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On 1st October both Chris Briscoe (Board 4) and Paul Shepherd (Board 15) won for Surrey against Middlesex in the Southern Counties Chess Union Open league thereby making important contributions to an overall 8.5-7.5 win for Surrey.
The UK Chess Challenge Terafinals were held in Loughborough over 20-21 August. Koby Kalavannan was the top U9 player in the Terafinal Challengers section C.
On 17th July 2011 Ayse Karel made her now traditional 3/6 in the Intermediate section of the Richmond Rapidplay.
On 2nd July 2011 Surrey won the National Counties Open Lowenthal Trophy for the first time since 1954. Chris Briscoe played in the Final against Kent on Board 7. In the earlier stages of the competition Chris Briscoe, Mark Josse and Mike Basman all participated in various matches. Detailed results.
Through the Summer of 2011 Surbiton played host to the Surrey Challenge Cup, a section of the Surrey Slater-Kennington Cup and the Surrey Wernick Cup. All told there were a total of ten Surbiton players in the Surrey competitions. Congratulations to Chris Briscoe, who won the Challenge Cup a half point ahead of second placed Paul Shepherd. Well done to Koby Kalavannan who convincingly won through to the final playoff for the Wernick Cup and came second overall. Well done also to Angus James who won his section of the Slater-Kennington Cup and good luck to him in the final play-off.
July 2011 saw Mark Josse score 5.5/9 in a very competitive Irish Senior Championship.
Mark Josse scored 3/5 including a win against GM Alexander Cherniaev in the May Gatwick Open.
On 22nd May 2011 several junior members of Surbiton chess club participated in the Richmond Rapidplay. Perhaps the pick of the performances was a 4/6 effort by Koby Kalavannan in the Intermediate section. Other Surbiton junior participants were: Alicia Mason in the Major and Max Elliott in the Intermediate. Good efforts by all of you! Ayse Karel also played in the Intermediate and made another solid 3/6.
On 13th March 2011 Surbiton had three entries in the Richmond Rapidplay Open. Chris Briscoe was the highest placed with 3.5/6. Paul Shepherd and Michael Nightingale also participated. Chris and Paul drew in their exciting individual encounter.
On 23rd Jan 2011 Michael Nightingale scored a very creditable 3/6 in The Richmond Rapidplay Open. Alicia Mason got an excellent 5/6 and Ayse Karel also got a solid 3/6 in the Intermediate.
On 29th December 2010 a club Handicap Tournament resulted in a victory by Martin Durrant with 6/7. See full report.
Chris Briscoe won a Thames Valley first team training event on 10th November with 3/3.
Ian Henderson won a Thames Valley first team training event on 13th October with 6/7. See also a photo account of the event.
The annual North vs South of Thames Valley League match for the Ellam Trophy was played at Surbiton's Fircroft venue on Saturday 25th September 2010. The result was a 3-2 win to the North of Thames Valley team.
Chris Briscoe scored 5.5/9 in the very strong GM and IM laden Arctic Chess Challenge 2010 in Tromso, Norway (see photo below), from 31st July - 8th August. No untitled player made a better score than Chris! Final table.
Ian Henderson and Mark Josse both played in the 2010 British Championship at Canterbury 26th July - 6th August. Their final scores were: Ian (4/11) and Mark (6/11). Well done to both as the opposition was very tough. See Mark's account of the event and Ian's account of the event.
Chris Briscoe won the 25th July 2010 British Championship Rapidplay in Canterbury with the perfect score of 6/6.
Surbiton's Fircroft venue hosted the 2010 Surrey Challenge Cup individual tournamant as well as being one of two host venues for the 2010 Slater-Kennington Trophy individual tournament. Tournament results can be seen here: Challenge Cup and Slater-Kennington.
Surbiton made it to the Final of the 2009-2010 Thames Valley Knock-Out competition by virtue of a 4.5-1.5 Semi-Final win away over Hounslow on 17 May. The Final was held at Harrow on 17 June. There was a challenging time limit, incorporating a compulsory rapid play finish for all boards, within a short 2.5 hour session. Surbiton fielded a strong team as did the newly promoted (to Thames Valley Div 1) Harrow who slightly outgraded us overall. During the first 2 hours of play the positions on the boards suggested that Surbiton might come out narrowly on top. Sadly the last half hour led to a significant change in fortunes on several boards and in the end Harrow ran out comfortable 5-1 winners. Congratulations to Harrow who were very friendly hosts. We look forward to playing them again in the coming season.