Club Teams 2023-4 Season
Worcester City
1 Sep. This team has five boards and plays in the Worcestershire Championship League. Other teams are from Halesowen, Kidderminster, Longbridge, Malvern, and Redditch. Team play each other home and away. The time control is 45min + 30 sec (all home matches and Longbridge matches) or 60 min + 30 sec. Team captain is Rob Sutton. Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see match cards with full results.
Worcester Rooks
1 Sep. This is a new team with four boards playing in the Challengers’ League. Except for board 1, players must be rated below 1850. Time control is 45 min + 30 sec. Team captain is Chris Lee. Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see match cards with full results.
Worcester Bishops
1 Sep. Teams have four boards playing in the Worcester & District League. Three teams have entered: Longbridge, Redditch and Worcester and play each other home and away. The participating teams have agreed that the maximum rating for all players in the District League is u1650 and the time control is 45 min + 30 sec. Team captain is Aiden Griffiths. Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see match cards with full results.
Worcester Knights
1 Sep. Worcester decided to enter the new rapidplay league and face three other teams from Kidderminster, Redditch and Stourbridge. Teams have four boards and players have two games, the second with colours reversed, at each fixture. Players on boards 2, 3 and 4 must be rated below 1850. The two legs of each fixture are scored as two matches with no bonus for aggregate wins. The time control is 20 min + 10 sec. Team Captain is Chris Lee. Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see match cards with full results.
Worcester in the Wheatley Cup
25 May 2023. Worcester won 4.1-2.0 on handicap.
1 Sep 2022. This is a team knock-out handicap tournament. Worcester will play the final for the cup against Redditch in May 2023. Team captain is Ray Collett.
Worcester in the Summer Cup competitions
3 Aug 2023. Scott Oxtoby led his team to a 3-1 victory over Kidderminster at the semi-final held at Longbridge. Joe Rastall had an excellent win against a much higher rated opponent. Worcester’s other winner was Scott. See result.
Worcester Friendly matches
16 Feb 2024. Worcester and Ukmergé, Lithuania played their second online team battle on lichess. This time Worcester beat Juodasis Rikis 54-42. See results.
4 Jun 2023. Worcester lost in an online team battle 22-48 to Juodasis Rikis, Ukmerge, Lithuania. See results.
1 Jun 2023. In the home match against Hereford, Worcester won 3½-2½ scoring heavily on the lower boards. See score card.