New Year joy for Worcester and Halesowen

9 Jan 2025. In the first Championship League matches of the New Year, Worcester beat Malvern and Halesowen got their first match win by beating Kidderminster. See match cards.

Worcestershire players go to Telford

5 Jan 2025. Nigel Towers, Giles Stanton, David Smith and Ben Attwell from Redditch and Aiden Griffiths and Tony Shaw from Worcester clubs played in the Shropshire Chess Congress, but the snow precluded travel on Sunday for Nigel, Ben and Tony. Aiden scored 3½ points in the Minor, Giles 2 in the Intermediate and David 1 point in the Major.

Lightning Champion at Kidderminster

1 Jan 2025. Sixteen players turned out for Kidderminster's annual lightning championship. Joseph Friar added to his titles winning with a 100% record. The event was organised by Tim Yates. Picture shows Tim briefing players at the start of a round.

Worcestershire Wolfpack A fail to secure promotion online

10 Dec 2024, Round 8 Play-off in Div 3 for team A. The team achieved only half a point more than the B team achieved in the previous week against Wells Hartbreakers 1 who fielded the same team. The team lost 1-3. See full results and lnks to games.

Good online results by Wolfpack teams in 4NCL and junior squad

3 Dec 2024. The 4NCL online teams had a difficult night, but Worcestershire Wolfpack A won their match against players from Wessex and go forward into the play-off matches for promotion to Division 2. See full results and links to games.

2 Dec 2024. Worcestershire Squad came 7th out of 15 teams and were ahead of Surrey Juniors and Warwickshire Juniors. Read more.

Worcestershire u1650 draw away with Staffordshire

23 Nov 2024. The team started well and held a 2 point lead when the resuklts started coming in, but Staffordshire caught up to draw the match. John Varilone (Kidderminster), David Cleak and Aiden Griffiths (both Worcester) won their games for the county. John Varilone (Kidderminster), David Cleak and Aiden Griffiths (both Worcester) won their games. See full results.

Online teams have a good night in the sixth round

19 Nov 2024, Round 6. Plenty of players were available this round and the full strength A team had an easy victory over group leaders War & Piece Overlord in Division 3. Worcestershire Wolfpack B seemed to have the most difficult task and were heavly out-rated in their match with Atticus, but ended with a 3-1 win after Collett ground out a win in a hundred move game involving a complex middle game emerging from a Yugolslav Attack against the Dragon. In Division 5, Worcestershire Wolfpack C played Dartford Knightmares and won 2½ - 1½. The D team had an easy night because opponents Barnet Knights C defaulted three of the games and Samuel Thomas drew his on top board. At the end of the evening team a is second in their group and has a chance of entering the pay-offs and promotion. Team B are mid-table in group A of Division 3; the C team are ninth and team D are tenth out of 26 teams in Division 5. See full results.

5 Nov 2024, Round 5. Illness and work depleted the pool of players avalable for round 5 of the Four Nations Chess League and the squad defaulted team D’s match against Witney Houston. Team A beat Charlton Cobras, but team B lost to Streatham & Brixton B and team C were whitewashed by Collyers 1st. See full results and links to games. Team A are now challenging War & Piece Overlord for promotion and these two teams have not yet played. The B team is in the relegation zone and the two teams in Division 5 are mid-table.

22 Oct 2024, Round 4. In the Four nations Chess League matches, team A drew against Dundee City E; team B beat Hertford 2; team C beat Collyers 2nd; and team D beat Chess Challengers B. New player Sean Conway (Worcester) won his game in team D and Ray Collett (worcester) bluffed his way to a draw ofter dropping a piece in the early middle game. See full results and links to games.

Juniors play at Nottingham 16 Nov 2024. Sebastian Vas, Stewart Brody, Taysia Eaton, Isaac Humphries, Alexander Stavrev-Colley, Charles Howden, Amelie Elmaradny and Aria Threwlis made history being the first Worcestershire under-11 team to compete in the Junior Midlands County team championships. Worcestershire Chess Academy chief coach Simon Berry organised the team who travelled up to Nottingham. Tayisia Eaton was the highest scoring girl for the county with 3 points from four games. Isaac Humphries and Alexander Stavrev-Colley were highest scoring Worcestershire boys with 2 points from three games. Chess coach Simon Berry said: “We had a very young and inexperienced team at the tournament but they did superbly and did themselves proud. Attending an in-person chess tournament is a big thing so it gives the team a platform to learn from and move forward with more experience". See full results. See also report in Worcester News.

Chess coach Simon Berry with the Worcestershire under-11 team at Nottingham (picture Simon Berry)

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