It’s been one month since the start of the new website, and progress has been slow. The fat controller has been doing a fine job of keeping the news and results updated, but I’ve been busy repelling boarders against some English invaders recently, so no time to add content.

Having said that, I appear to have solved one of my major headaches, and found a way to display chess games from a pgn file on the site without losing the page outlines (which is what happens on almost every other website I’ve seen) So three cheers for me!

There are several pages I could add relatively simply and quickly, but I’m resisting doing that at the moment and instead using any free time I have to tackle some of the more head-scratching stuff.

Anyway, hope you all keep checking regularly, as things are improving, even if it doesn’t seem like it.

29th February 2008


The following are up and running –

West Wales League - Results, Tables, and Player Performances.
WPL – Results, Tables, Player Performances, Official Website Link
All the News pages
Cast & Crew (player lists up, but no info yet)
Members (just the basics)
Basic Calendar and Reigning Champions clock (first stab at it version)
Chess Pages (A board is now displayed)

RECENT WEBSITE UPDATES –

News and Results are always updated regularly by the fat controller

Last Major Content Update – 29th February 2008 – WWL Player Performances
Last Site Improvement - 29th February 2008 – Added a chess board!

28th June 2008 --- New grades for 2008/09

The official grades for Nidum Chess Club for the forthcoming season are as follows :

LEIGHTON WILLIAMS 2437
RICHARD S JONES 2336
ALAN BENNETT 2098
ROB SAUNDERS 2066
ANDREW GIBBONS 1983
GLYN SINNETT 1918
BOB MOORE 1893
CHERITON HUNT 1759
DENNIS JONES 1710
STEVE MORGAN 1703
MAL KINGMAN 1694
MIKE WOODROW 1678
STEVE WOODROW 1666
JEFF BURROWS 1410
BOB PARTRIDGE 1281

Unfortunately ( Or fortunately for the player concerned ) – The Division 1 player of the year award went to Andrew “Judas” Gibbons for scoring 11/12 for Nidum A – looks like a lot of schekels were invested in that venture !!

1st July 2008 --- KOCup Finals Day

The KOCup Finals Day was held at Briton Ferry Constitutional Club on Sunday, June 29th, with these results from six finals :

OPEN (Cup) Cardigan 2.5-1.5 Cardiff
OPEN (Plate) Caerphilly 2.5-1.5 Barry
U1800 (Cup) Bridgend 2.5-1.5 North Gwent
U1800 (Plate) Aberdare 3.5-0.5 Penarth
U1500 (Cup) Castell Nedd 3.5-0.5 Newport
U1500 (Plate) Barry 3.0-1.0 Bridgend Jedi

Nidum’s IM Leighton Williams analysed the Open Cup final with 4 demonstration boards in the lounge below for almost 4 hours non-stop – a bravery award at the very least, especially to put up with Rudy van Kemenade – who spent more time analysing after the game than during it !!

26th June 2008 --- Ranting GM

Nigel David Short has once again opened his “gob” and annoyed many British chess players – his last remark of getting rid of all the home nations from FIDE and allowing only a British team to enter the Olympiad just smacks of grandeur.
No wonder this snob, who originally came from Bolton, has no f****** friends.
Maybe the “Non-shaking of hands” was a bit of a giveaway in the Short-Cheparinov game earlier in 2008 – he doesn’t like you !!!!

Scrawling the website through anagrams of his name, I came up with the best two versions – Nigel Short ( ENGLISH ROT ) and Nigel David Short (THIS GONAD DRIVEL)


This just sums up how much of a w***** he really is !!