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Recent news

Club players beat GM

24 Jul 2025. GM Nigel Davies took on seventeen players simultaneously at The Herdsman. Overall score was +10 =5 -2. Henry Spedding and Perry Walker were the two winners. Junior Dillan Duke, Tim Peters, Peter Hughes and Richard Morrison got draws. See club website report and Hereford Times.

Hereford beat Hay-on-Wye

17 Jul 2025. Hereford in a home challenge match beat Hay 6½-1½. Henry Spedding, Roger Aris, Kieran Lappin, John Preece, Jack Clark and Tim Peters won their games.

Lightning tournament at The Herdsman

9 Jul 2025. Paul Barker won the lightning on tie-break from Peter Hughes. Both players finished with 5½ points from seven games.

Hereford club winners

May 2025. Henry Spedding won the Championship with a 1½ lead over defending champion Lee Davis in a six-player event. Roger Aris won the Major tournament and Alex Adarski won Minor.

Hereford beat Leominster

22 May 2025. An inexperienced Leominster team faced near annhilation after Lee Davis survived having diced with death in his game. John Preece was the only Leominster player to escape with a draw and the match ended 6½-½. See full result.

Herefordshire Megafinal

11 May 2025. Over thirty young players competed at Hereford Cathedral School. this event was one of the county megafinals in Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge from which high scoring players qualify to play in Giga- and Terafinals for large cash prizes. Abdalla Suhayl (Colyton GS, Newton Abbott) and Emile Doran (Hugh Sexey’s Middle Sch, Somerset) both scored 5 points from six games in the tournament for secondary school aged children to end in first place. Nyo Mottengad (Pate’s GS, Cheltenham) on 3 points was the highest placed girl. Aiden Jelf (Hereford Cathedral Sch) was the highest placed Hereford player on 3 points. Lucas Zheng (St John’s Coll, Wales) dominated the tournament for primary school children winning all his games. Top placed girl was Clara Deng (Lakeside Prim Sch, Cardiff) with 5 points. Alexander Adarski (St Paul’s CoE Prim Sch) was the highest placed Hereford player. See full results. The event was organised by Richard Croote, Alan Leary, David and Katheryn Bucknell

Hereford beat Leominster away

15 Apr 2025. The teams were evenly matched and the final score was 3½-2½. Dawid Podlaszewski of Leominster, Will Slater and Aiden Jelf (both Hereford) won their games. see full result.

Death of Hereford player

6 Feb, Lee Davis reports. Longstanding stalwart of Hereford Chess Club and former county champion, Les Collard has passed away. Les was individual champion of Herefordshire first in 1966 and then went on to win the title four further times and shared the title on seven occasions most recently in 2010, a span of high class chess over 50 years. He won the Hereford City Championship in 1976 and was joint champion in 1992. The funeral will take place on Tuesday 18 March at 10:15 am at Hereford Crematorium.

Leominster champions 17 Dec 2024, Ben reports. The new champion is Stephen Priestley and Junior Champion is Lewis Mears. Runners-up were John Preece and in the junior section Rufus Jackson. Pictures: Ben.

Nathanael Paul concedes single draw in simul at Leominster 29 Aug 2024. Nathanael took on thirteen players in his simultaneous exhibition at Leominster . Only one of his opponents escaped with a draw Steve Taylor. Nathanael is the current individual champion of Shropshire.

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