Rematch against Crewe Chess Club
Nairobi Chess Club (NCC) successfully started the year 2022 with a victory in the first event of its calendar
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On January 31st NCC played an online match against the English Chess Club of Crewe (CCC).
Both clubs met for the first time in February 2021 in an online match whose score favoured Nairobi
This year, Crewe took the chance for revenge.
While in the first match 11 players took part, Crewe raised the bar for the rematch recruiting 20 players.
Nairobi took up the challenge and also presented a lineup with the same number of participants.
Despite our two big guns (Gilruth and Gurevich) couldn’t participate, 20 members of the club took part in the contest and the final score again this year favoured Nairobi: 23,5 – 16,5.
In 2009 NCC organized an online 6-board match against Wageningen Chess Club (The Netherlands) and established a milestone in international projection.
Now, 13 years later, and in an interval of 2 years, NCC has played 5 online international matches with more than 10 boards each time. The last one against Crewe breaking the record with 20 boards (!!)
Final Results
| NAIROBI | 23,5 – 16,5 | CREWE |
| Vasanth Ramesh | 1 – 1 | Bart Fajfer |
| Peter Schupp | 1 – 1 | Andrew Crosby |
| Roberto Villuela | 0,5 – 1,5 | Harry Gardiner |
| Victor Hongo | 2 – 0 | David Hulme |
| Karan Christie | 1 – 1 | John Booth |
| Mushfig Habilov | 0 – 2 | Martin Frisher |
| Willy Simons | 1 – 1 | Myron Odingo |
| Surjit Dhemrait | 0 – 2 | Simon Layhey |
| Jay Naker | 0,5 – 1,5 | Lukasz Michalek |
| Jackim Arigi | 2 – 0 | David Price |
| Aslam Adam | 0 – 2 | Jarek Cryz |
| Paul Oketch | 1 – 1 | James Marshall |
| Kim Bhari | 1 – 1 | George Bulbeck |
| Veniamin Negru | 2 – 0 | Lee Tilton |
| Hiram Gakembu | 0,5 – 1,5 | Pawel Stanny |
| Haroon Dawood | 2 – 0 | Mike Keenan |
| Slav Shvoro | 2 – 0 | Mark Randel |
| Aditi Pandey | 2 – 0 | Mo Farah |
| Peter Ndirangu | 2 – 0 | Oskar Jarzynski |
| Joel Odemu | 2 – 0 | Robert Scott |
Two tough games on the first board:
Bart Fajfer vs Vasanth Ramesh
The huge expectation created by this match has impelled both clubs to establish this match as an annual event in their calendars.
Being founded in 1958, Nairobi Chess Club is the oldest chess club in East Africa, and also leader in approaching not only chess to people, but also approaching people through chess.
