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Sussex Chess League

The 2026 AGM was held on Tuesday 21st July 2026 at Lewes Chess Club.
This is the Webmasters brief report of the meeting.

There was a disappointing low return of Trophies and Tankards. Jeffrey Boardman the Chairman is looking into the retrieval or replacement of all missing ones. Unfortunately due to work and family commitments Jeffrey was not at the meeting so a full update was not available.

Only the 1st Division Trophy and one Tankard could be presented.

Financials were approved after some discussion over the time consuming necessity to chase clubs for non payment of ECF Membership fees for players.

The good news was that Brian Stockham of Uckfield Chess Club agreed to be the new League Secretary. All the other posts were renewed.

A discussion of the proposed rule changes resulted in no change to the current rules;
Change to 4.2.2 re players being allowed to appear for higher teams 3 times before being nominated for the higher team. The proposal to change this to 4 times was narrowly defeated by 16 votes to 15.
The proposed change to the play-off rules was withdrawn while the proposal to choose colours by lot rather than away team having white on board 1 was heavily defeated.