No less than four Seaton players are featuring in the Semi-Finals of the DCCA Online Winter Grand Prix. 

The Grand-Prix ran between 18th January and 26 February 2021, and incorporating six 9+3 Rapid and six 5+2 Blitz events. A player’s “Grand-Prix score” was calculated based on a player's best three results in both styles of event. The final standings can be found here.

We are now in the Semi-Final knock-out stage with Paul Hampton and Jon Underwood competing in the Championship and Steve Dean and Charlie Keen in the Graded (U160) event. 

Live commentary of the games will be broadcast by Tom Thorpe on his twitch account https://www.twitch.tv/chesster1883 so please tune in to cheer on the players!

Good luck to everyone and here's hoping for an all Seaton-final! 

Seaton Chess Club were pleased to host Gloucester Chess Club Wotton Hall in an online 10 board friendly match on 26th January 2021. The match involved 2 back to back games of 30 minutes + 10 seconds increment.

We lost the first round 3.5-6.5 but managed to tie the second 5-5 so well done all.

Seaton player Steve Dean has gone on to win the graded section of the Autumn Grand Prix to complete the double with his mini-Swiss victory and adds a second virtual trophy to the club's cabinet. The Grand Prix was competed over several tournaments where players accumulated points to qualify for the play-off phase involving a dramatic knock-out - broadcast live with expert commentary! Well done Steve!

Seaton player continue to dominate in the Devon online chess competitions with a number of outstanding achievements:

Steve Dean has won the Major (U160) Autumn mini-swiss competition and he goes on to compete in the Finals of the Autumn Grand-Prix Graded Title. 

Jonathan Underwood has also once again reached the final of the Autumn Grand Prix and will face IM Jack Rudd in a 4 game shootout on Friday 18th December 2020. You can watch the games along with live commentary from Tom Thorpe on his twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/chesster1883