Welcome to the New Season

Everything from last year is available in the Archive

8th August - Dyfed Online

Dyfed has become the third zone
with online ratings. See link above.

Glorney and Faber Cups

Gwent Players - Jac Thomas, David Cleverly
and Megan Owens

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3rd August - Home Again

Back from Prague, where I scored a disappointing 4/9.
Had a good time though - strongly recommended.

Jac (Under 16) and Megan (Under 14) suffered
disasters at the British Champs.

21st July - New ECF Grades

The new English list has been published, effective June 1st
Ratings have been revised

A new version is promised, to counter the deflation
of recent years.

21st July - Bideford Congress

David Vaughan scored 2/4, a little below par

20th July - Llanishen Congress

Games rated, crosstables to follow

The following Gwent players participated -
Open - Robert Taylor, Dave Turner, Gary Thomas
Major - Nigel Granville, Dave Williams, Steve Vickery, Mark Emblem
Minor - Phil Smith, William Newrick, Lyn Holland and
Nicholas Watson (ungraded, Monmouth)

14th July - Bristol Congress

John Waterfield scored 2.5/5 in a strong
weekend event.

July 8th - Saint Lo Junior International

Jac and Joseff Thomas won their opening games,
but David Cleverly and Sam Lazarus lost.
Click on the link above to follow their progress.

July 5th - South Wales International

Play has started in the SWI.
Click on the link above for the website

FIDE Ratings - July 1st

Congratulations to Steve Vickery who joins the list at 1787

The Welsh Championships were not submitted
to FIDE for rating. That was before my time.
I will try to sort it out asap.

Welsh KO Cup Finals 29/6/2008

North Gwent (Under 1800) 1.5 - 2.5 Bridgend
Newport (Under 1500) 0.5 - 3.5 Castell Nedd

Yeovil Congress

John Waterfield scored 2.5/5 in the Open.
Megan Owens 3/4 + 0.5/1 byes in the Intermediate.
All games to be regraded when the new ECF rating list appears.

North Gwent reach Final

North Gwent have reached the final of the Welsh U -1800
KO Cup, beating Morriston on board count last night.

2/6/2008 - Junior Internationals at Monmouth

Wales played two English regional teams
(SE and SW) this weekend.

There were four Juniors from Gwent -
Megan Owens, Peter Downing and George Davies (U-14)
Luke Kostanjsek (U-12)

Opponents ratings will be revised when new list is published.

Oxford University Congress

John Waterfield took first place in the Under-170 Section,
with 4/4 + 0.5 Bye. Dave Turner won a grading prize in the Open

29/5/2008 - News

Newport reached the final of the U-1500 KO Cup
last night, by defeating Caerphilly 3 - 1.

First results from the Cotswolds Championships -
David Vaughan 2.5/5 + 0.5 Bye
John Waterfield 2/5 + 1 pt Bye