Club Teams 2025-6 Season
Worcester City
1 Sep. This team has five boards and plays in the Worcestershire Championship League. Other teams are Kidderminster, Longbridge A, Longbridge B, Malvern, and Redditch. Team play each other home and away. The time control is 45min + 30 sec for home matches and most away matches. Away fixtures at Malvern have a 60+30 control. Team captain is Rob Sutton.Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see dates for fixtures and match cards with full results.
Worcester Rooks
1 Sep. This is a 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 Scott Oxtoby. Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see dates for fixtures and match cards with full results.
Worcester Bishops
1 Sep. The club entered two teams in the Worcester & District League his season. The two teams are White Bishops and Black Bishops. Teams have four boards. Five teams have entered: Kidderminster Longbridge, Redditch Worcester White Bishops and Worcester Black Bishops and they 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 for the White Bishops is Aiden Griffiths and the Black Bishops are captained by Alex Nicholls. Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see dates for fixtures and match cards with full results.
Worcester Knights
1 Sep. Worcester decided to enter rapidplay league Division 1 and face three other teams from Kidderminster, Longbridge, and Redditch . 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 dates for fixtures and match cards with full results.
Worcester Pawns
1 Sep. Worcester entered a team in the new Rapidplay u1650 league to give players rated below 1650 more opportunities to play. Worcester play Kidderminster, Longbridge and Redditch. Paul Serafini is team captain. Time control is 20min + 10 sec. Use the navigation menu at the foot of this page to see dates for fixtures and match cards with full results.
Worcester in the Wheatley Cup
Worcester intend to enter a team in the 2026 competition.
Worcester in the Summer Cup competitions
Worcester entered teams in the Open and the u1650 competitions, which are to be played in August, probably at Redditch.
Worcester Friendly matches
Announcements about friendly matches will be made in the Summer.