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The EACU adopts and expects all members to operate and conduct themselves in accordance with the ECF policies for Safeguarding,
Anti-bullying and the Treatment of Disabled Players. These can be accessed via the links under 'Policy Documents'. The EACU also complies with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulations. |
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EACU Championships
Entries to the EACU Closed Championships 2026 are now being accepted by Adrian Elwin. See Fixtures page for details. |
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ECF Grassroots Fund
With the end of Trance 4 on 1st June the Grassroots fund completed its first year. The East of England still has over half the £10,000 allocated available to spend. In Tranche 4 we granted funds in the East of England Region for, chess sets to a school, website development for a club, funding to include chess in a schools Primary Enrichment Programme that covers 35 other schools, and chess sets for a congress. I have attached a copy of the latest version of the prospectus which gives details of the areas covered by the Grassroots Initiative and includes a link to the application form A reminder that the applications from Tranche 5 must be submitted by 1st September 2025. After that date they will be considered by the Revie Panel. I have already received one application and 2 enquiries. You have time before the deadline but please don't leave it till the last minute as I do need to vet and refine the applications before approving them. If in doubt or you need to clarify anything then please contact me (j.r.wickham@btinternet.com ) Some things to consider: * Provide as much details as you can on the application form and answer all questions. * Ensure you indicate the amount required and the date it you need it. * Make sure you sell your initiative and justify the request. * The funds are for new initiatives and not to replace a clubs old stocks (e.g. clocks or sets and boards where the old items are still serviceable). However, where a club has a reason to acquire new equipment which cannot be funded via club funds then an application may be considered but you need to make a case for it and justify it. * We are looking for sustainability and may seek a buy in by not making a 100% grant. I am here to help where I can, so please contact me if you have any questions. John Wickham Link to Grassroots Prospectus |
1st August 2025 |
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EACU Grand Prix The Grand Prix is awarded annually to the East Anglian player who scores most points in County matches, EACU tournaments and selected standard play and rapidplay tournaments nominated by constituent county associations. The winner in the 2024/25 season was Francis Bowers (Rookswood), followed by Martin Walker (Broadland) with Alan Merry (Bury St Edmunds) third. This season also saw the introduction of a both a female and junior Grand Prix. The female Grand Prix was won by Heather Walker (Broadland), who will receive a memento trophy to recognise her achievement. The junior Grand Prix was won by Larysa Klepikovska (Norwich Dons), who will also receive a memento trophy to recognise her achievement. |
7th July 2025 |
| The 2025 Norfolk Blitz will be held in Horstead on 26th May 2025. Details on Fixtures page. |
7th April 2025 |
| The 2025 EACU Patrick Ribbands Team Championship was held in Bury St Edmunds on 9th March 2025. Tournament Report Team Standings |
14th March 2025 |
| We have been informed that Terry Turner, a long time stalwart of Notfolk chess has passed away. | 21stDecember 2024 |
| Details of the Patrick Ribbands Team Championship can now be found on the 'Fixtures and Events' page. | 22ndOctober 2024 |
| The dates for the County matches have now been fixed. See 'Fixtures and Events' page for details. | 1stSeptember 2024 |
| The 2024 Bury St Edmunds Congress is now open for entries. See 'Fixtures and Events' page for details. | 7thAugust 2024 |
| With regret, we have heard that John Daugman has passed away. For many years, he has played county and tournament chess in the Cambridge area. A tribute from his department can be found here. |
9th July 2024 |
| The 2023 Bury St Edmunds Comgress was held on 28th/29th October 2023. Results |
29th October 2023 |
| The 2023 EACU Patrick Ribbands Team Championship was held in Bury St Edmunds on 22nd October 2023. Tournament Report |
25th October 2023 |
| EACU County Team Championship 2023-4 Pairings Published | 25th August 2023 |
| EACU Patrick Ribbands Team Championship 2022 | 14th November 2022 |
| The 2022 EACU Patrick Ribbands Team Championship was held at The Moreton Hall in Bury St Edmunds on 13th November 2022. Match Results - Open Match Results - Under 7200 Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 Match Results - Under 6400 Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 Report Open Winners, Linton Tigers (r to l) :- Liam Varnam, James Cole, Alan Richardson and Mark Lim, with organiser Paul Kemp. |
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| EACU Closed Championship January 2023 | 16th October 2022 |
| The 2022-2023 EACU Closed Championship will be held at The Turner Hall in Newmarket on 21st-22nd January 2023.
There will be 3 sections, Open, Under 1950 and Under 1650. It incorporates the
EACU Junior Championships and is part of the EACU Marcus Misson Memorial Grand Prix. Entry form on the Fixtures page. |
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| ECF honours Richard Freeman with A Presidents Award for Services to Chess. Richard moved to Cheltenham in June of this year after 39 years of service to EACU. He is the sole surviving member of the three who founded the EACU in 1983 and during his time served for many years as Secretary and Treasurer as well as running our events as Tournament Organiser. To gain recognition for his excellent and efficient work over nearly 39 years we submitted and application to the English Chess Federation for an award -The Presidents Award for Services to Chess- and this was accepted by ECF. The award has recently been received by Richard and he commented to the ECF Awards Committee " This was most unexpected. I am honoured to be given this award" I think you will all agree with me that this was a well deserved award. A copy of the citation and photographs of the Award and of Richard holding it are below. John Wickham EACU Chair. Citation Presidents Award Richard with Presidents Award |
21st Sept 2022 |
| County match dates for 2022-23 published on the Fixtures page. | |
| Great Yarmouth 2022 Report on the Great Yarmouth Congress 2022 Prize Winners at the Great Yarmouth Congress 2022 |
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| EACU Vacancies- Secretary and Treasurer required URGENTLY Richard Freeman, our Current Secretary and Treasurer, will be moving to the West Country before the end of the season and we urgently require replacements for both posts. While Richard has successfully and efficiently managed to combine both roles we are thinking of splitting the roles, and any interested applicants can apply for either or both roles. The reason filling the posts is urgent is so that Richard can brief the incumbent(s) but also so that we can ensure that the new Treasurer is set up to run our Bank account. Both roles are vital to the running of EACU and can you please pass this email round your Clubs, Members, Officers, Colleagues or anyone you feel may wish to be considered. If anyone wishes to discuss what is entailed they can contact me (see below) or Richard Freeman, richard@fcasolutions.co.uk 07691 121010. John Wickham j.r.wickham@btinternet.com Tel: 07808876785 |
9th March 2022 |
| EACU FIDE Congress 2022 Entries are now being accepted for the EACU FIDE-Rated Congress in Newmarket. To avoid a clash with the Jubilee weekend, it will be held 27th-29th May. For more details, see the entry on the Fixtures page or the website. |
1st March 2022 |
| On behalf of the ECF: BCET Awards 2022 We are inviting nominations for the BCET Awards 2022. With over the board chess resuming in 2021 after a break of nearly 18 months we will be interested to hear in the citation as to how successful the return to OTB chess has been for the Club/School in addition to the usual details of the school/club's achievements, activities, and actions taken to develop and improve the standards of the Juniors of the school/club. The award is an engraved board, set of wooden pieces and a digital clock. This is a valuable award and it acts as encouragement and incentive to the schools or junior clubs. The ECF website (Awards Resource (ecfresource.co.uk) lists the schools/clubs that have received the award in the past, with some citations, and please note that a school/club can apply again for an award if the last award was not recent and where a further award is justified. The item below is from the ECF website, suitably adjusted to reflect a revised closing date for nominations: "With funds provided by the generosity of the late Sir George Thomas (now administered by The Chess Trust) the British Chess Educational Trust annually makes awards to schools and Junior Chess Clubs, which have shown outstanding achievements or enthusiasm in chess. Commencing 1982 inscribed chess boards have been substituted for shields. Recommendations for awards should be forwarded (directly or via the appropriate Union if in England, or via the national organisations for Scotland or Wales) to: John Wickham, 55 Shakespeare Way, Taverham, Norwich, NR8 6SL Email:j.r.wickham@btinternet.com by 31st May" |
4th February 2022 |
| The entry list for the Norfolk Rapidplay is now full. Please contact John Wickham if you wish to be added to the reserve list. (See Fixtures page) | 25th January 2022 |
EACU Closed Championship Results |
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| The EACU 2021-22 Individual Championships were held over the weekend of 8-9 January 2022 at the Turner Hall in Newmarket.
This was the first Over The Board Union congress since the COVID pandemic started in March 2020, and attracted a total of
47 players in 3 sections. The results can be found at
https://www.c4results.org.uk/chess/php/DisplayEvents.php?EventId=37, and all the games in the Open section are included
in the pgn file here. Understandably, not all players were fully match fit, but you
will still find some interesting and entertaining games.
I d like to thank all players and spectators for abiding by the stricter mask-wearing restrictions than were originally anticipated, and for being so polite when you had questions or concerns. You all made the arbiters job a lot easier than it might have been in the circumstances. All sections were closely fought, with an outright winner in each section with 4 out of 5, and two or more players in each section on 3.5/5. The winners were Matthew Payne in the Open section, Oliver Lenton in the U-1950 section, and Gert De Block in the U-1650 section. The Open junior champion was Toby Cox on tie-break, and his brother Lucian won the U-1650 junior championship. Congratulations to all these worthy champions. Richard Freeman, Chief Controller The results are also on chess-results.com and can be found at: Open section Under 1950 section Under 1650 section |
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EACU Closed Championship Update 4th Jan 2022 |
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| The EACU Closed Championship will still be held at The Turner Hall in Newmarket on 8th-9th January 2022. However, in accordance with current Government restrictions and ECF guidance, all attendees will have to wear a mask or face covering at all times when inside the Hall, including when playing, unless exempt for medical or other reasons. There will be 3 sections, Open, Under 1950 and Under 1650. It incorporates the EACU Junior Championships and is part of the EACU Marcus Misson Memorial Grand Prix. | |
| A report on the EACU Patrick Ribbands Team Championship can be found here. Detailed results can be found here. |
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| The EACU Closed Championship will be held at The Turner Hall in Newmarket on 8th-9th January 2022. There will be 3 sections, Open, Under 1950 and Under 1650. It incorporates the EACU
Junior Championships and is part of the EACU Marcus Misson Memorial Grand Prix. Entry form in Word format - here Entry form in pdf format - here Enter online - here |
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PATRICK RIBBANDS Patrick Ribbands, who died suddenly at the end of January, was a stalwart of Cambridgeshire chess for as long as anyone can remember. He played and captained teams for Linton in the Bury League for the past decade, and played a similar role for Royston in the Cambs and Herts Leagues. Before that he played for Cambridge City and was club president. He was a regular at local Congresses and also in the supporting events at the British Championships. It will be as an indefatigable administrator that he will be best remembered and most missed. Among many other roles he captained the Cambridgeshire county second team for 30 years and was grading officer for 22 years. For the East Anglian Chess Union he was County Match Controller for 22 years and grading officer for 15 years. He initiated and ran the East Anglian Club Championship from 2008. At the time of his death he had just completed this season s event online and had planned an East Anglian online League for this spring. He had been Match Secretary in the Bury League. Patrick was a kindly and gentle soul, who always made sure that there were plenty of opportunities for the lower-graded and junior players in events that he organised. He had a long history of coaching juniors, who have themselves paid tribute to the influence he had on them when they were starting out. He was always full of ideas, as evidenced by the Ribbands pairing system which he devised as an alternative to Swiss pairings, organising rapidplay tournaments to try it out! He will be greatly missed: as a club member always willing to fill a gap in the team sheet, as an organiser prepared to take most things on, and as a friend. Paul Kemp |
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| The 2020 Bury St Edmunds Congress has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Read More Online |
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| This year's 3rd EACU FIDE Congress has been cancelled following the Coronavirus outbreak. | |
| This year's Great Yarmouth Congress has been cancelled following the Coronavirus outbreak. | |
| EACU Closed Congress 2020 games - click here and save. | |
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Entries to the EACU FIDE-rated Tournament, 5th-7th June, are now being accepted by Richard Freeman. See Fixtures and Events page for details. |
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Entries to the Norfolk Blitz Tournament on 31st May are now being accepted by John Wickham. See Fixtures and Events page for details. |
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| Newmarket 2019 games - click here and save. | |
| Entries to the EACU Team Championships 2020 are now being accepted by Patrick Ribbands. See Fixtures page for details. | |
| Entry forms for the Cambridgeshire Rapidplay, on the 29th September, Bury St Edmunds Congress, 26-27 October, and the Lowestoft Rapidplay, 24th November, can be found on the Fixtures page. | |
| Dates for Open and Under 160 County matches for the 2019-20 season can be found on the Fixtures page. | |
Sad news about Marcus Misson Received from Pete Wells of Warboys Chess Club:Really sorry and saddened to have to convey the terrible news that Marcus died of a heart attack on Wednesday night. As you may know he had been unwell and was in hospital in Sheffield having treatment for his condition when it happened and that they could not rescusitate him. He was 52 years old. He leaves his partner Helen and two young sons, William and Matthew The funeral will be at 12:00 on Friday 12th July in The Free Church, St Ives, followed by a private burial for the family. Everyone welcome to attend the wake after the burial but the location for that is not finalised yet. The wake is to be held at the Dolphin Hotel, London Road, St Ives, PE27 5EP, in the Terrace Suite. Further details here. This includes details of how to get there. The family has asked for donations rather than flowers. Donations, if desired, made payable to SR.UK (Scleroderma & Raynaud's) or The Mountain Bothies Association, may be sent to Easton and Cook Independent Funeral Service, 2b Harding Way, St Ives, Cambs, PE27 3WR. For those not familiar with St Ives, The Free Church is in the town centre, Market Hill, St Ives, PE27 5AL Friday is a market day so the town centre will be closed to vehicles. Depending on where you are coming from best parking is probably the Cattle Market car park, off Meadow Lane (near Waitrose) The map at this link shows other car parks in St Ives Anybody requiring further information should contact Pete Wells of Warboys Chess Club at pete.wells1@gmail.com For tributes to Marcus, click here. At the EACU AGM, it was decided that the EACU Grand Prix would be renamed the EACU Marcus Misson Memorial Grand Prix. |
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EACU Closed Championships
For a report on the 2019 EACU Closed Chess Championships, click here. |
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ITTER PARK GIANT CHESS EVENT On Sunday 12th August 2018, in Itter
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EACU FIDE-rated Chess Congress 2018 Open Crosstable in Excel format here and select 'Save Target as'
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Cambridgeshire County Closed Chess Championships
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Bury St Edmunds Chess Congress 2016 | |
| EACU Chess Congress 2016 Open Crosstable in Excel format here and select 'Save Target as' Open games in pgn format here and select 'Save Target as' Under 170 Crosstable in Excel format here and select 'Save Target as' Under 130 Crosstable in Excel format here and select 'Save Target as' |
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| EACU Chess Congress 2015 Congress Winners in pdf format here and select 'Save Target as' Congress Winners in Excel format here and select 'Save Target as' Results in pgn format here and select 'Save Target as' |
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| EACU Grand Prix 2014 Top Players - right click here and save. All Players results - right click here and save. |
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| Newmarket 2014 | |
| Newmarket 2013 games - right click here and save. | |
| East Anglian Championship crosstable - click here. | |
| Grand Prix scores - click here. | |
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