Blah: - the Bulletin
Editors Page.
I will use this page to give
information or just comments… if I remember I will change the Button date at
each update.
LMS Verification
Can teams Please make sure all matches
have been verified on the LMS site within 5 days of playing,
11. Notification of Results
11.1 A Result Card shall be sent to the Honorary Records Secretary
by an official of the home club and also of the visiting club within five days
of the date of the match. For the purpose of this rule a result card
shall include an electronic result card approved by the League. When during
a season a team fails four times to send in a card within five days, then that
team shall have one match point deducted and subsequently one match point
deducted for every failure thereafter. When the results are submitted to the
Records Secretary on an electronic Result Card, then the original Result
Card shall be retained by a club official until the date of the AGM.
The LMS from the Start of the Season
will Display August Std Grades, not in Brackets, these should be used for board
order purpose and will be refreshed in January.
Ungraded players with a FIDE, Rapid
or Estimated grade (xxxF/xxxR/xxxE), who acquires an official ECF over-the-board Standard
Play (Original Blue) grade,
shall
thereafter be regarded as being of that rating.
MCM 24th August 24
4. Report of the Hon. Gen.
Sec.
TL reported that production
of Handbooks for the 2024-25 season had been completed in a timely
fashion. Editorial incompetence was
responsible for the failure to incorporate a recent change to the Hon.
Treasure’s email address. Other changes
that had occurred since the Handbook was sent to the printer (new secretary at
Sutton Coldfield; new venue for Mercia; change of rooms at Birmingham St.
George’s) would be circulated by email.
5. Report of the Hon.
Treasurer
RC reported that the June rapidplay had yielded a surplus. The League’s major expenses had either
occurred recently (trophy costs and handbooks) or were imminent (insurance –
which would be higher then previously due to the
increased amount of equipment now owned by the League).
6. Report of the Records
Secretary
AW reported that player
registrations had started to arrive. He
reminded the meeting that unrated players had to be given an estimated rating
and that P ratings weren’t recognised.
Clubs providing estimated ratings should provide as much information as
possible to justify the figures.
7. Distribution of Handbooks
Handbooks were distributed to
Clubs in attendance.
8. Reports of sub-Committees
a) F&GP – hadn’t met
b) Match – Terry Walker
reported via email that, with divisions 4 and 5 at capacity (28 teams), it was
likely that three teams instead of two would need to be promoted from these two
divisions. In the event of five further teams competing in 2025-26 the League
would be able to restart Division 6.
c) Rules – MB had nothing to
report
d) Eligibility – activities
had been covered in the report of the Hon. Records Secretary
9. Reports of Tournament
sub-Committees
a) Individual – RG reported
that this would consist, as usual, of six rating-limited sections. Entries should be sent to him, individually
by members or in bulk by clubs, by 1 October.
b) Lightning – JM had nothing
to report
c) Rapidplay
– no report
d) Online – CE reported that
matches were in progress between the BDCL and other online clubs, generally at
one move per three days. He was
considering running an internal event at the same speed. He was still seeking a more enthusiastic
candidate to take over the role of chair.
e) Morry-Wood Memorial – PM
reported that he had not instigated the election process for Morry-Wood
officers so the status quo was unchanged with PM as Controller and Acting
Chairman. The formalities should proceed before the next meeting. The changes
to the Morry-Wood rules that were agreed at the BDCL AGM would be applied to
the 2024-25 competitions, and any further changes would be discussed in time
for the 2025-26 competitions. There was
a reduction in the number of judges (to six) due to the resignation of Terry
Walker at the AGM. He felt that the sub-committee should consist of about eight
members but was working quite well with six experienced members. He intended to propose a limit to the number
of games each player can enter each year for the Best Game prize, but this had
to be discuused witht the jusges.
f) Summer – AW reported that
the 2024 Summer League had been completed without any disputes.
10. Report of Webmaster
RR reported that a “BDCL
online” button had been added to the web site, using material provided by
CE. The Competition Rules and the Constitution
pages had been updated to incorporate recent changes. The pages for individual clubs had also been
updated.
There was a brief discussion
about the need to collect the date of birth of juniors – TL to talk to Dave
Thomas about circumstances in which this information was required.
11. Report of the Rating
Officer
12. Report of the
Safeguarding Officer
PS had nothing to report.
13. Reports of the various
Delegates
a) ECF – CL reported that the
ECF would publish a “safeguarding FAQ” in due course (date TBC).
b) Warwickshire CA – TL had
nothing to report
c) Worcestershire CA –
Worcestershire had entered two teams in the Minor championship, but both had
lost at the quarter-final stage. The
summer cups were in progress. Joe Friar had won the county championship.
d) Staffordshire CA – Stephen
Smithson noted that he had taken on the role of MCCU Director of Rating and
Counties Championship Controller. Clubs
would (mostly) be interested to know that each of Warwickshire, Worcestershire
and Staffordshire would have a team in the under-1650 section in the coming
season. Worcestershire, Staffordshire
and Lincolnshire would also have teams in the Minor section (and it was not too
late if Warwickshire wanted to enter too).
Some counties would additionally have further teams in other
section. All those interested should
follow the MCCU website updates. All
Clubs would have members eligible for at least one team.
15. AOB
TL briefly described the ECF
grassroots funding initiative – see https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-grassroots-support/.
JM announced that a
three-section tournament in memory of Keith Escott would be held at Plantsbrook School on 14 & 15 December.
Summer League 2024-25
Central Birmingham won the Open
section, South Birmingham won 7400, 6600 and 5800 sections,
Division Make up for 2024-25
The Match committee met 3 June to finalise the League Make up for Season
2024-25, there were 2 requests, 4 Withdrawals, and 6 new entries, some up
drafting was needed to fit all the teams in and satisfy the rule of 14 max per
division
West Bromwich the longest
running team without a break have withdrawn from the league (Div 2), However
Tamworth and District are re-entering the League and will be in Div 2
Shirley and Wythall and Longbridge have entered new
teams into Div 5, Warley Quinborne have withdrawn their Div 5 team, Mercia have
entered a new team which has been placed in Div 4, Coleshill 5A have been up
drafted to Div 4
Rushall 4 were drafted to Div 3
however this was not to the clubs liking and have withdrawn. Lichfield B and
Solihull D have been withdrawn from the Minor League, Longbridge and Coleshill
have entered the Minor League.
Division Make ups and first
round trophy ties can be found here BDCL-2024-25
(birminghamchess.org.uk)
Honours 2023-24
BDCL Champions Sutton
Coldfield win their tenth League Champions Title
Division
❷Champions South
Birmingham
A
Division
❸ Champions Solihull
Division
❹ Champions Redditch
Division ❺
Champions Longbridge
Division Minor
Champions Solihull B
Terrill Trophy Winners Stourbridge 3
Townshend Trophy Winners Redditch 4
Homer Trophy Winners Warley Quinborne 2A
Barrington Trophy Winners Solihull 5
Individual Open
Winner
Individual 1900
Winner
Individual 1750
Winner
Individual 1600
Winner
Individual 1450
Winner
Individual 1300
Winner
April
13th 2024
Birmingham &
District Summer League BDSL
Rapid Play
Hello
everyone, it's that time again,
Tournament and Rules are mainly the same as previous, (A limit of 11 team per
section has been Introduced)
Four Divisions, 4
players per Team, 20 minutes + 10 sec per move 2 Matches per round Alternate
Colours
Starting 7th May
to Aug 1st IF need
be (13 weeks max of 11 teams per section, (Max ten
Fixtures) B teams will be dropped if
they prevent a different club joining,
May Rapid Grades. The reason for this is the current May grade will
be shown on LMS and I will not have to manually enter every April one.
Send team entries to
me (Summer League Chairman) AFTER 13th April 24 and before Mid-night
2nd May 24 a first come, first served basis
(This will allow clubs
to see the player's May grade), which you will mainly know if you look
at the player's ECF OTB rapid history beforehand
Entry fee £5 per team Paid to BDCL Treasurer (Richard) by 31st May Please
Division
One Open
Division
Two 7400 max, average 1850 (minimum 1550)
Division
Three 6600 max, average 1650 (minimum 1350)
Division
Four 5800 max, average 1450 (minimum 1150)
Board
order 100Pts max
You
can play lower graded players but they will count as the minimum for the
Division
Check
Rules Doc for more details
Let
me know Details of Ungraded or P graded Players so we can estimate them.....
I know this may go on too long for some, but the Majority seem okay with it,
and the grade tolerance in each section allows teams scope for change, so we
will see how it pans out again this year.
I will populate the button below for details as I get them
Thank
You in advance for your support
Alan,
BDCLRecords
Jan 1st 2024
Today sees the release of the ECF January grades, which
we will be using for Board order in the second half of the season.
Can all club secretaries / captains of teams, Please re-estimate any Non ECF K graded players, whose grade
may have changed more than 50Pts since first being estimated.
This will also be used for the Second half of the
season or until a ECF grade is acquired
Honours 2022-23
BDCL Champions Solihull
Division
❷Champions Redditch
Division
❸ Champions Rushall
Division
❹ Champions Kynoch
Division
Champions ❺ South Birmingham
Division Minor
Champions Coleshill
Terrill Trophy Winners Sutton Coldfield-1
Townshend Trophy Winners South Birmingham-5
Homer Trophy Winners Sutton Coldfield-2
Barrington Trophy Winners South Birmingham-4
Individual Open
Winner Shared
Individual 1900
Winner Rob Glass South Birmingham
Individual 1750
Winner Bruno Silva South Birmingham
Individual 1600
Winner Thomas Vanes Coleshill
Individual 1450
Winner Sam Fowlkes
Individual 1300
Winner Chaniru Ranasinghe