Club Championship Results

There were several games played in the 2nd round of the Club Championship earlier this evening. You can click here to view the results and here to view the current standings. The games have already been submitted to the ECF for rating.

Annual General Meeting

The 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 24th July. The Agenda and Officers Report will be distributed nearer the date.

Market Harborough 2 v Ashby 1 - Match Report

Tom Dove has just sent me his usual entertaining match report on last week's last Ashby 1 match of the season at Market Harborough 2. Please click here to read it.

Harrod Cup Starts With A Defeat

Ashby 2 were beaten 3.5 - 2.5 at Heathcote Arms last night in the first of this year's Harrod Cup matches. Trailing 3-1 from the first round of games, we pulled back to win the second round by 2.5 - 1.5. Once again, Steve can shoulder much of the blame for the loss. He was a pawn up and in a winning position in the first round, before completely mismanaging and blundering his game. His second game was even worse, where he was actually a Knight up before blundering again !! Well done to Ric though, who won both of his games. Click here to view the match score card.

2024/2025 League Season Comes To A Close

The 2024/2025 season came to a conclusion last week, with Ashby 1, 2 and 4 all playing their final matches.

Ashby 1 signed off from a great season as Division 2 Champions by a margin of 6 points and look forward to pitting themselves against the best in Division 1 next season. Despite the absence of  Gheorge Albu and Paul Gibson, they were still too strong for Market Harborough 2 and came away with all the points in a 3-2 win. Richard Vann was up against Ashby Old Boy Andrew Faulds  on board 2 and scored an excellent win, which you can view here.

Ashby 2 were beaten by 3.5 - 1.5 at Melton Mowbray 2 and are now consigned to relegation to Division 3, where they will find themselves up against Ashby 3 next season. Steve has been nominated for the Twat Of The Year award for his game. He went into an endgame with a Queen and 4 pawns against a single pawn, got over excited, moved too quickly and kindly donated his an opponent a stalemate !!!

Ashby 4 rounded off their season with a 2.5 - 1.5 win against Wigston 6. With Mick Brown disgracing himself again on board 3, it was left to wins for Dom Lennon and Ric Dawson on boards 1 and 4, backed up by a draw on board 2 from Ian Maskery, to bring home the bacon.

Elsewhere, Damian Oldham beat Colin Marley in the U1450 Championship.

We now look forward to the Harrods Cup this weekm with Tom Gerrard's Ashby team away against Heathcote Arms.

David Reynolds Cup

Many congratulations to Andrew Wilson on winning this year's DavidReynolds Cup with an overall score of 81.82% and an adjusted score of 74.5%.

Club Championship 2nd Round Draw

The draw for the 2nd Round of the Club Championship has now been made and can be viewed here - or from the link on the left hand side of this page.

Ashby 3 Finish Season With A Loss

Ashby 3 were beaten 2.5 - 1.5 by Market Harborough 3 last night in their final match of the season. We now just await the result of the match between Kirby Muxloe 1 and Wigston 3 next week to see if we have managed to avoid relegation to Division 4.

Elsewhere, Les Fancourt beat Graham Bird in the last outstanding match from Round 1 of the Club Championship. Ollie Fordham beat Neil Roberts in the 4th Round of the U1450 Championship.

The draw for the 2nd Round of the Club Championship should be made in the next day or so.