An online swiss competition, open to all HCA club players, is under preparation to commence Tuesday 29th September. It will be a fortnightly event, the intervening Tuesday being reserved for the 4NCL Online competition that commenced recently.
As with 4NCL Online, HCA Online will be hosted on lichess with a rate of play of 45 minutes plus 15 seconds per player.
An invitation to participate is expected to be circulated to clubs in the next few days.
Posted 3rd September 2020
13/05/20 The ECF are planning to organise the above competition over summer 2020, starting in June and running for 3 months. It will be played on the chess.com platform. Full details of the proposal have been circulated to club secretaries. Any player interested in participating is invited to contact the County Secretary, Alan Brewis - alanl.brewis@ntlworld.com.
Hertford, St Albans and Watford are amongst the 170 plus teams that have entered 4NCL's latest competition. Matches, on four boards, are played on Tuesday evenings . The rate of play is 45 minutes + 10 seconds per player. The HCA have three teams entered all under the squad name 'Broken Herts'. All their players are graded u120 although the competition is open to all standards of play. The huge popularity of this event is inevitably due to club chess players seeking an alternative to over the board chess whilst everyone is in lockdown due to Covid-19.
16/03/2020 The HCA have decided to suspend all their competitions, except Correspondence Chess, until further notice. It is to be hoped there will be time to reinstate them in an extended season but the situation is too uncertain to give a view of this now. We will be in touch when we have a plan to move forward again.
EAST ANGLIAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 2020
4 sections: Open, Team 600, Team 500 and Team 400.
Sunday 15th. March 2020
Turner Hall, Church Lane, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 0HL
You can see a map at https://www.list.co.uk/place/20035178-turner-hall/
Tea and coffee will be provided free of charge.
Photo: Brendan O'Gorman
It is with sadness that I note Keith Woodhouse’s death from cancer. Keith was a member of Royston Chess Club and a good friend. We connected due to our both being members of a correspondence chess network who happened to live in the same village. Keith originally introduced me to Royston Chess Club.
03/11/19 We have three teams once again in county competitions this season. If any Herts players would like to play, please contact the appropriate team captain
The U160 team, with 16 boards, plays in the East Anglian Chess Union (EACU) County Championships.
All matches (two per day) are held on a Sunday at Turners Hall in the centre of Newmarket.
The captain is Corinne Mountford of Hertford Chess Club.
On 11 October 2019 the North Circular Chess League (NCCL) will be holding the 60th Capes Trophy. It's a 5 minute per player per game Blitz tournament over as many as 10 to 12 rounds, depending upon entries.
Wouldn’t it be great to celebrate this achievement but getting as many teams as we can. Remember this is for teams of four players. Can each of the NCCL clubs make every effort to raise as many teams as they can.
This will be held in the hall at Wanstead House starting 7:30pm. Don’t forget a bar will be open for the duration of the evening.
Adam Raoof is reintroducing this one day event, not once, but three times later this year.
29th September
27th October
17th November
Details https://letchworthchess.blogspot.com/
This annual event, perhaps better known as the Capel, Burn and Bunce, is being held:
Saturday 21st - Sunday 22nd September 2019
The Hertford Club, Lombard House, Bull Plain, Hertford, SG14 1DT
The Hertford Club has a private walled garden where you can enjoy a fine selection of real ales. It's pub food is excellent too.
Full details on downloadable entry form.