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BFD Civil Service        4   -   3 Bingley Scorpions
Clayton Chesterfields 3 1/2-3 1/2 Dark Horses
Khans Wrath          3 1/2 - 3 1/2 Shipley Predators
Shipley Raiders          5  -    0 Unison
Bingley Mosquitoes 3 1/2 - 3 1/2  Undercliffe C
Undercliffe Knights v Ilkley Moors outstanding.

Third Round Draw to be played 19 th February.
Shipley Raiders(8 1/2)       v BFD Civil Service (8)
Dark Horses (7 1/2)           v Bingley Mosquitoes (7 1/2)
Undercliffe C (7 1/2)           v Clayton Chesterfields (7 1/2)
Wibsey Woodpushers (7)   v Khans Wrath (6 1/2)
Ilkley Moors (3)                  v Bingley Scorpions (6 1/2)
Shipley Predators (6 1/2)    v Undercliffe Knights (3)
Unison bye.

Unison are now playing their home matches at: Fountain Inn Heaton Road Heaton Bradford 9

Winston Williams is well on the way to creating the new website. Check it out and give him some feedback.

At the halfway mark of the season the latest league positions are shown in Tables

Academy gets their first titled player. see story

Matches played 20th November 2007  

HEPOLITE CUP
Polish      5      v Undercliffe A 1
Bingley Bees 1½ v Shipley Predators 4½
Sth Bradford A bye
Undercliffe Knights bye  

HEPOLITE PLATE
Phoenix      0    v Ilkley B 6
Keighley      4   v Unison 2
Bradford Internationals bye
Shipley Raiders bye  

See the photos from the 4th Renaissance Academy Rapid Play which featured an appearance of local Boxing World champion Junior Witter.

Clough Trophy
Could all club secretaries please supply Dennis Breen with the team names wishing to enter this tournament. He hopes to have the draw for the first round completed by November 12 th.

The 4th Renaissance Academy Rapidplay Tournament is scheduled to take place on Sunday the 11th of November at the Bradford Latvian Welfare fund, 5 Clifton Villas, Bradford, BD8 7BY. This event is a Fund Raiser for Children in Need. An entry form can be downloaded here

Some league results continue to arrive on the electronic scorecards.

The new Electronic Scorecard can be used. I must stress if you use this instead of posting a matchcard then you need to send it to Dennis the Secretary as well as the Press Officer, Grading Officer and Website Editor. To make things easier I have set up a group e-mail. Full instructions here.

Web master

Winston Williams will be taking over the website shortly. I will advise of the address it will be moving to shortly.

Please check out the new Renaissance Academy website.

The BDCA Calendar has been updated.

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YCA grades

John Griffith has completed the draft 2007 list, which is on: www.chessnuts.org.uk

If anybody has any corrections or queries please contact John directly. grader@ajgriff.demon.co.uk

League Results

BDCA – Committee Minutes

Date of Meeting:            3/7/07

Venue:                        Latvian Club, Bradford

Present:           Chris Watson  (Chairman) Ihor Lewyk   (President) Dennis Breen (Secretary) Andrew Wainwright (Treasurer)  Ian Goater  (Press Secretary)   Karim Khan   Trophy Secretary) Charles Wood  (Academy Director) Phil Walker, Andy Walker, Ian Jewsbury, Gary Corcoran

• Dennis Breen welcomed as Secretary following the AGM and contact details taken for committee purposes.
• Treasurer Report – AW reported on the financial state of the association.
• Agreed that AW should have the accounts audited by Derrick Mason at the earliest possible opportunity and definitely before the next meeting.
• Identified that some clubs still owe monies from last season and AW is to chase these clubs.
• Bob Burns Trophy – PW reported that entries were down on last year but the competition is progressing smoothly so far after 3 rounds Peter Shaw of Undercliffe is leading the field.
• GC raised the issue of the venue for the competition – Committee agreed that PW runs the tournament and as Field is convenient for him it is at his discretion where to hold the tournament.
• Bradford Congress entry forms started to be circulated around other congresses.
• IL identified that the YCA had confirmed £50 prize money to the event as part of the Yorkshire Individual Championship.
• IL confirmed that both Nigel Hepworth and Dave Tooley, who are arbiters based in Huddersfield, had offered to help at the event and advised that we take them up on that offer.
• Accomodation for P.Purland needs organising.
• I.L agreed to look into advertising on CEEFAX.
• G.C volunteered to look at alternative advertising methods in the local area.
• DB + P.W agreed to meet separately in the next month to do a full Secretary handover in preparation for next season.
• Chris Watson to arrange for new score cards printing with DB’s address on.
• Andy Walker agreed to print labels for the existing cards with DB’s address details on.
• Charles Wood holding Academy Rapidplay – Sunday 8^th July.
• Chris Watson agreed to give out prizes at the event.
• Charles Wood confirmed Bradford Renaissance and Undercliffe Revolution teams for Div 3 next season based out of the Latvian Club.
• Charles also confirmed that MAPA are also definitely entering a team.
• YMCA and Arc may also be entering teams – to confirm by end of July.
• Charles has done a media recoding for Calendar News which is yet to air.
• Charles has also been on the Pulse Radio and Yorkshire Radio Leeds.
• Press entries have also appeared in the Telegraph & Argus and local community magazines about the Academy.
• Nick Nixon is attending the British Championships at the request of the ECF.
• ECF have ratified and are adopting the certification scheme used by the academy.
• Charles still plans to set up a social enterprise but is waiting to hear on funding from the Bradford Innovation Fund first – Charles will chase the application made to the innovation fund.
• Charles raised the issue of funding to the academy from the BDCA – to be reviewed at the beginning of the season.
• CW identified 31^st July as cut off date for all handbook information.
• Due to new teams entering the 3^rd division Unison are to be promoted – AW to contact Unison and make them aware of this.
• Trophies – AW to pay the engravers + Karim Khan to distribute the trophies which have now been engraved.
• Fatorini trophy donation to the league is in the pipeline.
• Steve Webster Memorial Rapidplay – Latvian Club – Sunday 25^th November.
• Identified that new members to the committee need to be identified as AW and Georges Honore identied at the AGM that the treasurer and competition controller roles will be vacated at the end of the season.

Date of next Meeting:            Thursday 2^nd August, Latvian Club, 8pm

Andrew Wainwright(BDCA Minutes Secretary)

The best percentage league scores for 2006-07

DCA news

Charles Wood has been busy creating a chess academy for Bradford chess. He has met with youth leaders and schools to tell them of a novel five week training programme to establish players who are good enough to start playing in the league. The rest will go back to school.

The Academy will take place every Monday from 7.00pm until 8.00pm with a guest coaches.

Anybody involved in a young adult organisation ages 12 - 25 should contact Charles for details.

He has even spruced up the chess room at the Latvian Club and wishes to thank the following for making it happen.

Charles W Wood
Renaissance Academy Training Officer
Bradford And District Chess Association
 
Mob: 07796 246328
Email: renegade_hotspur@hotmail.com
Web: www.bradfordchess.org.uk

In Partnership With:
The Duke Of Edinburgh Award
 
With Thanks To Our Sponsors:
Art Form (Framing, Prints and Mirrors) 01274 776677
 
With Special Thanks To:
The Rugby League Heritage Centre, The George Hotel, Huddersfield (for Signed Memorabilia from Mike Stevenson)
Bradford City AFC and "Stixs" (for Signed Shirts and Balls)
Bradford Park Avenue Football Club (for Signed Shirts)
Bradford Bulls Rugby League Club (Signed Shirts and Balls)
Ricky Hatton (for Signed Photo with IBF belt)

Any news you want to contribute ?
Email me at ihorlewyk@lineone.net or ihor@bradfordchess.org.uk

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