Congratulations to Bill Clews on winning the tournament in a close fought finish with Colin Cheek. Bill scored 8.5 points and 8 wins and Colin finished on 8 points with 7 wins. Bill receives 5 BCM points and the engraved Bronze Medal, Colin receives 3 BCM points. Bill will play in the ‘Silver Tournament’ next time.
As an added bonus, Bill Clews has now accumulated 26 BCM points & is therefore awarded the BCCA Candidate Master (CM) Title. Congratulations to Bill!
After a tense battle with 4 players in contention right up to the very end, Geoffrey Herbert has emerged victorious and wins the ‘Bronze Medal’ with an excellent score of 9/10 and 8 wins. Geoffrey is also awarded 5 BCM points and will play in the Silver Medal Tournament if he enters again next year.
David Elwood came second with a score of 8/10 and 6 wins, David receives 3 BCM points and Rod Nixon just pipped Robert Bruce in to third place with a score of 7.5/10 and 7 wins. Robert had 7.5/10 and 6 wins.
David Cook has won this year’s Silver Medal Tournament with an excellent score of 9.5/12 and 7 wins. The competition went right down the wire with both John Brasier (9/12 and 6 wins) and Kevin Eansworth (8.5 and 7 wins) in contention right to to the end. Very well played gentlemen. An ‘Engraved Silver Medal’ will be presented to David in due course and BCM Points awarded accordingly.
Now available for download are all the BCCA webserver Medal tournament games from 2011, all the Postal Gold medal tournament games, 90% of the Postal Silver Medal tournament games and about 50% of the Postal Bronze Medal games. All the webserver games are also available from the ICCF webserver but the Postal games won’t be found anywhere else! Enjoy. Click HERE to go to the download page.
The 2012 BCCA Postal Gold medal tournament has been won by Les Ellis with a superb score of 10/12 – congratulations to Les! He also collects 10 BCCA Master points. The 2nd place is still to be decided. The full crosstable can be seen HERE
The 2012 Webserver Gold Medal Tournament has now finished after some seven months of play. The finished crosstable and tournament download in pgn format is available via this link
This was one of the most closely fought tournaments I have ever seen! Only 2.5 points separated the whole field and there was a 4-way tie on 5 points at the top. Congratulations to David Coyne who is the winner on S-B Tie-break. David will received an engraved Gold Medal in due course & also collects 10 points towards the BCCA Master Title. Equal 2nd were Ian Mason & Mark Eldridge who therefore collect 2 points each. Honourable mention must be made of Toni Halliwell who, despite finishing on the same points as the winner, finished 4th on tie-break & has no prize! Sorry Toni.
I hope you all enjoyed the tournament & will consider playing again next season. A big thank you to Peter Hulse for acting as Tournament Director.
Congratulations to Kevin Eansworth on winning the tournament with an excellent score of 8/10. Kevin receives an engraved Bronze Medal and seven BCCA Candidate Master Points. For the full cross table please cllick here