Fax 012-6544737 e-mail : info@chessconnection.co.za
4 Oct 2005
A. NOTICE of the Annual General Meeting
and Prize Giving Ceremony to be held on Sat 5 November 2005
at Address : Blue Gill Club House
Cormorant Drive, Blue Gill , Kempton Park Directions : From Cnr of Dann Rd and Monument Rd Glen Marais Ex 22 Kempton Park.
If you are traveling along Monument towards Dann Rd you will turn left into Dann Rd. Super Spar shopping complex is on your right hand side. Continue down Dann Rd until the robot, Veld Street. Turn right into Veld street, Blue Gill complex is on your left hand side 200m from the Robot. Sign in at the gate continue straight along Cormorant Drive after the second stop street on your right hand side is the clubhouse. Drive past the clubhouse and you will immediately get an entrance to the parking area. If you get lost you can call Kevin Jurrius for directions: 082 452 1298
Programme of the day
10:00 onwards arrival at the Club House
10:30 –12:30 Blitz for individuals (Supply own clock
please)
12:30 – 13:50 LUNCH - Bring and Braai ( Bring own meat and
drinks)
14:00 – 14:20 Prize giving
14:30 - 16:30 AGM
Club players are invited to join in our annual social chess happening. An
Organised 5/5 Blitz will take place (individuals) from 10:30 –12:30 at the
venue above, participants to supply their own chess clock please. Lunch will be
a “Bring & Braai”. Participants to bring own meat and drinks, glasses and
plates, braai utensils, etc. Tables and chairs will be provided. The GCL
Committee will provide the fire, bread rolls and salad.
Representatives of Clubs and Club players and especially our winning teams are
invited to attend the social events of the day and the AGM. If more than
two persons from your Club will attend the social events, please let Elise or
Kevin know so that enough food can be prepared.
Please find the provisional agenda for the AGM
attached.
Members (Clubs) that wish to propose alterations/additions
to the rules for 2006 or any other aspect of the GCL are requested to submit
such proposals in writing to the Chairman, Mrs Elise Steenkamp (e-mail info@chessconnection.co.za or Fax
012-6544737) by 17 October 2005.
Proposals for AGM
The GCL
Executive will propose the following:
1. Relegation of disqualified teams or teams that withdrew.
A team that was disqualified due to not
showing at two scheduled matches in one season, or teams that withdrew after
the league has commenced will be dealt with in the usual way as stipulated in
the current rules. Additionally, at the discretion of the League Director, such
teams may be relegated to the lowest division in the following league season.
2. The participation
fee for league teams to be raised to R300 per team for 2006.
Compared to the entry fees of other chess events, the League
only charges R30 per player (ten players) or R50 per player (six players) for
an event with 11 rounds.
B. League RESULTS 2005
Full final results attached to this letter.
Congratulations Centurion A for winning the Premier Division the fifth year in a row. Your Club can now confidently claim its place among the greatest Clubs in Gauteng (previously Transvaal) of the past sixty years! See the list of past (and present) League Champions attached.
Medals & Trophies
As was decided at the AGM last year the deserving teams shall receive medals
for their performance this year.
Six medals will be handed out to the
team captain. Clubs that wish to order more for the team may do so by letting
Elise Steenkamp know by 14 October. The cost of additional medals is R30 each,
payable directly to the League on order.
Premier League
League Champions of 2005:
Centurion Chess Club
A team – GCL Champions’ floating Trophy and
gold medals for team members.
Second place: Hilson Park Chess Club A team - silver medals
Third place: University
of JHB A team – bronze medals
First Division
First Place: Brooklyn Mall A – gold medals –
Team Trophy
Second place: Centurion C – silver medals
Third place: Vaal University of Technology A
(VUT) – bronze medals
Second Division South
First : Gauteng South B - gold medals
– Team Trophy
Second: Randburg C – silver medals
Third: Springs Royal A - bronze medals
Second
Division North
First: Brooklyn Mall B - gold medals – Team Trophy
Second: Pretoria C – silver medals
Third : Akasia A – bronze medals
Junior league
First :
West Rand – Certificates & Team Trophy
C. Promotion/Relegation
For the 2006 season the following teams shall
be promoted to the Premier Division:
Brooklyn Mall A, Centurion C and Vaal
University of Technology A (VUT).
The teams Tuks A, Ndaba A and Medunsa A shall be relegated to the First
Division.
TUT A and Kagiso shall be relegated to the second division.
From the 2nd Division South, Gauteng South B and from the 2nd
Division North the team of Brooklyn Mall B shall be promoted to the First
Division.
D. Election of new Committee
The Committee of 2005 functioned with only
three members, Elise Steenkamp (Chairman), Kevin Jurrius (League Director) and
Roel Stadman (Treasurer). They are all willing to serve on the GCL Committee
again next year, though Kevin indicated that he would not be able to be the
League Director in 2006.
There is a serious need for nominations
for the position of Secretary and League Director for 2006. Please nominate suitable and willing persons from
your Club.
(Nomination form below)
E. Proxy forms, Constitution, Minutes
of previous AGM
These documents had been distributed to member
Clubs earlier this year. It can be supplied by e-mail again, if requested.
Kindly Yours in Chess,
Elise
Steenkamp
Chairman GCL 2005
GCL
nomination Form
Please submit to Chairman by 1 November (fax 012-6544737 or e-mail: info@chessconnection.co.za ,
Full list of nominated persons to be
distributed to all Members by 3 November
Name & Surname of person who is
nominated: ________________________________________________
Tel/Cell contact details of nominee: ______________________
This person is nominated for the
position of:
_______________________________ on the
GCL Committee.
Nomination accepted:
_______________________(signature of nominee) date_______________ place
__________________
Name of
Club that nominate: ____________________________
Signature
& details of Club Official that submitted this nomination:
Name_____________________ Signature_________________
Tel/Cell: _____________________