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Congratulations to Michael Adams on winning the British Chess Championships and to Lan Yao, winner of the British Women’s Championship, who also gained a WGM norm
Congratulations to Michael Adams on winning the British Chess Championships and to Lan Yao, winner of the British Women’s Championship, who also gained a WGM norm
The UK’s largest chess event took place on Sunday 16th July in London’s Trafalgar Square. Now in its third year, the annual open-air chess festival saw over 14,000 people attend…
Running alongside the British Chess Championships in Leicester we have a raft of events for players and visitors alike to enjoy, including simuls with GM Keith Arkell, outdoor drop-in chess…
Shreyas Royal was recently selected for training by the Kasparov Chess Foundation. He was first invited to a preliminary training camp in Vienna, as one of eight top European juniors,…
For the third successive year there will be an all-play-all title norm tournament taking place in Stafford, the home town of the organiser Lawrence Cooper. Thanks must go to The…
The link below opens an article by René Butler covering recent successes by Stanley and Frankie Badacsonyi, who took part in the English Chess Championships in Kenilworth and the World…
Carl Portman has been on BBC Radio 5 Live today talking about chess in prisons and three other stations too – follow the links below! 5 Live Breakfast – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070htg…
The ECU-certificated Smart Method to teach chess has provided over a thousand teachers and tutors with new ideas and techniques to teach chess in the classroom — https://www.tickettailor.com/events/chessplus/920402
We hope this report gives you a sense of Carl’s ongoing work for the ECF, including visits to prisons of all categories across the country. Carl will also be appearing…
A full obituary can be found at this link – https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/18/michael-lipton-obituary – on the Guardian website Picture courtesy of the University of Sussex – https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/60706
A number of junior bursaries are available for participants in the Northumbria Masters Congress (24-28 August, Newcastle upon Tyne), thanks to generous support from the John Robinson Youth Chess Trust….
Entry to this competition sponsored by Winton is by solving the starter problem below. White, playing up the board, is to play and force mate in two moves against any…
The Queens’ Online Chess Festival, a series of continental women’s online blitz tournaments, is returning this summer. The third edition of the popular event, organized by the FIDE Commission for…