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Quickfire results round up

January 7, 2024 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Standards are slipping at the journal of record. There were four (or possibly five) matches that took place at the[…]

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Miss Widger gets crowned…

November 28, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

After her glorious victory in the 2023 Gladstone Trophy all that was left was to make the all-important presentation of[…]

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…and Mister Barnett gets hitched

November 28, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

With Miss Widger winning the 2023 Gladstone Trophy many a Liberal chess player was left licking their wounds. How would[…]

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The Flying Doctor

November 12, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Long-time readers will no doubt still be recovering from the unpleasantness of having to read about the atrocity known as[…]

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Mister Ioannou ascends to Board 1

October 21, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

He’s been coveting the top spot for years. Season after season he’s had to resign himself to merely Board 3,[…]

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Everyone’s a liberal till they get punched in the face

October 21, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

In early October a group of brave (and quite possible foolhardy) Liberal chessers attended an event known as ‘Chessboxing’. Your[…]

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A tough (but tasty) start to the season

October 10, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

It was the 2023 season opener. And what a nice way to open. A firm favourite of the NLC Chess[…]

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The Cosmos comes to Clubland

October 10, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The NLC has always been the place to come for chess afficionados. Grandmaster Meises came ashore in 1938 and headed[…]

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Gladstone picks his favourite daughter

September 21, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The Gladstone Trophy had reached its climax. The fateful round five, in which Gladstone reaches down to anoint the NLC[…]

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Barton’s blitz brilliance

September 11, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

It was late summer at the NLC Clubhouse. The evenings were long and hot. The terrace full. That can only[…]

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Gladstone nears the end

September 8, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Round four is often the important one. The field has separated over the earlier rounds and the big beasts have[…]

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A deluge of defaults

August 5, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Round three of the Gladstone 2023 looked enticing. Who would top out in the slugfest of Mister Ioannou and Ms[…]

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Gladstone hots up

June 19, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

William Ewart Gladstone confidently took his second stride of the summer. Round 2 saw those who won in the first[…]

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So near, yet so far…

June 8, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The Editorial Committee is pleased to announce the recruitment of a new reporter to the journal’s staff. Mister Ioannou, after[…]

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The Gladstone begins…

May 30, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

That’s right. The race for the Gladstone Trophy, and with it the mantle of NLC Chess Champion, has begun. Monday[…]

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Chess Circle News

  • Liberals win Sheldon Marshall Blitz competition (bar room section)
  • Farleigh achieves the triple
  • It was close…until it wasn’t
  • And the piper piped
  • NLC beat the Reform
  • Reform beat the NLC
  • Lords Test Match ends in a draw
  • RAG v NLC: a haiku
  • The NLC is lost for words
  • The Libs? Top of the League?

What we’re talking about

  • Danny Rosenbaum on NLC beat the Reform
  • Richard Saldanha on The Artists cometh
  • Danny Rosenbaum on Birrane’s Blitz Brainchild
  • Richard Saldanha on Mister Barton is Gladstone’s favourite son

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