2024-5 season, older news
City team lose away to Redditch
30 Oct 2024. The City team was without leading players in its away match at Redditch and lost 3-2. Dorin Luca was the only Worcester player to win. See full results.
Worcester players help county win online matches
22 Oct 2024. Seven club members played in matches in round 4 of the Four Nations Chess League. Seamus, Tony, Phil, Arnold, and new members Samuel and Sean won their games. Ray bluffed a draw after blundering a piece in the early middle game. See full results and links to games.
Worcester players at Droitwich and Stroud
19 Oct 2024. Club members Joe Rastall, Dorin Luca and Ray Collett won their games in Worcestershire's first county match of the season against Staffordshire played at Droitwich. Worcestershire won 7-5. See full results. On the same day, two members travelled to Stroud to play in a rapidplay congress. Tony Shaw and Phil Austin scored 3 points from their six games in the event won by IM Andrew Horton and local player Indy Southcott-Moyers. See full results.
Longbridge teams outplay Worcester
17 Oct 2024. Longbridge beat Worcester City in the Championship League. Ed Higgs was the only worcester players to win. See full results.
16 Oct 2024. The Bishops team were outplayed by Longbrdige and went down to a 1-3 defeat. Aiden Griffiths was the only Worcester player to win. See full results.
First results in All-Play-All Rapidplay championship
10 Oct 2024. Scott Oxtoby got the better of President Rob Sutton and Joe Rastall beat Dorin Luca.
City team win second match
9 Oct 2024. Stephen Mellor, Dorin Luca and Ray Collett won their games in the away match against Kidderminster in the Championship league. See full results.
First round results in club championship3 Oct 2024. Ray Collett, Ed Higgs, Seamus Flynn, Joe Rastall and Keith Sorrell won thier first round games and will progress to the quarter finals to be held on 12 December. Two of the games were drawn and these players will need to play a second game to progress. Aiden Griffiths held off Dorin Luca in a rook and pawn ending while Rob Sutton held Stephen Mellor to a drawn knight and pawn ending. See full results. Ed Higgs wins September Fun Blitz26 Sep 2024. In the semi-finals Ed Higgs beat Rob Sutton and Joe Rastall beat Dorin Luca. The final saw Ed beat Joe. See full results of the competition. |
 September Blitz winner |
Pawns team lose to Kidderminster in first u1650 Rapidplay League fixture
26 Sep 2024. The Pawns selected recent new players for their first home match against Kidderminster in the new league. Kidderminster turned out an experienced team led by Cameron who was delighted in a sweeping victory in his first match as captain. See full results.
Rooks team crash in first match
19 Sep 2024. Redditch were only able to bring three players because one of their team was taken ill on the day of the match. Although Worcester’s board 1 was out-rated and that baord gave Redditch their first victory, the remaining two games were between players of similar ratings. These games were evenly balanced until well into middle games, but Redditch players prevailed in both of them taking the match 3-1. See match card.
Good start to new season
12 Sep. Two Worcester teams were in action. Worcester Cty beat Halesowen 3½-1½ in the Championship league. Dorin Luca, Ray Collett, and Rob Sutton won their games. See full results. The Bishops team drew 2-2 with Kidderminster.
City players help county online teams
10 Sep. Worcestershire Wolfpack squad played the first round of the Four Nations Chess League. Ray Collett and Colin Vernon co-manage the squad and play in Divisions 3 and 5. Six club members were in the teams in round 1. Ed Higgs, and Phil Austin won their games. Click on their names to play though their games recorded on lichess. If you would like to play online, please contact Ray Collett.
Season gets off to a brisk start
5 Sep 2024. Rob Sutton launched the new season with a September Fun 5 minute Blitz tournament. Twenty players took part. Group A was won outright by President Rob Sutton with 9 points from 9 rounds. Dorin Luca was runner-up scoring 7½ points. Joe Rastall won Group B. He also had a 100% record and Ed Higgs was runner-up on 8 points. The finals between Rob, Joe, Dorin and Ed will be played at the club on 28 September. Full results of the group stages are here.