Paul Cumbers playing in the British Championships

Long time local player and club member Paul Cumbers is currently playing in the main section of the British Championships at the University of Kent at Canterbury. In Round 1 he was paired against Alexei Slavin who is rated 200 Elo points above Paul but he came away with a good draw.

You can follow Paul's games live on many of the internet chess playing sites or here;
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/british-championships-2010
http://www.britishchess2010.com/

New Grantham Grades from the ECF

Below are the new grades from the ECF for active playing members. 


More grades can be found at http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/ The copyright the ECF is acknowledged

Ref	Name	Sex	Age	Club(s)	Cat	Standard	Previous	Cat	Rapid	Previous
105648H	Allgood, Rhona	F		Grantham	C	131	129
106801F	Birtwistle, Nigel	M		Grantham	A	194	202	D	202	202
222105G	Coates, David H	M		Lincoln	A	189	175	D	181	180
160353L	Collyer, Geoff C	M		Louth	B	162	160			151
222184G	Cumbers, Christopher	M		Grantham	B	110	128	C	119	116
103734B	Cumbers, Paul	M		Grantham	A	199	194
191586B	Dale, Hannah	F		Lincoln	B	146	148	C	147	147
277281E	David, Ivan	M		Grantham	A	165	152	D	155	155
112912A	Holt, Chris M	M		Grantham	E	147	148
139887J	Mason, Ben	M		Grantham	B	143	151
244268B	McCarthy, Kevin C	M		Grantham	B	172	182	D	178	178
247376J	Milson, Samuel A	M	16	Louth	A	176	168	A	171	175
233344C	Palmer, Trevor	M		Grantham	C	149	147
152255D	Payne, Nick	M		Grantham	D	183	176
178209F	Pierbattisti, Giorgio	M		Grantham	B	165	160
152036C	Sherlock, Peter G	M		Lincoln	C	145	134
127081D	Wollerton, Grenville	M		Newark & Southwell	A	148	153

Summer Closure

The club will be taking the summer break for 6 weeks and will reopen on Wednesday 25th of August 2010.

The website will continue to be updated with news and event details over the summer holidays.

Annual General Meeting

A thank you to everyone who attended last evening's AGM. A copy of the Minutes is available from the Secretary for anyone who wants one.

Ivan David was the winner of the John Robertson trophy as club person of the year as voted for by the attendees.

New Design and Twitter Feed

I am currently experimenting with the new layout design tools and any feedback would be welcomed.

Grantham Chess Club now has a Twitter account. There is a link button down the side or search for us on Twitter.