The AGM was held on Wednesday November 29th.
The Sports
Personality of the year was awarded to the Staffordshire Chess Association’s
Secretary for Junior Chess, Jonathon Blackburn for all the work he has undertaken
after he was elected to the position two years ago. The increase in the number
of entrants for the 2023 Junior Congress to 153 from 73 last year is only one
of his achievements.
The Club of
the Year was awarded to Meir Chess Club from Stoke-on-Trent. They were
commended for their support of Staffordshire’s Under 1450 team in 2023 and the
support of Meir’s members generally for Staffordshire Teams pre-2020. No less
than 6 players out of 12 in the Staffordshire Under 100 Team that won the 2019
County Championship were Meir players.
The Election
of Officers was completed with Robert Milner remaining as President and
Jonathon retaining his Junior Secretary post. Ray Dolan is the new General Secretary
replacing Peter Evans who has taken over as Treasurer.
