A friendly and competitive chess club for all standards of player
A friendly and competitive chess club for all standards of player
This page lists club-related events such as tournaments, one-off activities, 4NCL weekends, AGMs and so on. For local league match fixtures, please refer to the Surrey Border and Berkshire Chess web pages, using the links in the Useful Links page.
The annual Crowthorne speed handicap tournament, also known as the Crowthorne chess club Christmas party, will be on Friday the 21st December, from 7:30, in our usual venue of the staff bar. Do reserve the date in your diary.
Once again, John Upham has kindly offered to host the Khyber Cup. This friendly summer rapid play tournament is an annual event open to all club members.
Following Richard’s entertaining talk last Wednesday we plan to have a mini rapid tournament this coming Wednesday (10th July). The exact time control and format will be determined by how many people we have, but we’ll aim for all-play-all with 3+10 or 10 mins time control, and we’ll start around 7:45 when sufficient people have […]
This coming Wednesday's summer event will be a restricted opening rapid tournament. The opening will be fixed with 2 moves (for each player) into the Trompowsky: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 Exciting stuff. Expect varied results. If this works as a format we could try other fixed opening mini tournaments. Interesting gambit lines have […]
It’s December, nearly, and Christmas is not far off, which means our annual Christmas handicapped mini rapid play tournament is coming up. We have the Wellington social club, Napoleon’s Retreat, booked for the Friday before Christmas ,that’s Friday 20th December. You all know the format (basically it’s a speed handicapped event where anyone can win). […]
Jonathan has set up the Khyber Cup for Saturday 5th September, 14:00, and has provided the followng details. Please see his email for more information. This is a 5 round Swiss, with 10m+5s time control and a couple of minutes between rounds for a breathing space. There is a Zoom session available for those who […]
This year we will hold the Christmas Handicap using Zoom and Lichess. The prize is the coveted Harvey-Ironside Shield . Please keep the date free ...
On this Wednesday’s club night we will have a mini tournament using a relatively fast time control. We will default to use 5m+5s, unless there is a clear preference for something else. We’ll be using chess.com instead of our usual lichess, for the benefit of those who prefer chess.com. Other than that, there will be […]
The infamous Crowthorne Chess Club summer mini-tournament, the KHYBER CUP, will be next Sunday, the 29th August. This will be at the Bar & Café in the Pinewood Centre off New Wokingham Road/Peacock Lane in Crowthorne. Doors open at 10am and play will start not long after that, once we’ve set everything up. We aim […]
UPDATE: Unfortunately it has been necessary to cancel the Christmas Handicap this Saturday because the College has closed the bar until further notice (quite understandably in view of the omicron variant).
