Blitz Time!

Another major event will be held at the Kenilworth Holiday Inn on Saturday September 3rd, when it will be the venue for the Midlands qualifier for the 2022 UK Blitz Championship. We can certainly expect a GM or three to play. The top 2 will qualify for the Final, which will be held (somewhere in the Midlands) on Saturday, December 3rd. So if you make it through, you will have two months to get into tip top shape for the final by getting some regular high quality practice at our Thursday club nights!

The Qualifier will feature 15 rounds of 3 mins + 2 secs blitz games, starting at the fairly civilised time of 11.00, with the last round scheduled for 17.40.

Full details and online entry can be found here.

This latest event confirms that Kenilworth has now become the most important chess venue this side of St Louis. Moscow; Khanty Mansisk; Wijk aan Zee; Linares - eat your hearts out!

Hope to see a major turn out of KCC Blitz-Meisters, no doubt spearheaded by the more youthful and mentally agile of our number.  I have entered, though, so the demographic at the moment tends towards the geriatric and mentally static wing of the club!

Sorry its such a dreadful song to accompany this article, but nothing else came to mind. And at least a few of our older members will be able to sing along.