason or another. However, more new members will certainly come in…already one or two newbies have shown their faces, and both Brian and myself remain convinced of the validity of having a fine website to be proud of.
Richard Downing
We had toyed for around three years with the pushing ahead of the website as a means of attracting players as well as a means of communicating and enjoying chess reports, games etc, though nothing was ever really done about it.
The falling attendance was a wake-up call.
We had around fourteen members at that time.
The first thing we had to do was to make the website more attractive and to add more spice to it.
To this end, with his keen and insightful ideas Brian Cunningham proved invaluable and we bounced many projects back and forth, and spent countless hours polishing up the website. We agreed to have members add anything that wanted to put out on the website within reason.
We also added a couple of “roving reporters” Nathan and Harry, and were delighted and impressed by the coverage, and banter.
Suffice to say it was a raging success and month by month we watched as more and more players responded…the number of hits zoomed, and even more surprised we were that the number of newbies increased to dramatic proportions.
It hit a plateau a month or so ago and we now have double the number from last season, though I am sure quite a few of those members (five or six) will drop out through one reason or another. However, more new members will certainly come in…already one or two newbies have shown their faces, and both Brian and myself remain convinced of the validity of having a fine website to be proud of.
Richard Downing
