Curio Lounge
9-11 King Street, Stroud GL5 3BX
Presents
Chess Master @ The Local
A free event sponsored by the English Chess Federation in collaboration with Stroud Chess Club
Featuring
International Chess Master
Chris Beaumont
12-5pm Saturday, September 24
This informal event is aimed at all standards of player: beginner, experienced occasional player, club players, and budding masters!
Equipment will be available for anyone who fancies a game and members of Stroud CC and Mark Jordan (ECF Publicity Manager) will be there to offer advice and information.
And if you fancy a real challenge you can take on International Chess Master, Chris Beaumont!
Chris will be performing a simultaneous display throughout the afternoon in which he will play all-comers on multiple boards.
As games finish the board will become available for a new opponent.
Prizes will be awarded to anyone who manages to beat the Master and for the game that Chris judges to be best of the afternoon.
Chris Beaumont, who is based in Bristol, received the title, International Master, in 1996 from FIDE, the International Chess Federation.
He has won numerous prizes in tournaments and recently came first in the Cotswold Congress ahead of Grandmaster Keith Arkell who he defeated along the way.
A distinguished chess coach, he has trained and accompanied England Junior squads to important events on a number of occasions, and he is well known for his blindfold displays in which he takes on up to five opponents simultaneously without sight of the boards.
For further info: manager.publicity@englishchess.org.uk or chessmates@sky.com
englishchess.org.uk
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