MCC win by half a wicket in friendly
A friendly match to round off April, with the MCC visiting 1 Whitehall Place on Monday 29 April. A visit[…]
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A friendly match to round off April, with the MCC visiting 1 Whitehall Place on Monday 29 April. A visit[…]
Read moreLightning chess at the NLC has now become a spring-time Clubland chess tradition. Once the daffodils are out the buzzer[…]
Read moreEarly April. Four delightful members of the Circle de l’Union Interalliee had come to London to play the finest chessplayers[…]
Read moreDespair. First, there was ‘chessboxing‘. Then there was ‘go karting‘. Now – with a heavy heart and much sombre reflection[…]
Read moreLiberalism has a long history of radical pamphleteering. Radical pamphlets were short opinion pieces, often only a few pages long,[…]
Read moreStandards are slipping at the journal of record. There were four (or possibly five) matches that took place at the[…]
Read moreAfter her glorious victory in the 2023 Gladstone Trophy all that was left was to make the all-important presentation of[…]
Read moreWith Miss Widger winning the 2023 Gladstone Trophy many a Liberal chess player was left licking their wounds. How would[…]
Read moreLong-time readers will no doubt still be recovering from the unpleasantness of having to read about the atrocity known as[…]
Read moreHe’s been coveting the top spot for years. Season after season he’s had to resign himself to merely Board 3,[…]
Read moreIn early October a group of brave (and quite possible foolhardy) Liberal chessers attended an event known as ‘Chessboxing’. Your[…]
Read moreIt was the 2023 season opener. And what a nice way to open. A firm favourite of the NLC Chess[…]
Read moreThe NLC has always been the place to come for chess afficionados. Grandmaster Meises came ashore in 1938 and headed[…]
Read moreThe Gladstone Trophy had reached its climax. The fateful round five, in which Gladstone reaches down to anoint the NLC[…]
Read moreIt was late summer at the NLC Clubhouse. The evenings were long and hot. The terrace full. That can only[…]
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