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Captain Giffin in ‘inspirational leadership’ shocker

May 19, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The 2022-23 Hamilton Russell season has finished, so let’s look at the final table: The NLC finished in a magnificent[…]

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Libs in late season landslide

May 19, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

There was a slight end-of-season feel at Whitehall Place as the NLC and Hurlingham assembled for their final Hamilton Russell[…]

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Search called off for NLC chess team. All hope lost.

May 19, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

A dark day in the annuls of NLC Chess. It is with overbearing grief that the Editorial Committee bring you[…]

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Captain Giffin channels his inner Grandmaster

April 25, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

India called. Or, at least, the East India Clubhouse. But, whatever. There was a chess match to play, and the[…]

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Time for some Bazball

April 12, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The title-chasing MCC turned up for the Hamilton Russell Cup match at Whitehall Place with a strong side and justified[…]

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(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea

April 3, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

(The report of this match was cabled to us directly from deepest Chelsea by our field correspondent, Doctor Saldanha. The[…]

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New Champ crowned in Lighting showdown

March 21, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The date was Tuesday 14 March. The venue was the Lounge of the National Liberal Club. The prize was the[…]

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The Ideal Friendly

March 10, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

A trip to Lord’s is always one of the highlights of the season. Historic surroundings, good company and competitive chess[…]

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Dateless wonders fail to deliver decisive result

March 3, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

As the Libs headed to Whitehall Place they really could feel it in their fingers, they could feel it in[…]

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Who needs the Captain?

February 17, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

This article could have been written as the Magnificent Seven. But most of them are dead by the end of[…]

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Burgeoning Liberal team shatters all records!

January 22, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

From small acorns mighty oaks grow. Some remember the olden days, when the same six Liberal chess players – indeed[…]

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All square with the O&C

January 22, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The New Year dawned with the NLC Chess team hosting our friends from the Oxford and Cambridge for a friendly[…]

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Thank goodness for Miss Widger

January 7, 2023 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

With the pre-Christmas freeze continuing, the Libs made their way over the Pall Mall for the Hamilton Russell match against[…]

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

December 16, 2022 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The Reform Club turned up at Whitehall Place for a pre-Christmas Friendly played in the midst of a Yuletide cold[…]

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Just like watching Bobby Fischer

November 13, 2022 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Early November saw the Liberal chessers troop off to Pall Mall to play the mighty RAC, reigning Hamilton Russell Champions.[…]

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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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