Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation

Austin Lockwood  Monday, October 8, 2018

The 2018 WCCF Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday 25th November at the Premier Inn, Cardiff City Centre (Meeting Room One), 10 Churchill Way, Cardiff from 14:30 to 17:30.

All Welsh players are invited to attend; numbers may be limited, so please register your attendance in advance with the secretary by email to [email protected]

Any agenda items or proposals should be sent to the secretary no later than Saturday 10th November.

The meeting will be preceded by an open correspondence chess workshop to be held from 13:00 to 14:00.

The full agenda and details of the workshop will be distributed two weeks before the date of the meeting.

Russell Sherwood  Sunday, October 7, 2018

From the October update, the most interesting and what could turn out to be a critical game in terms of qualification is shown below. If you have a game you would like to show then get in touch!

Russell Sherwood  Sunday, October 7, 2018

A fairly quiet month with 95 visible completed games. 2 draws against SIM and 2 wins and 7 draws against ICCF-IM.

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Russell Sherwood  Sunday, October 7, 2018

Another new Trio set up and the first for our new TD , Andrew Smith!

Russell Sherwood  Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Hot on the heels of Austin Lockwood achieving his IA Title, the WCCF is pleased to announce Andrew Smith joining the Welsh TD Team.

Russell Sherwood  Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Italy have raced to an early 12-4 lead in this event 

These early results are somewhat misleading - the event is effectively in two halves:

On the top half of the table, we are behind 3.5-4.5, despite a near 100 average elo disadvantage. On the bottom half, we are doing rather less well with a 0.5-7.5 scoreline, although this is to be expected considering an over 300 elo average disadvantage!

So we fight on!

Russell Sherwood  Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Congratulations to Upper Killay in both topping the Division and beating local rivals Castle Ned in the BCCL 1st Division

Russell Sherwood  Tuesday, October 2, 2018

It is great to report new records.

We reached a new record in terms of posts in a month, passed 150 posts for the year and had a record number of visitors both from international and UK sources!

Austin Lockwood  Sunday, September 30, 2018

The thoughts of all delegates and attendees at the recent ICCF Congress in Llandudno were with the sad loss of the former ICCF Finance Director and National Delegate for Scotland, George Pyrich.

ICCF and the Welsh Correspondence Chess Federation were honoured that George's wife, Catherine, accepted our invitation to attend Congress.  George's sister Irene, and brother Ronnie also attended the excursion to Llanberis and the closing banquet of Congress.

Many Congress attendees have told me how much they appreciated meeting members of George's family at Congress.

Catherine wrote to me recently to ask me to announce publicly her thanks to ICCF and WCCF for making her feel welcomed and supported.

Russell Sherwood  Sunday, September 30, 2018

Congratulations to WCCF President Peter Bevan in winning the South Wales Autumn Blitz with a perfect score of 11/11!