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NLC in ‘not bottom’ shocker!

March 14, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

This is indeed news. News in the sense that it is new. Never happened before. Not seen. Not once. And[…]

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We love it when a plan comes together!

March 14, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

March 11th saw the NLC ‘A Team’ braving the dangers of darkest South Kensington to play the Chelsea Arts Club.[…]

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Statesman, winner, loser, idiot, annotator, debutant: the many faces of NLC chess

March 6, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The Statesman It is oft-remarked in the NLC bar that, of all NLC members, it is Mister Whiteley that most[…]

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Getting there in half points

March 2, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

The creme of NLC chess headed off to Pall Mall to play the Oxford and Cambridge Club – the current[…]

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Two glasses of club red and a dodgy knight fork

February 24, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson in 1991. The Netherlands beating England by 45 runs in the ICC Cricket World[…]

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Lessons from the Athenaeum Akademeia

February 22, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

NLC hopes were reasonably high heading into this five board friendly against the Athenaeum. The Hamilton Russell match had finished[…]

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Libs get taken back to School

February 8, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

“What,” asked Adam Smith, “can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt,[…]

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A second in time…

January 31, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Aficionados of such things are to be found in unanimous agreement that the MCC vs NLC is one of the[…]

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Great NLC chessplayers of yesteryear (part 4)

January 23, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Longtime readers of this august and learned journal will no doubt be able to cast their minds back to reading[…]

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NLC bitten by RAC Cobra

January 23, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

A visit to the RAC is always one of the highlights of the chess season. It’s a magnificent clubhouse and[…]

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It doesn’t usually happen like this

January 14, 2020 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

That we should meet Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same is something we learn from[…]

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Blunders galore at the end of Pall Mall

December 7, 2019 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

A victorious army needs quality NCOs, and a decent chess team needs decent middle boards. The NLC didn’t win at[…]

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Old Fashioned approach pays off for Mister Dias

November 30, 2019 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

It’s always been a bit of a condundrum for the NLC Chess Team – does one imbibe before and during[…]

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On the continued maintenance of appropriate neckwear standards

November 17, 2019 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Sometimes the NLC team wins chess matches. Mostly it loses them. But it always wins the fight that really matters:[…]

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Great NLC Chessplayers of yesteryear (part 3)

November 17, 2019 The Editorial Committee NLC chess news

Grandmaster on Board 1 Mister Whiteley has been misbehaving again. When the Board 2 should be flat out studying his[…]

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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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