With the nights drawing in and the trees starting to turn, we have some good news.
The club reopens on Thursday 4th September!
The Oxfordshire Leagues restarts in October with Cumnor 1 in div 2 and Cumnor 2 in div 4.
I am sure you have had a good summer and see you on Thursday.
We are into the last few weeks of the season, but there is still plenty to play for.
In Division 1, Witney 1 are the champions winning 11 games out of 11, while MCS/B1 are going to be relegated back to division 2.
At the top of division 2, Witney 2 and Didcot 1 have only one game between each other to settle the title, a shoot out!
A win or draw for Didcot 1 will mean they are Champions while a win for Witney 2 means they will receive the title.
Both have been at the top of the division for most of the season with a massive 9 points between Witney 2 in second and Cumnor 1 in third, the difference between third and last is 8 points.
At the wrong end of the table it’s gone down to one game. Cowley 3 play Cumnor 1 on Monday and any result for Cowley 3 will save them at the expense of Bicester 1.
In Division 3, is all done and dusted with Didcot 2 winning the title and Abingdon School being relegated with a game in hand.
Division 4 is an all-Witney affair, at the top is Witney 4 and at the bottom are Witney 5. Cumnor 2 currently sit 4th with 5 wins 2 draws and 5 losses.
The Frank Wood Shield, in the final is between Didcot 1 and Oxford City 1.
The New Grades where released this week and can be found here.
Last night was the Trophy presentation night for the 2013 Players Cup. The final positions where as follows:-
1st Liam
2nd Gareth
3rd Steve
The 2014 Players Cup has already started with 17 players battling it out for the top prize, it will be very competitive this year.
Cumnor 2 played a match on Monday evening against Cowley 4 and drew 3-3
Cumnor Chess Club’s second team started the season in fine form, achieving a convincing win against Wantage 2 on Thursday, 10th October 2013.
| Cumnor 2 | Wantage 2 | ||
| 1 | Sayers, Mark (134) | ½ – ½ | Booker, Julian (110) |
| 2 | Carr, Robin (126) | 1 – 0 | Barker, Richard (109) |
| 3 | Alvarez, Francisco (114) | 1 – 0 | Cordon, Ray (103) |
| 4 | Bennett, Steven (114) | ½ – ½ | Rey, Alvaro (86) |
| 5 | Cluley, Graham (113) | 1 – 0 | Mahon, Paul (69) |
| 6 | Steel, Robert (87) | 1 – 0 | Raimbach, Arron (42) |
| Match played: 10 Oct 2013 | 5 – 1 | ||
Come back soon to read more about the individual games that were played in this match.
Cumnor 2 finally managed to get its game against Cowley Workers 2 on Thursday evening.
You may recall that the match was originally scheduled to be played earlier this month, but had to be postponed due to a lack of players on the Cowley Workers side.
Unfortunately, Cowley Workers 2 still only managed to bring five players with them to last night’s rescheduled match – meaning they had defaulted one board from the beginning.
Robert and Graham finished their games first, both with wins and with oddly-similar mates involving both Bishops (see the final positions in the diagrams below).
Liam also got a win making it 4-0 to the Cumnor team playing at home.
Pako picked up an endgame draw but unfortunately Mike lost.
| Cumnor 2 | Cowley Workers 2 | ||
| 1 | Glenn, Liam (129) | 1 – 0 | Matilal, Tamal (128) |
| 2 | Alvarez, Francisco (118) | ½ – ½ | Cartwright, Paul (113) |
| 3 | Jones, Michael (117) | 0 – 1 | Miller, David H (91) |
| 4 | Cluley, Graham (118) | 1 – 0 | Buckland, Chris ( ) |
| 5 | Steel, Robert (89) | 1 – 0 | Joy, Nathan ( ) |
| 6 | Bennett, Steven (108) | 1 – 0 | _default_ (-) |
| Match played: 28 Mar 2013 | 4½ – 1½ | ||
Final board position for Graham Cluley (Cumnor 2) vs Chris Buckland (Cowley Workers 2):
Final board position for Nathan Joy (Cowley Workers 2) vs Robert Steel (Cumnor 2):
