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League team competitions

 

4 Aug 2025. Twenty-three teams, 15 standardplay and 8 rapidplay, compete in this season’s competitions. Two new teams entered: Worcester have an additional team in the Worcester & District League and Longbridge an additional team in the Championship Leahue. Those additions compensate for Stourbridge and Halesowen who ahve temporarily withdrawn their teams from the Worcester & District and Championship Leagues respectively. Kidderminster withdrew from the Challengers League.

2 July 2025. The Annual General Meeting of the association agreed to make the Worcester & Dustrict League an entirley u1650 competition and the Rapidplay 1 League becomes entirely open. The minor changes were to restore the ability of some teams in the championship League to use a 60+30 time control in their home championship fixtures and to formalise the rule that board order should be determined by players’ current ratings + or - 75 rating points.

 

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Championship League - Longbridge A get first Championship match win of season

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9 Oct 2025. Redditch beat Worcesterconvincingly placing them in pole position for retaining the league championship.

24 Sep 2025. Redditch had a top line-up to play Longbridge B and came away with a win.

17 Sep 2025. A powerful Longbridge team emphatically beat Worcester City team lacking some leading players.

3 Sep 2025. The start of the season Derby between the two Longbridge teams resulted in a draw.

17 Sep 2025. Facing highly rated opponents and lacking some key players, Worcester City lost playing away to Longbridge A.

4 Aug 2024. Six teams entered this competition: Kidderminster, Longbridge A, Longbridge B, Malvern, Redditch, and Worcester City. Halesowen have temporarily withdrawn from the league and Longbridge have entered two teams. Redditch were League champions in 2024-5 and Longbridge were runners-up.

 

Teams are of five players and there are no rating restrictions. The time control is 45+30 for home matches at Longbridge, Redditch and Worcester: Kidderminster and Malvern use a 60+30 time control for their matches. Teams play each other home and away with matches starting at 7:30pm.

 

Championship League Table 2025-6

Team Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Match
Points
Redditch 2 2 0 0 7 3 4
Longbridge A 2 1 1 0 3
Longbridge B 2 0 1 1 1
Worcester City 1 0 0 1 1 4 0
Kidderminster 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Malvern 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
* includes defaulted match

 

Championship League Fixtures 2025-6

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Dates Home team Score Away team
Wed 3 Sep 25 Longbridge A 2½ - 2½ Longbridge B
Wed 17 Sep 25 Longbridge A 4 - 1 Worcester City
Wed 24 Sep 25 Redditch 3 - 2 Longbridge B
Thu 9 Oct 25 Worcester City 1 - 4 Redditch
Fri 10 Oct 25 Malvern   Longbridge A
Wed 15 Oct 25 Kidderminster   Malvern
Wed 15 Oct 25 Longbridge A   Redditch
Thu 13 Nov 25 Worcester City   Longbridge B
Fri 21 Nov 25 Malvern   Worcester City
Wed 26 Nov 25 Kidderminster   Worcester City
Wed 3 Dec 25 Longbridge A   Malvern
Wed 10 Dec 25 Redditch   Malvern
Wed 17 Dec 25 Longbridge B   Kidderminster
2026 dates
Fri 9 Jan 26 Malvern   Kidderminster
Thu 15 Jan 26 Worcester City   Malvern
Wed 28 Jan 26 Longbridge B   Longbridge A
Wed 4 Feb 26 Longbridge A   Kidderminster
Fri 6 Feb 26 Mlavern   Longbridge B
Wed 11 Feb 26 Longbridge B   Worcester City
Wed 18 Feb 26 Redditch   Worcester City
Fri 13 Mar 26 Malvern   Redditch
Thu 19 Mar 26 Worcester City   Longbridge A
Wed 25 Mar 26 Kidderminster   Longbridge A
Wed 1 Apr 26 Longbridge B   Malvern
Easter: Good Friday 3 Apr
Wed 8 Apr 26 Redditch   Kidderminster
Wed 15 Apr 26 Redditch   Longbridge A
Thu 16 Apr 26 Worcester City   Kidderminster
Wed 22 Apr 26 Kidderminster   Longbridge B
Wed 29 Apr 26 Longbridge B   Redditch
Wed 6 May 26 Kidderminster   Redditch
 
Club secretaries and team captains. Kidderminster, Dave Close (fixtures) and capt Joe Friar; Longbridge, Steve Cress (fixtures), capt Stephen Woodhouse; Malvern, John Knee (fixtures), capt Brian Turner; Redditch, capt Dan Lambourne; Worcester, capt Rob Sutton.

 

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Challengers League 2025-6

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1 Sep 2024. Four teams entered. Teams have four boards where the the players on boards 2, 3 and 4 have original August 2024 ECF ratings below 1850. There is no rating restriction for players on board 1. Time control is 45+30. Teams have fixtures with each other home and away and matches start at 7:30pm. In 2024-5 Redditch were winners and Worcester Rooks were runners-up.

 

Challengers' League table 2025-6

Team Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Match
Points
Redditch 2              
Worcester Rooks              
Malvern 2              
Longbridge 2              

 

Challengers' League fixtures 2025-6

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Dates Home team Score Away team
Thu 23 Oct 25 Worcester Rooks   Malvern 2
Wed 29 Oct 25 Redditch 2   Longbridge 2
Fri 31 Oct 25 Malvern 2   Longbridge 2
Tue 11 Nov 25 Longbridge 2   Worcester Rooks
Fri 14 Nov 25 Malvern 2   Redditch 2
Thu 11 Dec 25 Worcester Rooks   Redditch 2
2025 dates
Fri 20 Feb 26 Malvern 2   Worcester Rooks
Thu 26 Feb 26 Worcester Rooks   Longbridge 2
Tue 3 Mar 26 Longbridge 2   Redditch 2
Wed 25 Mar 26 Redditch 2   Malvern 2
Easter: Good Friday 3 Apr
Tue 14 Apr 26 Longbridge 2   Malvern 2
Wed 22 Apr 26 Redditch 2   Worcester Rooks

Secretaries and team captains. Kidderminster, secy David Waud, capt Terry Pountney; Longbridge, secy & capt Steve Crees; Malvern, secy Brian Turner, capt John Knee; Redditch, secy Dan Lambourne, capt David Smith; Worcester secy, Ray Collett, capt Scott Oxtoby.

 

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Worcester & District League

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1 Sep 2025. Four teams entered: Kidderminster, Longbridge, Redditch and Worcester. Stourbridge withdrew from this competition. Teams are of four players with original August 2024 ECF ratings upto1650. Time control is 45+30. Teams play each other home and away with most matches starting at 7:30 pm. Longbridge home fixtures start earlier at 7:15 pm. In 2024-5, Kidderminster were winners, Stourbridge were runners-up and Worcester Bishops were third.

 

Worcester & District League table 2025-6

Team Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Match
Points
Kidderminster 2 1 0 1 2
Redditch 2 1 0 1 2
Worcester Black Bishops 2 1 0 1 3 5 2
Worcester White Bishops 1 1 0 0 2
Longbridge 1 0 0 1 ½ 0

Team captains. Kidderminster Dave Close (fixtures) and capt Luke Barton; Longbridge, Steve Crees; Redditch, Giles Stanton; Worcester White Bishops, Aiden Griffiths; Worcester Black Bishops, Alex Nicholls

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Worcester & District League fixtures 2025-6

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2025 Dates Home team Result Away team
Wed 10 Sep 25 Kidderminster 2 4 - 0 Worcester Black Bishops
Thu 18 Sep 25 Worcester White Bishops 2½ - 1½ Kidderminster 2
Wed 24 Sep 25 Redditch 3 1 - 3 Worcester Black Bishops
Wed 8 Oct 25 Redditch 3 3½ - ½ Longbridge 3
Thu 16 Oct 25 Worcester Black Bishops   Longbridge 3
Wed 22 Oct 25 Kidderminster 2   Longbridge 3
Thu 6 Nov 25 Worcester White Bishops   Redditch 3
Thu 20 Nov 25 Worcester Black Bishops   Worcester White Bishops
Wed 3 Dec 25 Kidderminster 2   Worcester White Bishops
Wed 17 Dec 25 Redditch 3   Kidderminster 2
2026 dates
Thu 8 Jan 26 Worcester Black Bishops   Redditch 3
Thu 8 Jan 26 Longbridge 3   Kidderminster 2
Thu 15 Jan 26 Worcester White Bishops   Worcester Black Bishops
Wed 28 Jan 26 Kidderminster 2   Redditch 3
Thu 19 Feb 26 Longbridge 3   Redditch 3
Tue 3 Mar 26 Longbridge 3   Worcester White Bishops
Wed 11 Mar 26 Redditch 3   Worcester White Bishops
Easter: Good Friday 3 Apr
Thu 16 Apr 26 Worcester Black Bishops   Kidderminster 2
Thu 23 Apr 26 Worcester White Bishops   Longbridge 3
Tue 28 Apr 26 Longbridge 3   Worcester Black Bishops
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Rapidplay League 1

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1 Sep 2024. XXX Four teams entered: Kidderminster, Longbridge, Redditch and Worcester. Each team has four players where players on boards 2, 3 and 4 should have original August 2024 ECF ratings below 1850. There is no rating restriction for players on board 1. Each fixture consists of two rapidplay games between the same opponents with colours reversed for the second game. Teams play fixures home and away against each other. Most fixtures start at 7:30pm.

 

Worcestershire Rapidplay League 1 table 2025-6

Team Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Match
Points
Redditch 4              
Kidderminster 3              
Longbridge 4              
Worcester Knights              
 

Secretaries and team captains. Kidderminster, Dave Close (fixtures) and joint capt Brandon Wilkes/George Relph; Redditch, capt, David Smith; Worcester, capt Chris Lee.

 

Worcestershire Rapidplay League 1 fixtures 2025-6

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2025 Dates Home team Score 1 Score 2 Away team
Thu 16 Oct 25 Redditch 4     Worcester Knights
Wed 5 Nov 25 Kidderminster 3     Longbridge 4
Wed 26 Nov 25 Redditch 4     Longbridge 4
Thu 4 Dec 25 Worcester Knights     Longbridge 4
2026 dates
Thu 29 Jan 26 Longbridge 4     Worcester Knight
Thu 12 Feb 26 Longbridge 4     Kidderminster 3
Wed 4 Mar 26 Kidderminster 3     Worcester Knight
Thu 2 Apr 26 Redditch 4     Kidderminster 3
Easter: Good Friday 3 Apr
Thu 9 Apr 26 Worcester Knights     Redditch 4
Thu 30 Apr 26 Longbridge 4     Redditch 4
Thu 30 Apr 26 Worcester Knights     Kidderminster 3
Wed 13 May 26 Kidderminster 3     Redditch 4
 

 

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Rapidplay League 2

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9 Oct 2025. Worcester Pawns beat Redditch in ntheir fixture to lead Rapidplay League 2.

16 Sep 2025. Worcester Pawns and Longbridge came away with one match win each.

1 Sep 2024. Four teams entered: Kidderminster, Longbridge, Redditch and Worcester. Each team has four players where players on all boards should have original August 2024 ECF rapidplay ratings below 1650. Each fixture consists of two rapidplay games between the same opponents with colours reversed for the second game. Teams play fixures home and away against each other. Fixtures start at 7:30pm. in 2024-5, Kidderminster wre champions and Redditch were runners-up.

 

Worcestershire Rapidplay League 2 table 2025-6

Team Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Match
Points
Worcester Pawns 4 3 0 1 10 6 6
Longbridge 2 1 0 1 4 4 2
Kidderminster 2 0 0 2 2 6 0
Redditch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Secretaries and team captains. Kidderminster, Dave Close (fixtures) and capt Cameron Henry; Redditch, capt, David Smith; Worcester, capt Paul Serafini.

 

Worcestershire Rapidplay League 2 fixtures 2025-6

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2025 Dates Home team Score 1 Score 2 Away team
Tue 16 Sep 2025 Longbridge 3½ - ½ ½ - 3½ Worcester Pawns
Thu 9 Oct 2025 Redditch 1 - 3 1 - 3 Worcester Pawns
Tue 28 Oct 2025 Longbridge     Redditch
Wed 5 Nov 2025 Kidderminster     Longbridge
Wed 26 Nov 2025 Redditch     Longbridge
Thu 11 Dec 2025 Worcester Pawns     Kidderminster
2026 dates
Thu 12 Feb 2026 Longbridge     Kidderminster
Wed 4 Mar 2026 Kidderminster     Worcester Pawns
Thu 12 Mar 2026 Worcester Pawns     Longbridge
Thu 2 Apr 2026 Redditch     Kidderminster
Easter: Good Friday 3 Apr
Thu 9 Apr 2026 Worcester Pawns     Redditch
Wed 13 May 2026 Kidderminster     Redditch
 

 

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Wheatley Cup Competition

Controller Ray Collett will invite entries to this competition later in the season. This team handicap tournament has teams of four players and teams with higher rated players are handicapped. Time control is 45+30. Players should be registered with the controller and player ratings are based on the ECF original standardplay list at the start of the competition. Where a player does not have a K or A rating, the controler will consult the WCA rating officer to allocate a rating for this competition.

 

Wheatley Cup 2025-6

Date Stage Home Team Score Away team
  Semi-final      
  Semi-final      
  Final      
Secretaries and team captains

 

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Summer Cups Competitions 2026

Towers Cup for open teams

 

Controller Dan Lambourne will invite entries from clubs the new year. Teams are of four players. Time control is 45+30. The format will be either a two-round jamboree or a knock-out competition depending on the number of team entries. Players should be registered with the controller and player ratings are based on the ECF original standardplay list at the start of the month of the competition.

 

Team scores Kidderminster Longbridge A Longbridge B Malvern Redditch Worcester
Round 1            
Round 2            
Totals            

 

Summer Cup for u1650 teams

 

 

Under-1650 teams for the Summer Cup
Team Captain Final placing
    1st
    2nd
    3rd
    4th

 

Under-1650 teams for the Summer Cup
Date Stage Home Team Score Away team
  Semi-final      
  Semi-final      
  Final      
  3rd / 4th place      

 

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