English Chess Forum

The Torbay League has been using a time limit of 60+30 for a number of years having switched from the previously used of 75+15 QPF. Matches start at 7 p.m. Instances of games seriously over-running have been rare, not surprising since even a 70-move game will only give a 3 hour 10 minute session and...

Ronnie’s evocation of Brian Boomsma ( whom I first played in 1965) took me back to an amusing incident about 15 years ago when I was playing in the South Hams Rapidplay at Kingsbridge in South Devon. After about 19 moves in our game Brian picked up a bishop on f8 and made to move it in the direction...

I am sorry to report the death on 28 September of Ivor Annetts, a stalwart of Devon chess for over 60 years. Ivor was in his mid-eighties and passed away at his home in Silverton near Tiverton, Devon after a period of illness. Ivor was a member at various times of chess clubs in Teignmouth, Newton A...

Although I had met and spoken to Stewart several times before 2013 it was in that year I got to know him better. It was the occasion of the British Championships which were being staged at the English Riviera Centre in Torquay and Stewart was involved in setting up a social programme of special even...

Chess players in Devon were saddened recently by the death of James (Jim) O'Grady at the age of 74. Jim was latterly a member of Newton Abbot Chess Club and, before that, of Teignmouth club. he was an active player of correspondence chess for many years and also took part in congresses, most recentl...