Matthew Wilson v Richard Smith (Board 1)

As promised, here are a couple of David's games out of the many that could have been chosen.
Alan Brusey v David Saqui (WECU Championship 1999)
Robin Horner v David Saqui (Kerrier Cup 2000)

2019
Fri Apr 19	WECU Congress (4 days) Royal Beacon Hotel, Exmouth, EX8 2AG. Entry form here
Tue Apr 30	David Saqui Cup Final date for entries
Fri May 3	Cornwall Open Congress (3 days) Falmouth Hotel, Castle Beach, Falmouth, TR11 4NZ. Open to all. 3 sections (U190, U150, U110), 5 round Swiss. Full details here.
Sat May 11	Open Rapidplay In aid of St Petrocs Charity for the homeless. St Augustine of Hippo Church, Woodland Road, St Austell, PL25 4RA. From 10 a.m.to 1 p.m. Entry £10 adult, £5 junior. Light refreshments available. Jackie Davis 01872 260948 or email Jackie.davis@stpetrocs.org.uk.
Sun May 19	Cornwall U180 v Essex 180 The Salisbury Club, Walcot Gate, Bath, BA1 6AB. Play starts at 1 o'clock p.m.
Fri May 31	Camborne AGM Centenary Methodist Church, Wesley Street, Camborne, TR14 8DP. Start 7.15 p.m.
Sat Jun 1	UKCC Cornwall Megafinal Stratton Primary School, New Road, Stratton, Bude, EX23 9AP. Doors open 10.00 a.m.. Round 1 start 10.30 a.m. Full details, including how to enter, at www.budechess.co.uk/ukcc-cornwall-megafinal.php.

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Our annual congress, renamed the Cornwall Open Congress, will be held in the beautiful setting of the Falmouth Hotel from Friday 3^rd to Sunday 5^th May 2019.

• For the first time it will be open to all, including players from outside Cornwall, although the Emigrant, Falmouth and Penwith cups may only be won by players eligible by birth, education or residence in Cornwall.
• Three sections: Championship (U190), Major (U150), Minor (U110)
• It will be a five round Swiss with ½-point byes available in rounds 1 to 4.
• Time control: 36 moves in 90 minutes followed by 15 minutes rapidplay finish.

Full details including entry fees, how to enter and pay and congress rules are here. Printable brochure here. List of entries here

We look forward to welcoming a wide range of players both from within and outside the county.

Ian George

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Bude Chess has been asked by Sarah Longson from the UK Chess Challenge to organise and run the Cornwall Megafinal of the UK Chess Challenge this year.

We are pleased to confirm that it will be held on Saturday 1st June 2019 at Stratton Primary School, New Road, Stratton, Bude, EX23 9AP.

Doors open 10:00 First Round 10:30 Entry £15.00

Enter on the Delancey UK Chess Challenge website
More details at Bude Chess

John Constable

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To honour the memory of David Saqui an anonymous donor has given us a handsome silver cup to be named the David Saqui Cup. He has asked us to use it as an annual best game prize for ECF members attached to Cornish clubs, highlighting imaginative, attacking chess of the kind that David favoured. Bob Jones of Devon, who will be well known to many of you for his Western Morning News column and tireless promotion of chess in the west country over the years, has agreed to act as judge.

The first award of the cup will be for games played during the period 1st January to 31st December, 2018. The competition will be conducted as follows:

• Players may enter up to two games. Annotations are welcome but not compulsory.
• Entries to be emailed to me at 3a.roskear@gmail.com
• ChessBase readable file attachments are preferred but if you do not have access to this format, please send your submission with the moves and any notes typed. I will then convert it before sending it to Bob.
• The closing date for entries is 30th April, 2019.
• The maximum number of games sent to Bob will be 10. If there are more than 10 entries I will make a preliminary selection of the games to be sent to him.
• If the number of entries falls below 10 the committee may make up the number by adding games which it considers worthy of consideration.
• Before sending the games to Bob I will remove all player identification.
• When Bob has made his decision, the winning game will be published on our website and in his Western Morning News column. The other candidate games will also be made available on our website.
• It is intended to present the cup at the Annual General Meeting after the end of the 2018/19 season.

Ian George

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This was held at Centenary Methodist Church, Camborne. Grant Healey (Carrick) was the winner with 4½/5. Report and final scores here.

Ian George

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In addition to chess activities organised by the county association and its affiliated clubs you can get a game at any of the following locations. I would like to hear of others so that I can publicise them here.

Mawnan Smith

An informal social chess group meets weekly on Wednesdays from 7.30 to 10 p.m. at the Red Lion, Mawnan Smith. Everyone is welcome to just turn up and play. It is a normal pub environment, so there is plenty of action and we play with a drink in hand.

For more information contact Mick Ferrie at loenter@hotmail.com or 01326 250403

Penzance

Chess is played at the Redwing Gallery, Wood Lane (just off Market Jew Street opposite the Wharfside shopping centre) on Wednesdays and Fridays at 11 o'clock a.m. The telephone number is 01736 448402.

Helston

If you would like to play some friendly games, please come along to the Godolphin Club in Wendron Street any Monday or Wednesday evening at 7.30 p.m. or call Steve Fanning on 01326 372948.

Ian George

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Last updated 16/4/2019

Complete fixture lists for each club can be found on the club pages

Expanded league tables, the draws for the cup competitions and links to the detailed results are here.

Win = 4, draw = 2, loss = 1, default = 0 points

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Win = 4, draw = 2, loss = 1, default = 0 points

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Win = 4, draw = 2, loss = 1, default = 0 points

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