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Surbiton Chess Club
Surbiton Chess Club, Surrey, England, is a friendly club playing in the Surrey and Thames Valley Leagues. We have members of a wide range of abilities, from from ungraded to about 180+ BCF, and once had a world champion playing for us. Unfortunately, R Fulford was world champion at croquet. The club has been in existence since 1948 and during this time, like so many clubs, we have changed addresses. We have had successful players that have played for us British Open Championship competitors and a US Amateur Championship winner. But probably our most famous player is our club President, Mike Basman an International Master and joint winner of the British Championship.
The club has a team in the first division of the Surrey League as it has just won the Beaumont Cup. It will also enter teams in the Ellery Williams, Stomeleigh and Alexander Cup competitions of the Surrey County Chess Association. The club also runs three teams in the Thames Valley League.
We meet on Wednesdays at Fircroft, 96 Ditton Road, Surbiton, (see map) from about 7:30PM. The junior club meets earlier on Wednesday evenings, although some juniors also stay on for matches or other events.
Prospective members will be assured of a warm welcome.
If coming by public transport, buses 71, 465, K1 and K4 all stop near the junction of Ditton Road and Hook Road. All these routes serve Surbiton railway station and Kingston town centre. We can be contacted by e-mail at enquiries@surbitonchessclub.co.uk or telephone 08700 343593.
Details of the usual meeting point for away matches can be found here.
Handicap Chess Tournaments at Surbiton Chess Club
At Surbiton Chess Club we have been running friendly chess handicap tournaments alternate Wednesdays through the summer. With our next two tournaments we would like to invite chess players from local clubs to take part.
The entry fee is nothing if you don't want to try and win a money prize or £2.00 if you do. The is format 20 mins split between the two players according to grade. For example same grade 10 mins each. The strongest player v the weakest would get 2 mins and the weakest 18 mins.
The New Grades just published on the ECF website at http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/index.php will be used or Wey Valley Grades if no ECF grade .If you have no grade the controller will give you one.
If you scored 1 point or less last time you played your grading for this tournament goes down by 10 points.
The dates are Wednesday 8th & 22nd August starting at 8.00pm. It usually finishes between 10.30 pm and 11.00 pm.
Minor alterations to the normal quick play rules.
Enquirries to hct@surbitonchessclub.co.uk
Chris Briscoe contemplates his next move.
Club members requiring a copy of the membership list (as email or hard copy) or to amend their details thereon should contact Chris Torrero at results@surbitonchessclub.co.uk
If the gentleman whose family lived at Fircroft would like to get in touch again, we have some information which may be of interest to him.
FIXTURES
A partial list of club fixtures can be found at http://www.surbitonchessclub.co.uk/fixtur06.html
This will be updated later, after the fixtures meeting of the Surrey League.
JUNIORS
The club also has an organiser for Juniors who gives training and organises events. Recent activities of the Juniors Section can be found on the juniors page Results in 2004 can be found here
The U9 EPSCA team selection evenr was held at Fircroft on Saturday 25th February and was won by Alicia Mason. A full results table can be found here.
The Kingston U9 team played in the South East Zonal qualifying tournament at Therfield School on 11 March and has qualified for the National EPSCA U9 finals. Kingston finished 6th out of 9 teams (top 7 qualify). Results were:-
| 1 | Richmond | 29½ |
| 2 | Wey Valley | 27½ |
| 3 | Sussex | 27 |
| 4 | Barnet | 22 |
| 5 | Kent | 18 |
| 6 | Kingston | 14 |
| 7 | Essex | 12½ |
| 8 | Suffolk | 9½ |
| 9 | West London | 2 |