Coronavirus and the 2020-21 Season

Friday 13^th August 2021

The Club has decided that there will be no Club meetings at the Regal in the 2020-21 season until January 2021 at the earliest. However:

• Games in the Club's competitions can be played online via the chess.com website.
• Thursday nights will be club nights, with lots of South Hams competitive games being played at the same time - so you can keep your eye on how other games are progressing while you play youir own game!
• The Homan League will operate primarily as an online competition from 1^st September to 24^th December 2020. A new league competition (details TBD) will be started in the New Year.
• Players can start playing their games in the Cookworthy Cup (the Club's knockout competition) online from 1^st September 2020. However first and second round games don't need to be played until 31^st January 2021, so members not wishing to play online can enter in the hope that over-the-board chess will resume in the New Year (and then withdraw if that doesn't happen).

If BOTH players agree to play a game in these competitions over-the-board rather than online, they may do so, using their own equipment and at a venue other than the Regal Club.

The Committee plan to meet in December 2021 to decide how the Coronavirus pandemic will affect the Club's plans for 2022.