Well Done Jamie

Jamie did well to win the mini tournament at Rugby Workers Club last night although to be fair the junior players did have a significant time advantage over the adults! This photo taken on my blackberry does not do justice to the impressive atmosphere in the room. We must do this again!

Don't forget about our event at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum on Thursday. We hope to see you there. Our next meeting will be on Monday 16th January. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Sue and Bob

Come and play chess at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum - bring friends too

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Calling all Rugby Junior Chess players ...

You are invited to participate in a seasonal chess fest on 22 December. This will take place on the ground floor of Rugby Art Gallery and Museum (the glass-fronted room next to the entrance to the Library).

Note that there is a session in the morning for younger (primary school-aged) children and one in the afternoon for older players. If you can persuade people at your school, or at scouts or other clubs, to come alomg that would be great. At the summer event we attracted some new junior players and we would like even more!!!

Parents who play chess are also very welcome and the RAGM requires that any children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult.

Hope to see you there.

Warwickshire Junior Chess Congress 2011

The club was vey well represtented by six juniors at the Warwickshire Junior Tournament at end of November.  

We had four entrants in the under 12 section; Kai Cockrell had three wins and three draws (so was unbeaten) and scored 4.5 points, Julien Carrouche, Leo Johnson and Jamie Kearney,all got 3.5 points (Jamie despite a bad migraine).

In the under 16 section Rhys Davies won a respectable 3 games and in the under 10 section William Kendell scored 4 points.

All in all a  strong result for the club.  Well done to all who played.

Date for your diary: Thursday 22nd December

Keep this date free for an afternoon game of chess in Rugby Library. The event will be aimed at junior players and there will be adults from Rugby Chess Club available for coaching. More details to follow. Sue

32nd Northamptonshire Junior Congress

Several Rugby Juniors took part and did well in the 31st Northamptonshire Junior Congress last year November 2010.  See these reports for the Under 12's and Under 14's.

The 32nd Congress takes place on Saturday 19th November - a good warm up for the Warwickshire Junior Congress a week later.   Download an entry form here.

Jamie Kearney has entered.  Can we get enough entries to make a RJCC team?

A reminder about supervising children

We may have less adults at the club for the next few meetings so please remember that all children must be supervised because we are not able to take responsibility for them. Thanks. Sue

Rugby C vs Coventry B Board 4, 11 Oct 2011

As we write this the Rugby C vs Coventry B match is still ongoing so we don't know the final result but here is Jamie's game for those that are interested. I won't spoil the fun by revealing the result until you have played through the game :-)

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Geat start for juniors in the Coventry League !

Last Tuesday saw a tremendous start for our junior team in the Coventry league cup for division 3.

After a practice on Monday night of how to play with competition rules, clocks and score sheets our newcomers gained a 2-2 draw against an experienced Coventry G team.

On top board Rhys Davies played well to secure a win against Daniels Rowlands - Rhys was the one of our team who had ever played in the Coventry league!
On 2nd board Nicola Carouche won against Trevor Beesley with a very convincing attack.
On board 3 Jonathan Payne had a clear win against Trevor Gazee but threw it away at the end (better luck next time Jonathan), while on board 4 Leo Johnson had long though unsuccessful game against Tomas White. (Leo had had to come back from an all-day school outing to play in the match).
We hope to get some more games in the season so that more of our juniors can play some league chess - particularly with results like this !

Warwickshire Junior Chess Championship Saturday 26th November 2011

Please follow the useful link on the right hand side of this page
Arden School, Station Road, Knowle, Solihull,
West Midlands, B93 0PT
Tel: 01564 773 348

Belated report on the Juniors Chess event

Where did the summer go to?  Hope that you enjoyed yours and that those who have recently made the transition to 'big school' are having a good time settling in. Back on the 12 August there was a juniors event in the Library supported by Bob Wildig, Sue Sanders, John Hall and myself with some junior players lending a hand too. Rugby Art Gallery and Museum have given us the go-ahead to run another one in the Christmas Holidays so we'll be in touch then.

Meanwhile, lest we forget quite how much fun this was, here is a picture of Bob slightly flummoxed by the Marvel Super Heros chess set. :-)

It really was a great venue. As you can probably see its like chess in a goldfish bowl. We even attracted the attention of someone who who donated a three-way chess board. Thanks everyone - especially Jessica from RAGM for allowing us to use the room and publicising the event.

Chris

Warwickshire Junior Chess Championship 26th November 2011

The 2011 Warwickshire Junior Championship will take place at Arden School, Station Road, Knowle, Solihull, West Midlands B93 0PT
Email: alexholowczak@gmail.com
Website: http://www.warwickshirechess.org.uk

Watch this space for future events

Thanks to those of you who came along on the 12th August and welcome to those of you who have now discovered us. We are planning to run similar events in the library in future and we will advertise to attract new players. So we hope to see you at the next meeting when we will be continuing with the chess ladder and we are going to run a mini-tournament soon so watch this space...
Sue and Bob

Make a date for chess - 12 August 2011

If you are a junior player and would like to flex some chess muscles (aka brains?) over the summer when school is not interfering with chess :-) then come along to Rugby Art Gallery and Museum on 12 August.

Bob, Sue and Chris and several of the junior players will be there to help introduce others to the joys of chess, or pass along tips to improve, or simply play some games to get some practice.

If you have a friend who you feel should know more about chess bring them too. Download poster here.

Note that its on the ground floor in the Art Room and please email rugbyjuniorchess@gmail.com to let us know that you are coming.

Last but not least THANK YOU to Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, especially Jessica, for supporting this event and for keeping the chess table in the museum for drop in chess.  Hope to meet some new players.

2011 Giga Final Results

2011 Northern Gigafinal results are online here http://www.ukchesschallenge.com/Gigafinal%20Results2011.htm

look for Julien (U10 Boys Group A), Leo (U10 Boys Group B) and Jamie (U11 Boys Group A). Well done all.

Was anybody else there ?

The Chess Ladder Returns

We have restarted the chess ladder this week so it is a race to get to the top. Why not come along and challenge someone next time? Sue and Bob

Rugby Schools Chess Championships - u-14s and u-18s

Image CC Irodman from Flickr

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED
(competitors have been contacted)
The date and location of the 2011 seniors tournament (i.e. the tournament for puils in secondary schools) has been confirmed. The date is Sunday 5 June and the location is Lawrence Sheriff School, Sixth Form Centre. First game starts at 10am and we expect to finish by 4.45pm after prizegiving.
ENTRY FEE £5
Download entry form here - note deadline is Friday, 3rd June, 12 noon
Download poster and publicise the tournament
How to get to Lawrence Sheriff School by car (from LSS website).
Bus routes - note that several stop outside the school.
If you have any queries please email rugbyjuniorchess@gmail.com
Note that clocks will be used. If you have not used a clock previously then please review this information. Note that the clocks will be set up for you and that there are 25 mins per player per round.

This event is open to all secondary school pupils/college students who live, attend school/college in the Rugby area or play at Rugby Juniors Chess Club.  Players from the surrounding area are also welcome so spread the word!

Rugby Schools Chess Tournament U-11s and U-9s

Message on behalf of Bob and Sue:

The Schools Chess Tournament is happening later this year that usual and is taking a slightly different form this year.

The location is Northlands School, the date is 15 May and this will be under 11s and under 9 age groups only. Note that these ages refer to the age you were in August. So if you are in Year 6 or under you can play in the under 11s and in Year 4 and under you can play in the under 9s.

Links are provided below to:

* individual application form (please return by 12 May)
* poster (please display one where you think young chess players might notice)
* school summary entry form (for school club organisers only).

NOTE: If you are looking for the under 14s and under 18s tournament that information will be along shortly. This will be a separate event in 2011 and is likely to take place on 5th June.

UK chess challenge

At our next meeting on the 21st March we will aim for each player to play two championship games as part of the UK chess challenge. We are looking forward to sending representatives from Rugby Junior Chess Club to the Megafinals in May. For more information google UK chess challenge.

Congratulations to Jamie Kearney

Well done to Jamie for winning two of his matches are the Warwickshire Open Chess Congress on the 12th and 13th February. Everyone at Rugby Chess Club is proud of you Jamie!

Next Meeting Monday 21st February

Although it is the school holidays in Rugby we will still be meeting at the Workers Club on 21st February.

We will start at 7pm with some coaching from Bob Wildig.

At 7:30pm we will continue with the UK chess challenge and ladder matches.

Hope to see you there,

Sue and Bob

Chess to music

The start of this does not appear to be about chess ... but then it gets down to business :-)

UK Chess Challenge

It was fantastic to see so many juniors playing chess at Rugby Workers Club last night. We went around and asked them if they wanted to take part in the UK Chess Challenge which we are aiming to start in our next club meeting which will be on Monday 7th February.

The UK Chess Challenge is a junior competition held every year right across the country in schools and junior chess clubs. Players who do well can play in the next stage of the competition which for us is in the Birmingham/Solihull area one Saturday in May. It is usually called the 'Megafinal' and there is a separate one for each county in the UK.

It is not compulsory so if you don't want to take part in the UK Chess Challenge that's fine. The ladder competition will take a secondary role but it will continue. Of course you can always play for fun or challenge one of the adult players.

Hope to see you next time.

Bob and Sue

Happy New Year

We will be meeting at Rugby Workers club on Monday 3rd January 2011 although quite often the club is closed on a Bank Holiday Monday.

In the coming weeks we will be looking to run the UK Chess Challenge which we have entered for the club and we will also be planning some formal coaching as part of the session.