| All Wolverhampton Chess Club 2010/11 Winter and Summer fixtures on website. All club fixtures and previous years fixtures in archives on site.
Rock Cup Final: Dave Wightman v Dave Pritchard adjourned til Thurs 12/05/11
Wolverhampton Win Walrus Trophy 2011 on Thurs 5 May 2011 at Wolverhampton. Wolverhampton 7 points (highest points total to date), Walsall Kipping 6, Rushall 2.
See full scores and writeup here
Walrus Full Scores
Humphrey's Cup Final 04/05/11 at Bushbury:
Wolverhampton Win WDCL Humphrey's Cup(U130). Warley Quinborne. I can honestly say as a board 3 participant that Warley Quinborne were worthy Finalists. Wolverhampton had a grading advantage but this hardly seemed significant as the match transpired. A very tense, rivetting rollercoaster final. A night to remember. Wolverhampton won by the closest of margins 1.5-2.5. On boards in ascending order Steve Wilson, Paul Walters win and Barry draws on board 2. A full Match writeup to appear today in WDCL section to accompany full match scores that are already there.
Humphrey's Cup(U130): Well Wolverhampton trek to Lichfield to play the Semi Final. An exciting tense and close match. A 2-2 Draw on the night but Wolverhampton win on board count! So we're finalists. (All scores and match report in WDCL Section) The Final to be held at Bushbury Chess Club Wed 4 May 2011)
Event News (theme): Team Chess taster 19 Aug 2010. It's Chess but not quite as we know it. 2 teams of 2 compete. Tremendous pre season fun and great experience.
Simul : 02 Sept 2010 Dave Wightman will hold a simul open to All club members. An event not to be missed. Very excited to have a simul at Wolverhampton Chess Club.
New Events for Winter League: See Events Section for more details of forthcoming club events throughout the Winter season!
19/08/10 Club feature in Wolverhampton Chronicle p13.
07/08/10 Thrilling News: WSL Div 2 championship and City show feature published with colour photo Express & Star : 07 Aug 2010. p4.
05/08/10 After much arranging and a slight delay. Express & Star Wolverhampton Summer League Div 2 success will be featured very soon. Some of our team are on holiday but some of our team posed for photographs last night.
25/07/10 Added to Website. Amended player list including NEW 2010 provisional grades. Some anomalies.
Exciting Show feature on English Chess Federation website
Wolverhampton Chess Club : Chess in the Park : English Chess Federation feature
Summer League Success! 2008 Wolverhampton where Summer League Champions. Our Wolverhampton A team became WSL Div 2 (unofficial) Champions 2010 as of 01/07/10 we made it 4 out 4 and remain unbeaten. There's still 1 match to play but even if we lose our final match we still have enough points to become champions. .
Well done to all our team and to Gordon Sands(captain). The Wolverhampton Summer League Awards & Quickplay night will be the night when all successful teams and players will recieve their acclaim.
Passed at our AGM 20 May 2010.
Important: Club subscriptions are due mid Summer and need to be paid by 31 July 2010. Prompt payments greatly appreciated as this will facilitate league registration. All payments before this date are discounted and Club Subscriptions for 2010/11 remain the same as 2009/10.
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17/05/10 Rushall retain the Walrus. Well done Rushall and to other competing teams Walsall Kipping and Wolverhampton. An exciting night similar to Eurovision but better. Mike Townsend, Dave Wightman, Bob, Khoshnevis, Steve Wilson won their games and Martin May drew to give us 4.5 points. Walsall Kipping 5, Rushall 5.5.
Walrus 2009/10 Rushall retain the trophy but can they deprived of a hatrick next year when Wolverhampton will host. Well done to Rushall!
Walrus Full Scores
13/05/10 Wolverhampton off to a flying start playing St Mary's A. Our team won with a 3.5-1.5 score. Well done team!
Summer League 2010 is looming! All our Summer league club fixtures are on this website.
28/04/10 Last week we had a fantastic Pittaway Cup victory. This week we had our second Cup Final. Barry led his intrepid team to Stafford to play Cheddleton & Leek in the Jackson Cup County Final. Alas we didn't win. Dave Wightman won, Gordon Sands drew. Well done team on getting to the Final and for battling so hard in the Final.
Write up coming soon. Thank you to Stafford for hosting and well done to Cheddleton & Leek on their victory.
Recent Successful Trophy years & Honours
Writeups courtesy of Captain Mike Townsend (Captain) and Dave Wightman playing his Pittaway Cup debut match.
For the second year in succession Wolverhampton has won the Pittaway Cup!
In a nerve-jangling finish last night at Bushbury Wolverhampton held on to beat Stourbridge 5 1/2 - 2 1/2. This was the minimum required to win on the night as Stourbridge started with the great advantage of a 2 1/4 point handicap. Just 1/2 point less (e.g. 5-3) and Stourbridge would have won. After early wins on Boards 1 and 2 and a spate of draws and one loss on the middle boards, it came down to the last two games and the last few minutes on the clock on Boards 7 and 8. With Wolverhampton leading only by 3 1/2 - 2 1/2, we had to win both boards. While Peter Pearson-Jones converted an ending with rooks where he was a minor piece ahead in his last few minutes, Mike Griffiths on Board 7 had a complicated ending with bishops and knights which looked probably drawn with best play. However, with each player down to the last minutes and seconds, Mike found the right line to win a pawn and reach a won position at which point his opponent lost on time. Relief all round … and congratulations to the team on this successful defence of "our" cup!
Mike Townsend
The final was billed on here as a Mega Final. Stourbridge a club with many strong/high grades and newly promoted to WDCL Div 1 as Champions of the lower division. Wolverhampton had a +2.25 handicap due to being in a higher division. Winning would be a hard task.
Mike Townsend and John Mangdwende were first to win on boards 1 and 2. Both have great seasons and will have higher grades next season.
Frank drew on Board 3 then Martin drew on Board 6. This put us 3-1 up quite early. Peter Jones was a piece up on Board 8 so Dave Wightman agreed a draw thinking that we were on course for the silverware, but then the drama began. Max was unable to recover from being a pawn down on Board 5 and the score was suddenly 3.5-2.5. We needed to win on Boards 7 & 8 to retain the title and Mike Griffiths then went a pawn down on Board 7. The pressure built steadily as the clocks ran down until Peter secured the win on Board 8 with some accurate play in a difficult ending. Mike recovered the pawn, and then captured a troublesome passed pawn to go a pawn up with just a bishop left each. Finally, after a tense 20 minutes of manoueuvring, he broke through and was about to wreak havoc on his opponents remaining pawns when the Stourbridge flag fell and the Trophy was ours for the second year in a row.
So, a great result on a dramatic evening.
Thank you to Mike Townsend and his expert captaincy on accomplishing a victory in another high calibre Final! Also thanks to the Icelandic volcano for filling the sky with ash and keeping our Board 1 and team captain firmly in the country on the night of the match and to Bushbury for hosting, and to Stourbridge for making it a terrific contest. Good luck to them in the first division next year. Can we make it a hat-trick? Only time will tell, but the evening was a great advertisement for chess.
Dave Wightman
Pittaway Cup Mega Final 21/04/10: Last year our team travelled to Stourbridge to play a strong Halesowen side who'd just been promoted from WDCL Div 2 to 1. This year we play last year's Pittaway Cup Final hosts Stourbridge. This year Stourbridge A have also been promoted from WDCL Div 2 to 1. Last year our team lacked some of our regular A team players. This year's Pittaway Cup Final may be a titanic battle. Can Wolverhampton retain the Pittaway Cup? April 21 2010 Bushbury Chess Club is a date for your chess diaries. May the Best team win!
21/01/10 Round 2 a busy night at our club with a total of 13 boards playing. Wolverhampton beat Stafford 5-3 in round 2 of the Pittaway Cup.
Round 1 was a Bye.
Jackson Trophy (County trophy): We're through to the Final against Cheddleton & Leek
Round 1 Bye, Round 2 we beat Rushall Away.
Jackson trophy Round 3 the Final is against Cheddleton & Leek, Wed 28 April 2010 at Stafford ess Club.
Walrus Trophy 2010: Mon 17 May at Rushall Chess Club.
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