2023 ECF Online Grand (Prix Series 3) – First Blitz Event on Sunday 8th January
The 2023 ECF Online Grand Prix runs from January to October 2023. Blitz and Rapid events will take place on the first and third Sundays of each month respectively, with…
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English seniors chess – a retrospective for 2022
2022 has been an outstanding year for English seniors chess. WIM Natasha Regan has put together a retrospective look at English seniors chess during the course of the year, including…
England vs France – New Years Day Online Challenge
The ECF match against Team France will start at 5.00 pm on Sunday 1st January over three legs as follows — 5.00pm England vs France Bullet – 2 games at…
British Rapidplay Championship
We’re pleased to be able to confirm that after a break of nearly four years the ECF are supporting the 4NCL in organising the 2023 edition of the British Rapidplay…
ECF Online news
The week’s schedule of online events is now available including – Regular ECF online rated members club tournaments on Chess.com and Lichess.org The reformatted ECF online rated standardplay tournament with…
UK Blitz Finals 2022
The finals took place at the Woodland Grange Hotel, Leamington Spa on Saturday 3rd December. Follow this link for the final standings in the Open and Women’s competitions, together with…
Kamila Hryshchenko – World Congress of Chess Composition
First of all, I want to say that it was nice to be a part of the GB team at the WCCC 2022 in Fujairah. This solving competition was only…
John Nunn takes Gold!
Hearty congratulations to the new World 65+ Senior Chess Champion, John Nunn! Click here for a fuller report – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/Seniors/john-nunn-is-world-senior-65-champion/ – and here to read Leonard Barden’s report in the…
Samar Dayal – Commonwealth Under 8 Champion
Congratulations to Samar Dayal who has won the Gold medal in the Under 8 section of the Commonwealth Chess Championships. His mother writes — ‘Samar participated in the Commonwealth Chess…
World Senior Individual Chess Championship – report
Zoe Veselow – silver medal in the Euro Youth U8 Girls!
Zoe Veselow has won a silver medal in the Euro Youth U8 Girls. Her coach for the event, GM Jonathan Hawkins, said Zoe worked very hard every day preparing and reviewing…
Rolling membership introduction
We’re delighted to be able to confirm that rolling membership has now gone live. This means that people joining or renewing part-way through the season will no longer have to…
Chessable ECF Grand Prix Leaderboards now available for events to mid-October
The Chessable ECF Grand Prix leaderboards are now available on the Grand Prix page here – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-chessable-grand-prix/ The Grand Prix is a year-long individual competition based on rated open standardplay…
Shreyas Royal leads Bavarian Open – from Leonard Barden
Shreyas Royal, 13, is in contention to score England’s youngest ever grandmaster result in the Bavarian Open at Tegernsee, Germany. Royal won his first five games, the last two against…