Hello, I’m not Trevor McDonald, but here is the news anyway.

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 !!

14th August 2008 --- Wales Olympiad Squads

The final squads for the Wales Olympiad teams have been announced – and are almost full strength on both sides.

The Mens squad (alphabetically) is ; Jonathan Blackburn, Richard S Jones, Tim Kett, Ioan Rees and Leighton Williams.

The Womens squad (alphabetically) is ; Suzie Blackburn, Megan Owens, Olivia Smith, Julie vanKemenade and Julie Wilson.

The tournament takes place at Dresden, Germany from November 12th -25th.

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 !!

30th April 2008 --- EUROPEAN CLUB CUP 2008

The 24th European Club Cup (Open) and the 13th European Club Cup for Women will be held in Kallithea,Halkidiki,Greece on October 16th – 24th. Rates of play are 40 moves in 90 minutes and 30 minutes to finish game + 30 seconds increment per move. The playing hall is at the Athos Palace Hotel, one of three official residents for the players, the others being the Theophano Imperial Palace and the Macedonia Sun.
The clubs representing Wales this year will be Nidum (champions) and Cardiff.