Category: NLC chess news

Lightning Chess was back. After an enforced break in 2021 (some sort of biohazard scare, if I recall – memory[…]

The Hamilton-Russell season has finished. The last pawn has been pushed and the last blunder has been made. The final[…]

The last Hamilton Russell fixture of the season was away at the Hurlingham Club near Putney Bridge. Matches between the[…]

A sombre day in the annuls of Liberal chess. Long have the NLC have been widely recognised as the undisputed[…]

Just as with the Oriental/East India the week before, this journal found itself unable to send a staff reporter to[…]

A match took place between the NLC and the Oriental East India on 15 February. This journal, alas, found itself[…]

The NLC went on our annual pilgrimage to Lord’s, with the prospect of an excellent evening but almost inevitable defeat[…]

The Reform Club came to Whitehall Place on a cold January evening for our Hamilton Russell Cup match. Mister Giffin[…]

Early January saw the first match of 2022 – a home friendly against the ever-fun MCC team. A chance to[…]

And the faithful came. A reduced band of chess players met on Monday 20 December for the second Beginners, Improvers[…]

It was time for the HR Cup match against the Oxford and Cambridge Club. The O&C are the reigning Hamilton[…]

A bit of a strange one this. A good Hurlingham side made its way to Whitehall Place, led by Mark[…]

In what many are saying is the most exciting development in Clubland in all of 2021…the NLC Chess Circle’s new[…]

One of our tenets in the NLC is the need to avoid whitewashes. Whitewashes aren’t good. A 6-0 defeat in[…]

Long-time readers of this august journal may be able to cast their minds back to the strange coincidence of Mister[…]