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New Members & Registrations

Winter season commences soon.

25/07/11 Check out Website. Amended player list including NEW 2011 grades.

New Members news 2011/12: Welcome to Ilan Dwek and Lee Fellows.

Latest new member is John Kinsey. Warm welcome to all.

Club subscriptions:Recruitment is continual even though early payment discount date of 31/07/11 has elapsed NEW members still get a 50% discount on 1st years club fees with no obligation to continue.

 

Website Updates

Note: Match results are added on same night if possible or very soon after. Latest News and Members table frequently updated too.

  • 11/05/2012 Robert Ward Memorial Trophy : Final update and match report added.
  • .04/05/2012 Bidgood Cup Success Update.
  • 27/04/2012 Whole new Walrus section added, latest results and Walrus results archive. Rock Cup News.
  • 16/04/2012 County congress success update. Trophy final Updates. F Wood game added to the games section..
  • 11/04/2012 Main news section categorised and archived.
  • 06/04/2012 Members stats updated, DDCL Div 2 Walsall Kipping results added from 05/04/2012
  • 05/04/2012 Rock Cup semi final update.
  • 04/04/2012 CDCL Div 3 Brewood results added from 03/04/2012
  • 02/04/2012 Chess Cup success update : Robert Ward Memorial Trophy and WDCL.
  • 30/03/2012 Club Champion final writeup and standings, winner announcement added. Robert Ward, Bidgood Cup Trophy updates and Spring Rapidplay details/writeup added. Members section updated and Trophy standings.
  • .23/03/12 BDCL Div 2 adjourned results and WDCL Div 3 results added from 22/03/12. Members section updated and stats.
  • 20/03/12 BDCL Div 2 score added from 19/0/12.
  • 15/03/12 WDCL B match scores added from 14/03/12. Bloxwich Junior Chess Club address change.
  • 09/03/12 Pittaway Wolverhampton Semi final report added. Club Rapidplay details added.
  • 08/03/2012 Pittaway Cup Semi final results added from 08/03/12. WDCL club events update.
  • 05/03/2012 BDCL Div 2 adjourned results added.
  • 02/03/2012 BDCL Div 2 results added with writeup, DDCL Div 2 results added. Both matches from 01/03/2012. Club Championship update.
  • 29/02/2012 WDCL Div 2 Mercia B results added.
  • 28/02/2010 Club Championship update and archive.
  • Some previous Updates

 

 

 

 

Welcome

Welcome to our Wolverhampton Chess club website. Visitors can find out more about our club here and those who are already members will also find this site and its various sections very useful.

Wolverhampton Chess Club provides opportunities for playing chess socially and competitively. The club runs teams in the Birmingham, Cannock, Dudley and Wolverhampton leagues. Hon. Sec for our club is Barry Lewis, Tel: (01922) 479845.

The Chess Club meets at 7.30 - 11.00pm on Thursdays at Wolverhampton West End Working Men's Club, 71-73 Merridale Street West, Wolverhampton, WV3 ORW. All are welcome. 

Dates for your Chess Diary:

CDCL Robert Ward Memorial Trophy Final: Gordon Sands vs Dave Wightman Thurs 10/05/2012 at Wolverhampton Chess Club. Dave Wightman wins (Match Report and More Details.

Wolverhampton Chess Club AGM 2012 will be held Thurs 17/05/2012

Wolverhampton Show 2012

: Chess in the Park.

Sat 07 and Sun 08 July 2012

Giant Chess, team chess, prizes if you win on the "Beat the Chess player" board.

It is Wolverhampton Chess Club's fourth consecutive year at the mammoth and popular Wolverhampton, City Show.

Come along visit our stall enjoy the Chess fun and Chess in The Park 2012! Check out our stall and find out more about our Chess Club. Play some friendlies with some of our members. Enjoy the outdoor Chess experience and fun at Chess in The Park 2012!!

Years 1, 2 and 3 were utterly fantastic weekends. 2012 is shaping up to be the best yet!

Don't miss the ultimate outdoor Chess Experience at the Wolverhampton Show, West Park Wolverhampton, 7 and 8 July 2012. 11am til 6pm

Recent Events :

WalRus Trophy 2012: Thurs 26/04/2012 Congatulations to Walsall Kipping 2012 Walrus Trophy Winners. Visit new Walrus section in Trophy section of this website for more details, full scores and Walrus history and archives.

Club Events:

2012 Club Championship

With the spring Rapidplay taking up the final evening of this year's Club Championship, nobody was able to challenge long time leader Paul Walters' position at the top of the table.  Congratulations to Paul, 2012 Wolverhampton Chess Club Champion, for his hard work during the six months that the competition has run and for some fine wins.  Long time challenger Peter Pearson-Jones came second, with Peter Hubbard taking third place just ahead of Gordon Sands in fourth and Barry Lewis in fifth place.  (Continued by final standings table)

Weeks 27 - 29: 08/03/2012 - 29/03/2012 Club Championship Update: Final Standings

1) Paul Walters
54.0

2)

Peter Pearson Jones
41.5
3) Peter Hubbard
26.5
4) Gordon Sands
23.5
5) Barry Lewis
21.0
6) Ron Whittingham
18.0
7) Dave Wightman
17.5
8) Mike Steed
17.0
9) Steve Wilson
10.5
10) Brian Walker
7.5

0.5 point for every game played, plus 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw. Hence, 0.5 points even if you play and lose.

Next season's competition is scheduled to run from 6th September 2012 to 28th March 2013 and any suggestions for the format of the competition are welcome.

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Ron Whittingham, Dave Wightman and Mike Steed were packed together in sixth, seventh and eighth respectively, while Steve Wilson moved up a place to ninth with a win in the final match of the competition.  Brian Walker completes the leaderboard, holding a respectable tenth place.  A total of 67 qualifying matches were played this year and thanks are due to everybody who took part for the friendly but competitive spirit in which the competition was held. Courtesy of Dave Wightman Competition Organiser

 

Previous Weeks:

1 - 4 5 - 7 8 - 14 15 - 25

Courtesy of Dave Wightman

Wolverhampton Chess Club All Play All Championship, commenced Sept 01 2011 and concludes 31/03/2012: launch. Attention all members and potential members. Dave Wightman launched this very popular club championship! Oladejo Olaleye amassed and astronomical amount of points last year. We had a very good turn out on day 1. Your humble webmaster believed reigning All Play All champion Oladejo Olaleye had vacated to New pastures content at being a great Champion. Champion Ola however saw the website ad and trekked to Wolverhampton to exclaim he intends to wants to defend his crown. Oladejo already probably leads as he notched up two impressive wins against Gordon Sands! The first night was more exciting than a Pro wrestling match and there's much more to come. Watch this space, read updates soon and full standings by Dave Wightman, organiser and participant. See weekly All Play All Championship reports here

External events:

Staffordshire Chess Congress 2012 : 14 & 15 April 2012.

Check out Events section on this website or WDCL mainpage for more details and an Entry form. You can also find more details on Staffordshire County Website.

Bloxwich Junior Chess Club
Presents:- The Generation Game.
A graded tournament.

Sat 21 April 2012 10.00 till 11.30 am
Each adult will take on a Junior player from the club.
Appeal for Adult Chess Players to take part. 60 mins per game, all moves.
You must be able to use Chess Clocks and use Notation.

Venue: St. James Church, Old Lane, Bloxwich WS3 2DD.

Interested/want to participate or should any Junior aged 4 to 18 years like to join Bloxwich Junior Chess club then Contact Ray Dolan Mobile 07980101744

Coaching staff are CRB CHECKED.

 

 

Event News and Club Championship

As of 29/03/2012 Paul Walters Club Champion 2012! 54.5 points is an awesome total!

Spring Rapidplay 2012 29/03/2012. Last Year Dave Wightman and Colin Haughton excelled to become Wolverhampton Chess Club Autumn and Spring Quickplay Champions respectively. Well Ray Dolan kept Dave Wightman busy in the Robert Ward Memorial Trophy Semi final. Robert Marshall came 1st in the Rapidplay event but technically the Quickplay Champions of last year still reign as the time control differed.

Thurs Sept 22 2011: Mike Townsend Club Simul : A great night. Mike played 10 members. Some tough battles in which Mike played with consistent excellence and prevailed in the vast majority. Well done to Mike Townsend and many thanks for making the night such a fun, enjoyable and memorable one. Peter P Jones, John Hunt, Paul Walters all drew. Bob Khoshnevis and Frank Wood achieved wins. An epic night of enjoyable and torrid Chess battles!

Well done Colin Haughton! An Excellent 4/5 points secures Spring Quickplay title 10/03/11. More details and writeup in Club Events Section.

Oladejo Olaleye All Play All Club Champion 2011! Well done Done Ola. 107.5 points is an awesome total!

2011/12 All Play All Championship will commence 01 Sept 2011.

See Events Sections for full details and forthcoming club events throughout the Winter season!

 

Club Events Achievements and General News Summary

Wolverhampton Summer League Champions 2011, (WSL Div 2) club Success:Wolverhampton beat Rugeley 07/07/11 and make it 5/5 in WSL Division 2. Wolverhampton are WSL Div 2 champions for second consecutive year. Well done all. (See fixtures section for full scores)

23/06/11 4 Wolverhampton make it 4 wins out of 4, Wolverhampton a slightly sub-optimum team, we still outgraded Bushbury on every board but grading advantage seemed almost insignificant as the night unfolded. Peter P Jones had a very tough 54 move battle against Alf Schroeder. Gordon Sands game was last to finish and attracted many spectators. We won the match, but only just. What a match it was. Well done Bushbury and thank you for a thrilling night of Chess! 3/3 after beating Rushall 16/06/11 in their first home match of Summer. This wins adds to their first 2 Summer league Away match wins Away against. Bridgtown 18/05/11 and Brewood 07/06/11. WSL Div 2 full scores in Summer league section.

 

Dudley League Div 2 Champions 2010/11

Dudley League Div 2 Success: Our final match was crucial. Wolverhampton beat Warley Quinborne 28/04/11 but we've been awaiting Championship confirmation.

"Well done to everyone and particularly to Gordon for his assistance as acting captain whilst I couldn't perform the task.
Also a big well done and thank you to all participants as we couldn't have achieved this without the teams full commitment." Richard Dawson, DDCL Div 2 captain.

 

Triple success came for Wolverhampton at the end of the season. Walrus, WDCL Humphrey's Cup, DDCL Div 2 Champions. Will Dave Wightman win the Rock Cup next week?

Walrus Trophy Winners 2011

Wolverhampton Win Walrus Trophy 2011 on Thurs 5 May 2011 at Wolverhampton. Wolverhampton 7 points (highest points total to date), Walsall Kipping 6, Rushall 2.

See full scores and writeup here

Walrus Full Scores

Wolverhampton (U130) WDCL Humphrey's Cup Winners 2010/11.

WDCL Rock Cup: Dave Wightman Joint Winner 2010/11

Wolverhampton WDCL Pittaway Cup Winners 2008/9, 2009/10

Wolverhampton Summer League 2011 Champions of Division 2.

Wolverhampton Summer League 2010 Champions of Division 2.

Wolverhampton Summer League 2008 Champions of Division 3 South.

Very sad news/ex members passing:

Mr Leslie Hesbrook: Les Hesbrook passed away 6 Nov 2010 at age 88.

Mr Leslie Hesbrook Tribute Page

Colin Bourne Jones passed away peacefully June 3 2011 aged 75 years. Donations to Cancer Research c/o F W Collins and Son. Sadly missed but fondly remembered by all his Friends and Family.

Wolverhampton Show Exhibitors 2009, 2010, 2011

Wolverhampton Show Page

 

2009 WDCL C team promoted from Div 3 to Div 2 . Club Hosted Wolverhampton Summer League Quickplay and Awards 6 Aug 2009.

Website supported 1st Macmillan Rapidplay 2009. Press Release: Read More

12 June 2010 : Exciting news from Ray Dolan. Bloxwich Junior Chess Club will open for Juniors aged 4-16..

New Location as of March 2012: St James Church, Old Lane (Opposite Bloxwich Leisure Centre) Bloxwich, Walsall WS3 2DD

President: Pastor Neville Johnson Tel: 01543 376328

Coach:  Ray Dolan on 07980 101744 or email:dolan_raymond@yahoo.co.uk

10am - 11.30am and every Saturday morning thereafter.

Read More

Current News from our County Website

 

WDCL Event News

2011/12

WDCL Club Trophy Events round 1:

Pittaway Cup Round 1 Stafford v Wolverhampton 16/11/2011: Mike Townsend captains another match away at Stafford. Wolverhampton were unbeaten on all 8 boards. Ilan G Dwek and Dave Wightman won on boards 7 and 3 respectively and Mike Townsend, Rob Marshall, Peter Pearson Jones, Frank Wood, Phil Porter, Gordon Sands all drew. Match report and full scores in WDCL fixtures section.

Humphreys Cup Round 1 Wolverhampton v Halesowen: 17/11/2011 Cup holders Wolverhampton are beaten by Halesowen. We'd lost the match 1 - 3 and our board 2 player Paul Walters played well and gained a superior position from the opening. Material equality up untilmove 43 when Paul won a pawn and went from a superior to winning position with accurate play.. An impulsive move while blitzing lost the game to Don Curry much to the amazement of everyone watching. Halesowen won 0- 4. Well done Halesowen on such an emphatic match victory and on progressing to round 2. Good luck for future rounds and let's hope it's a thrilling competition and that the best team win.

WDCL Rock/Bidgood Cup 2011/12: This year Wolverhampton has no less than 4 Rock Cup participants in the form of Gordon Sands, Frank Wood, Dave Wightman and Rob Marshall. All four of our players have made it to the WDCL Trophy semi Final stages and three hprogressed to the Final Stage after Frank Wood triumphed over current joint Rock Cup holder Dave Wightman. Frank Wood and Rob Marshall are Rock Cup Finalists and Gordon Sands is a Bidgood Cup finalist. Our players will be individually competing against players from Boldmere St Michael's, Brewood, St George's, Halesowen and Walsall Kipping.

Round 3 Semi Final qualifiers : Frank Wood secures his semi final place after beating Malcolm Phipps at Boldmere (07/12/2011)

Round 2 qualifiers : Dave Wightman beats Alexander Wilson of Boldmere St Michael's Wed 12 Oct. Dave Wightman is currently joint holder of the Rock Cup and will naturally try to retain this accolade. Rock Cup Round 1 Report by Dave Wightman

10/11/2011 Rock Cup round 1. Frank Wood draws with Tony Taylor of Halesowen. Gridlocked pawns and neither side could make progress. Especially well done to Tony for drawing against a much higher grade. Frank Wood wins the rematch.

Robert Marshall beats John Fenby. All winners progress to Round 2 of the Rock Cup. Gordon Sands will play for the Bidgood Cup.

Gordon Sands loses his round 1 match against Peter Leary 03/11/2011.


2010/11

Wolverhampton win Humphreys Cup (U130) 2011: Final 04/05/11 at Bushbury:

Wolverhampton beat Halesowen, Lichfield and Warley Quinborne in the Final.

WDCL Rock Cup Final Replay: 19/05/11 Dave Wightman draws the replay with Dave Pritchard of Walsall Kipping Hence Dave Wightman is a joint winner. Congratulations to both players.

Rock Cup Final Report by Dave Wightman

 

See Events Sections for full details and forthcoming club events throughout the Winter season!

 

 

Latest News: Club & Publicity:

Attention all members: A new link has been added to our links section. www.chesssets.co.uk/

10/05/2012 Congratulations to Dave Wightman winner of the Robert Ward Memorial Trophy 2012 and to Gordon Sands on becoming a Finalist.Robert Ward Memorial Trophy : Final Report by Dave Wightman

New Walrus Trophy section launched 27/05/2012.

Wolverhampton players win both WDCL Trophies, Rock and Bidgood Cups. Congratulations to Gordon Sands WDCL Bidgood Cup Winner 2011/12 (03/05/2012) and Robert Marshall, WDCL Rock Cup Winner 2012. (26/04/2012)

The all Wolverhampton player final has been long anticipated and on the cards. Frank Wood loses to Robert Marshall in the WDCL Rock Cup Final 26/04/2012. Gordon Sands beats John Llewelyn (03/05/2012) in the Bidgood Cup Final.

Staffordshire/County Congress Success for Wolverhampton Chess Club member: The County Congress was held during the weekend of Sat 14 - 15 April 2012 at Bloxwich Leisure Centre. Mike Townsend played in the top Open section and his 4/5 score achieved an excellent joint 2nd place amidst very strong competition. GM Mark Hebden ECF 239 came 1st in the Open with 4.5/5, Mike's score tied with Ameet Ghasi ECF 245 and Oliver Jackson ECF 199. Well done to all and to Mike Townsend who also gained the Advertisers trophy for winning Staffordshire Open Closed section .More details and final standings for all sections can be found here [PRESS RELEASE(pdf)

Trophy News at a glance: Wolverhampton players are solely in the WDCL Rock Cup and CDCL Robert Ward Memorial Trophy finals. Gordon Sands has made 2 finals, CDCL and WDCL Bidgood Cup Final. Read More.

Club League Individual Trophy News and Success New link

Congratulations to :

Paul Walters Wolverhampton Chess Club Champion 2012 (All Play All slow championship) See championship archives, final and past tables in Club Championship section.

Robert Marshall 2012 Wolverhampton Chess Club Spring Rapidplay Champion 5/5. 29/03/12

fixture news for our A, B and C team has been moved to WDCL fixtures section.

AGM Trophy standings : Updated in members section. Frank Wood currently equals the points of Brian Walker but has one more WDCL match remaining. Brian Walker has the highest club percentage and is on course to gain the Millennium Cup. Bob Khoshnevis has currently played the most matches and so may get the Merit Cup. But the Winter season isn't over yet and valuable points are yet to be decided!

News Archive and past features New link

 

Club Event Publicity

Exciting Show feature on English Chess Federation website 2010/11

Wolverhampton Chess Club : Chess in the Park : English Chess Federation feature

19/08/10 Club feature in Wolverhampton Chronicle p13.

07/08/10 Thrilling News: WSL Div 2 championship and City show feature published with colour photo Express & Star : 07 Aug 2010. p4.

05/08/10 After much arranging and a slight delay. Express & Star Wolverhampton Summer League Div 2 success will be featured very soon. Some of our team are on holiday but some of our team posed for photographs last night.

 

County Matches and News: FAO Club Members

U160: Ray Dolan is the new U160 Captain. Good luck to Ray and to the new team for next season. Tony Meakin is the new U140 captain and Peter Evans stays on as U120 Captain in a non playing capacity.

Note: Wolverhampton haven't entered any County Cup competitions for 2011/12

Club member participation 2011/12:

Barry Lewis draws for Staffordshire Bulldogs and draws again against Worcestershire 07/01/2012. Paul Walters wins a drawish position on board 3 after a mobile phone rings. Worcestershire still win the match by a narrow margin.

Open

U160 : U140 :

U120 Bulldogs: U120 Terriers:

MCCU Website

 

About This Website

This site is an exciting venture and project. It's hoped this site will extend the club's horizons by bringing a flavour of what our club is about via the world wide web. As well as this, it is envisaged that this new club site will help promote Wolverhampton Chess and it's Chess club as well as helping players and those with Chess interests.As of 26/07/07 website has it's own domain name. So if you're viewing on atspace url please note new domain name. www.wolverhamptonchessclub.org.uk/
29 Aug 2006 This site is now well developed and includes a Club History section and gallery. If anyone has further historic details relating to Wolverhampton Chess Club please email our webmaster.

As of 1 June 2006 this website was constructed but incomplete in parts as some sections required more information and content.

Site Compatibility : This site has been tested with Microsoft Internet explorer 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Opera 9, 10, Mozilla firefox 3 and should display fine and function flawlessly.

Testing platforms : AMD Phenom II x 4 Quad core 2.4GHz, 4GB DDR3,. Windows XP home edition, AMD 64 3000+ 1Gb RAM. 2. P3 III 600 MHz,, Windows 98 SE, 128Mb RAM. Site functions on both platforms.

If you do encounter problems please email webmaster.

If viewed with Mozilla Firefox you won't see the coloured scrollbars feature.

 

 
 

 

 

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