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(Archive 1998-1999)

Only the major additions are noted here. Minor roadworks go on all the time.


31 Aug 1999
29 Aug 1999
  • Surrey Congress (see 8th August). Surrey CCA confirm that the Congress will go ahead at Easter 2000, over the four days Friday - Monday in much the same format as always. It has been contracted out to the Coulsdon Chess Fellowship, who will hold it at Carshalton High School for Girls.
27 Aug 1999
  • David Smith, SCCU County Match Controller, presents the Fixture List 1999-2000 (with list of match captains).
  • We've cleared a lot of stuff out in readiness for the new season. Last year's material, or most of it, is in the 1998-9 Archive.
  • Grading! Just received from the BCF: a simple version of the new list. This should mean the whole thing is on its way to the printer.
24 Aug 1999
22 Aug 1999
  • BCF Grading List. We left the BCF Office last night about quarter to nine, after helping with menial tasks, and they'd just hit a major snag. Brief details on the BCF page. The schedule looks like getting pushed back two or three days, hope not more.
  • SCCU History. In between the menial tasks we did some ferreting in the BCF's library. We've pushed the Junior Individual Titles back another five or six years, and filled them in a bit for the sixties as well. We've even found some more SCCU Ladies Champions. There are still gaps, and your help is wanted!
  • Richmond Juniors now have a (very useful) website. Kings Head have got going at the third attempt, and the Links page also has a new entry from Oxfordshire.
20 Aug 1999
  • BCF Grading List. Projected date of publication is now somewhere around the 3rd September. Things are getting a bit tight for competition entries. An important notice for County Associations and impending Congresses is appended to our Grading notes at the top of the BCF page. Marc Shaw of Harrow is a candidate for the Grading Directorship in September.
  • SCCU County entries. Deadline was 15th August. Just two Counties have not entered yet, and it's got more to do with finding match captains than worrying about the new grading list. The Fixture List 1999-2000 is expected to be out on schedule by the end of this month.
  • SCCU History. Just the odd addition to the Individual Champions and Trophies and Who was Who? pages. Please tell us what you know about the Stevenson Memorial Trophy...
  • Kings Head website (see 15th August) abandoned its original address after server problems, but we haven't so far been able to rouse the new server either. Let you know when we've succeeded.
15 Aug 1999
  • Golders Green Rapidplay 14.8.99
  • Slough CC have a site now. The new Kings Head site will go on the Links page when we've been able to get into it. If you want to try, the address we have is http://kingshead.tytek.net/. [Later note: don't try it, it's been changed. See 22nd August.]
  • They've finally pulled the plug on your Webmaster's old email address. If there's anyone who's still got it in their address book, now's the time to change it. New one (since January!) is rjh@fdn.co.uk. Backup address rjh@ndirect.co.uk
8 Aug 1999
  • Surrey Congress 2000. We said 13th June that the Surrey CCA was hoping to sub-contract this event, and we published their invitation to tender. This matters a bit, because the SCCU Championship goes with the Congress assuming satisfactory arrangements. Today's unofficial information from Surrey is that they have had at least one sensible tender, and confidently expect to go ahead at Easter (with a basically unchanged Congress, though the venue may be different). Final decision should be made in ten days or so, will keep you posted.
  • Which reminds us. We said a month later that we'd confirm when we were sure the SCCU was selling BCF Grading Lists. Could have confirmed a while back, but forgot. The Union is selling BCF Lists, at the standard price of £15 (or £10 for Direct Members). Contact Howard Grist, details in the Who's who? page. For County Lists, see the BCF page. For publication date, see the BCF page again.
5 Aug 1999
4 Aug 1999
  • BCF Grading List. Since the last entry (31st July) the news has got worse. They are now aiming to publish at the end of August. See the BCF page for some details. For impact on SCCU inter-County entries, see the same article.
  • BCF Website, if you hadn't found out, is now publishing detailed and up-to-date results from the British.
  • An Appeal. The Trophies page has been growing surreptitiously over the last two or three days. We'd love to hear from people who know anything about a Stevenson Memorial Trophy that went with the SCCU Championship tournament at Bognor in the fifties and sixties.
31 Jul 1999
  • BCF Grades will be a little late this year. Now predicted for second week of British. Things haven't been altogether straightforward, in this first tentative year of the new system. A brief rundown of the state of play appears in the BCF page.
  • 4NCL Press Release from Nigel Johnson. The competitions grow! It's in the Club & County page, because we don't have a 4NCL page. Don't think it's on the 4NCL site yet.
28 Jul 1999
  • Cyril Johnson sends some details of the Counties Rapidplay Championship (9th October 1999) and Yorkshire Individual Handicap Rapidplay Championship (10th October), both in Sheffield. See the Notices page.
  • Been a quiet few days otherwise. There's a new link (Imperial College CC), and the odd minor revision, and we've actually added a Picture of the old Shannon Trophy. It's in the Trophies page. Don't worry, you won't get it unless you ask for it. [Appeal to graphics experts. 130K looks a bit over the top for this picture. How can I reduce the file size without reducing also the size or quality of the image?]
23 Jul 1999
  • History Section has grown again. Who was Who? is now done. Was going to be just Past Presidents/Secretaries/Treasurers, but it got a bit out of hand.
21 Jul 1999
  • Nottingham Gigafinal results 11.7.99
  • Magne Tvedt from Norway (see Open Forum) seeks ECGCF results. We've tried to give a pointer in Neil Clifton's direction, but couldn't get into his site the other day. If you have anything else of interest we're sure it will be welcome.
  • Not new, but the Trophies bit of the History section has grown rather a lot. It's got a page to itself now. A few more names in the list of Shannon winners as well. I think I've got the History bug.
17 Jul 1999
16 Jul 1999
  • More on the history of SCCU inter-County competitions, in What's Old?. How many Stevenson Trophies are there?
  • An arbiting question from Jeff Goldberg in Open Forum
14 Jul 1999
  • Thought we'd finished with the BCF Stage County Matches, but we've just had the Minor Counties semi-final 6th June(!) between Herts and Norfolk. We've put it in.
13 Jul 1999
  • Howard Grist of Southend (details in Who's Who?) has agreed to take over as SCCU Grading Secretary. Doubt if he'll do you a County List, but it looks as though we'll be selling BCF ones again. Let you know when that's firm.
  • Brief Wireplay update in Junior News
  • There's an SCCU Trophy in the Ragbag.
11 Jul 1999
  • About the SCCU has changed a bit.
  • SCCU County Match Rules are now updated.
  • Roger de Coverly sends a couple of corrections to the Fleming Trophy History (in the County Adult Teams Section). One or two other very minor corrections in the same section. We hope to turn our attention to SCCU History, now the season's County Team results are out of the way, and we'd be specially grateful to anyone with information on the SCCU/ECCU Year Book of the 1930s. Haven't got a single copy on file. We have SCCU Minute Books 1930-46, and 1958 to the present day. Fill us in, anyone?
  • It seems to us that the slow response times (see 1st July) have now been corrected. Let us know if you don't agree. We're rjh@fdn.co.uk
08 Jul 1999
  • Kent Junior Grand Prix: Final Event 3.7.99, and season's winners. Also features winner of the site's Best Name of the Season competition.
  • Doubles Game Rumens & Howell v Two Americans, World Open (Philadelphia) 1999. You'll have picked up the main results, for British juniors, from the BCM site.
05 Jul 1999
04 Jul 1999
  • SCCU AGM was yesterday. Who's Who? has been updated; more shortly.
01 Jul 1999
  • Have you experienced slow response times lately, when accessing the SCCU site? NetDirect, our hosts, tell us they have this in hand. Expect big improvements in the next eight or ten days.
30 Jun 1999
  • County Finals: correction to U125
  • National Club page (see 28th June) has changed after all. Handicap results are a bit more explicit now, and we've inserted some semi-final results in the U125. Neil Graham now has all the Finals in detail.
         Next year's Nat Club Finals will be on Sunday 9th July (and County Finals Saturday 24th June). National Club prizes are set to rise substantially, thanks to savings on venue. New Controller will be George Thirlaway.
29 Jun 1999
  • A team of 21 juniors from Sussex, Richmond and Kent is just back from a friendly contest - 3-round match and two Swisses - against Northern France 26-27 June. See Kent Junior site for a general account, and Sussex Junior site for detailed results.
28 Jun 1999
  • Wood Green are National Club Champions. Finals were 27.6.99. Neil Graham's site gives all the results, mostly in detail. (We've taken the opportunity to update our National Club page, and it's probably now as complete as it's going to be.)
27 Jun 1999
  • All of yesterday's results in the County Finals. Including the U150, the one that had no SCCU involvement. Not a bad SCCU haul, with four titles out of six. Congratulations to Cambs, Herts, Essex and Surrey.
  • Golders Green Rapidplay 26.6.99
  • U18 Jamborees 2000 and 2001: Nigel Dennis gives some details on the Junior News page.
  • Open Forum: David Sedgwick on an incident in the National Club
26 Jun 1999
  • Today's County Finals, bare results (details tomorrow). Open Cambs 11 5 Kent; Minor Herts 8½ 7½ Bucks; U175 Essex 8½ 7½ Devon; U150 Warwicks* 8 8 Lancs; U125 Cambs 8½ 7½ Herts; U100 Surrey 8 4 Lancs
24 Jun 1999
20 Jun 1999
  • BCF seeks volunteer Financial Managers. See BCF News
19 Jun 1999
  • BCF Management Board meeting 19.6.99: "All scheduled business completed and fifteen minutes left at the end for any other business." Read any other organisation, and that would be Dog Bites Man. Hope to publish a report shortly.
17 Jun 1999
  • National Club update: U150 semi-finals
  • BCF Office (see 9th June) is sending and receiving again. "Further notice" was the grapevine, but it turned out to be true.
15 Jun 1999
13 Jun 1999
  • Surrey Easter Congress: Surrey CCA intends to sub-contract this event in 2000 and beyond, and invites tenders. Deadline 26.7.99. Details in Club and County page.
12 Jun 1999
11 Jun 1999
09 Jun 1999
08 Jun 1999
  • Semi-finals: Open Kent 13 3 Dorset; U150 Lancs* 8 8 Kent
  • Richmond Rapidplay 6.6.99
  • Open Forum: David Sedgwick writes on potential clashes between County matches and the 4NCL. It's at the top of the page at the moment but will move down to the "County matches" section in due course.
  • Howard Curtis, BCF Director of Management Services, is now using a new phone number for BCF purposes: 0181 668 7118. Also a slightly different email address: howard@ccfs.freeserve.co.uk. His old contact details will still work.
07 Jun 1999
  • U100 semi-final 5.6.99 Surrey 7 5 Essex
  • Bare results: Minor Counties Norfolk 8 8 *Herts; U125 Herts 12 4 Suffolk
  • National Club semi-finals: update in the U150 and the U125 Plate
06 Jun 1999
  • Minor Counties semi-final Suffolk 5½ 10½ Bucks 5.6.99
  • And some more bare results 5.6.99: Open Kent 13 3 Dorset; U150 Warwicks* 8 8 Sussex.
    Non-SCCU: U175 Devon 10 6 Beds; U125 Warwicks 7 9 Cambs
  • Kent Junior Association's Family Tournament 30.5.99 (see KJCA site) clashed, as last year, with the KCCA Finals Day. And they're only a couple of miles apart. It's a Fun (not graded) Tournament. Winners, also as last year, were Jeremy - Chris's big brother - and Joel Ward. Jeremy's son Joel can't be more than six. Prizes, as ever, included silly things like Most Checks in a Game Award. To see what the other silly awards were, and who else did well sensibly, visit the site.
05 Jun 1999
04 Jun 1999
  • Hendon Blitz 3.6.99
  • Some Essex Results 1998-9
  • British Chess Problem Society do an annual Solving Competition. The starter problem 1999-2000 is in the Games page. Easy, especially with a computer, but the later stages are harder. Especially the (live) Final with presumably no computers allowed. Try it.
  • Since we're in the Games page, we've succumbed to a temptation we've been resisting for months. rjh v Anon, and we hope you find it as funny as the spectators did.
  • With a County Grader's hat on, rjh has recently informed some clubs of the new one-third charge for club internal games. A response appears in the BCF News page.
01 Jun 1999
  • An update to the BCF Stage competitions (Minor)
31 May 1999
  • A minor update in the National Club Open Plate and Handicap Plate
30 May 1999
29 May 1999
  • Open Forum: Bruce Birchall joins in the Thurlow-Clifton-Sinclair sex correspondence.
  • A brief addition (bears today's date) to the parliamentary exchanges on Chess as a Sport
  • SCCU Non-County Membership. The other application (see 27 May) is in. It's the Coulsdon Chess Fellowship.
28 May 1999
  • SCCU success at the Womens Zonal in Italy 17-28 May. WIM Jovanka Houska tied =2nd/3rd with 6/9 and won the play-off 2½-1½ to qualify for the World Championship KO in Moldova 3-26 September. You may find the full results on the official site (see 19 May), but last time we looked the site wasn't there. WGM Harriet Hunt is also qualified. She had already been awarded a special place by FIDE.
  • Success also in Brussels 22-23 May at the Rapidplay International des Jeunes. Kent U14 Raymond Gosden took the U16 title with 6½/9. No other English players.
27 May 1999
  • Neil Graham (Ashfield CC, wherever that is) sends us some more National Club Semi-Final updates in the U175 (Plate) and U125. We'll have you yet, Neil.
  • London Chess Association has now applied for Non-County Membership of the SCCU. Another serious application is in the pipeline, we've just heard, and that would make it five. Acceptance is not automatic - Council 3.7.99 decides - but no sensible application is going to get rejected.
24 May 1999
23 May 1999
  • Not a lot, but we had some tidying up to do. National Club update in the U100.
19 May 1999
  • Womens World Championship Zonal 17-21 May. To save you a cross-reference (but see 29 April) we report here that the BCF nominees were Jovanka Houska 2286, Ingrid Lauterbach 2171, and Natasha Regan 2151. Results should be available on http://www.netvallee.it/scacchi/women/1999, and click the Risultati thing that's rotating so fast you can't read it.
15 May 1999
14 May 1999
13 May 1999
11 May 1999
10 May 1999
  • Small hours. I know I promised this for last night. But our TW (Kent semi-final) match did finish rather late, and we did win it, and there were about nine emails waiting for me when I got back. Anyway, Minor Surrey 7 9 Suffolk; U125 Lancs 3 13 Herts.
         Other results picked up (no details): Open Kent 8½ 7½ Greater Manchester (thanks Peter); Open Yorks 7½ 8½ Essex. And U100 Hants 2 10 (honest) Essex. Please send details. I'm going to bed, see you in the morning.
  • Surfaced. I now have nearly all the (bare) results from Cyril Johnson. See the BCF Stage page. Thank you to John Philpott, Peter Walker, Peter Taylor and David Roberts for all their information.
  • Cyril has also sent a draft version of his proposed new National Club rules. To download (zipped Word file, 5K) click here. Comments to cyriljohnson@yahoo.co.uk
  • Golders Green Blitz 4.5.99
  • And a couple of Games. Make that three, just had a Competition one from Gary Kenworthy.
09 May 1999
  • County Quarter-finals 8.5.99: U175 Essex 9 7 Lancs. I have two results that I'll post this evening (got a chess match to play in first): Minor Surrey 7 9 Suffolk; U125 Lancs 3 13 Herts. Also heard, but no details: Open Essex beat Yorks "despite being outgraded by about 20 points a board"(?!); U125 Essex lost to Suffolk.
  • This is getting silly. 4th European Club Cup for Women (see 29th April, 2nd May) has changed its dates again. Now 28th June to 6th July.
06 May 1999
  • County Quarter-finals (Open): Cambs v Hants, due to be played this weekend. Sam Essen (Cambs) tells us that Hants have conceded.
04 May 1999
  • Rather belatedly, so you have to scroll down to it: ECGCF Eastern Region Playoff at Scunthorpe 27th March 1999. Not quite SCCU, but it determined who joins Oxon and Surrey in the Finals.
02 May 1999
  • 4th European Club Cup for Women (see 29th April) is now 8-16 June.
01 May 1999
  • UK Chess Challenge, Kent Megafinal 1.5.99. On a related theme, we have been provoked into a Comment we weren't going to make.
29 Apr 1999
  • Important notice from David Sedgwick, BCF International Director.
    To all English Women Players with FIDE ratings. Women's World Championship 1999 Zonal, 17-28 May in Italy, may have spare places. And 4th European Club Cup for Women 31st May - 6th June 1999 in Slovenia: enquiries invited from interested clubs or individuals.
  • A diverting Hansard extract: Prime Minister's Question Time 28.4.99, on Chess as a Sport
27 Apr 1999
  • Congress Results: Golders Green Rapidplay 24.4.99; Richmond Rapidplay 18.4.99
  • In Junior News: EPSCA U9 Team Finals 24.4.99 (clean sweep for the Southern Counties); and England U11 Trials 24-25.4.99 (blatantly parochial report, Southern Counties successes only). Plus Belinfante links for more detail.
26 Apr 1999
  • BCF Council Meeting 24th April: a report
  • Chiltern Cup (well, part of it is in the SCCU): final scores 1998-9
  • On the Junior Page: Tonbridge Junior 25th April 1999; 25th Maidenhead Junior 7-8 April; and a Kent Schools League update 22nd April. Remember things are in reverse chronological order.
22 Apr 1999
21 Apr 1999
20 Apr 1999
19 Apr 1999
  • County matches 17.4.99 now in: U150 Notts 6 10 Kent (not quite the score we gave yesterday); and U125 Herts* 8 8 Staffs (the one we forgot yesterday). Herts won on board count.
  • James Chapman (13) of Danson, who took the U18 prize at Sutton in one of the U120 sections, says his name isn't James Cameron and he should know. Sorry, James. It's right now.
18 Apr 1999
  • BCF-Stage county matches 17.4.99. Minor Counties Quarter-final (played early): Cornwall 4 12 Bucks. Details on the BCF-Stage page. We also have bare match results (details expected shortly) for all SCCU teams in the Preliminary round: U150 Notts 6½ 9½ Kent; U125 Warwicks 9 7 Middx; U100 Essex 8½ 3½ Shropshire. Shropshire U100 turned up with six ungraded players who had not been cleared with the Controller (match captain didn't know the rules). They played anyway, and 8½-3½ is what happened over the board. Essex's winning margin after penalties looks to be anything from 11 to 18 points.
17 Apr 1999
  • Open Forum: Harry Lamb (GMCCA) on why we shouldn't increase the Game Fee
15 Apr 1999
11 Apr 1999
  • BCF Junior Squad Championships in Liverpool 9-11 April: three Champions from the SCCU (or five, if people with two titles count twice). Brief details from Neville Belinfante in Junior News
  • And the Links page has grown again...(!!)
09 Apr 1999
  • Surrey Easter Congress 2-5 April: full results now in.
  • "Who said that Surrey Clubs had to pay a fine for sending in results late? They don't." Martin Cath's been reading our SCCU Executive report. We made a mistake. Sorry. Report is amended.
08 Apr 1999
  • Redbus website now has results and games from the GM Knockout at Southend. But you'll already know the results, and the (sort of) winners, from 4NCL or Barnet or elsewhere.
  • Open Forum: Sex and the grading list. Louise Sinclair adds to the Thurlow-Clifton correspondence.
  • Links page has acquired two or three more entries in the last week, including the London Chess League no less. Is this the rebirth of the cottage industry?
06 Apr 1999
  • Times Schools Championship has reached the Quarter-final stage. Update from Mitchell Taylor
  • BCF Stage County Matches: the Draw, from Cyril Johnson
  • Surrey Congress. Apologies to Heather Richards (SCCU U18 Champion) for giving her someone else's name yesterday! We wondered, also yesterday, why Murugan played in the U170 instead of going for an SCCU title. Leonard Barden tells us that, for technical reasons, it's not in Murugan's interests to play in any FIDE-rated tournaments until July.
05 Apr 1999
  • Surrey Congress 2-5 March: SCCU Champion is Andrew Webster (clear 1st/79 in the Open with 6/7). SCCU nominee for British not yet clear. SCCU U18 Champion Heather Richards 4½ (=11th) in the Open: takes title on SPS from Matthew Broomfield. SCCU U14 Champion David Howell 5/7 (=5th) in the U145. Heather is almost certainly the first female SCCU U18 Champion. David adds the U14 title to his U11 one, and may well be the first U8 to win either of them. Murugan won the U170. (Why wasn't he in the Open going for a Union title?) Full details when available.
  • The blue box has self-destructed.
01 Apr 1999
  • BCF Council Meeting 24.4.99 in London. Papers just received, and we've put the Agenda on the BCF News page.
31 Mar 1999
29 Mar 1999
  • St Olaves Congress 27.3.99 in Congress Results
  • Open Forum: Steve Giddins answers David Shipp
  • The blue box on the front cover is bugging me. It will self-destruct in seven days. If there's anyone who still hasn't noted my (30th January) NEW EMAIL ADDRESS, it is suggested they may wish to do so.
28 Mar 1999
  • Herts take the second U125 place with a whopping 13-3 win over Sussex 27.3.99. Middx are third, and the SCCU League Tables are complete.
         We now move to the BCF Stage, and match captains are urged to go on sending their detailed results promptly to the SCCU Website as well as to the national Controller. We'll publish them.
  • Kent win National U18 Final 27.3.99. See Junior News
27 Mar 1999
  • Following a suggestion by David Sedgwick, our copy of the Quickplay Finish Rules now has CAA Guidance attached.
  • House of Commons Media event 25.3.99: a brief report in BCF News
  • And David Shipp writes provocatively in Open Forum
  • Bit of a cock-up somewhere, we gather, and the National Counties Rapidplay will be in Sheffield on the 9th-10th October - which is a 4NCL weekend. We did hear that the 4NCL had just moved to that weekend and not yet told anyone. Or something.
25 Mar 1999
23 Mar 1999
22 Mar 1999
  • Match result U125 Herts-Kent 20.3.99
  • Games department has been a bit slow, but it has just grown again.
21 Mar 1999
  • Match results 20.3.99 U175 Middx-Sussex (Middx take second nomination); U125 Essex-Middx. The other U125 match went Herts 7-9 Kent, no details yet. So, by our reckoning, Middx must qualify and Herts and Sussex play each other next weekend for the remaining place, with Sussex needing a win.
20 Mar 1999
  • EPSCA Zonal results (South-East) U9 13.3.99, U11 20.3.99
  • U125 Essex-Middx 20.3.99 was won by Essex (exact score not known). This gives Essex the title and number 1 nomination.
19 Mar 1999
  • Chess as a sport. Don't want to bludgeon this issue to death, but it is a bit important. BCF News has Lib Dem press release and important BCF/Saitek announcements.
18 Mar 1999
  • Another league table complete. Match result U100 Herts-Middx 13.3.99
  • Chess as a sport. As John Saunders has pointed out, the Hansard report is on the internet. There's still some work to do. A note from Stewart Reuben appears in Open Forum. The SCCU site congratulates all of the people who have worked so hard for this.
16 Mar 1999
  • Press release from BCF 16.3.99: "Chess is to be classified as a sport, the Sports Minister has announced. Tony Banks' announcement came during a Commons adjournment debate [last night] sponsored by Mr Evan Harris MP (Oxford West and Abingdon). He said that the 1937 Physical Training and Recreation Act would be amended in order to make the game eligible for lottery funding. A full copy of the relevant extract from Hansard is available from the BCF office (01424 442500)." - Robin Mackley
  • Match results 13.3.99 Open Oxon-Berks, Surrey-Sussex; U150 Surrey-Sussex; U100 Essex-Surrey. Only thing we're missing from last weekend is U100 Herts-Middx, which will complete the U100 table. Haven't heard the score.
  • A hole in the Minor Counties rules. See Comment
  • Hendon Blitz 4.3.99 in Congress Results
  • Open Forum: David Sedgwick on Howell v Lutton
15 Mar 1999
  • Open result Kent-Essex 13.3.99
  • Junior News: latest Times results from Mitchell Taylor
14 Mar 1999
  • Results 13.3.99 inserted: Open Herts-Bucks; U150 Middx 7 9 Essex; U125 Sussex 9 7 Oxon. Plus bare match scores Open Kent 6½ 9½ Essex, from sources thought reliable; and U100 Essex 5½ 6½ Surrey unconfirmed. Open and U150 tables are complete.
13 Mar 1999
  • 22nd Richmond Rapidplay 7.3.99 in Congress Results
  • SCCU Executive Committee 12.3.99: Report
  • U150 match Kent-Herts 13.3.99 is won for Kent by default. Herts could not raise a team.
  • Stop press, something past eleven pm. League Tables updated with bare results 13th March as available, but no attempt to work out who's qualified for what. Open Herts 5½ 10½ Bucks; Surrey 9 7 Sussex; Oxon 11 5 Berks. Under 150 Surrey 5½ 10½ Sussex. Maybe even some detailed match results tomorrow. No, Open Kent-Essex isn't in.
11 Mar 1999
  • U150 result Surrey-Essex 27.2.99: score adjusted by Controller. This could matter, with the last round coming up over the weekend. All U150 match captains have been informed.
09 Mar 1999
  • U125 result Essex-Herts 6.3.99
  • Junior News: Kent Secondary Championships 23.1.99
08 Mar 1999
  • Junior results: SCCU U18 and U14 Jamborees at Guildford 6.3.99. U14 page also has a late-reported match Berks-Bucks 30.1.99, and the final league tables for the qualifying groups.
  • Open Forum: Cyril Johnson caps Ian Farquharson story. Or responds to it, anyway. Bottom of screen, if you follow the link.
  • A new entry to the Links page: Sussex Juniors. Welcome aboard!
  • An appeal from the Friends of Chess appears in Open Forum
04 Mar 1999
  • Match results 27.2.99 Open Sussex-Kent, U125 Oxon-Surrey
  • QPF claim Surrey-Herts (Open) 30.1.99: result is in. And Surrey-Essex (U150) 27.2.99: results amended.
    Don't try this at home. People have started calculating all the possibilities in the Open division, and ended up falling about.
03 Mar 1999
  • U150 result Surrey-Essex 27.2.99. The U150 (like the Open) could be heading for multiple ties.
  • Congress Results: 22nd Kidlington Tournament 6-7 February 1999
  • Open Forum: Ian Farquharson on a county match, and other things
  • SCCU History (Adult Teams division) has some added details. We've just acquired the SCCU minute book 1930-1946, which had somehow found its way into the possession of Chris Ravilious, the Sussex archivist. He supplied not only the minute book, but also a 72-page WP transcript of its contents.
02 Mar 1999
  • U150 result Sussex-Kent 27.2.99. Eleven draws in 16 games!
01 Mar 1999
28 Feb 1999
  • Open results 27.2.99 Berks-Cambs, Bucks-Oxon. Plus Sussex-Kent, bare match result. With one round to go Cambs are sure of second place at worst, and there's still six teams in the hunt for the other two places.
27 Feb 1999
  • Open result Essex-Herts 27.2.99
  • Junior News: Kent Primary Championships 27.2.99
26 Feb 1999
23 Feb 1999
  • Match results Open Kent-Surrey 13.2.99, U125 Kent-Essex 20.2.99
22 Feb 1999
21 Feb 1999
  • U175 result Middx-Essex 20.2.99. Essex secure their third consecutive Montague-Jones title.
  • We hear of the death, on 12th February at the age of 92, of JJ ("Harry") Lauder, the first and for many years the only Life Vice-President of the Union. We hope to publish a tribute shortly.
20 Feb 1999
  • U175 result Sussex-Surrey 20.2.99
18 Feb 1999
  • U150 result Herts-Sussex 13.2.99
  • Junior Matches U14/U90 Berks-Oxon 5.12.98, Bucks-Oxon 13.2.99
  • Open Forum Sex and the grading list: Neil Clifton responds to Kevin Thurlow.
  • Redbus KO update. Eleven GMs and five IMs in the 16-player lineup. We've added the Redbus Southend Congress site to the Links page.
  • And another one. Where will it end? London Primary Schools CA has a site.
17 Feb 1999
  • Open result Herts-Sussex 13.2.99 (with some historical remarks)
16 Feb 1999
15 Feb 1999
  • Open result Oxon-Essex 13.2.99. Also (see league tables) the bare match score of Cambs-Bucks 13.2.99. Qualification in the Open this year is looking like "pick any three from seven".
  • U150 results 13.2.99 Essex-Kent, Surrey-Middx
  • Congress Results: 23rd Kings Head Rapidplay 7.2.99
14 Feb 1999
  • U125 result Middx-Sussex 13.2.99
  • John Philpott reports on BCF Management Board meeting 13.2.99. Largely financial stuff. New Junior Director appointed (contact details in Report). 1999 half-year grading list abandoned. See BCF News
  • NEW EMAIL ADDRESS. This is only a repeat message from 30th Jan (scrolled out of sight, on my screen). If you haven't noted my new address yet, do! The old one has a sell-by date.
  • Late extra. 1st Cambridge University Congress 6-7 Feb 1999 in Congress Results
12 Feb 1999
  • Open result Surrey-Herts 30.1.99
  • Congress Results: Golders Green Blitz 4.2.99
  • Small point, but if you looked at the SCCU Junior Jamborees page yesterday it's changed. The tie-break rules for the U14/U90 are now established. There isn't a tie-break. Title is shared.
11 Feb 1999
  • SCCU Junior Jamborees. Some additional details of the U18 event (and U14/U90 Finals) on the 6th March. Teams competing, BCF dates.
10 Feb 1999
06 Feb 1999
  • Brian Jones resigns as BCF Junior Director. Report in BCF News
  • Sexual harassment in chess. This has been raised with the BCF, sparked by a recent incident. See Club and County News
  • One National Club round 3 result in U175
05 Feb 1999
  • Gary Kenworthy has moved. New details in Fixtures under Herts U100.
  • Yet another addition to the Links page: Surrey/Hants/Berks Border League
03 Feb 1999
  • Match results 30.1.99 Open Bucks-Berks; U125 Oxon-Essex; U100 Middx-Kent, Surrey-Herts
  • We see from the February ChessMoves that Chris Howell, SCCU Grading Secretary and BCF Director of Game Fee and Grading, got a new fax number for Christmas to go with his new phone number (see 24th December). We've put it in Notices and elsewhere, but it's 01293 452291.
02 Feb 1999
  • 62nd Dupree Christmas Tournament 30-31 Dec 1998. See Junior News. Note that results are in reverse chronological order, so you won't find it at the top.
  • Open match Sussex-Oxon 30.1.99: Sussex report that Oxon defaulted 16-0.
  • SCCU Team Champions (Adult): some more work on the Archive. Still lots of gaps. There must be people out there who can help.
31 Jan 1999
  • Open result Essex-Cambs 30.1.99
  • A new entry to the Links page: Kent Junior CA
30 Jan 1999
  • NEW EMAIL ADDRESS. Please note my new address (on home page and elsewhere, and also here rjh@fdn.co.uk for your convenience). Don't worry if you've just written to the old address, it still works for the moment. But not indefinitely.
  • U175 result Surrey-Middx 23.1.99. Also a correction (board 1) to U125 Surrey-Sussex 23.1.99
  • David Sedgwick writes in Open Forum
  • Surrey U125. Fred Manning, U175 captain, is now also U125 captain. His details are in Fixtures
27 Jan 1999
  • Match results Open Herts-Kent 16.1.99; U125 Middx-Herts 23.1.99
  • The revised BCF grading system: a brief update in BCF News
26 Jan 1999
  • Richmond Rapidplay 17.1.99 in Congress Results
  • Ian Hunnable responds to Comment
  • National Club: a couple of U100 results
  • Reminder, not that you need it: the 4NCL site has Saturday and Sunday's results.
24 Jan 1999
  • Match results 23.1.99 U175 Sussex-Essex, U125 Surrey-Sussex
  • A Game from the Essex League last week
23 Jan 1999
  • Counties Championship matches: BCF-Stage draw is done. See Fixtures
  • U100 match Surrey-Middx 14.11.98: arbiter's long-awaited decision on Surrey's "making-no-progress" claim is now in. Some remarks in Comment
21 Jan 1999
  • Open result Berks-Essex 16.1.99
20 Jan 1999
  • U125 result Herts-Oxon 16.1.99
  • A new Internet Schools Championship organised by Wireplay in association with BT Internet. They're taking entries now. See Junior News
18 Jan 1999
17 Jan 1999
  • Open results 16.1.99 Cambs-Sussex, Oxon-Surrey
  • What's Old? (Teams Division) has grown.
14 Jan 1999
  • U125 result Essex-Surrey 9.1.99
  • Junior Matches U14/U90: Oxon-Berks 9.1.99
  • Open Forum: John Place on the "Times" Schools Championship; Bruce Birchall with facts and figures on junior selection; Kevin Thurlow on sex and grades
13 Jan 1999
  • U125 result Kent-Middx 9.1.99
  • Junior Matches: Sussex-Surrey U14/U90 9.1.99
  • It was time we had a Games page. We kick off with a couple of brevities, one of them from a recent county match. Players, match captains, congress organisers: send us your games!
11 Jan 1999
  • U175 result Essex - Surrey 9.1.99
  • Congratulations to Jessie Gilbert on becoming the youngest-ever Womens World Amateur Champion. Details, and full Hastings results, on the 4NCL site.
05 Jan 1999
04 Jan 1999
01 Jan 1999
  • Junior News: LJCC results from Leonard Barden
  • What's Old? (Teams division) has changed again! Thanks to John Philpott for latest corrections.
  • The Website wishes its readers a happy and successful 1999.
31 Dec 1998
  • More SCCU team history in What's Old?  We're getting there, gradually. Thanks to John Saunders for filling some gaps in the Open Individual, and thanks in anticipation to anyone who can fill gaps elsewhere. What remains of the Individual (Ladies and Junior) is going to be a fairly heavy bit of research.
  • CEEFAX is with John Saunders. See Notices
  • Pictures. Nothing new, we're still Picture-free. But we know how to do Pictures now, diagrams included. SCCU games, preferably with notes, will be gladly received. Anywhere in the SCCU, not just "official" games. We're doubtful about glossy photos, but will print them if they're unmissable.
27 Dec 1998
  • Things have been slow over Christmas, but we've got some more SCCU History (especially junior team competitions) in What's Old?  Please help out with the bits we've got wrong.
24 Dec 1998
  • National Club U150 results
  • Three items in Notices: (1) John Philpott, President, has a new email address. (2) Chris Howell, Grading Secretary and BCF Director of Game Fee and Grading, has a new telephone number. And (3) BCF Yearbook 1999 is out. Check this page without delay. You could qualify for a free copy from the SCCU!
  • Surrey Girls CL: another entry to the Links page
22 Dec 1998
  • National Club Open, U175 and U100 results
  • Herts CA Congress at Hitchin, 5-6 Dec 1998.
  • SCCU U18 Jamborees in March 1999: event details. Also Basildon Junior 15.11.98. See Junior News
  • Open Forum Neville Belinfante disputes junior record!!
  • What's old?  A new page: your future Archive. So far, it contains a (provisional) list of past SCCU adult Champions.
20 Dec 1998
  • Mega Mela 29.11.98, briefly. Ever wondered why the name? Because you won't find out here. Not a Congress but it's in Congress Results
  • More Rules! BCF Counties Championship Rules (new this year)
  • Correspondence from Arthur Brameld on SCCU Championship. Open Forum
  • Oxford Univ CC: a new entry to the Links page
16 Dec 1998
  • National Club Rapidplay results. Been a quiet couple of days, otherwise.
14 Dec 1998
  • Congress results Golders Green Blitz 3.12.98 and Rapidplay 12.12.98; Richmond Rapidplay 6.12.98. Also Richmond Junior 6-7.11.98 in Junior News
  • U150 Sussex-Essex: "Can't-win-by-normal-means" ruling is in. See League Tables
12 Dec 1998
  • County match results U175 Surrey-Sussex 5.12.98; U125 Surrey­Middx 5.12.98
  • FIDE Quickplay Finish rules (with Appendix D). Match captains, avoid those disputes! (Well, some of them anyway.) Print these rules out and display them at matches. You'll find them under Rules
  • Opinions sought on National Club. See BCF News and Comment
  • Correspondence from Neil Clifton about Girls chess. Open Forum
10 Dec 1998
  • Correction Kent-Oxon 28.11.98 Open Division
  • Correspondence from Trevor Jones, Tim Dickinson. About county matches, one way or another. Open Forum
08 Dec 1998
  • Everything

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