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Club nights Thursday evenings

 

Next Chess at 7:30 pm on
Thu 15 January 2026

Link for location. Club contacts and further information here
Please note that players under the age of 18 are welcome to play, but should be accompanied by parents or a responsible adult.


2025 Blitz tournament
Winter Venue (Sep to early June). Enter the church precincts from St Stephen's Street and the covered way to the main door of the church hall alongside St Stephen's Church, St Stephen's Street Worcester WR3 7HS. For location map, click here

Upcoming

Competition titles in green are links to further information or the event organiser
  • Thu 15 Jan. Worcester City play Malvern at home in the Championship League. Contact Rob if you want to play.
  • Thu 15 Jan. Worcester Black Bishops play Worcester White Bishops in the Worcester & District League. Contact Aiden (white Bishops) or Alex (Black Bishops) if you want to play.

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.

 Four-player Chess

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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