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Updated on the 27th of July
The new ECF grades are out and they can be seen on the Club Member’s page. Peters standard play is graded 199 - just one point short of that elusive 200 figure! The highest jump in grading over last year was achieved by Dave Toulson who leapt eleven points to 157!
 
The photo above left is Peter receiving the Individual KO Trophy from Bill Lumley and above right is a young Dave Toulson.
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Peter stated his first round game in this year’s British Championships at 2. 15pm earlier today. I hope to publish the details on the Peter’s Progress page accessed on the left.
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Wakefield Juniors play for England! Wakefield Chess Club Junior members Amol and Adarsh Vani are part of the England Junior team that is representing the nation in the 8th European Union Youth Chess Championship that is scheduled to be held in Austria next week from the 3rd to the 12th of August.
The England team are as follows:
- Under 10 - Adarsh Vani and Isobel Sanders
- Under 12 - Isaac Sanders and William Claridge-Hansen
- Under 14 - James Bowler, Henry Broadley, Amol Vani, Jennifer Ehr and Eugene Daley
The coaching team consists of :
GM Neil McDonald, IM Lorin D’ Costa and Tom Eckersly-Waites
 
The above photos show the Vani Brothers in their England cricket shirts playing for Wakefield Juniors in the AG Sunderland Cup last season
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The provisional fixtures for next seasons’ Wakefield A and B team matches have been published and can be seen from the Club Teams page on the left
Our old photo gallery 2 from the website archive can still be seen here
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The British Chess Championships 2010 are scheduled to start this Sunday the 25th of July. The University of Kent, Cantebury, is this year’s venue. Play in the main section starts on Monday the 26th and Peter Shaw is scheduled to represent Wakefield Chess Club for an unprecedented third time. We hope you do well Peter, and we hope to be following your progress here on the site, but the main thing is that you enjoy playing in it. The home page of the British Chess Championships 2010 can be seen here
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A new award was announced at this year’s AGM. This is The Junior of the Year Medal. Which is to be presented to a junior member who has shown outstanding qualities. The medal was awarded this year to Vivi Way in recognition of her regular attendance at the club and good overall progress.
Vivi is shown above playing for Wakefield Juniors in last seasons AG Sunderland Cup, in which she also contributed to the team victory.
There is a lot more news about Wakefield Junior Chess in MrD’s Junior News page here
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The provisional YCA grades have now been published on the members page
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The new Club Secretary, Ian Johnson has kindly provided the minutes of the 174th Annual General meeting of the Wakefield Chess Club, which have now been published and can be seen here
We can see from these minutes that we have a new Club Secretary, Ian Johnson, who replaces Mike Denison. Mike agreed to cover as Club Secretary temporarily ‘ for a couple of weeks’ when the previous one had to step down suddenly - this was thirty years ago! May I add my name to the list of people who have thanked Mike for all his hard work over the years in the post. I am glad to see that he is not retiring all together and I wish him all the best in his continuance to further Junior Chess at the Club.
The above photo shows Mike receiving the winning trophy for winning the first round of the YCA AG Sunderland Cup which Wakefield Juniors also went on to win last year.
The photo below shows our new Club Secretary Ian Johnson on the right playing Barry Brian our Club Treasurer
We also have a new Club President, Mike Wilford who takes over from Mark Shelmerdine who stepped down after three years.
 
With Ian Johnson becoming our new Club Secretary, the new Competitions Secretary is Peter Shaw and I’m sure we can look forward to some exciting tournaments at the Club in the near future.
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The 174th Annual General Meeting of The Wakefield Chess Club took place on Monday the 12th of July at the Club
Last year’s Competitions Secretary provided information on Club tournaments which included the following:
The 2010 Club Championship was won by Ian Johnson with a score of 6.5 points and he received the Silver King trophy
Ian Johnson the winner of the 2010 Club Championship
Second place and the recipient of the Silver Queen trophy was Craig Thompson with a score of 5.5 points
Alan Holloway came third with a score of 3.5 points
The 2010 Lightning Chess Tournament was split into a Junior and Senior section for the first time.
The winner of the Junior section was Wasim Ahmed with a score of 4 points. Vivi Way was runner up with a score of 2.5 points. Third place went to Zarah Ahmed and 4th place was shared between Lucy Baker and David Brown who scored 1 point each.
In the Senior section, first place and the Silver Knight trophy, was taken by Peter Shaw with a score of 4 points. Runner up was Alan Holloway, and third place was Dave Toulson.
Peter Shaw winner of the 2010 Lightning tournament Senior section
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