Minutes of Telepost Chess Club Annual General Meeting Held at Telepost Club on Tuesday 2nd September 2008 PresentKeith Tabner (Secretary), John Westhead (Treaurer), John Casewell, John Bashall, Brian Holford, Adrian Bowyer, Shane Sweeney, David Bates, Richard Bryant, Vincent Crean, Jamie Hopkins, Charles Micallef. Apologies – Peter Crean Review of Last Season Last season was highly successful for …
Minutes of Telepost Chess Club Annual General MeetingHeld at Telepost Club on Thursday 30th August 2007 PresentKeith Tabner (Secretary), John Liddell (Treaurer), John Casewell, John Westhead, John Bashall, Peter Crean, Steve Jones, Brian Holford, Adrian Bowyer, Shane Sweeney. Review of Last SeasonAlthough our teams generally underperformed in the league last year, there was a success …
Minutes of Telepost Chess Club Annual General MeetingHeld at Telepost Club on Tuesday 6th Sept 2005 PresentKeith Tabner (Secretary), John Liddell (Treaurer), John Casewell, John Westhead, John Bashall, Peter Crean, Bob Simpson, David Adderley, Steve Jones, Steve Kempsall, Jamie Hopkins, Joe Adderley. Neil AllenThe meeting began with one minute’s silence in memory of A team captain …
Minutes of Telepost Chess Club Annual General MeetingHeld at Telepost Club on Tuesday 7th Sept 2004 Present:- Keith Tabner (Secretary), John Liddell (Treaurer), Richard Bryant, John Westhead, John Bashall, Peter Crean, Bob Simpson, David Adderley, Steve Jones, Neil AllenReview of Last Season A Team – Finished runners-up in both league and cup thus ending a run …
Telepost Chess Club 2002-2003 Season Telepost Chess Club celebrated their most successful season with a knight at the local Indian restaurant. The Telepost A team won the first division title for a fourth successive year, matching a feat previously only achieved by Coddon. This year it was the top two boards who excelled. On board one …
Nick Holmes, with contributions from John Casewell and Dennis Bonner, reports on our experience of lockdowns in an article which first appeared in the February 2022 edition of the English Chess Federation ChessMoves newsletter 10 March 2020 – teams from four Shropshire clubs, including one from Telepost Club in Shrewsbury, are squeezed into a small, airless …
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Kate Walker reports on an unprecedented edition of the British Chess Championships, held online in the midst of the pandemic Playing 19 chess matches in 10 days is tough, but playing 19 matches in the days leading up to Christmas in a British Championship is even tougher! With all chess currently being played online since …
Club founder Bill Clarke, from his home in Paris, reflects on rejoining the club and changes in chess Earlier this month I re-joined the club after an absence of around 25 years. How the chess world has changed since I formed the NALGO club in 1978. There has been a massive improvement in communications and …
John Casewell takes us to the present day My father taught me the game of draughts and referred to chess as too complicated a game to learn. When my son Ian came along I decided to teach myself the game in order to teach him. At that time there was a TV programme by the …
Keith Tabner takes up the story From 1982 to 1987 I played chess for Shifnal in Shropshire league division 1. NALGO were of course one of our rivals in those days. I remember one match played in December 1983. Colin Roberts and I had adjourned games which we had to win as NALGO were leading …
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