The Linton club will remain open on Tuesday evenings throughout the summer. The club’s AGM will be held on 21 May and our summer programme will start on 28 May. Similar to last year our plans are to run the Ribbands Rapidplay tournament alongside other events, such as problem-solving, coaching, studies and occasional talks by players illustrated by their games.
For the first few weeks we will have two rounds of the Ribbands Rapidplay each evening, starting at 7.30pm and 8.40pm. In the short break between rounds tea and coffee will be available, but it would help if you could bring your own mug. From around the end of June we will intersperse double-rapidplay evenings with mixed evenings (one round of rapidplay and an hour of one of the options above. The programme is as follows:
- 2 July Paul Kemp Planning your defence
- 16 July James Cole How to draw against a Grandmaster
- 30 July Paul McMahon Simple endings are complicated
- 13 August Konrad Scheffler Finding treasure everywhere
The final evening for the Ribbands Rapidplay will be Tuesday 20 August. On 27 August there will be a quick rapidplay tournament (10+5) to sharpen us all up for the Bury Jamboree on Thursday 5 September. Normal club evenings will return on 3 September and League matches will start the following week.