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Latest League results

19 Mar 2026. City team lose at home to Longbridge A. Only captain Rob Sutton escaped with a draw in the match against Redditch, but all the games went the full distance. See complete results.

12 Mar 2026. Pawns draw with Longbridge. The Pawns team fought two hard draws in the Rapidplay League 2 home fixture against Longbridge. This result means that even in the most favourable circumstances, the Pawns could only equal leader Kidderminster’s match points score and Kidderminster have a further three fixtures to play which could net up to 6 match points. Sean Conway won both his games. See match card.

11 Mar 2026. White Bishops Beat Reddttch. The White Bishops won their away match with Redditch in the Worcester & Ditrict League 2½-1½ and lead the league by 1 match point. Arnold and david Cleak won their games. See full result.

Worcester players help county sink Lincolnshire u1650 team

7 Mar 2026. Club members Arnold Kirkland, Aiden Griffiths, Paul Serafini and team captain Aiden Griffiths all won their games to give Worcestershire u1650 team a convincing win over Lincolnshire at East Goscott on Saturday. Worcestershire won the match 7½-4½. See full results

One win, one loss on double fixture night

26 Feb 2026. The club hosted two league fixtures. The Black Bishops team beat Reddicth in the Worcester & District league, but the Rooks lost 1-3 to Longbridge in the Challengers League. George Sharpe and Ric Griffiths-Read won their games in the Black Bishops’ match. See details for Black Bishops and Rooks teams.

Latest positions in club Rapidplay Championship

20 Feb 2026. Over 200 games gave now been played in this competition. Alaric Stephen leads with a score of 13½ followed by Ray Collett on 10 and Joe Rastall 9½ points. See cross-table.
20 Feb 2026. In the Challengers League, the Rooks team were mauled by a Malvern team headed by a former county champion. See details.

Worcester draw friendly match with Gloucester

19 Feb 2026. One hundred and twenty years ago on 5 of February, 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

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