World Chess League: Big wins for Warwick Alumni

 

Worthy nominations for the World Chess League's Meme of the Season Award!

Overall, our three Alumni teams last season performed very well in the World Chess League, coming 22nd, 33rd, and 48th - narrowly behind the Society on 13th. A big well done to all the players, in particularly, the three Captains, Holden Davis, Vincenz Bill, and Jack Huffer. The Society did fare better still, winning the World Chess League 20-20 Rapidplay 2023 title.🏆

However, the Alumni did manage to pick up some silverware, with Holden's and Vincenz's submissions sharing the WCL Meme of the Season Award 2023 - many congratulations!🙌

For the coming 2023-24 Season, we are only entering the 2200+ Team into the WCL. The team have elected Dimiter Daskalov to be the new Captain, succeeding Holden. We are looking to enter the other teams in the near-future to OTB team tournaments, so keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime, do follow the team, and our future Twitch streams.🖥️

Season in a Wrap: Summary Report!

Bringing the 2022-23 Season to a close, we want to thank every member of the Alumni, and the Committee for organising so many events and trips, and to the Captains for organising the online side.

Our Summary Report for 2022-23, is now published on Issuu: here

If you are an Alumni of the University of Warwick, we would be delighted to see you at the next event. As ever, plus-ones are super welcome too!

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Many thanks again, hope you enjoy the Summary Report, and look forward to seeing many old and many more new faces, at our future events!

End of a Season (2022-23)

As the 2022-3 Season draws to a close, we would like to thank, all the players for playing, and our Captains, Jack Huffer, Holden Davis, and Vincenz Bill, for running the teams for the past ten months, in the World Chess League.

The Alumni did quite well overall, ranking 22nd (2200+ Team), 33rd (OG Team), and 48th (Young Oldies Team).

2200+ Club: Sultan Otegenov, Holden Davis (Capt.), Dimiter Daskalov, Taran Jina, Peter Batchelor, Peter Williams, Louise Head, Guy Moss.

OG Team: Elliot Long, Tom Richardson, Sam Hall, Jaspar Goodall, James Munns, Jack Huffer (Capt.), Hok Yin Stephen Chiu, James March, Sam Jackson

Young Oldies: Arjun Pyda, Daniel Koltai, Deema Khunda, Jonathan Fowler, Simeon Bott, Vash Ravi, Vikas Sajanani, Vincenz Bill (Capt.). 

Special shout out goes to Vincenz, who captained his team distinguished, whilst working from Germany.

For the upcoming year, the 2200+ Team have elected Dimiter Dashalov, as their Captain for the Season 2023-4. The other two teams, are currently still working out interest and the best way to maintain chess through next year, with a particular focus on OTB competitions where possible.

Alumni returns for Chairmans' Dinner 2023

Alumni Returns to celebrate another successful year of Chess, with the Society.

Following from a very successful Graduation Celebration of 2022, which brought together the three cohorts affected by the pandemic, 2020, 21, and 22, the Society took over the running of that event, with its inaugural Chairmans' Dinner - an end of year formal for the Society and Alumni.

Set off the banks of Leam River, Society Chairman Tom Campbell choose the newly-opened venue of The Terrace. An excellent choice.

It was a delight to toast to the success of the Society's 2022-23 Season, in particular the hard-earnt efforts of Co-Presidents, James Parkinson and Meghana Mohan, with 200+ members, a record-breaking Rapidplay, and two serious sponsors - Optiver, and Chessable.

On the Alumni front, this year was a success with online streams, three new teams in the World Chess League, two new FIDE Arbiters, and of course, the happy engagement of Alumni President, Peter Batchelor, and Emma Bewley. 

Full report on the private Alumni Facebook Group, shortly.

The next Alumni Trip will be Chess Fest, in Traflagar Sqaure, on Sunday 16th July.

5th Chessable University of Warwick Rapidplay 2023

"Wow - looks like a cult." - Friend of Warwick Chess.

As ever, the Alumni arrived in droves for the 5th Warwick Rapidplay 2023. As ever, it is a pleasure to see the Society thriving, going from strength to strength. 

A big well done to the Tournament Director, Sidharth Panicker for a seamless tournament, including hitting a record-breaking 130 players. As ever, this was followed by a Society x Alumni bar crawl with Keith Arkell, in order to celebrate a great weekend and Society President, Meghana's birthday - a merry opportunity for bad decision-making for all! 

A pleasure to see Alumni, Chun Chiu return to arbit, and the many who returned to play, include Elliot Long, Vash Ravi, Oliver Lindrop, James March, James Munns, Sam Foster, Jack Huffer, Ziad Fakhoury, Arjun Pyda, Jonathan Fowler, Holden Davis, Taran Jina, and As.Prof Joshua Pink. Click here for the full results: link.

See everyone next time, at Chairman's Lunch (June 17th) for the annual Warwick Chess & Alumni Formal 2023. (Details here: link)