![Camberley Baptist Church](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5095-300x200.jpg)
A glorious Saturday (the 14th) in September was the date and Camberley Baptist Church was the location of the third tournament in memory of correspondence Grandmaster Keith Bevan Richardson.
![Keith Bevan Richardson (1942 -2017)](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/JEU5884-300x216.jpg)
A field of thirty-two gathered at the home (since 1982) of Camberley Chess Club for a six round rapid-play event (R20′ + 10″) that was free to enter raising money by donations to The Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Players were invited to choose books from Keith’s library
![Charity Bookstall](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5102-300x110.jpg)
and donate to charity in return.
![The Cure Parkinson's Trust](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IyOsAR6K-300x300.jpg)
Top seed was recently qualified IM Adam C Taylor (ECF230)
![IM Adam C Taylor](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5083-300x226.jpg)
whose chances were dented by losing in round 4 to Clive Frostick (Farnham) who, like Keith, was a highly successful correspondence player (a SIM : Senior International Master)
![Clive Frostick](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5009-300x231.jpg)
Other pre-tournament favourites were FM Andrew P Smith (IRE and Bourne End)
![FM Andrew Smith](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5012-300x223.jpg)
and FM Richard M Webb (Crowthorne)
![FM Richard Webb](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5023-300x227.jpg)
along with WFM Louise Head (Crowthorne)
![WFM Louise Head](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5025-300x236.jpg)
Following three rounds we stopped for lunch (in some cases liquid only) and on 100% were Adam, Clive and Andrew so round four could well be a key decider. Clive beat Adam with the white pieces whereas Andrew and Richard drew a hard fought Sicilian Dragon. In round five Clive breathed a sigh of relief to survive a “dodgy” position against Colin Purdon in one of the candidate games for the “Best Swindle” Prize.
![Colin Purdon](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5085-300x237.jpg)
The drama continued into the final round as Adam beat strong junior Ranesh Ratnesan
and everything hinged on Clive’s game with Richard Webb. After a long and interesting struggle the game was drawn and the tournament was decided.
The award for Best U-150 player went to rapidly improving Jessica Mellor (Guildford)
![Jessica Mellor](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5040-300x222.jpg)
the award for Best Junior went to Radesh Ratnesan (Surbiton)
![Ranesh Ratnesan](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5018-300x224.jpg)
and the title of Camberley Chess Club Champion (highest placed local player) went to Colin Purdon
![Ken Coates & Colin Purdon](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5125-300x216.jpg)
In overall first place with 5.5/6 was Clive Frostick :
![Overall winner : Clive Frostick](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/KRM_5121-300x203.jpg)
The event collected more than £300 for the Cure Parkinson’s Trust and we are sure Keith was looking down from above and was pleased with what he observed.
![Keith Bevan Richardson (1942 -2017)](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_0005-186x300.jpg)
Past Winners of Keith Richardson Memorial :
2017 : Julien Shepley
2018 : Ken Norman
2019 : Clive Frostick
Full results may be found from UTU Swiss
Camberley Chess Club would like to thank :
Camberley Baptist Church, Berkshire Junior Chess Association, Ken Coates and Christine Coates.
The organiser was John Upham.