Willis ½ - ½ Morgan, Major
Kneebone 1 - 0 George, Premier
Menadue 1 - 0 Trudeau, Premier

Hasssall 1 - 0 Moxey, Division 3, Bd.4
Morgan 1 - 0 Wiseman, Division 4, Bd.4
Bettley 0 - 1 Kostadinov, Division 6, Bd.4

Kneebone 1 - 0 Beryozkin, 4NCL Autumn U2000, Rd.5

Lists of all featured games:
Local
General

English Chess Federation
English Chess Federation
ECF Grading Database

Dee Jay 28/10/2020

Team Competitions
West of England Counties Online Championship
4NCL Online League (season 3)
Cornwall Online League (season 2)

Individual Events
Bude Under 125 tournament
Cornwall Online Winter Congress
2^nd Cornwall Online Congress
4NCL Autumn Online Congress

Cornwall Online Chess
Fair Play Guidelines
List of Members with online ratings Lichess: Cornwall team

Others
ECF Online Ratings Lichess User Guide
How to start a game in Lichess

Completed Events
Results of completed events
1^st Cornwall Online Congress
4NCL Online League (season 2)
Online match: Falmouth & Truro 4 - 7 Lewisham
Cornwall Online League (season 1)
4NCL Online League (season 1)
National Online Club Championship

This starts up in January 2021. Arrangements are similar to the 1^st Cornwall Online Congress except that it consists of 3 rated Swisses (U2100, U1800, U1550) and that there is only one game per round at 45'/15" time rate. Information, arrangements and how to enter

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The competition has now finished. Final standings, round by round scores and the prize list are here.

Ian George

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Anyone with a past or present connection with Cornwall is welcome to enter. Holidays don't count!

Sun 24 January 2021

Start time: 1 p.m.

Single section. Two or more graded sections if 18 or more entries

5 rounds.

Rate of play: 30 min + 15 sec increment from move 1

There is no entry fee

Prizes per section: 1^st £50, 2^nd £25, 3^rd £15. Grading prizes £50 each

Go to the Congress Summary page for details of how to enter

Detailed Information and Arrangements

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This will be a five-round Swiss from on Friday 15 to Sunday 17 January 2021. Information and Arrangements

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This was held as a Swiss with seven fortnightly rounds from 1^st September to 24^th November

Congratulations to Robin Kneebone who won the Under 2000 section with 7/7 and a clear margin of 1½ points.

Results of the Cornish players were as follows:

OPEN: 7^th= Jeremy Menadue: 4½. 49 entries

UNDER 2000: 1^st Robin Kneebone: 7. 22^nd= Jamie Morgan: 3½. 45^th= Kieran Macphail: 2. 55 entries

UNDER 1700: 19^th= Maurice Richards: 4. 27^th= Christine Constable, Bryan Jones: 3½. 37^th= David R Jenkins: 3. 54^th= Lloyd Russell:2. 64^th= Hugh Brown: 1. 68 entries

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There are some free Tuesdays before the 4NCL starts its third season on 26^th January 2021. On those evenings we will be running a series of Themed tournaments. They will all be unrated and the rate of play will be 10 minutes plus 10 seconds increment from move 1. All games will start with the same opening position with White or Black to move as appropriate. The programme is:

08/12/20: Sicilian Najdorf

15/12/20: Modern Benoni

22/12/20: French, Winawer variation

29/12/20: Queen's Gambit Accepted

05/01/21: Sicilian Dragon

12/01/21: Nimzo Indian

19/01/21: King's Gambit Accepted

Ian George

For three years from 1992 our president, David Jenkins, was Head of Education and Psychology and a professor at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. During that time he was a member of the Fiji team at the Moscow Olympiad of 1994 and was elected president of the Fiji Chess Federation in 1995. Since returning to the UK he has maintained contact with the chess community on the island.

I am delighted to be able to announce that as a result David has managed to instigate an online match between Cornwall and Fiji to be played on Saturday, 16^th January 2021 starting at 9.30 a.m. The rate of play will be 45 minutes for the whole game plus 15 seconds per move from move 1. Number of boards, composition of teams and other arrangements will be announced as soon as they are finalised.

This wonderful initiative is another example of the immense contribution that David has made to Cornish chess since moving into the county a number of years ago.

Ian George

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Back in October I approached all seven West of England Counties to see if there was any interest in holding a western counties championship played online. I am pleased to say that all seven counties responded positively. The event will therefore get under way in the new year as a five round all-play-all featuring Cornwall, Devon, Dorset & Wilts (combined team), Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Somerset. Matches will be played over 16 boards at 60//15" on Sunday evenings at fortnightly intervals beginning on 10th January.

From a Cornish perspective it will be good to play matches against counties we haven't met for several years, in the case of Dorset and Wiltshire 20 and 15 years respectively.

Robin Kneebone has kindly agreed to captain the Cornwall team.

Detailed Information and Arrangements

Ian George

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Nine Cornish teams entered. 7 fortnightly rounds. Full details, including links to fixtures, results, standings and other information here.

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Double-round all-play-all tournament for players with ECF grades under 125 on the July 2020 Grading List.

Pairings, results and standings here

Chris Constable

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Online Chess

In order to provide somewhere for local players to play now that meetings and social gatherings have been shut down for the foreseeable future, we have set up Cornwall Chess Online so that organised chess can continue in the county. We have therefore created an Cornwall team on lichess.org. Instructions on how to join lichess and the Cornwall group and enter a tournament are here.

Links to upcoming events and other information are in the right-hand column of this page.

A list of members with their user names is here. When we are able to resume over the board play, Cornwall Chess Online will continue.

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How to Get Good at Chess

This article from the Guardian (14^th November 2020) is by Stephen Moss who wrote The Rookie in 2017, an account of his attempts to improve his game and much else besides. The article suggests various strategies for improvement. It can be found here.

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Spurious Games

Our County Association president David Jenkins has published Spurious Games (Troubadour Press), a novel with relevance to the local chess scene. You can find more information here.

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Last updated 30/11/2020