Upcoming
- Fri-Sun, 28-30 Mar. Bristol Open Championship at Bristol Grammar School, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SR. Open, u1950, u1750, and u1550 tournaments. Five rounds, time control 90 min + 30 sec, half-point byes available in rounds 1-4.
- Mon 10 Mar, on BBC2. Chessmasters: The Endgame. Starts at 8pm.
- Tue 11 Mar, An Introduction to Chess. For absolute beginners and those who know the basic moves. Tuesday early evenings at the Dice Box organised by Rob Sutton.
- Sun 11 May, Delancey UK Chess Challenge Birmingham Megafinal at King Edward VI Five Ways School, Scotland Lane, Bartley Green, Birmingham, B32 4BTand Herefordshire Megafinal 9:30am start at Hereford Cathedral School, The Zimmerman Building, Church Street, Hereford, HR1 2LT. Six rounds rapidplay, time control 15 min + 10 sec, Prizes for highest boy and girl scorers in each year group.
Busy week for club with four matches
6 Mar 2025. There were two Worcester-Redditch fixturess in Worcestershire League: In the Championship League, the City team won 3-2 with all except board 2 ending in draws. Ed Osborne scored the crucial win.See match card. In the Rapidplay League 2 fixture, Worcester lost the first leg, but came back with a 4-0 win in the second. See match cards. There was also a friendly rapidplay two-board fixture with the recently formed Pebworth club where new members Brody McNamara and Viktor Gorbunov won their games. See details..
5 Mar 2025. The Pawns team lost to Kidderminster in the Rapidplay League 2 match. Only Scott Maclean and Sai Rentachintala were able to achieve equality. See match card.
27 Feb 2025. After two losses, the team returned to winning ways in their home Championshio League match. Scott Oxtoby, Rob Sutton and Chris Lee won their games. See match card.
Club players at Stroud
22 Feb 2025. Tony Shaw and Phil Austin travelled to the Stroud Rapidplay and finished with 3 points from their six games.
Worcester lose to Leominster and Bishops draw with Kidderminster
20 Feb 2025. In a return friendly match postponed from last summer, Leominster won. Dorin Luca, new members Sai Rentachintala and Sean Conway won their games. See full results.
19 Feb 2025. The bishops team drew their away District League match with Kidderminster. Alex Nicholls and Aiden Griffiths won their games. Alex Nicholls and Aiden Griffiths drew their games. See details.
New members surge in All-Play-All tournament and league teams draw
13 Feb 2025. Scott Maclean and junior Samuel Thomas lead the Rapidplay-All-Play-All Championship field with 6 points each. In the Challengers League, the Rooks team drew their home match with Longbridge. Dorin Luca won his game. See details.
New club Blitz champion7 Feb 2025. Twenty four players competed. The tournament was run in three all-play-all sections to produce quarter-finalists. The successful players progressing to the knock-out stages were Simon Berry, Ray Collett, Aiden Griffiths, Dorin Luca, Joe Rastall, Tony Shaw, Keith Sorrell and 2024 champion Rob Sutton. To the surprise of the winner and confounding recent form, secretary Ray Collett emerged 2025 champion defeating Aiden, Joe and Dorin in the knock-out stages Picture to the right shows play in the semi-finals. Picture credit Paul Serafini and Sean Conway |
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Semi-final draw for Club Championship
6 Feb 2025. Defending champion Joe Rastall has white against Keith Sorrell and in the other semi-final Ed Osbourn has white against Ed Higgs in games to be played on 20 Mar.
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