Exeter Chess Club - 1994 HIGHLIGHTS

Club Championship won by Ken Hills [5.5/6], and General Tournament by Rex Willis [5/6].

The Exeter & District Chess League competitions were won overall by Exeter - in all three divisions! The League came Second in the WECU Jamboree at Taunton, having won it in 1993.

In the DCCA competitions, Exeter won Division I (Bremridge Cup) [20-4] and Division II (Mamhead Cup) [15-5], coming 1st in the Team Quickplay [18/20] and 2nd in the Rapid Play (Newman Cup). The annual match against Taunton (Iles Cup) was also won [11-1].

A phenomenal performance at the Paignton Congress by Peter Lane, who won the Challengers' Section outright [7/7], gaining First Prize [œ250], together with a framed print of Oldway Mansion, which he may hold for one year, by the unprecedented courtesy of the restaurateur!

Gary Lane, IM, of Paignton and Brussels, has accepted our invitation to preside at our Centennial Simultaneous in September / October, 1995: he will be offering his own books as prizes!

The Presidential membership target of 70 was attained during the off-season: a Secretarial target of 100 members by the end of 1995 has been declared to mark our first Centenary!

BCF Direct Membership has remained solid despite the discontinuation of the allowance on Club subscriptions: existing Direct Members should contact me in the Bar when 'omnipresent'.... It is still worth joining this scheme - please contact me for full particulars.

Exeter Junior Chess Club's constitution was passed by the Centre's Management Committee:

meetings were allowed in the Polsloe Room on Fridays (1800-2000) at nominal per capita fees.

Extra session in Polsloe Room - on Thursdays - granted by Community Education Tutor.

Senior coaching was started in the Painting Room on Tuesdays (2000-2100).

Posters have been placed in the Central Library (including the Children's Library) and Branch Libraries, as well as in the Tourist Office / Information Bureau in the Civic Centre, Paris Street.

Our posters may also be seen in Exeter City Council's Bedford Street display cabinets.

Our publicity material may soon be introduced into the Northcott and Barnfield Theatres, and also into the Exeter & Devon Arts Centre in Gandy Street and at the kiosk in Princesshay.

The Club has been publicized - in the context of the Exeter & District Chess League - by the East Devon District Council in their Directory of Sporting Opportunities in East Devon, 1994/95 [q.v.]; Club representation has also been solicited by the East Devon Sports Association.

Chess coverage, albeit incommensurate, has been accorded us in the Express & Echo; but, after a direct approach - indeed, a reproach - to the Editor, a weekly column has again been offered under Around the Clubs, where the regular Bridge article appears on Fridays. Watch that space!

27th September, 1994

G. J. JENKINS

Hon. Secretary

EXETER CHESS CLUB - FOUNDED 1895

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