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next one in a year's time but there are
possible plans for a rapidplay in September
2003. Further plans will be put on this website.
Just in!
Full report and all the games from the Open 2003 Round by Round
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note that you can also use the forward and back arrows on your keyboard to play
the moves. You can also play through the variations by click them with the
mouse.
Each round is a new page, please note that the pgn file is also available by clicking the link at the bottom of
each page.
Or you can see the full report and See
all the games on one page with downloadable pgn database.
Thanks go to Chris Mattos
All the
games from the Premier 2003
Click the moves to replay the games. Please
note that you can also use the forward and back arrows on your keyboard to play
the moves. You can also play through the variations by click them with the
mouse.
Each round is a new page, please note that the pgn file is also available by clicking the link at the bottom of
each page.
Thanks go to Dave Tipper
Cotswold Chess Congress
2003 Prelimanary Report
by Graham Brown
This year we had to move from Archway school which
was a good venue. But luckily we found an even better
one ... St Edwards School - thanks to the likes of Chris
Mattos and John Wheeler. Chris was also instrumental
in starting a new venture for the congress which was
the commentary room. This buzzed for the whole
tournament and I for one learnt a lot. It also became the
hub of the production of a bulletin including the inputting
of all the Open games to Fritz and commentary on
some. This was a great effort from a number of people
including some of the players.
The open was won by John Piggot who as far as we could see in the commentary room (assisted
by Fritz!) wasn't losing any of his games at any point. His classy positional style caused
headaches in the commentary room as we rushed from one side of the board to another checking
all sorts of tactics that were threatened but not always carried out. They were mostly rejected at
the expense of further classy positional moves! This was highly educational for some of the
younger visitors to the commentary room and most of us  too! Chris did a great job in leading the
discussions most of the time but the demo board
wasn't out of bounds to the youngsters. They
frequently took up the role of teacher. Rarely can St
Edwards have seen such a democratic teaching
style!? But what a great school and venue and we
have to give special thanks to St Edwards teacher
John Wheeler for his polite, entusiastic and patient
help.
Thanks also to the players (mostly vastly stronger
than us in the commentary room) who took our "Fritz
assisted" bombshells with great dignity! Certain
players impressed with their cheerfulness in defeat and willingness to analyse their mistakes with
us weaklings! One such, who played some great chess, had a brilliant game late in the
tournament. More on this, and the interesting loss and brilliant win, both of which he helped us
analyse, when the games are on site.
Also great thanks to David Tipper from Bristol webmaster of the Bristol and District League
Website www.chessit.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk who is currently inputting ALL the games from the
premier section. All games will be on this website asap, probably around 6th June as your
webmaster is away camping in Wales till then and I don't have a laptop to update this site in a
tent at the foot of Snowdon. David also provided some of the excellent photos on this page. See
them all at his website.
 36th COTSWOLD CONGRESS - TOURNAMENT SUMMARY
OPEN
1 J. Pigott (220) 5.5/6
2= C. Crouch (218) 4.5/6
2= S. Berry (208) 4.5/6
2= N. Moyse (194) 4.5/6
U175 I. Ponter (165) 3.5/6
R1L= A. Gilmour (165) 3/6
R1L= R. Neat (121) 3/6
PREMIER
1= R. Kneebone (146) 4.5/6
1= A. Eccles (140) 4.5/6
1= R. Shinn (144) 4.5/6
U137 H. Hunt-Grubbe (132) 3.5/6
R1L= O. Hardy (154) 3.5/6
R1L= N. Burrows (138) 3.5/6
R1L= M. Abbott (147) 3.5/6
MAJOR
1 E. Varley (121) 5.5/6
2 N. Brindley (107) 4.5/6
3= M. Maber (103) 4/6
3= G. Mills (119) 4/6
U112 C. Sirisena (100) 4/6
R1L I. Blencowe (117) 3.5/6
MINOR
1= K.A. Parker (83) 5/6
1= A. Ratcliffe (74) 5/6 [Pupil from St Edward's school]
3= C. Dandy (91) 4.5/6
U84= A. Sirisena (80) 3.5/6
U84= P. Saunders (63) 3.5/6
R1L R. Hart (93) 3.5/6
COMMENTARY ROOM - SPECIAL AWARDS
N. Moyse (OPEN) - For educating the commentary room!! Great finish in round 4
H Wademark (OPEN) - For magnanimity in defeat and for his good sense of humour after
the commentary team had recommended a quite pub!!
R. Francis (MAJOR) - For an outstanding assault on the enemy king
T.Fletcher (MINOR) - For his never say die attitude and devious swindling
IM Sherwin and IM Crouch
Open & Premier
St Edwards
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THE popular Cotswold Congress will take place on
Sat 24th Sun 25th and Mon 26th May 2003. We are
lucky to have the use of St Edwards School in
Cheltenham this year. There will be 4 sections as
usual, Open, under 155, under 125 and under 100. 
