SCCU London Club Championships

Adam Raoof reports, Brendan O'Gorman takes photos

On Saturday 24th June 2023 we held a second sold out Southern Counties Team Championships at the home of Golders Green Rapidplays, St Luke’s Church. For more information about chess tournaments organised by the same team, check www.chessengland.com.

Thanks to David Gilbert for organising the event, Rob Hammond and Lance Leslie-Smith for arbiting, and to all the captains who put together teams and thanks to everyone who played.   Here are the lineups - https://sccu-chess.com/index.php/en/teams and here is the Chess Results record of the pairings and results - https://chess-results.com/tnr765531.aspx?lan=1

Games appeared on the ECF Rating List promptly http://www.ecfrating.org.uk/v2/new/list_events.php on Wednesday morning - thanks to Lance Leslie-Smith for doing that.

Photographs from the event are here - courtesy of Brendan O’Gorman (see above), the unofficial photographer of record for chess in England. If you happen to use them in a team report please attribute them as “Photo by Brendan O’Gorman”.

https://brendanogorman.smugmug.com/Chess/2023/Southern-Counties-Chess-Union-Team-Rapidplay-2023

David Gilbert hopes to get a bit of space in the August edition of Chess Magazine.

For the record Final Tables are beneath:

Congratulations to the winners - Richmond & Twickenham (Major); Wanstead & Woodford Dynamos (Intermediate); and Wanstead & Woodford All Stars (Minor).  All sections were very close and went down to the wire.

Best wishes.

David Gilbert

SCCU Organiser