Category: NLC chess news

After a blistering season of slaying the finest Pall Mall could send, Player of the Season Mister Whiteley broke off[…]

The first of May saw the 2018 RAC Blitz competition, held in the palatial RAC Clubhouse. Mister Widdicombe and Mister[…]

Each year, after the close of the season, the NLC Chess Circle summons up what little courage it has left[…]

Another Gladstone clash. This time it was Mister Widdicombe v Mister Giffin QC. It was a scrappy game with slips[…]

A remarkable night of continuity and change. Continuity, as the NLC Chess team maintained their steady improvement in performance. Change,[…]

Mister Chamberlain made his Gladstone Trophy debut in a game against Mister Widdicombe –  played, somewhat unsually, (but not altogether[…]

It’s fair to say that the Roehampton is a bit of a trek. You emerge from a Victorian station at[…]

After our unexpected glorious victory at the Chelsea Arts Club, the NLC approached the fixture vs the Reform with something[…]

There’s an old chess joke that goes along the lines of: “If the nuclear holocaust happened on a Monday, the[…]

As the current NLC Chess Circle begin to rise through the ranks of Clubland chess, now is a good time[…]

Well it’s finally happened – the NLC has won a Hamilton-Russell Cup match! After the ‘so near yet so far’[…]

Messers Osserian and Giffin demonstrated the requisite commitment to NLC chess by getting their Gladstone campaigns underway early. First blood[…]

For all the progress made, the NLC has never quite drawn or won a Hamilton-Russell Cup match. Friendlies yes, but[…]

The NLC made its first Hamilton-Russell Cup trip to the Oriental Club, to play the combined Oriental / East India[…]

The 2018 Gladstone Trophy competition has begun. We have eight entrants this year, and the field looks strong. But in[…]