Consultation Game

Once each year a consultation game is played at the club. This game features four of the club's top players playing in two teams of two. Each team has its own board and they sit on opposite sides of the room so that neither team can hear the other's discussion of the moves to be made. A "runner" conveys the moves from one team to the other, making the moves on both boards.

Spectators are able to gather round both boards and listen to the players' as they assess the position. Spectators may also make suggestions and discuss the game with the players.

See the current Club Programme for the date of this year's consultation game.

We are now in the process of preparing all the consultation games since 1989 for posing on this site:

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Consultation games held since 1989

No. Year White Black Opening Moves Winners Newsletter Report
1 1989 Frank Hutchings John Purdy Simon Easterbrook-Smith Mihaly Szekeley Sicilian Defence 31 White June 1989
2 1990 Frank Hutchings John Purdy Simon Easterbrook-Smith Ian Trott Sicilian Defence 29 White Oct 1990
1991 Not Held
3 1992 Simon Easterbrook-Smith Dennis Day Frank Hutchings John Purdy French Defence 54 White Jan 1993
4 1993 Simon Easterbrook-Smith Mark De Groen Frank Hutchings John Purdy King's Gambit 19 White Jan 1991
5 1994 Frank Hutchings John Purdy Simon Easterbrook-Smith Mark De Groen Sicilian Defence 23 Draw Jan 1995
6 1995 Frank Hutchings John Purdy Malcolm Stephens Mark De Groen English Opening 38 Black Jan 1996
7 1996 Frank Hutchings John Purdy Simon Easterbrook-Smith Mark De Groen King's Indian Defence 39 White Jan 1997
8 1997 Simon Easterbrook-Smith Mark De Groen Frank Hutchings Dennis Day French Defence 36 Draw Jan 1998
9 1998 Frank Hutchings Peter Dauvergne Simon Easterbrook-Smith Malcolm Tredinnick King's Indian Defence 41 Black Jan 1999
10 1999 Frank Hutchings John Purdy Simon Easterbrook-Smith Peter Dauvergne French Defence 65 White Jan 2000
11 2000 Frank Hutchings John Purdy Simon Easterbrook-Smith Ton Luchtmeijer Dutch Defence 25 White Jan 2001
12 2001 Simon Easterbrook-Smith Markus Wettstein Frank Hutchings John Purdy English Opening 48 White Jan 2004
13 2002 Simon Easterbrook-Smith Robert Goris Frank Hutchings John Purdy French Defence 36 White Jan 2004
14 2003 Simon Easterbrook-Smith Robert Goris Frank Hutchings Malcolm Stehens French Defence 34 White Jan 2004