ECF News
UK Open Blitz Finals – Saturday 2nd December
The 2023 UK Open Blitz Finals took place on Saturday 2nd December at the Woodland Grange Hotel, Leamington Spa, with all games played on live…
Bronze medal and norms for Lan Yao!
Congratulations to WIM Lan Yao, who has secured a Bronze board medal at the European Team Chess Championship 2023 on board two. In addition she…
Double World Senior Chess Champions!
Congratulations to England’s Michael Adams and John Nunn, who both became World Senior chess champions yesterday in Terrasini, Sicily, Italy. Despite both being the top…
ECF Secondary School Chess News for November 2023
Congratulations Bodhana!
The ECF offers its hearty congratulations to WCM Bodhana Sivanandan, the new World Cadets U8 Girls Champion for 2023. Bodhana is the first English player…
NSCC Girls Northern Semi-Final – event cancelled
Please note this event has been cancelled …
Two new Director appointments
The ECF is pleased to announce two new director appointments. First, Alex Longson is our new Finance Director, replacing Adam Ashton. Alex combines his role…
ECF Manager for Accessible Chess
The ECF is delighted to announce that Surrey player Owen Phillips has been appointed as ECF Manager for Accessible Chess. This is an important appointment…
ECF National Club Championships 2023
To follow the event (32 lives boards and round five commentary by GM Peter Wells and WIM Natasha Regan) go to this page – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-national-club-championships-2023/….
IBCA World Individual Chess – final scores and thoughts from Owen Phillips
The medallists were — Gold and World Champion GM Marcin Tazbir (Poland) 8/9! Silver and a good defence of his title IM Predrag Nikac (Montenegro)…
Complaint Resolution
A complaint was raised by Chris Fegan in relation to matters arising while he was Director of Women’s Chess which was rejected. CF appealed against…
3Cs Chess Club on the BBC
On the One Show tonight (BBC1 at 19.00hrs) there is a feature on the 3Cs Chess Club in Oldham – https://www.3cschessclub.com/ After the broadcast the…
Rhodes – report three from Owen Phillips
STOP PRESS! Round Four Looks like a very important round as the current World Champion IM Predrag Nikac is facing off with Black against GM…