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Next games at 7:30 pm on
Thu 13 February 2025

Link for location. Club contacts and further information here
Please note that players under the age of 18 are welcome to play, but should be accompanied by parents or a responsible adult.


2025 Blitz tournament
Winter Venue (Sep to May). Enter the church precincts from St Stephen's Street and the covered way to the main door of the church hall alongside St Stephen's Church, St Stephen's Street Worcester WR3 7HS. For location map, click here

Upcoming

Competition titles in green are links to further information or the event organiser
  • Sat 22 Feb 2025. Stroud Spring Open Rapidplay at St Matthew's Church Hall, St Matthews Curch, Stroud GL5 4JE. Single section, 6rounds starting 10:30am, time control 15 min + 5 sec.
  • 20-30 Mar. Bristol Open Championship at Bristol Grammar School, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SR. Open, u1950, u1750, and u1550 tournaments. Five rounds, time control 90 min + 30 sec, half-point byes available in rounds 1-4.
  • An Introduction to Chess. For absolute beginners or those who know the basic moves. Tuesday early evenings at the Dice Box organised by Rob Sutton. First session Tuesday 11 Feb.

New club Blitz champion

7 Feb 2025. Twenty four players competed. The tournament was run in three all-play-all sections to produce quarter-finalists. The successful players progressing to the knock-out stages were Simon Berry, Ray Collett, Aiden Griffiths, Dorin Luca, Joe Rastall, Tony Shaw, Keith Sorrell and 2024 champion Rob Sutton. To the surprise of the winner and confounding recent form, secretary Ray Collett emerged 2025 champion defeating Aiden, Joe and Dorin in the knock-out stages

Picture to the right shows play in the semi-finals. Picture credit Paul Serafini and Sean Conway
Picture above: Some of players in the all-play all stages. Picture credit Ray Collett

2025 Blitz semi-finalists

Semi-final draw for Club Championship

6 Feb 2025. Defending champion Joe Rastall has white against Keith Sorrell and in the other semi-final Ed Osbourn has white against Ed Higgs in games to be played on 20 Mar.

All-Play-All Rapidplay championship results

23 Jan 2025. Members played eight games during the evening. Scott Maclean (6 pts) drew ahead of Ray Collett (5½ pts) and in third position is Joe Rastall (4½ pts). See current standings.In the after-games banter at the Alma Tavern we learned that Scott Oxtoby has been invited to the Winton British Chess Solving Championships having successfully mastered the compositions in the postal rounds. See positions for testing competitors.

Club members score online for Worcestershire Wolfpack

21 Jan 2025. Scott Oxtoby, Seamus Flynn, Chris Lee, Alex Nicholls, and Paul Serafini won their games for Worcestershire Wolfpack teams in the Four Nations Chess League. For Chris, Alex and Paul it was their first game for the online county teams.

Team results in January

22 Jan 2025. The Knights team lost both legs of the rapidplay fixture at Kidderminster, Dorin Luca won one game drew the other. See details.
20 Jan 2025. The City team lost to Halesowen playing away. Only Scott Oxtoby and Ray Collett were able to draw their games. See details.
16 Jan 2025. The Bishops team lost to Longbridge in a home fixture. David Cleak was the only player to win. See details.
9 Jan 2025. The City team beat Malvern 3-2 in the Championship League. Ed Osbourn and Scott Oxtoby won their games. See details.

 

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