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Posted on: 20 Dec 2025
Our year ending tournament was the annual End-Of-Year-Blitz. The competition was played as a round robin over 8 rounds. Games were played at 5 minutes per player per game.
Congratulations to Scott Stringer & Bob van den Bergh for winning the competition.
Former Junior Champion Nathan Houghton returned to the Club for this competition. Welcome back Nathan!
Full Results » 2025 End of Year Blitz…
Posted on: 14 Nov 2025
Sadly, Akash Patel did not defend his 2024 title this year, leaving the title open. In the final, Scott and Bob fought for more than three hours over two nights. In the final position Scott has an extra pawn, but Bob has a dangerous passed a-pawn. Scott forced a draw by repetitive check on move 50 (The R repeats moves ....Rg2+....Rh2+).
The final position
Full Results » 2025 Club Ladder…
Posted on: 5 Jul 2025
Seven players competed in this year's Midwinter Blitz competition. Six rounds were played with games timed at five minutes-per-player-per-game.
Newcomers Tristran and Bella earned their first provisional Blitz rating and Daniel converted his provisional rating to a full NCC Blitz rating.
Congratulations to Scott for winning overall.
Full Results » 2025 Midwinter Blitz...
Posted on: 26 Nov 2024
This is an extended competition, played over two consecutive nights.
Bob van den Bergh was the clear winner on a perfect 5/5. He and Akash fought out a difficult and instructive pawn endgame to conclude the final game.
Full Results » 2024 King's Gambit…
