The season has ended with a triple triumph for Broadland Chess Club. Its first team, the Bitterns, won Division 1 of the Norfolk League, while its second team, the Harnsers, won Division 2.
And for the first time the club also won the Norfolk and Suffolk Cup. Victories over Lowestoft, Norwich Dons and Norfolk and Norwich led to the final, where Broadland played Bury St Edmunds.
Broadland Chess Club’s Norfolk and Suffolk Cup winning team (left to right): Gerald Moore, Terry Turner, Ken McEwan, Paul Badger (non-playing captain), Roy Hughes, Richard Polaczek and Dan Frean
In 2014 the same teams had contested the final with Bury emerging as winners in a close and exciting match; 2015 was equally exciting but even closer. The final score was 3-3 with Broadland winning on board elimination.
Further success for the club came on 31 May when Bob Grindrod was awarded a prize for coming third out of 21 in the Under-130 section of the East Anglian Chess Union congress at Newmarket, and on 5 June when Dan Frean received the Alex Niedwiedzki Cup for the highest percentage score in the year.
Broadland Chess Club meets at the King’s Head, Wroxham Road, Coltishall, on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7.30 pm, where the new season will begin on Monday 7 September. More information from club secretary Paul Badger 01603 737572 or paulbadger@supanet.com