Come and play chess at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum - bring friends too

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Calling all Rugby Junior Chess players ...

You are invited to participate in a seasonal chess fest on 22 December. This will take place on the ground floor of Rugby Art Gallery and Museum (the glass-fronted room next to the entrance to the Library).

Note that there is a session in the morning for younger (primary school-aged) children and one in the afternoon for older players. If you can persuade people at your school, or at scouts or other clubs, to come alomg that would be great. At the summer event we attracted some new junior players and we would like even more!!!

Parents who play chess are also very welcome and the RAGM requires that any children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult.

Hope to see you there.

Warwickshire Junior Chess Congress 2011

The club was vey well represtented by six juniors at the Warwickshire Junior Tournament at end of November.  

We had four entrants in the under 12 section; Kai Cockrell had three wins and three draws (so was unbeaten) and scored 4.5 points, Julien Carrouche, Leo Johnson and Jamie Kearney,all got 3.5 points (Jamie despite a bad migraine).

In the under 16 section Rhys Davies won a respectable 3 games and in the under 10 section William Kendell scored 4 points.

All in all a  strong result for the club.  Well done to all who played.

Date for your diary: Thursday 22nd December

Keep this date free for an afternoon game of chess in Rugby Library. The event will be aimed at junior players and there will be adults from Rugby Chess Club available for coaching. More details to follow. Sue

32nd Northamptonshire Junior Congress

Several Rugby Juniors took part and did well in the 31st Northamptonshire Junior Congress last year November 2010.  See these reports for the Under 12's and Under 14's.

The 32nd Congress takes place on Saturday 19th November - a good warm up for the Warwickshire Junior Congress a week later.   Download an entry form here.

Jamie Kearney has entered.  Can we get enough entries to make a RJCC team?

A reminder about supervising children

We may have less adults at the club for the next few meetings so please remember that all children must be supervised because we are not able to take responsibility for them. Thanks. Sue

Rugby C vs Coventry B Board 4, 11 Oct 2011

As we write this the Rugby C vs Coventry B match is still ongoing so we don't know the final result but here is Jamie's game for those that are interested. I won't spoil the fun by revealing the result until you have played through the game :-)

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[Event "CDCL"]
[Site "Rugby C vs Coventry B"]
[Date "2011.10.11"]
[Round "Divisional Cup"]
[White "James Kearney"]
[Black "M Johnson"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "?"]
[BlackELO "132"]

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7 4. d3 Nf6 5. Be3 O-O 6. a3 d6 7. Nc3 Na5 8.
Ba2 c5 9. Qd2 Nc6 10. O-O-O Nd4 11. Bxd4 cxd4 12. Nd5 Nxd5 13. Bxd5 Rb8 14.
h4 Bg4 15. Rdg1 h6 16. Kb1 Kh7 17. Nh2 Be6 18. f4 Bxd5 19. exd5 exf4 20. Qxf4
Qa5 21. Qe4+ Kh8 22. Qxe7 Qxd5 23. Qe4 Qc5 24. Nf3 Rbc8 25. Nxd4 Rfe8 26. Qf4
f6 27. c3 Re5 28. g4 Rce8 29. g5 fxg5 30. hxg5 h5 31. Rxh5+ Kg8 32. g6 Re1+
33. Rxe1 Rxe1+ 34. Kc2 Qc7 35. Rh8+ Kxh8 36. Qf8# 1-0

Geat start for juniors in the Coventry League !

Last Tuesday saw a tremendous start for our junior team in the Coventry league cup for division 3.

After a practice on Monday night of how to play with competition rules, clocks and score sheets our newcomers gained a 2-2 draw against an experienced Coventry G team.

On top board Rhys Davies played well to secure a win against Daniels Rowlands - Rhys was the one of our team who had ever played in the Coventry league!
On 2nd board Nicola Carouche won against Trevor Beesley with a very convincing attack.
On board 3 Jonathan Payne had a clear win against Trevor Gazee but threw it away at the end (better luck next time Jonathan), while on board 4 Leo Johnson had long though unsuccessful game against Tomas White. (Leo had had to come back from an all-day school outing to play in the match).
We hope to get some more games in the season so that more of our juniors can play some league chess - particularly with results like this !