Club nights Thursday evenings

Worcester draw friendly match with Gloucester

19 Feb 2026. One hundred and twenty years ago on 5 of Feruary, a Worcester team travelled to Gloucester, but lost 3-7. This year’s match had a happier end for Worcester: a 2½-2½ draw. Worcester’s new blitz champion won his game on board 1 and new member Maciej Bodniak won his game on board 5. See details.

City team lose away to Redditch

18 Feb 2026. Only team captain Rob Sutton was able to score in the away match at Redditch. Redditch have won all their matches so far and look strong favourites to become league champions. See full result.

Alaric wins at Coventry

15 Feb 2026. Alaric Stephen won the Intermediate tournament at the Coventry Chess Congress with 4½ points from five games in a field of 47 players. See full results and Alaric’s blog.

City team win at Longbridge

11 Feb 2016. Although slightly outgraded the City team had their second match win in the Worcestershire Championship league. City beat Longbridge B 3-2. This places the team mid-table behind Redditch, John Peters and Scott Oxtoby won their games. See match card.

Ed Higgs 2026 Blitz Champion 5 Feb 2026. Controller Rob Sutton organised players into four all-play-all groups to determine the eight quarter-finalists. The succesful eight players were Phil Austin, Bilal Butt, Ben Fellows, Ed Higgs, Scott Oxtoby, Joe Rastall, Alaric Stephen, and Rob Sutton. They played two knock-out rounds from which Alaric, a former Worcester junior champion, and Ed emerged as finalists. Ed looked the most assured player at the start of the game and the present club champion, Ed, soon benefited from an uncharacteristic error by Alaric and was able to clean up in fine style. The two finalists in the opening of their game for the championship. Picture: Ray Collett

Worcester Knights draw with runaway leaders in Rapidplay League 1

29 Jan 2026. Neither club was able to field its highest ranking players for this fixture and the result was a draw in both legs of the fixture. Boards 1 and 2 exchanged wins and Scott Oxtoby won both his games. See match cards.

Bishops do battle while City lose to Malvern

15 Jan 2026. John Peters was the only member of the City team to win in the match against Malvern. Both his game and Scott Oxtoby’s were hard fought and ended in rook and minor piece endings. See match card. In the local Derby White Bishops versus Black Bishops, the higher rated White Bishops won 3-1. Simon Berry was the first to finish pocketing a win for the Black Bishops, but scores were equalised when David Cleak won a hard fought Bishop and pawn ending. Arnold Kirkland took the white team into the lead when he ground out a win in a minor piece ending with and extra pawn. The final game to finish looked good for the white team, but in a time scramble the skipper of the black team won back a piece, but eventually lost. See match card.

City players give county big win against Derbyshire

10 Jan 2026. Skipper of Worcestershire u1650 team, Aiden Griffiths, used a new venue for Worcestershire county chess used by new club Kinver founded by county secreary Paul Sharratt meets. Seven Worcester players were in the team. Seamus Flynn, Alex Nicholls, Chris Lee, David Cleak, and Paul Serafini won their games to make Worcestershire victors over Derbyshire by 7½-2½.

Snow postpones first match of 2026

8 Jan 2026. A heavy flurry of snow just before the club was due to open for the first night of 2026 caused many players to stay at home. The Club did open, but the scheduled home match in the District League was postponed.

Worcester beat Heimbach-Weis/Neuwied in online team battle

28 Dec 2025. After the visit of Johannes Utsch, German club player in December, he Ray Collet arranged an informal team battle on lichess. The time control was 7 minutes plus an increment of 3 seconds from move 1. Worcester players came out on top by 32 points to 30. Top scorer for the Worcester team was Dorin Luca (dorinix) with 8 points and top scorer for the German team was IM Yuri Boidman (ChainsOfFantasia) with 7 points. Altogether there were 35 games played in the battle. To play through the games visit lichess.org.

Four-player chess most popular at Christmas variants night 18 Dec 2025. President Rob Sutton led the club’s Christmas variants night and secretary Ray Collett looked after the catering. The most popular variant was four-player chess. Latest League results 11 Dec 2025. A poor night for the club’s teams. In the Challengers League, the Rooks lost 1 - 3 to Redditch. Captain Scott Oxtoby and Scott Maclean came away with draws. See match card. Worcester Pawns in the Rapidplay League 2. Worcester lost the first leg 1-3 and the second 0-4. Only Simon Berry was able to win a game. See details. 3 Dec 2025. Worcester White Bishops beat Kidderminster 2½ - 1½ in their last fixture before Christmas to take them top of the table. Team captain Aiden Griffiths and David Cleak won their games. See match card.

Second round of club Championship

27 Nov 2025. Scott Oxtoby, Ray Collett, Ed Osbourn, Joe Rastall, John Peters, Viktor Gorbunov, and Bilal Butt booked their places in round three of this knock-out tournament. George Sharpe and new member James Nicholl have to replay because they drew, while a further 10 players have still to play their round 2 games.

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