Congress

The West Wales Congress was held last weekend (11th - 13th October) at the Mercure Hotel in Llansamlet. It was well attended and the headline results were as follows:

West Wales Open

1st: Daniel Kozusek 4.5/5; =2nd: Grzegorz Toczek, Ian D Thompson 4/5; 33 players competed.

West Wales Major

=1st: David Pinch, Philip Pe 4/5; 20 players competed.

West Wales Minor

1st Alex Lawrence 4.5/5; 2nd Paul G Bevan 4/5; 9 players competed.

Full results are available for download in our documents section West Wales Congress 2019- Results

West Wales Individual Championship

The first round of the West Wales Individual Championship (E.J. Clarke) took place at the Upper Killay Chess Club on Wednesday 16th October. There are 23 entrants and as seems to be the tradition the majority were from the Morriston club. The first round results are as follows

Daniel Chung 0 v 1 Ian Jones
Peter Bevan 1 v 0 Tony Goodchild Greg Goold 0 v 1 Moss McCarthy Phillip Pe 1 v 0 Paul Bevan
Janet Evans 0 v 1 Duncan Williams
Andrew Smith 1 v 0 Leighton Anthony John Davies 0 v 1 Neil Stuart Ralph Cook 1 v 0 Andrew Powell Dennis Thomas 0 v 1 Joel Chung
Albert Easton 1 v 0 Joe Spooner June Evans bye The game between Steve Lockley and Steve Edwards had to be postponed.

The next round was due to be played on Tuesday the 29th October but this has had to be cancelled as the venue is unavailable. The competition will, therefore, move on to what is down as round 3. This is scheduled for Monday 2nd December at the Morriston Chess Club.

17/10/2019