Season 2023-24

Monday 19th August
Silver Rook Final: Ovidiu Bodnar vs Matthew Walsh

The Final of the Club Individual Championship contested on the same night as the Hackney match. It was a hard fought game in which Ovidiu Bodnar prevailed and as club champion he holds the Silver Rook trophy for the next year.

The remaining sessions include:

  • Monday, 10th June
    u1750 Cup Final. St Albans vs Hemel Hempstead - Lost 2-3
  • Monday, 17th June
    AGM & Curry
  • Monday, 24th June
    Double Cross match. St Albans vs Harrow - Lost 18-26 - Photos
     Sharp Trophy u1900 Final. St Albans vs 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 19th August
    Summer Season
    Lavers Ladder competition

St Albans Club Fixtures (Quick Links)

• Herts Results Website

• Match Venues & Club Websites

• All St Albans Fixtures

• 1st Team • 2nd Team • 3rd Team

• 4th Team • 5th Team • 6th Team

• 7th Team • 8th Team

• U1600 Team 1 • U1600 Team  2

• League Cups

• Herts & District League (u1900)

• The Bronze Pawn

• Hertfordshire County Matches (u1850)

ECF County Championships

Hertfordshire u1850 team, captained by Matt Ball, have progressed to the Final against Greater Manchester. The match played at Coventry finished in an 8-8 tie with Greater Manchester declared winners on board count.

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 vs Suffolk, score 7-9
    2.00pm Cambridgeshire vs Hertfordshire, score 6½-9½
  • Sunday 4 February 2024
    10.00am Norfolk vs Hertfordshire, score 9-7
    2.00pm Hertfordshire vs Suffolk, score 8-8
  • Sunday 3 March 2024
    10.00am Cambridgeshire vs Hertfordshire, score 6-10
    2.00pm Hertfordshire vs Norfolk, score 10½-5½

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:

To reserve a place in any of the start of season events, please, contact Chris Pines, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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.
Eight teams, each comprising 5 players, were paired against each other in a single round jamboree pairing.
For results of St Albans players, see St Albans Results
 
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