Category: Club News

Recent Gwent Closed Championships

Posted on June 6, 2024June 6, 2024 by admin

Congratulations to James Lavender, Lee Davis and Peter AC Varley for jointly winning the Gwent Closed Championships with 3.5/5 points. A hotly fought contest which allows them to jointly be names Gwent Champions. James did well to hold onto this title.

Congratulations to Ron Williams who came joint first in the U1600 section with Bob Hurn on 4.5/5.

Can we at Malpas, thank Chris Dixon for organising the Venue at the Sebastopol Social Club.

Thanks also to the organisations skills of Jon Gilbert and arbiter John Thornton.

A great Weekend and long may it continue as an annual event in Gwent.

Dave N

Gwent AGM

Posted on May 3, 2024July 10, 2024 by admin

Can I make members aware that the timing of the Gwent AGM will be as follows:

Wednesday 26th June 2024 at 7.15pm at the Sebastopol Social Club (Pontypool Chess Club Venue)

Please inform Dave N if you wish to attend.

Quickplay League Schedule Announced

Posted on March 4, 2024 by admin

The Quickplay schedule has been released and the Malpas games are published below:

Quickplay Schedule

Newport Chess Congress 2024

Posted on February 16, 2024February 16, 2024 by admin

We are gearing up at after Easter to get the ball rolling with spreading the word about the Newport Chess Congress. Here is a flyer. Details can be found at https://newportchesscongress.uk Please feel free to start spreading the word!

Payment of Subs

Posted on October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 by admin

Can I gently remind those who have yet to pay their subscriptions that these should be made soon. Jon Gilbert has to pay zone fees to the WCU by the end of October.

If Dave Norris could receive the subs then he will forward payment to Jon Gilbert.

Many thanks

David

Club Night – 27th Sept 2023 – 7pm

Posted on September 17, 2023September 24, 2023 by admin

We are having a club night on Wednesday 27th Sept 2023 at 7pm. We have some new members who wish to join our club so can we give them a nice welcome.

Afterwards, we can play fun chess!

So all welcome, hope to see you there!!

Gwent fixtures are in!

Posted on September 17, 2023 by admin

The Gwent fixtures for Division 1 and Division 2 are now available and the Malpas games can be found under the Gwent League item on the menu of this site.

Note that Division 1 is a 4 board league team; whereas, Division 2 is a 3 board league team.

Also the names of the players are provisionally allocated to the teams under the sub-menu Teams.

Hope this all makes sense!

New Website Design

Posted on September 15, 2023September 17, 2023 by admin

With the new season starting, I thought we’d try a new website design. I have migrated the site to a new host so that we can utilise Chess plugins and see some games that we play during the season. If there is anything you want to put on then let me know!

Newport Chess Congress

Posted on September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 by admin

Can we say a big thank you to all the Malpas Chess players who entered the Newport Congress last weekend. I think it was a great experience for some and we hope that it can be a regular fixture in the chess calendar.

Congratulations to Ron W who managed to come joint 3rd in the Intermediate. Also thanks to Andrew E, Andrew B, Jesse and Jack for participating and getting good experience for the league matches which will come shortly and for other tournaments in the near future. Well Done!!