Season 2023-24
The last few sessions of this season are scheduled as follows:
- Monday, 10th June
u1750 Cup Final v Hemel Hempstead - Lost 2-3 - Monday, 17th June
AGM & Curry - Monday, 24th June
Double Cross match. St Albans v Harrow - Lost 18-26 - Photos
Sharp Trophy u1900 Final v Stevenage - Won 4½-1½ - Monday, 1st July
Puzzle Night with WIM Natasha Regan & Matt Ball - Monday 8th July
Handicap Cup - 2024 Results - Monday 15th July to Monday 18th August
Summer Season
Lavers Ladder competition
St Albans Club Fixtures (Quick Links)
• Match Venues & Club Websites
• 1st Team • 2nd Team • 3rd Team
• 4th Team • 5th Team • 6th Team
• Herts & District League (u1900)
• Hertfordshire County Matches (u1850)
Welcome
St Albans Chess Club meets on Monday evenings in the events room at:
The County Club,
29 Ridgmont Road,
St Albans AL1 3AG
The Chess Club is open from 7.30pm and matches usually start at 7.45pm.
New players of all strengths are always welcome.
ECF County Championships
Hertfordshire u1850 team, captained by Matt Ball, have progressed to the Final against Greater Manchester. The match will be played at in Coventry.
- Sat, 11 May 2024. Quarter Final. Kent 5-11 Hertfordshire
- Sat, 8 June 2024. Semi-Final. Yorkshire v Hertfordshire
- Sat, 6 July 2024, Final. Hertfordshire v Greater Manchester
St Albans Club Championship - Silver Rook
The three qualifying rapid-play rounds have been completed and the results can be viewed on chess-results.com through the following links:
The top eight qualifiers determined by individual rating performance in any one of the three qualifying rounds progress to the knockout rounds.
Quarter-final matches (with player seeding shown in brackets) are:
- Ovidiu Bodnar (1) vs Stephen Grant (8)
- John Gemmell (5) vs Aidan Ellis (4)
- Matthew Walsh (3) vs Neil Willmott (6)
- Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell (7) vs Ben Sommerbauer-Cornell (2)
Hertfordshire Inter-County Matches 2023-24
Hertfordshire plays in the u1850 section of the East Anglian Chess Union (EACU) County Championship from which two teams qualify to compete in the ECF County Championship.
EACU matches comprise 16 boards and are played at King Edward VII Memorial Hall, High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 8JP on these dates:
- Sunday 29 October 2023
10.00am Hertfordshire 7-9 Suffolk
2.00pm Cambridgeshire 6½-9½ Hertfordshire - Sunday 4 February 2024
10.00am Norfolk 9-7 Hertfordshire
2.00pm Hertfordshire 8-8 Suffolk - Sunday 3 March 2024
10.00am Cambridgeshire 6-10 Hertfordshire
2.00pm Hertfordshire 10½-5½ Norfolk
For League Table see: EACU u1850 League Table 2023-24
Hertfordshire finished second behind Suffolk and thereby qualify to play in the ECF County Championships.
Season 2023-24
Events planned for the start of season are:
- Monday, 4th Sept
Simultaneous by IM Peter Roberson Final Result: W24 D1 L0 - Monday, 11th Sept
Silver Rook Qualifier 1 (Rapidplay) Final Ranking Crosstable - Monday, 18th Sept
Social Chess - Monday, 25th Sept
Clash of the Titans. St Albans v Hemel Hempstead Score 15½-8½ - Monday, 2nd Oct
Start of Inter-Club League Matches
To reserve a place in any of the start of season events, please, contact Chris Pines,
Herts & District Jamboree
St Albans took part in the H&D Jamboree (u1900) held at Allenburys Sports & Social Club, Ware, on Tuesday 19th September 2023.Position | Team | Game Points | |
1 | Welwyn Hatfield | 4.5 | |
2 | St Albans | 3.5 | |
3 | Hertford | 3.0 | |
4 | Hoddesdon | 2.5 | |
5= | Bishops Stortford | 2.0 | |
5= | Enfield | 2.0 | |
7 | Allenburys | 1.0 | |
8 | Hemel Hempstead | 0.0 |