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All items of substance are noted here, except for updates to pages (eg League Tables) which always track changes or additions to pages elsewhere. The Ragbag gets added to any old how, but last changed 20.5.13.

31 Aug 2013
29 Aug 2013
27 Aug 2013
  • We have modestly updated the SCCU Calendar. Let us know of omissions.
26 Aug 2013
23 Aug 2013
  • The Fixture List has a changed date before the ink on it is dry. Keep watching!
  • Later: Fixture List again. We have also added the list of match captains.
22 Aug 2013
09 Aug 2013
  • Kidge Elder, Herts rep, has a new email address. See Who's Who.
06 Aug 2013
03 Aug 2013
  • We're back, though not bearing County Championship results. The new grades have appeared, as you know, and we offer some facts and figures that have not appeared elsewhere.
         Don't forget to check your game results in the online list and report any errors. You should still be in time for the pre-season August revision if you act promptly.
15 Jul 2013
  • County Championship Finals on Saturday. You know the results from the ECF website, and we'll catch up with the SCCU bits of it when we can (it's the Grading season). In the meantime congratulations to the four Champions from the SCCU, and especially to Essex who provided three of them.
  • National Club Finals 14.7.13 we do have. We were going to say they weren't on the ECF site yet, but we eventually found them on the front page headed "County Championships". (They've corrected that now.)
12 Jul 2013
07 Jul 2013
16 Jun 2013
  • National Stage semi-finals 15.6.13: we have yesterday's results in full, including U180 Lancs 11½ 4½ Kent
15 Jun 2013
  • National Stage semi-finals 15.6.13 (bare match scores) U160 Essex 8½ 7½ Notts; U120 Essex 5½ 6½ Staffs. Oh, and Kent's appeal in the Open semi-final has been rejected.
14 Jun 2013
  • U14/130 Final 9.6.13. We give the friendly results we left out yesterday.
13 Jun 2013
  • U14/130 Final 9.6.13 Oxon 17 7 Surrey
  • National Stage. Further developments. It turned out that, on the day he imposed Kent's penalty in the Open semi-final, the Controller also imposed retrospective penalties - for the same offence - on three teams in the quarter-finals. Kent have appealed against the semi-final penalty, not necessarily for that reason, and we'll keep you posted.
11 Jun 2013
  • National Club Major Plate. Two (all-SCCU) semi-final results. We think only one semi-final remains.
10 Jun 2013
  • Semi-finals 8.6.13. One more result (the U100 one), and a development. A penalty has been imposed in the Open match Kent - Middx, reversing the result, and we hear an appeal is on the cards.
  • U14/130 Final 9.6.13 (bare match score) Oxon 17 7 Surrey. Details expected shortly.
09 Jun 2013
  • Semi-finals 8.6.13. We think we were up to date when we went to bed this morning. Later: we were, and we've added a bit more including the first U100 result (albeit bare match score only). Three matches remain, either unplayed or unreported. SCCU has 5 finalists so far and potentially 3 more, so will not equal last year's 9. Caution: no known penalties, but some of the matches won't have been Holowczacked yet.
         Later again: we hear that the missing U160 and U120 matches are being played next weekend. U180, we don't know.
08 Jun 2013
  • Semi-finals 8.6.13: Open Kent 8½ 7½ Middx; Lancs 6 10 Surrey. Minor Lincs 6½ 9½ Essex. U140 Kent 9½ 6½ Yorks. U120 Kent 4 8 Warwicks. Plus a couple of all-foreign results. We have some of the SCCU results in full and are working on the others.
07 Jun 2013
  • National Club Major: the remaining (all-SCCU) Championship semi-final result
05 Jun 2013
03 Jun 2013
  • Next season's SCCU Open Fixtures from David Smith
  • National-stage County matches. We regretfully report an SCCU default in the U100. Have there been any matches in the U100 yet? Don't answer that.
26 May 2013
20 May 2013
  • County matches. We seem to be up to date now. The SCCU has 12 semi-finalists.
19 May 2013
  • County matches. We're still catching up with the detailed results, but if we've counted right SCCU teams have won 10 of their 14 quarter-finals.
18 May 2013
  • County matches 18.5.13: U120 Kent 8½ 3½ Worcs; also (bare match scores) U120 Staffs 6½ 5½ Herts; U140 Kent beat Staffs; U160 Yorks 6 10 Essex. Plus some foreign results.
17 May 2013
  • Remember the pending appeal in the (SCCU-stage) U120 16.3.13? We have the result.
  • Meanwhile in the National stage there is another default. All-foreign this time, in the U40. The ECF must be raking it in in £50 fines.
16 May 2013
  • County matches: the U100 quarter-finals are now decided, after two byes and two defaults.
15 May 2013
12 May 2013
11 May 2013
09 May 2013
08 May 2013
06 May 2013
02 May 2013
  • U180: a revised score. 27.4.13 Notts 8½ 6½ Essex after discovery of an ineligible player in the Essex team
30 Apr 2013
29 Apr 2013
  • National Club Intermediate: our first semi-final result (foreigner bites dust)
27 Apr 2013
  • U180 27.4.13 Notts* 8 8 Essex
26 Apr 2013
24 Apr 2013
  • Open Forum: Mike Gunn writes on the County-match proposals that got crowded out of the ECF Council meeting
  • ECF Schools: another quarter-final result
23 Apr 2013
16 Apr 2013
14 Apr 2013
12 Apr 2013
08 Apr 2013
07 Apr 2013
06 Apr 2013
  • ECF Stage: the draw wasn't final after all.
04 Apr 2013
  • ECF Stage: the final and official draw. Not quite as we expected.
01 Apr 2013
  • Counties Finals: an important announcement from the Home Director
  • We also now have a complete (but unofficial) list of Union nominees
25 Mar 2013
  • U14/130 23.3.13 Essex 11 13 Middx: some friendly games added
24 Mar 2013
  • U140 23.3.13 Herts 7½ 8½ Middx. This concludes the SCCU stage of the Counties Championships.
  • U14/130 23.3.13 Essex 11 13 Middx. This concludes the Zonal stage of the U14/130: the Final remains.
23 Mar 2013
22 Mar 2013
  • U120 16.3.13 Kent 8 4 Surrey: Surrey have given notice of appeal against a ruling by the Controller.
  • updated: ECF Schools results
21 Mar 2013
20 Mar 2013
  • Applications are invited from congresses wishing to host the SCCU Individual Championship 2013-14 or to offer a British Championship qualifying place 2014. The SCCU has four BCQ places in its gift, one of which goes to the congress that hosts the Union Championship. Applications to the SCCU Secretary Richard Haddrell rjh@sccu.ndo.co.uk, to reach him not later than the Executive Committee meeting of 5th April 2013. Earlier will be helpful.
  • updated: ECF Schools results
19 Mar 2013
  • U14/130 17.3.13 Sussex 16 8 Kent
  • U160 16.3.13 Essex 9½ 6½ Middx: no change to the match result, but there are some corrections to the detail.
18 Mar 2013
  • Open 16.3.13 Kent 11½ 4½ Herts; Essex 8½ 7½ Sussex; Middx 11 5 Surrey
  • U160 16.3.13 Essex 9½ 6½ Middx
  • U120 16.3.13 Kent 8 4 Surrey; Herts 4½ 7½ Essex
  • National Club Major: a foreign quarter-final
  • updated: ECF-stage nominees; ECF Schools results
16 Mar 2013
  • Open 16.3.13 (bare match scores) Kent 11½ 4½ Herts; Essex 8½ 7½ Sussex; Middx 11 5 Surrey. Middx take Championship.
  • U160 16.3.13 (bare match score) Essex 9½ 6½ Middx
  • U120 16.3.13 (bare match score) Kent 8 4 Surrey
  • updated: ECF-stage nominees; ECF Schools results
15 Mar 2013
14 Mar 2013
11 Mar 2013
  • U14/130 10.3.13 Kent 11½ 12½ Middx; Berks 5 19 Oxon; Hants 3 21 Bucks. The Western group is complete, and Oxon win it.
  • National Club Major: an SCCU result
10 Mar 2013
09 Mar 2013
  • U14/130 9.3.13 Surrey 21 3 Essex. Surrey win Eastern group.
07 Mar 2013
06 Mar 2013
05 Mar 2013
04 Mar 2013
03 Mar 2013
  • Open 2.3.13 Middx 9½ 6½ Essex; Kent 7 9 Surrey
  • U180 2.3.13 Middx 11 5 Sussex. This concludes the U180 season.
  • U140 2.3.13 Kent 9½ 6½ Essex
02 Mar 2013
  • Open 2.3.13 (bare match score) Kent 7 9 Surrey
  • U180 2.3.13 Kent 10 6 Surrey. Kent finish first, and the top three places are decided (see League tables).
  • U140 2.3.13 (bare match score) Kent 9½ 6½ Essex. Middx finish first, and we think all the places are decided.
  • U120 2.3.13 Herts 6 6 Surrey
  • updated: ECF-stage nominees
27 Feb 2013
26 Feb 2013
25 Feb 2013
  • ECF Schools has reached the national stage. We give the first-round draw.
  • National Club Minor. Another result, and we have a winner for one of the mini-leagues!
24 Feb 2013
23 Feb 2013
  • U100 16.2.13 Kent 4 8 Essex. This completes the U100, and we've worked the positions out unofficially (see League tables). Feel free to check our working. It's more complicated than usual.
  • U14/130 23.2.13 Kent 10 14 Surrey
  • updated: ECF-stage nominees
22 Feb 2013
  • Open 16.2.13 Sussex 7½ 8½ Kent: Sussex claim rejected
20 Feb 2013
18 Feb 2013
  • U160 16.2.13 Kent 8 8 Essex. We think that means Kent take 1st place with a match to spare.
  • U120 16.2.13 Surrey 5½ 6½ Herts
  • National Club Minor. A foreign result, but aren't they all in the Minor.
  • updated: ECF-Stage page
17 Feb 2013
  • Open 16.2.13 Herts 6 10 Middx; Surrey 11 5 Essex; Sussex 7½ 7½ Kent with one game subject to QPF claim
  • U160 16.2.13 Middx 7 9 Surrey
16 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013
12 Feb 2013
11 Feb 2013
  • U180 9.2.13 Surrey 7½ 8½ Middx; Essex 7½ 8½ Kent
  • U140 9.2.13 Essex 8½ 7½ Herts; Middx 13½ 2½ Surrey
  • U14/130 10.2.13 (bare match score) Sussex 16 8 Essex. Details shortly
  • ECF-stage matches: we have (unofficially) attached identities to some of the Union nominees, and will attach more as the Union stages progress. If you can supply others, please do.
  • updated: Players Cleared; Fixtures page; ECF Schools results
10 Feb 2013
  • ECF Schools Last Chance results 10.2.13
  • We've had a heavy weekend. We give the above because we were there, and will try to catch up with the rest in the next 24 hours.
09 Feb 2013
  • U180 9.2.13 (bare match scores) Surrey 7½ 8½ Middx; Essex 7½ 8½ Kent
  • U140 9.2.13 (bare match scores) Essex 8½ 7½ Herts; Middx 13½ 2½ Surrey
  • SCCU County Match Controller David Smith is back on line.
08 Feb 2013
07 Feb 2013
  • SCCU County Match Controller David Smith is unable to send or receive emails since his broadband went down today or yesterday. For urgent communications, until further notice, he asks that you telephone him on 020 8530 2118.
  • updated: ECF Schools results
06 Feb 2013
05 Feb 2013
  • U160 2.2.13 Middx 7½ 8½ Kent; Surrey 7½ 8½ Essex
  • U120 2.2.13 Surrey 3 9 Essex
  • U14/130 3.2.13 Middx 12 12 Sussex
  • updated: ECF Schools results
03 Feb 2013
  • U160 2.2.13 (bare match score) Middx 7½ 8½ Kent: details to follow
  • U100 2.2.13 Surrey 8 4 Kent
02 Feb 2013
  • U160 2.2.13 (bare match score) Surrey 7½ 8½ Essex
  • U120 2.2.13 (bare match score) Surrey 3 9 Essex
01 Feb 2013
30 Jan 2013
29 Jan 2013
28 Jan 2013
  • National Club Intermediate: The last of the first-round results. SCCU team beats foreigner.
  • updated: ECF Schools results & Last Chance Saloon
27 Jan 2013
  • Players Cleared. With the appearance yesterday of the ECF January grades, some clearances become inoperative. Match captains should note the revisions.
  • National Club Intermediate: SCCU team loses to foreigner!
26 Jan 2013
  • U180 26.1.13 Sussex 8 8 Kent; Surrey 7 9 Essex
  • U140 26.1.13 Kent 6½ 9½ Middx; Surrey 7 9 Herts
  • updated: ECF Schools (Last Chance Saloon)
25 Jan 2013
24 Jan 2013
23 Jan 2013
22 Jan 2013
21 Jan 2013
  • updated: Fixtures page. Three more re-arranged dates from Saturday
20 Jan 2013
  • The one that got away. U120 19.1.13 Herts 6 6 Kent
19 Jan 2013
  • The snow has severely affected today's County matches. To our knowledge six of the seven were postponed (see Fixtures page), and we're not sure about the seventh. We already have a re-arranged date for one of the six.
  • National Club Major: the remaining first-round results and the quarter-final draw, courtesy of the Controller
18 Jan 2013
17 Jan 2013
16 Jan 2013
15 Jan 2013
14 Jan 2013
  • National Club Intermediate: an all-SCCU result, and a foreign one
13 Jan 2013
  • U140 12.1.13 Herts 6 10 Kent
  • U14/130 12.1.13 Middx 9 15 Surrey
  • National Club Major: two more all-SCCU results
  • BCF EGM 12.1.13: a brief report of a brief meeting
12 Jan 2013
  • U100 12.1.13 Surrey 8 4 Essex with 5 Essex defaults
11 Jan 2013
10 Jan 2013
08 Jan 2013
07 Jan 2013
  • U14/130 6.1.13 Essex 13½ 10½ Kent
06 Jan 2013
05 Jan 2013
04 Jan 2013
  • SCCU Junior Champions: U18 Boys Saravanan Sathyanandha; U18 Girls Chantelle Foster; U11 Boys Koby Kalavannan; U11 Girls Emily Green. See LJCC website
26 Dec 2012
23 Dec 2012
  • SCCU Junior Champions: U14 Boys Ryan Wong; U14 Girls Yasmin Giles; U9 Boys Aditya Verma; U9 Girls Anita Somton. See LJCC website
22 Dec 2012
21 Dec 2012
20 Dec 2012
18 Dec 2012
17 Dec 2012
16 Dec 2012
  • U180 15.12.12 Essex 11½ 4½ Sussex
  • U140 15.12.12 Middx 9 7 Essex
  • National Club Intermediate: our first result of the season. Our appeal of earlier today has also brought in some news of the Open and Minor. More, anyone?
15 Dec 2012
  • U180 15.12.12 Kent 9½ 6½ Middx. Also (bare match score) Essex 11½ 4½ Sussex with 4 Sussex defaults
14 Dec 2012
13 Dec 2012
11 Dec 2012
10 Dec 2012
09 Dec 2012
08 Dec 2012
  • updated: ECF Schools results
  • The Website is fourteen. Thank you for your card, Michael.
05 Dec 2012
03 Dec 2012
  • U14/130 2.12.12 Oxon 18½ 5½ Bucks; Berks 10½ 13½ Hants
01 Dec 2012
29 Nov 2012
28 Nov 2012
  • U100 24.11.12 Essex v Kent: the Controller's decision is in.
27 Nov 2012
26 Nov 2012
  • updated: another U14/130 fixture date. We'll have the full set next.
25 Nov 2012
  • U140 24.11.12 Surrey 8 8 Kent
  • U100 24.11.12 Essex v Kent: friendly game added. Kent claim a board-order irregularity. Middx have now withdrawn from the U100.
  • U14/130 24.11.12 Surrey 14½ 9½ Sussex
24 Nov 2012
  • U100 24.11.12 Essex 6½ 5½ Kent
  • U14/130 24.11.12 (bare match score) Surrey 14½ 9½ Sussex. Details to follow
23 Nov 2012
  • U100 24.11.12: Middx have conceded tomorrow's match against Surrey
  • updated: some more U14/130 dates
22 Nov 2012
20 Nov 2012
  • corrected: a player's identity in U120 17.11.12 Essex - Herts
  • updated: the National Schools history page
18 Nov 2012
  • Open 17.11.12 Middx 11 5 Sussex; Surrey 13 3 Herts; Essex 7½ 8½ Kent
  • U160 17.11.12 Kent 9½ 6½ Surrey; Middx 9½ 6½ Essex
  • U120 17.11.12 Surrey 4 8 Kent; Essex 4½ 7½ Herts
17 Nov 2012
  • Open 17.11.12 (bare match scores) Essex 7½ 8½ Kent; Surrey 13 3 Herts
  • U120 17.11.12 (bare match scores) Surrey 4 8 Kent: details to follow; Essex 4½ 7½ Herts
15 Nov 2012
14 Nov 2012
  • National Club Major: first-round pairings. No news of Open or Minor yet.
13 Nov 2012
11 Nov 2012
  • U100 10.11.12 Kent 5½ 6½ Surrey
  • The U14/130 is now set up, with a total of 9 teams. Carol Graham provides details of the Eastern Zone.
10 Nov 2012
07 Nov 2012
  • U160 3.11.12 Surrey 12 4 Middx: dispute resolved
06 Nov 2012
  • added: some contact details in the U14/130
05 Nov 2012
  • U160 3.11.12 Essex 7½ 8½ Kent; Surrey 11½ 3½ Middx with one disputed game
  • County Championship Finals 2013: some news, or unnews, about the date
04 Nov 2012
  • U160 3.11.12 (bare match score) Surrey 11½ 3½ Middx with "one disputed game". Three Middx defaults.
03 Nov 2012
02 Nov 2012
  • U14/130. Eastern entries: more detail, and an update. Hurry! Closing date 9th November!
01 Nov 2012
31 Oct 2012
  • corrected: an U14/130 result in the league table
29 Oct 2012
28 Oct 2012
  • U180 27.10.12 Middx 11 5 Essex; Sussex 4 12 Surrey
  • U140 27.10.12 Essex 9½ 6½ Surrey
  • U14/130. The Western Zone is under way, as you know. The Eastern organiser is Carol Graham info@sussexjuniorchess.org, who is taking entries now. More details soon, but contact Carol asap if your County is interested. Time is short.
27 Oct 2012
  • U140 27.10.12 (bare match score) Essex 9½ 6½ Surrey
  • We have (rather briefly) concluded our SCCU Executive Report of a couple of weeks ago.
  • updated: an U140 fixture
26 Oct 2012
  • We have been asked to find a good home for some SCCU grading lists: 1979 & 1980 (and we can throw in a spare copy we have for 1981). While we're about it, we have spare BCF/ECF lists for 1996(-7), 1997(-8), 2000, 2003, 2004, and a run from 2006 to 2011. Any takers, contact richardhaddrell@gmail.com. We'd have to charge for postage.
24 Oct 2012
17 Oct 2012
16 Oct 2012
  • U14/130 14.10.12 Bucks 11 13 Berks
14 Oct 2012
  • U100 13.10.12 Essex 8 4 Surrey
11 Oct 2012
08 Oct 2012
  • U160 6.10.12 Essex 12 4 Surrey; Kent 11½ 4½ Middx with 5 Middx defaults
  • updated: an U100 fixture
07 Oct 2012
  • Open 6.10.12 Kent 4½ 11½ Middx; Herts 6½ 9½ Essex
  • U120 6.10.12 Essex 3 9 Surrey
  • updated: two U140 fixtures
06 Oct 2012
  • Open 6.10.12 Sussex 10 6 Surrey
  • U160 6.10.12 (bare match score) Essex 12 4 Surrey
  • U120 6.10.12 Kent 6 6 Herts. Also (bare match score) Essex 3 9 Surrey
24 Sep 2012
19 Sep 2012
18 Sep 2012
16 Sep 2012
  • Open Forum: David Smith, County Match Controller, seeks views on the future of the SCCU U185 & U150 Jamborees.
09 Sep 2012
  • Beds 5½ 10½ Bucks 9.9.12: the Fleming Trophy series returns after ten years
01 Sep 2012
  • It's September, so it must be 2012-13. 2011-12 is consigned to the Archive. Much of it is also retained temporarily on the main Site for ease of reference. The deactivated links on the front page will spring back to life when needed.
  • ECF Grading List 2012. We're not sure the ECF website knows yet, but the printed version of the list (bigger than last year!) should be shipping early next week. It is in sync with the August revision of the online database. Price £23.50; order from the ECF Office on 01424 775904 (cards accepted).

Earlier material is in the Archive


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