Club nights Thursday evenings

First round results in club championship

3 Oct 2024. Ray Collett, Ed Higgs, Seamus Flynn, Joe Rastall and Keith Sorrell won thier first round games and will progress to the quarter finals to be held on 12 December. Two of the games were drawn and these players will need to play a second game to progress. Aiden Griffiths held off Dorin Luca in a rook and pawn ending while Rob Sutton held Stephen Mellor to a drawn knight and pawn ending. See full results.

Ed Higgs wins September Fun Blitz

26 Sep 2024. In the semi-finals Ed Higgs beat Rob Sutton and Joe Rastall beat Dorin Luca. The final saw Ed beat Joe. See full results of the competition.

Pawns team lose to Kidderminster in first u1650 Rapidplay League fixture

26 Sep 2024. The Pawns selected recent new players for their first home match against Kidderminster in the new league. Kidderminster turned out an experienced team led by Cameron who was delighted in a sweeping victory in his first match as captain. See full results.

Rooks team crash in first match

19 Sep 2024. Redditch were only able to bring three players because one of their team was taken ill on the day of the match. Although Worcester’s board 1 was out-rated and that baord gave Redditch their first victory, the remaining two games were between players of similar ratings. These games were evenly balanced until well into middle games, but Redditch players prevailed in both of them taking the match 3-1. See match card.

Good start to new season

12 Sep. Two Worcester teams were in action. Worcester Cty beat Halesowen 3½-1½ in the Championship league. Dorin Luca, Ray Collett, and Rob Sutton won their games. See full results. The Bishops team drew 2-2 with Kidderminster.

City players help county online teams

10 Sep. Worcestershire Wolfpack squad played the first round of the Four Nations Chess League. Ray Collett and Colin Vernon co-manage the squad and play in Divisions 3 and 5. Six club members were in the teams in round 1. Ed Higgs, and Phil Austin won their games. Click on their names to play though their games recorded on lichess. If you would like to play online, please contact Ray Collett.

Season gets off to a brisk start

5 Sep 2024. Rob Sutton launched the new season with a September Fun 5 minute Blitz tournament. Twenty players took part. Group A was won outright by President Rob Sutton with 9 points from 9 rounds. Dorin Luca was runner-up scoring 7½ points. Joe Rastall won Group B. He also had a 100% record and Ed Higgs was runner-up on 8 points. The finals between Rob, Joe, Dorin and Ed will be played at the club on 28 September. Full results of the group stages are here.

Worcester in Towers Summer Cup

29 Aug 2024. Tony Shaw acted as captain for the second round of the jamboree for the Towers Cup at Meadow Farm Redditch. Only Joe Rastall won and the team shared third position with Redditch. Winners were Longbridge. See full result.

New chess club to start in city college

15 Aug 2024. Colin Vernon, Lecturer in Esports & Computing at Heart of Worcestershire College is hoping to start a chess club for students at the St Andrew’s Building on Deansway next term. Colin recently qualified as a World Chess Federation Lead School Instructor (LSI) and will be putting it to good use in coaching players for the Delancey UK Chess Challenge in spring term.