Grantham 2 win against Gambit 2

Grantham 2            Gambit 2

I David     1    0    D Sudar

K McCarthy  1    0    J Tassi

T Palmer    .5   .5   B Hayward

B Mason     .5   .5   HR Edwards

C Cumbers   0    1    J Gardner

Grantham 2 won their latest match against Gambit 2 at home. Chris Cumbers was slightly worse when he dropped a piece. Trevor Palmer defended solidly all game. Kevin McCarthy took advantage when John Tassi mad a mistake, lost a bishop for two pawns and was eventually ground down. Ivan David played 1...g6 to Drag Sudar's 1.e4. Drag developed a very nice position with his Rook on e6 and his pawn still on e7. He then sacrificed a bishop for 3 pawns giving him the 'abcd' file pawns against open space. By his own admission, Drag made some very poor moves and Ivan David cruised to victory. 

Lincolnshire Chess League

Grantham made a solid start against Lincoln in their first match of the new season. Although outgraded on 3 of the 4 boards, all the games were tight affairs with neither opponent being able to force any significant advantage and as a result all games were drawn with an overall match score of 2:2. Individual results were;

T Palmer drew G Collyer

G Wollerton drew D O'Neill

R Whitfird drew P Sherlock

G Grummitt drew C Moss

Grantham 2 off to a winning start

Grantham 2 began the 2011-2012 Nottinghamshire Chess League season with an away match at Nottingham Central. Despite the somewhat noisy conditions, with a lively Irish folk group playing in the pub below, Grantham came away winners 3-2. There were wins for Ivan David and Will Grummitt and draws for Chris Holt and Ben Mason. Special mention should go to Will, who will be off to study at Durham University in a few weeks, who won very quickly in a sharp variation of the poetically-named 'Fried Liver attack.' 

Nigel Short Simul

Nigel Short is playing a simultaneous display on Tuesday 25th of October in Louth. Anyone who wishes to play against Nigel should download the entry form which may be found at the Lincolnshire Chess Association site http://www.lincschess.org/

Grantham 2011 Grading List

The English Chess Federation has published the latest grading list. The table below is taken from the online database at http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/getclub.php?club=Grantham. The copyright of the ECF is acknowledged.  


This table is for players who currently have an 'active' grade.

Ref	Name	Sex	Age	Club(s)	Category	Standard	Previous	Category	Rapid	Previous
105648H	Allgood, Rhona	F		Grantham	D	129	131
106801F	Birtwistle, Nigel	M		4NCL Pandora's Box	A	192	194	B	190	190
222105G	Coates, David H	M		Lincoln	A	183	189	D	176	180
222184G	Cumbers, Christopher	M		Grantham	D	105	110			117
103734B	Cumbers, Paul	M		Grantham	A	190	199
277281E	David, Ivan	M		Grantham	A	164	165			155
175238J	Dorrington, Chris J	M		Bath University	A	226	222
281541C	Grummitt, Will	M		Lincolnshire Juniors	D	104		D	111	117
112912A	Holt, Chris M	M		Grantham	D	145	147
280840H	Mangione, Claudio	M		Grantham	A	192
139887J	Mason, Ben	M		Grantham	B	145	143
244268B	McCarthy, Kevin C	M		4NCL Pandora's Box	C	170	171	B	184	184
247376J	Milson, Samuel A	M	17	Louth	A	186	176	B	179	174
233344C	Palmer, Trevor	M		Grantham	C	153	149
152255D	Payne, Nick	M		Grantham	D	184	183
178209F	Pierbattisti, Giorgio	M		Grantham	E	168	165
152036C	Sherlock, Peter G	M		Lincoln	B	134	145
281551F	Whitfield, Richard	M		Durham City	D	122
127081D	Wollerton, Grenville	M		Newark & Southwell	A	147	148

Sad news regarding Bryan Smith

It is with deep regret that Grantham Chess Club has learnt of the sad passing of former member Bryan Smith who has died of a heart attack at 52 years of age. Bryan played regularly for the Grantham 2nd team in his time as a member and was an active club player.

The funeral is at Grantham Crematorium on Wednesday 20th of at 11.45 and all members of the Club have been invited to attend by the family.