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13 Oct 2026. The World Chess Federation has confirmed the title of National Insructor for Colin Vernon (Warndon) who completed his online course at the end of August.
10 Oct 2026. In the first weekend at Bedford, Ben Attwell’s county 4NCL team scored a win against AlphaChess Plunderers B in round 1 and drew against Goodnights in round 2. Skipper Ben attwell and Matt Gillings won both their games. See match cards.
Protagonists shake hands at the start of the first game in the association’s new 960 individual competition at Worcester City Chess Club. Worcester president does not look impressed! Players started with position #687 (QRKNNRBB) |
First 960 chess tournament game in Worcestershire9 Oct 2026, Paul Serafini reports . Also known as Fischer Random Chess, Chess960 mixes up the starting positions of the pieces on the back rank, creating 960 possible starting arrangements. It takes players away from familiar opening theory and puts the emphasis on creativity, calculation and thinking for yourself right from the first move! |
6 Oct 2026. Joe Friar (Kidderminster) won the prize for his speculative queen sacrifice on move 8 that won his game against Matt Gillings in a Worcestershire Chanpionship League game last season. "White played a bold and enterprising queen sacrifice ... quickly departing from theory. This was followed by impressive coordination of minor pieces in the rest of the game to turn the speculative compensation into a victory. Under sustained pressure, Black resisted well and did not make any major mistakes until move 23. White then showed vision and tactical acumen to take full advantage."Click here to play through the game yourself. Two other games were highly commended: Keith Baxter-Joseph Friar and RJE McNally-Peter Kitson. Worcestershire Chess Association is most grateful to the panel of judges: John Edge (Halesowen), John Peters (Worcester), Cory Hazlehurst (Longbridge) and Carl Hibbard (Worcs).
6 Oct 2026. Worcestershire Wolfpack A beat Guildford 1 and are second in their group in Dvision 1. The B team drew with Streatham & Brxiton B in Division 2. Worcestershire Wolfpack C beat English Deaf Chess Association in Division 3 and the D team lost to West Wickham. Dan Jones (Stourbridge) won his debut game for the C team. See full results with links to games.
Kidderminster CC honours leading players2 Oct 2026, Lorraine Henry reports. Joe Friar was the outstanding player at Kidderminster last season. He won seven trophies. Jon Francis won the club’s Minor Championship and Brandon Wilkes received the Clive Billinge Trophy for his commitment to the club. President John Wrench described the past year as a great chess season with many new players. He pointed to the the success of the club’s team in Rapidplay league 2 where 16-year old Cameron Henry led them to their second successive league title. |
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28 Sep 2026. Evesham played its first league games in Worcestershire since 1988. In their first match at home to Evesham in Worcestershire Rapidplay League 2 Evesham drew both legs of the fixture 2-2. See details.
28 Sep 2026. Brian Turner has fired the starting gun for this season’s Bennett and Ball Cups. There are thirteen entries for the Bennett Cup and eleven for the Ball Cup. In addition to these traditional tournaments, there is also the new chess 960 competition where the starting positions can be any of 960. This competition attracted six entries.
22 Sep 2026. Congratulations to Junior Organiser Simon Berry (Worcester) and Colin Vernon (Warndon) for organising the county’s first junior online team Worcestershire Wolfpack Juniors. The team played its first match in Division 3 4NCL Junior Online and drew with Caissa’s Lionesses 4-4. See detailed results on the junior pages of this website.
22 Sep 2026. Three teams won in round 2. Team A beat Wessex "C", Team B lost to Dundee City "C". Team C won after their board 1 escaped from a lost middle game position and had to draw a minor piece ending a pawn down to win the match against Bishop Trojans. Team D returned to winning ways with a 4-0 victory over Colchester JFF "C". See full results.
16 Sep 2026. Only Ben Mason (Malvern) of county players won against GM Peter Wells at a simul in Hereford. Peter wrote: "I generally enjoy giving simuls, but this group did strike me as especially friendly and welcoming, and I thoght their engagement during the Q&A was really something special".
10 Sep 2026. In a well supported event, Ed Higgs stormed the tournament held at Worcester City Club, winning all eight games. Rob Sutton was runner-up on 7 points. See results and pictures.
8 Sep 2026. The leage season officially started with a local Derby Longbridge A against Longbridge B in the Championship League. The A team prevailed. See details.
8 Sep 2026. The Wolfpacks returned to 4NCL Main Online to find that team C have been promoted to Division3 because of the departure of higher rated teams in higher divisions. Co-managers Ray Collett and Sai Rentachintala (both Worcester) feared that the A team might be whitewashed because several key players were involved in the opening Longbridge A -Longbridge B fixture in the Worcestershire team Championship. In the event the A team beat Morpeth 2½-1½. Team B lost 1-1 against Settle and the C team drew against Hebden Bridge 3. Team D players drew the short straw playing aginst a new team Bon Accord from Aberdeen with 4NCL ratings that would not disgrace a Division 1 team and lost 0-4. see detailed results.
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