The EGM was called to discuss progress on re-equipping the club with electronic chess clocks, but after dealing with this business, we got down to the serious business of the evening with the old clocks set at 5 minutes.

Your blogmeister had downloaded a nice application for controlling tournaments called Vega, written by Luigi Forlano, which was free for club use, and this was used for pairing each round. With one or two hiccups due to my inexperience with the use of the program (only downloaded this morning!), it worked very well.

Mike Hancock slaughtered all opposition, finishing with 6/6, followed by Ian Bates on 4.5 and Martin Gill on 3.5.

We all had an enjoyable evening, the first social chess in this club for many years. All agreed that we must do it again.