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:
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 |