Category: NLC chess news

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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