Thursday Club Nights - an Update

Following the closure of our most recent Thursday evening home, The Gauntlet, KCC successfully held its first on-line club night since covid-times last week, at which Jude was apparently in imperious form, demolishing virtually all comers as a warm up for his tilt at the British Championships. Full credit to Keatan, though, for depriving him of a 100% score with a crucial victory.

We will again be meeting on line this Thursday (August 1st), but from August 8th, we will resume meeting in person - at the Abbey Club, which is, of course, already our home match venue. This can only be a temporary arrangement, however, as we will not be able to continue on Thursdays once the snooker season re-starts. Rest assured, though, that our Chairman is working night and day (alright, that's a bit of an exaggeration!) to find us a suitable permanent venue for our club nights after the recent unlucky turns of events we have experienced.

Any developments will be circulated immediately to all club members and also be posted here for the benefit of prospective new members.

Information - temporary Thursday evening changes

A note for everyone who attends or plans to attend our Thusday evening sessions, courtesy of our esteemed club chairman: "As many members will have heard by now, the Gauntlet pub where we having been playing for the last few weeks is to close this Sunday. The pub chain who own the building are apparently in talks with several interested parties about taking on a new Lease but nothing has yet been agreed. Mark and I have decided that rather than seek an alternative venue at this stage, we will await developments to see if the Gauntlet does reopen and if so, whether we can continue to play there. We have considered other options but at present, we would prefer to continue at the Gauntlet. For the interim period, we have decided to revert to online play as happened during Covid. There is already an established Kenilworth club on the Lichess website where many of you will already be members. In addition we use a program called Discord which enables us to talk amongst the members present on the site. Josh set this up for us at the start of the Pandemic and has kindly agreed to issue guidance as to how to join. The intention is that we will meet online on Thursday evenings from 7.30 until we can play in person again, be it at the Gauntlet or if necessary elsewhere." Hopefully we will all be back up and running in a few weeks, but if anyone does plan to join us online on Thursdays in the interim, just send me an email (imscar1986@gmail.com) and I can send you the necessary information.