Fenton Concede Open Cup Match

We have conceded our Open Cup match at Holmes Chapel tomorrow night. With Gerald, Kas and Glyn all unavailable it is not possible to raise a team that would not be ridiculously outgraded.

Fenton Through To Next Round Of Perry Trophy

Fenton are through to the next round of the Perry Trophy following a 2.5 - 1.5 win at Cheddleton earlier this evening. An excellent win for the team, despite being outgraded on all boards and by a total of 51 altogether, with wins for Derek and Stuart on boards 1 and 3 and a draw for Ernie on board 2. Click here for the match score card.

Champions once, champions twice!

Congratulations to Petru and Steve who won the NSDCA Doubles Rapid Tournament earlier today at Holmes Chapel. With the highly impressive score of 8/10 they won by a comfortable margin.

Congratulations to them both for an excellent performance. Click here for further details

Heavy loss for the A Team

Last night the A Team visited Holmes Chapel, who fielded an extremely formidable team. I can't improve on the report Steve made on the LMS site:

"A massively outgraded Fenton team, already missing their regular boards 1 and 3, were overwhelmed by a very strong Holmes Chapel last night. With an overall grade difference of 230, and the Holmes Chapel board 5 outgrading the Fenton board 1, it was a very one sided affair. The only bright spot for Fenton was a creditable draw on board 3 for Ray Hyde, despite a 34 point grading difference."

That said, from what I was able to see of the other games, it appeared that on at least 3 other boards the Fenton players were holding reasonably balanced positions. However in the space of about 20 minutes it all went horribly wrong.

Click here for the match score card.