a Franklin Mint Napoleonic Chess Set is up for sale 50 pound or nearest offer which is a bargain as it cost much more. Contact the club secretary for more details on the contact page.| Matthew Mackenzie | vs | George Horne |
| Trevor Blower | 0½- ½1 | George Horne |
| Matthew Mackenzie | 1½- ½0 | Jim Woodburn |
A game in the Club KO was between Jim Woodburn who drew as white vs Matthew Mackenzie and in the club championship 23-24, Connor Brown, as white, adjourned a game with Charlie English.
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The Eccles Community Chess Club is a site in Eccles Manchester, devoted to the playing of chess and although we , here at Barrow have a room where we can keep the boards out most days, it is not always we can do so and we do not have a high street presence open to the public. There are tea and biscuits freely available to players and nice quality sets in a very clean and snazzy environment. They have top grandmasters playing at the club and so much effort and detail and money for the brilliant game of chess , by Barbara Farrar , deserves supporting by the north west and cumbrian chess community. Please donate directly to them.
The Knock-Out Club tournament has had its semi-final date extended due to the outbreak of illness that struck our club. Trevor informs me he should be playing his game with George by the 22nd hopefully but the date is still in the air due to Trevors particularly bad illness but he is thankfully out of hospital now.
The final date for the Club Championship is the 1st May, a Wednesday. And the itenerary for the Summer can be seen on the competitions page click here.
The Lightning League has been cancelled due to illness striking down much of our club during the period it was due, and also the 1st and 2nd positions in the club could not alter. The Winner was Matthew Mackenzie, second was me(Alan Llewellyn) and the Minor Summer Winner was Rachel Bunter. Though Rachel is a junior Minor isnt a term meaning junior and to win a Minor title at a club means you are better than some adults.
The final totals in the League are as follows (with the final night to come in April), Matthew 16/16, me(Alan) 13/16, George Horne 11.5/16, Rachel Bunter 8.5/16, Jon Duffield and Trevor Blower 8/16, Michael Bunter 7/16, Frank Whalley 4/8, Mick Lanner and Connor Brown 1/4, Charlie English 0/12.
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note the latest positions as of 14th April from club championship can be seen in this link click here.
On monday 15th April 2024, there was a number of games played in the club championship 23-24, Charlie English lost as white to George Horne, Jim Woodburn lost as white to Michael Bunter, Frank Whalley lost as white to Dave Cole and Matthew Mackenzie drew as white with Connor Brown. Michaels win and Connors draw will be analysed below see this space.
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The above position is a chess problem from an actual game in the Candidates Tournament between Hikaru Nakamura and Fabbio Caruana (both from USA), black has just made an error with the move b5, the solution is below(highlight to find the answer):- Answer: 1 Ne7+ Kh8 2 Nd5!(threatening the Queen and Qxf8 mate) and Fabbio resigned there as 2...c5 3 Qxc5 Nd7 4 Nxf6 Nxc5 5 Rxe8+ Rxe8 6 Nxe8 leaves Hikaru totally won |
Not much has happened since the outbreak of disease at the club has meant we have been thin on numbers but today which is saturday 13th April 2024, a match was played in the weekend league, between Barrow(at home) vs Maryport B, Matthew won on board 1 and i drew on board 2, but Jon Duffield couldnt get a result and lost on board 3. That meant a 1.5-1.5 draw.
note barrow players Russell Hayley (13th) 2.5/5 and Charlie English(27th) 1/5
There is an important chess tournament 'the Candidates 2024'. The challenger to the next world championships final where the next word champion is decided comes from this tournament-ie the winner of the tournament plays Ding Liren the current world champion.Go on youtube at around 7:20 pm (not on a rest day) type chess24 and the image of the streaming video should come up.
The club has seen a thin number of members in recent weeks due to illness i presume. Hopefully this is only temporary. As for the club KO competition, Matthew Mackenzie turned up on the final day but Jim Woodburn didnt, and the other game is open to a replay as neither player turned up and both had good excuses.
Important announcement!!!! Trevor is in hospital ill, many of the club members have come down with a mystery illness. As there will be no one likely at the club who can run the Lightening due today 1st April, we are likely to be postponing the event to a later date. I hope Trevor and those others still ill a hasty recovery.
On Wednesday 27th March 2024, In the Club Championshipm 23-24, Connor Brown as white lost to Trevor Blower.
On Monday 25th March 2024, the mid-week Barrow team hosted the Kendal A team which was ight strong and appat from Jon Duffields great draw on board 3, me(Alan Llewellyn) on board 1 and Trevor Blower on board 2 both got beaten , so we lost 2.5-0.5.
The results in both Leagues mean both teams did well, the mid-week team may finish 4th which considering there were a bunch of great teams playing is a fantastic result. Also our weekend team may finish 3rd if we win our final match, again that is a brilliant result. Also in the Whitaker cup handicap team cup we are through to the final.
On the Saturday 23rd March 2024, Carlisle B played a Barrow team of Russell Hayley, me (Alan Llewellyn) and Jon Duffield in the Cumbria wide Weekend League. Our team (Barrow), won 2-1 with Russell and myself (Alan) winning on boards 1 and 2 respectively and Jon unlucky.
Thursday 21st March 2024: Kendal B hosted our mid-week team and the team of me(Alan Llewellyn), Trevor Blower and Jon Duffield drew 1.5-1.5 with them, Trevor won, I drew and Jon got warn down.
Wednesday 20th March 2024: Matthew Mackenzie as white beat George Horne in a game in the Club Championship 23-24.
On Monday 18th March 2024: A game was played in the club championship 23-24 -it was Jon Duffield defeating Charlie English and in the KO semi final in the first match between George Horne as white against Trevor Blower was drawn. The other semi has yet to be played between Matthew Mackenzie and Jim Woodburn.
On saturday 16th March 2024, the Barrow weekend team of Matthew Mackenzie, Russell Hayley and me(Alan Llewellyn) on descending boards faced a seemingly underrated team from Penrith C and we won 2.5-0.5. with wins from Matthew and Russell and i was lucky to get a quick draw in an underveloped position.
It was a busy time of it in the Club as we had two games played in the Barrow Club Championship 23-24, but also hosted an extremely talentted team from Ulverston ie theyre A team. Our team of me(Alan Llewellyn), Trevor Blower and Jon Duffield were rather crushed(result 3-0 to them). This team have had (in the past) the estemed academic and chess author Barry Hymer, on board 3 so when Steve Bailey(an ex-barrow player from the 90s) turned up on board 3 to play Jon, we werent surprised by theyre strength. I was up against Barry on board 1 and Trevor met a player on board 2 that has been over 2200 in the past and was a friend of Michael Basman, his name was Neil Cooper.
The games i the club championship were Russell Hayley as black beat Spencer Corran and George Horne also as black beat Connor Brown, George was very lucky, the worst it looked like was a draw for Connor but George i an endgame master extraordinare and came out trumps.
On monday 11th March 2024, George Horne as white beat Spencer Corran in the Club Championship 23-24, and there was a match in the mid-week Cumbian League where the team of Michael Bunter, Trevor Blower, Jon Duffield, and Charlie English came up against Ulverston B, who we drew against at home, this match was in the Stan Laurel Pub, Ulverston. The result was a 2-2 draw after Trevor won on board 2, Michael drew against an Ulverston player who plays also for Barrow(Russell Hayley), which is a bit like playing for Man united and Man city LOL. Also Jon got a good draw against a highly rated Ulverston player, while Charlie's opponent was a fellow junior who got revenge for Charlies impressive win in the previous return fixture.
On wednesday 6th March 2024, two results occured in the Barrow Club Championship 23-24,Frank Whalley as white won against Spencer Corran and me (Alan Llewellyn) as black won vs Dave Cole. Frank is in the lead on 10.5 points but Frank has 2 games outstanding and Matthew Mackenzie has only dropped a point so far so can get a possible 14 points, and Dave also has only dropped a point but has a few yet to play. Jim Woodburn is another who could challenge for the club championship if he suddenly plays a lot more.
The game between Dave and me(Alan) is shown below...
Matthew Mackenzie is the 2023-24 Lightning League Champion, tonight the 4th March 2024, Matthew scored 4/4 with Frank Whalley and me(Alan Llewellyn) joint second with 3/4.
The running totals in the League are as follows (with the final night to come in April), Matthew 16/16, me(Alan) 13/16, George Horne 11.5/16, Rachel Bunter 8.5/16, Jon Duffield and Trevor Blower 8/16, Michael Bunter 7/16, Frank Whalley 4/8, Mick Lanner and Connor Brown 1/4, Charlie English 0/12.
On the 2nd of March 2024, a strong and largerly underrated Barrow team set off to play a strong Carlisle B team. The underrated matters in what was a Whitaker Cup Handicap match, we had reached the semi-final through getting a bye in the first round, and because they're were so few teams i it this year we went straight into the semi. Still the team in it are all very strong and Carlisle B were no exception. A team of Matthew Mackenzie, George Horne, Russell Hayley and Jon Duffield met a team on boards 1-4 respectively of Paul Rivers, George Glover, Alan Hiatt, and James Ovens and we won 2-1 on handicap(3-1 with us having a -1 handicap due to having the higher rated players), both Matthew and Jon won with George and Russell both drawing. Matthew said he was rather lucky to get the win as Paul sacrificed a Rook for a massive attack and probably missed a few wins before dropping a Queen.
| POS | NAME | P | W | D | L | DEF | PTS |
| 1 | R HAYLEY | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 9 ½ | |
| =2 | M MACKENZIE | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 9 | |
| =2 | A LLEWELLYN | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 9 | |
| 4 | F WHALLEY | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 8 ½ | |
| 5 | M BUNTER | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 6 ½ | |
| 6 | D COLE | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| =7 | J DUFFIELD | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | |
| =7 | G HORNE | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| =7 | T BLOWER | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | |
| =10 | R BUNTER | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | |
| =10 | J WOODBURN | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 12 | H BECK | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 ½ | |
| =13 | R ROY | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| =13 | C ENGLISH | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| =13 | C BROWN | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| =13 | A SANDERSON | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| =13 | S CORAN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
In the Club Championship 23-24(above as of 1st March 2024) it is really a three horse race, with Matthew Mackenzie and Dave Cole(if he can step up to play more games in the remaining 2 months or so), being favourites, and Frank Whalley an outside bet. Michael Bunter has performed well, in his first club chess, while Russell Hayley is setting the benchmark for others to try and beat.
On Wednesday 28th February 2024, in the club championship the adjourned game of Jim Woodbun as white against Charlie English was finished and Jim won. two other games were played, also in the club championship, on the 28th, Connor Brown as white lost to Frank Whalley and Spencer Corran as white lost to me(Alan Llewellyn).
On the 26th February 2024, in the club championship 23-24, Michael Bunter as white won vs his daughter Rachel Bunter. While Jim Woodburn's championship game as white vs Charlie English was adjourned.
Matthew Mackenzies win as black vs Rachel Bunter(from the club championship on 18th Febuary) is shown below:- Matthew annotates the game.
On the 21 st February in 2024, Trevor Blower as white lost to Dave Cole, Frank Whalley as white drew with Alan Llewellyn(the webmanager) and Russell Hayley as white defeated Connor Brown. All thee games were in the club Championship23-24.
| Trevor Blower | vs | George Horne |
| Matthew Mackenzie | vs | Jim Woodburn |
| Trevor Blower | 1-0 | Jon Duffield |
| George Horne | 1-0 | Rachel Bunter |
| Matthew Mackenzie | 1-0 by default | Ashley Sanderson |
| Russell Hayley | 0-1 | Jim Woodburn |
Monday the 19th February 2024, saw 4 club championship games and the third 2nd round KO game. Charlie English as white lost to Trevor Blower, Rachel Bunter as white lost to Matthew Mackenzie, Frank Whalley as white drew with George Horne, and Jon Duffield as white lost against Michael Bunter, while in the KO, Trevor and George go through with Jim Woodburn to the semi-final as Jim beat Russell Hayley in the KO. The final place is between Ashley Sanderson and Matthew Mackenzie, though Ashley has until wednesday the next meeting or he will be forfeited.
On sunday the 18th February me(Alan Llewellyn) and Jon Duffield entered the Lancaster Rapidplay Intermediate and while Jon got a creditable 3/6 in this under 1750 tournament, I managed to score 6/6 and win it.
I managed to remember a game from the rapidplay, who is winning changes side a number of times but he is the last one to blunder.
[Match Report=Maryport A vs Barrow 17th February 2024 by Matthew Mackenzie on board 1] ' I continued my perfect record against Roger Hart - in a levelish position he let me fork his K and Q (I had turned down a draw offer a few moves before) but Russell[Hayley on board 3]misplayed a promising attack and lost. So the decider was George[Horne on board 2]'s game, but he got ground down by Neil Jones eventually - 2-1 to the home team.' [Maryport were home]
The result above finished all slim chances we had of winning the title of Cumbria Club Champions.
A note about the games slightly below from Blackpool and Michael Bunters win vs George Horne, if you dont see a list of games to choose from in the bottom left window then pick the icon next to the settings cog icon bottom right under the board, it looks like an small open book. Its to the immediate left of the cog.
On Wednesday the 14th February 2024, 2 games wee played in the club championship 23-24, Tevo Blower as white, lost against Frank Whalley while Russell Hayley as white beat Charlie English.
On monday the 12th February 2024, 2 games were played in the club championship 23-24, Rachel Bunter as white defeated Jon Duffield, Jon got outplayed in Rachels secret weapon -the london system opening, while in the other game Charlie English as white lost to Michael Bunter.
The weekend of the 9th to 11th February 2024, was a very eventful one with the Blackpool Chess Congess having 4 barrow members playing. Trevor Blower in the Minor achieved a creditble 2.5/5 while Dave Cole, and Russell Hayley got 2.5/5 also but in the section above the minor,the inter section, while also in the inter section, George Horne got 2/5.
A game by Russell and a cracking mate by Trevor are analysed below(from Blackpool) as is a game fom January when Michael Bunter beat George Horne in the club championship.
Also over the weekend, in the Four Nations Chess League(the name for the British and Irish League), I(Alan Llewellyn) managed a two duck egg score for my new team The Full Ponty(A Welsh team) ie 0/2 in the 4th Division I was board 6 in rounds 5 and 6.
The club chess night of the wednesday 7th February 2024 saw a county mid-week league match between Barrow and Ulverston B which Barrow managed to draw 2-2. The team of myself(Alan Llewellyn), Trevor Blower, Jon Duffield and Charlie English looked on paper to have a tough run of it, on boards 1-4 respectively. The team we were playing was made up of higher rated's than us including two players that have been barrow members, namely Martin Gawne and Russell Hayley(the latter actually still comes to the club). Both Trevor and Charlie managed to win, with me and Jon both losing.
The Lightning League night was on monday 5th February 2024 and although its mathematically possible for me (Alan Llewellyn) in 2nd to catch Matthew Mackenzie, i cannot now pass him into 1 st place so Matthew seems a shoe in for the title on 15/16 while I am on 12.5/16 and George Horne is in third with 11.5/16. On the night, Matthew won with 4/4, and George and myself finished in joint 2nd place with 3/4.
All Barrow players lost in the Cumbria vs Yorkshire under 1850 county match (held on sunday, 28th January), except Dave Cole on board 1 who drew, the losers wee Martin Gawne(now an Ulverston member), George Horne and Russell Hayley, but Yorkshie are a very competetive team.
| POS | NAME | P | W | D | L | DEF | PTS |
| 1 | M MACKENZIE | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 8 | |
| =2 | R HAYLEY | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 ½ | |
| =2 | A LLEWELLYN | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 ½ | |
| 4 | F WHALLEY | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 ½ | |
| 5 | M BUNTER | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 ½ | |
| =6 | J DUFFIELD | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | |
| =6 | D COLE | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 8 | G HORNE | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 ½ | |
| 9 | T BLOWER | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | |
| 10 | H BECK | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 ½ | |
| =11 | R BUNTER | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
| =11 | J WOODBURN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| =13 | R ROY | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| =13 | A SANDERSON | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| =13 | C ENGLISH | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| =13 | C BROWN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Above is the Club Championship 23/24, table current positions, with about half of the games played. Frank Whalley and Dave Cole are the only ones who can seriously challenge Matthew Mackenzies title.
I have set up a message board for anyone to leave a message on the club website just click here the code behind it works but theyre are security issues on the hosting sorry if it doesnt work.
| Trevor Blower | 1-0 | Jon Duffield |
| George Horne | 1-0 | Rachel Bunter |
| Matthew Mackenzie | vs | Ashley Sanderson |
| Russell Hayley | vs | Jim Woodburn |
The Club KO 23-24 for rnd 2 game between Trevor Blower as white and Jon Duffield was won by Trevor, he goes through to the semi-final, while in the Club Championship 23-24, three games were played, Dave Cole as black defeated Charlie English, Frank Whalley as white defeated Harry Beck and Matthew Mackenzie as black drew against me (Alan Llewellyn). The game below is my game with Matthew.
Tonight on the Monday the 22nd of January 2024, two games were played in the Club Championship, Michael Bunter as white beat a player who is known for being difficult to beat, George Horne. In the other game one of the favourites for the title of club champion, Dave Cole as white defeated the leader of the competition Russell Hayley. Dave caught Russell out with a trap in the opening.
Trevor Blower gave a respectable performance in getting 3/5 in the four nations chess league Congress held in Harogate(under 1700 section) from the 19th to the 21st of January finishing an impressive joint 13th out of 71. Trevor gave me a game to post and it is below:-
Below is the game between Harry Beck vs Matthew Mackenzie in the Club Championship 23-24. Harry puts up a good fight but gets a shock response to a Queen swap, a shock response is usual playing Matthew.
On Saturday 20th January the county match between Cumbria and Greater Manchester was held in Lancaster Bridge Club, we werent up against their top team but were in the under 1850 section and we have done well before in that section but though we put up a spirited show we still lost 4-8. While we defaulted on 1 board. A number of Barrow players played, on boards 1 and 3 Dave Cole and George Horne both got draws while on board 5 Russell Hayley lost and mention should go to Martin Gawne, now of Ulverston but previously of Barrow who won on board 2(the only Cumbria player to win let it be noted). The result is below:-
Wednesday the 17th January saw the pace of games continue unabaited post new year, with Matthew as black catching out a keen but still inexperienced Harry Beck, and me(Alan Llewellyn) as white defeating Connor Brown and Dave Cole as white was just too strong vs Jon Duffield , all three games were in the Club Championship 2023-2024.
On monday 15th January 2024, in the Barrow Club K.O. 2nd round, George Horne as white defeated Rachel Bunter.That means George is the first through to the Semi-Final
Also on monday, the match at Ulverston between theyre A team and our Barrow team in the mid-week League finished rather badly for us. We had been leading the League and had high hopes but we got totally blown away 3-0 by a mighty strong Ulverston team. The tem was myself (Alan Llewellyn), Trevor Blower and Jon Duffield on boads 1,2 and 3 respectively.
A really manic trap in the Caro-Kann can be seen below which was used by the IBM Deep Blue in its 6th game against Garry Kasparov in 1997.
The Wednesday the 10th January 2024, their were 4 games played in the Barrow Club Championship 23-24, Matthew Mackenzie (as white) beat Frank Whalley, Michael Bunter (as white) beat Trevor Blower, Harry Beck (as white) drew against Russsell Hayley and Rachel Bunter(as white) lost to myself(Alan Llewellyn).
The game between Matthew and Frank is below with excellent annotation from Matthew.
On monday 8th January 2024 the 4th Lightning League night was held with Matthew Mackenzie winning it on the night with a perfect 4/4, he was lucky when he met Rachel Bunter in the final round, when he went a rook down in a disastrous Latvian Gambit but he launched a desperado counter attack which he was successful in to win. Rachel in an earlier round had rather convincingly, taken me to the cleaners but she dropped off another point so finished on 2/4 in joint 3rd place with a crowd of players. It was George Horne who finished second, on 3/4 after narrowly being beaten by Matthew in the second round, but winning his remaining games.
A quite hard Combinations Quiz for the New Year 2024 has been produced by myself , please try and find the 6/7 move combinations from actual games played but get a pen and paper and write down all the available moves which are forcing to get winning combinations(NOT necessarily mate). move the pieces around if you have to on a board. top left is black to move and be winning rest are white to be winning. Click here to visit.
In the Barrow Club Championship 23-24 on the 3rd January 2024,a pile of games was played. Frank Whalley as Black beat Charlie English. Russell Hayley as Black beat Rachel Bunter(just), Matthew Mackenzie as Black beat Jon Duffield in a revenge match, and Michael Bunter as Black beat Connor Brown.
And on the 3rd also, the final match of round 1 of the Knock-Out was played between Jim Woodburn who chose white against myself(Alan Llewellyn) and although I made a bit of a fight in it, Jim just proved too strong. The draw for round 2 is immediately below and the game from round 1 is below that:-
| Trevor Blower | vs | Jon Duffield |
| George Horne | vs | Rachel Bunter |
| Matthew Mackenzie | vs | Ashley Sanderson |
| Russell Hayley | vs | Jim Woodburn |
| POS | NAME | P | W | D | L | DEF | PTS |
| 1 | R HAYLEY | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| 2 | A LLEWELLYN | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
| 3 | M MACKENZIE | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 ½ | |
| 4 | F WHALLEY | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 ½ | |
| 5 | J DUFFIELD | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| 6 | G HORNE | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 ½ | |
| 7 | T BLOWER | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | |
| =8 | H BECK | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| =8 | J WOODBURN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| =8 | R BUNTER | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 11 | M BUNTER | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | ½ | |
| =12 | R ROY | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| =12 | A SANDERSON | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| =12 | C ENGLISH | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| =12 | C BROWN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| =12 | D COLE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
The current table for the club championship is given above for January 1st 2024
| Rating Range | Description | Players examples | ||
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| 2700-2880 | World Champion/SGM | Magnus Carlsen | Ding Liren(WC) | |
| 2650-2700 | Super Grandmaster | Michael Adams | Nigel Short | |
| 2450-2650 | Grandmaster | |||
| 2350-2450 | International Master | |||
| 2250-2350 | Fide Master | |||
| 2150-2250 | National Master | |||
| 2100-2150 | Candidate Master | Matthew Mackenzie | ||
| 1800-2100 | Strong Club Player | Dave Cole | Martin Gawne | |
| 1700-1800 | Good Club Player | George Horne | Jim Woodburn | Russell Hayley |
| 1600-1700 | Average Club Player | Alan Llewellyn | Frank Whalley | |
| 1500-1600 | Reasonable Club Player | Trevor Blower | Jon Duffield | |
| 1200-1500 | Beginner Club Player | All the beginners at the club | ||
| 1000-1200 | Strong Hobby player | |||
| 500-1000 | Average Hobby player | |||
| 200-500 | Beginner player | |||
Above is a reflection subjectively of different rating abilities and where they are in reflection to their peers. One thing to notice is their is a hierarchy of Titled/Master players, club players, hobby players then beginners in terms of ability.
Below is a table for the knock out cup at the club- the people going through to round 2 are Trevor, Matthew, Russell, George, Jon, Ashley and Rachel with the game between Jim and myself(Alan) yet to be played. Note the games played on 27th Dec 23, were Trevor Blower beating Harry Beck in the KO rnd 1, Trevor was white and trapped Harrys Queen. The other game was in the club Championship between Russell Hayley as white vs Michael Bunter.(Russells game looked sheer perfection to the human eye, but there was an escape for Michael from the analysis is with the help of Fritz 14 the computer program). The Russell-Michael game is below the KO table.
| Trevor Blower | 1-0 | Harry Beck |
| Jim Woodburn | vs | Alan Llewellyn |
| Matthew Mackenzie | 1-0 | Michael Bunter |
| Russell Hayley | 1-0 | Dave Cole |
| George Horne | 1-0 | Rob Roy |
| Jon Duffield | bye | |
| Ashley Sanderson | bye | |
| Rachel Bunter | bye |