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31st July: The Braunstone club will be holding an evening quickplay event on Tuesday 6th September - and visitors are welcome; there will be a limit of 30 entries. It will be a 5 round swiss, with handicaps. Please contact the Braunstone club secretary Paul Colburn if you would like to enter - see the Braunstone Club website for more details.

26th July: The entries for league teams for the new season have now been completed, and there will be 39 teams playing in 5 divisions. The league season will start on week beginning October 3rd. The teams in each division are as follows:

25th July: In the fourth round of the County Championship a tense battle between the leaders ended with Graham Sharpe defeating Ilian Mladenov and Alan Byron joined Graham at the top of the leaderboard with a win against Andy Morley. They will meet each other in round 5, they both have three and a half points. Closely behind them on three points are Nwachukwu Chino and John Denton who meet each other. The fifth round is due to be played on 18th August at the Wigston club. The full draw can be found here.

17th July: The details of the annual H E Atkins Leicester Chess Congress have now been announced. It will run from Friday September 30th to Sunday 2nd October. There are three sections, the Open which is FIDE rated, the Major for players graded below 160 and the Minor for gradings below 130. Excellent prizes are on offer - please support your local congress! Full details with on line entry can be found on the congress website www.leicesterchess.co.uk

4th July: The documentary film "Bobby Fischer Against the World" is to be premiered in London on July 5th 2011. The event will include GM Nigel Short playing a 20 board simul before the film screening. Special guests include former world snooker Champion Steve Davis. The event will be hosted by CJ de Mooi of The Eggheads. The film is scheduled to be shown at the Phoenix theater in Leicester on August 2nd. You can watch the trailer
on theUK Website <http://www.bobbyfischermovie.co.uk/>.

23rd June: In the third round of the County Championship the battle between the two leaders Ilian Mladenov and Alan Byron ended in a draw and they were joined at the top of the leaderboard by Graham Sharpe and Andy Morley who beat Phil Horspool and Graham Booley respectively. They all have two and a half points. Closely behind them on two points are Phil Harlow, Martin Burrows, Paul Colburn, Nwachukwu Chino and John Denton. The fourth round is due to be played on 21st July at the Wigston club. In the fourth round Graham Sharpe has white against Ilian Mladenov and Alan Byron has white against Andy Morley. The full draw can be found here.

19th June: All the league clubs have been sent entry forms for the new league season which starts in September 2011 and these are due in by the end of June. Any new clubs wishing to enter should contact the league secretary here.

6th June: The 2011 County Championships are now well underway with 2 rounds completed. Joint leaders are Ilian Mladenov and Alan Byron who meet each other in round 3.

25th May: Leicestershire first team played Hertfordshire in the quarter finals of the Minor Counties Championship and drew 8 - 8 in a tense match. Unfortunately Leics lost on board count. The team sheet can be seen here. The other county results can be found here: MCCU Stage Matches

25th April: The League has now been completed.  Division 1 was won by Wigston 1; Division 2 by Shepshed 2; Division 3 by Ashby 2; Division 4 by Melton Mowbray 3; Division 5 by Spinney Hill 2.

22nd February: Scraptoft Valley Chess Club has been forced to find new premises.  With immediate effect, this club will now play at the Swallow Inn, Thurnby.

30th November: Hinckley player Peter Gibbs has, as a result of consistent high performance during his prime, been awarded the title of English National Master by ECF.  Congratulations, Peter!

17th November: The 150th Anniversary of LRCA was celebrated on Friday 5 November by a GM Simultaneous Display by Keith Arkell, held at the Braunstone Civic Centre.  Eighteen Leicestershire players faced Keith, three of them juniors.  (Keith thought this was a good turnout).  All eighteen survived until the mid-evening break, at which wine and food were served.  Soon afterwards, however, Keith’s victims started to accumulate, and he finished with a score of +16, =1, -1.  Congratulations to Richard Vann of the Ashby club, who took full advantage of a rare GM error to score our only win, and to John Glover of Loughborough, who achieved a sound and excellent draw.  Keith was also full of praise for Amber Carter of Red Admiral, who succumbed at the very end of the evening, having tenaciously fought a difficult endgame against one of the country’s strongest endgame experts.  “She found the best move time and again” said Keith.  Overall a good time was had by everyone, and LRCA should perhaps look out for similar opportunities for social events in future.  Our visitor proved to be a really delightful and friendly opponent as well as a formidable one, and his efforts on our behalf are much appreciated.

2nd October: The Annual Charity Evening was held on Thursday 30 September 2010 at the Spinney Hill WMC in Leicester.  Sixteen teams of four took part in a 4-round rapid play event.  The Smith trophy for the overall winners was taken by Wigston 1 with 7 points, after a very close last round match against Scraptoft Valley 1, who finished with 6 points, along with Loughborough 1, Heathcote Arms 1, and Shepshed.  The Boot Trophy, in which players' rapid play grades are used to decide a handicap competition was again won by Hinckley, by the closest possible margin from Loughborough 1.  This very enjoyable event resulted in a total of £150 being raised from entrance fees and donations for the Chairman's annual charity, which this year was the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance. Test

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