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.
Congratulations to Louise Head for her stunning performance in the Czech Open over the last few weeks. Against strong opposition comprising of international masters, FIDE masters and grandmasters, Louise scored 5 out of 9 for a performance rating of 2382 ELO (224 ECF). Louise will be in the club this week to go through some […]
Colin will talk about playing bad positions, using the wealth of experience from his own games as examples.
All club members are invited to the summer lectures. This week Mark Taylor will go through one of his "interesting" games.
This week John Upham will dip into his encyclopaedic chess knowledge to present curious positions and other items of interest. Novel for sure, educational most likely, and entertaining without doubt. All club members are invited.
For the next summer event, we will have a talk from Richard going through some endgame studies, which should be both educational and entertaining.
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 […]
