ECF Awards 2023 – closing date extended
Submissions are open for this year’s ECF Awards. The closing date for nominations has been extended to August 5th 2023 … Details for this year’s ECF Awards are now available…
ECF News
British Chess Championships on the BBC
You can hear a British Chess Championships interview with BBC Radio Leicester’s Ben Jackson, featuring the ECF’s Home Director Nigel Towers and Paul Mottram, the Leicester Chess Association president, on…
Silver Members’ Representatives Election 2023 – election addresses
John Reyes — Election Address 2023 Gavin Cartwright— Election Address 2023 Julian Morrison — Election Address 2023
NSCC National Final 29 and 30 June 2023
ECF Counties Championship Final – 1 July
England World U16 team selected
Chess in Prisons in the media today – Carl Portman
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…
New Arbiters!
An ECF Level 1 Arbiter course was held in person over the weekend of 10th and 11th June at Bridge, in Kent. 11 candidates were successful at the examination and…
ECF Secondary School Rapidplay Chess Tournament
Forthcoming European and World youth chess championships
European Seniors Individual Chess Championship 2023
A visit to HMP Dartmoor – Carl Portman
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…
ECF Membership Analysis June 2023
Click this link for a PDF of the Membership Analysis June 2023 for the English Chess Federation.
Winton British Chess Solving Championship 2023-2024
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…