Club Championship 2011-12
Round 6 of this years Club Championship is below - matches to be played on Friday 11th May at the Ukrainian Club.
Events coming up
Huddersfield Congress 2012 - summer
Huddersfield Chess Club
Formed in 1852, the Huddersfield Chess Club is one of the longest running clubs in England and is still a very active club supporting all levels of player.
The Club meets every week running many internal tournaments with trophies to play for. Teams are entered in to the Yorkshire League, the HDCA League and the Calderdale League so there is plenty of playing opportunities for all members.
Coaching is also available through our training days with Nigel Davies GM.
For juniors, there is the Huddersfield Junior Chess Club who meet every week during school term times.
The Club also runs a 3 day Congress, Rapidplay and Blitz tournaments during the year.
Huddersfield Chess Club’s 160th year tournament
The Huddersfield Grosvenor Rapidplay was an experiment to see how players would react to a different environment and it was seen to be a very successful event. Entries could have been higher with 72 but there was very positive feedback from almost everyone who attended so we’re hoping it will be the start of things to come.
The single section tournament allowed many to play against opponents who they would normally not get an opportunity to play and was favoured by most.
And it all came down to the last game with Mark Hebden GM on 5/5 playing against Daniel Gormally GM with 4.5/5. There could only be one winner and it was Mark Hebden GM who came away very happy with the first prize of £1000 - Daniel unfortunately came away with nothing in true casino style although if there had have been a second or third prize he would still have left empty handed due to 2 others finishing with 5 points!
The single section event created 3 grading bands with the top section being the best under 220 grade!
Here are the winners:-
Champion - Mark Hebden GM
Best U220 - Alex Longson & Miroslav Gruca
Best U172 - Dave Keddie, David Firth, Dave Tooley, Tim Hilton & Kevin Winter
Best U130 - Gary Clarke, Daniel Hubbert, Shane Frith & Vic Orlic
Best ungraded player - David Boulden
Best under 20 year old - Mitchell Burke & Steve Jones
It is highly likely that we will be holding another rapidplay at the casino in the not too distant future .....
Next will be our main congress which is likely to be early summer.
New Club Night
Our new Club night of Fridays at the Ukrainian Club is so far proving to be having the desired effect with attendance levels being far higher. The main Club now meet from 7.30pm after the juniors who meet from 6:30 - 8:00pm.
Site updated - 3rd May 2012
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Mitchell Burke |
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Hamza Zeglam |
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Antonio Aguirre |
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Dave Tooley |
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Nigel Hepworth |
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Joshua Blinkhorn |
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Brian Corner |
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Stephen Priest |
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Peter Hepworth |
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Chris Stratford |
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Mehool Shah |
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Robert Sutcliffe |
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Kyle Sharpe |
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Craig Sharpe |
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Peter Czerwinski |
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David Tyfa |
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Robin Wybrew |
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Jon Hughes |
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