Winter Butterfly  -  19g    21/04/03 

Dear Friends 

RS Jones is the Champion 

Congratulations to Richard S Jones for retaining the Title of Welsh Champion.  The second year running he has won the title. 

Richard went through undefeated allowing only two draws in his seven games, and finishing 1.5 points clear of the four players in second place. 

The leading players at the end were 

RS Jones       6 points

F May,  I Rees,  T Kett and G Dawson 4.5. 

Retaining the title is a brilliant performance.  Well Done!  Can Richard join the illustrious few who have completed the hat Trick?  (Only Howard comes to mind, but I think there are two others, can anybody enlighten us?)  We'll know next year 

Many thanks to Kevin Staveley who emailed the results.  he has also provided full cross tables for all the sections.  However, I decided against forwarding them with this newsletter as they contains over 1000K of information, which would cause problems for many readers.  Please give me a few days to break them up and change their format to reduce the size, then I'll distribute them in batches over the course of the next week.

 From Kevin Staveley 

There follows two of the three emails received tonight from Kevin.  The other was just a covering email with the cross tables.

 Dai,

 Just a short e-mail tonight

 WELSH CHAMPION    Richard Jones

 MAJOR CHAMPION    (Tied)  Gwynfor Rees (for the 5th time) and Craig Woolcock

 MINOR CHAMPION    (Tied) V.Rizzi (Aberystwyth) (winner of John Bishop Trophy) and E.Sandercock

 UNDER 1300 CHAMPION (Tied)  Carl Davies (Castell Nedd) and Gareth Quinn (Cardiff)

 Full cross tables will be sent to you tomorrow.

 ALSO

NEXT YEAR

THE GOLDEN JUBILEE (50th) WELSH CHAMPIONSHIP WILL BE HELD IN CARDIFF.

(Watch it Kev, al Sahhaf is determined on Baghdad, and he knows your address: Editor) 

Watch for details of this VERY SPECIAL EVENT!!! 

Kev.

 Dai, 

Sorry third message tonight. 

The Welsh Congress Grand Prix season reached it's climax at the Welsh Champs. (BEST THREE SCORES COUNT)

 Winners

 OPEN    RICHARD JONES

MAJOR    CHRIS ARNOLD

MINOIR    BRIAN TONKS

 LADIES    ABIGAIL CAST

 JUNIOR OPEN    IOAN REES

JUNIOR MAJOR    CHRIS ARNOLD

JNUIOR MINOR    JOSEFF THOMAS 

Kev.

I'm very busy tomorrow and Wednesday, but I'll try and start tidying things up and passing on the rest of the information on Thursday.

Best wishes

Dai James.