Category: NLC chess news

Round three done and dusted. Four games were played, and the field is beginning to stretch out. Here’s what happened[…]

Round 2 of the 2024 Gladstone Trophy took place on Thursday June 13th. Four games were played. Game 1 –[…]

Summer is upon us, so it’s time for the Gladstone Trophy. The field is wide open this year, with some[…]

Subscribers to this journal will know that the Editorial Committee has an unwavering commitment to reporting on all matters connected[…]

Once the competitive season has finished and the Gladstone hardly begun it is time for the annual inter-Club blitz competition[…]

It was an affair of honour. It was a tragedy. It began on the morning of Monday 6th May. Richard[…]

A friendly match to round off April, with the MCC visiting 1 Whitehall Place on Monday 29 April. A visit[…]

Lightning chess at the NLC has now become a spring-time Clubland chess tradition. Once the daffodils are out the buzzer[…]

Early April. Four delightful members of the Circle de l’Union Interalliee had come to London to play the finest chessplayers[…]

Despair. First, there was ‘chessboxing‘. Then there was ‘go karting‘. Now – with a heavy heart and much sombre reflection[…]

Liberalism has a long history of radical pamphleteering. Radical pamphlets were short opinion pieces, often only a few pages long,[…]

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

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

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

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