For pictures from the event and a particularly useful post explaining the specialised board setup some players us, follow this link — https://www.facebook.com/chessingreece Sad to say that things have so…
Congratulations to Jovanka Houska (second from the right) & Lan Yao (centre) on winning board medals at the 2023 European Club Cup for Women in Durres, Albania. Jovanka won the…
ECF Members were contacted by email and asked to vote for their preferred membership option between: Option 1 – Single adult membership combining Gold, Silver and Bronze, with existing Bronze…
It is with great sadness that I need to let you know of the death of FIDE Arbiter Geoff Gammon. Geoff was a great arbiter to work with at any…
The four books on this year’s short list illustrated the wide range of current chess publishing which made the final choice difficult. The book chosen showed the amount of hard…
The ECF Board will be presenting a paper at this October’s Annual General meeting of the English Chess Federation (ECF) setting out ways in which the present membership system could…
Entries are now open for the regional qualifiers for the UK Open Blitz Championships 2023! The Championships will follow the format used in previous years. There will be eight regional one-day…
This year saw a large number of entries for the awards. The winners have now been announced. Together with their citations, all the winning entries can be found here —…
We are pleased to announce the England Open team for the forthcoming European Team Chess Championship is – GM Nikita Vitiugov 2719 GM David Howell 2676 GM Michael Adams 2662…
We are pleased to announce that England Women’s team for the European Team Chess Championship is — IM Jovanka Houska 2340 IM Harriet Hunt 2316 WIM Lan Yao 2315 WGM…
A new facility to inspect the Calculation of Voting Entitlement for Council Members is available in the Council Database here. This enables Council representatives and officials or organisations (or indeed…
The Short List this year contains four books covering widely differing aspects of chess, but also in differing sizes ranging from the compact to very large. However, each one, whatever…
The ECF is delighted that the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has announced a combined package of measures worth almost £1 million that will inspire the next generation of…