Category: NLC chess news

The Plague has thrust many a barrier in the path of NLC chess recently. The Chess Circle has bounded over[…]

Over the board chess has been dead for some months. Covid saw to that. Excellent work has been done across[…]

Tradition has it that each summer the players of the NLC Chess Circle reluctantly submit themselves for a forensic examination[…]

Life is beginning – only beginning – to get back to normal. Lockdown is easing and the NLC players, having[…]

It was well overdue. Captain Chamberlain is a feared over-the-board player, able to better anyone from the club on his[…]

A small and select online gathering this week, with Mister Widdicombe nobly at his desk protecting the health of the[…]

As the famous saying goes: “The pipped shall become the pipper”. With Mister Giffin QC MA (Oxon) getting so narrowly[…]

Often on a Wednesday night there is a player on form who starts well, gets better, and leaves the others[…]

A quick report this week as the entire reporting staff have been tied up on other matters. So here’s what[…]

A milestone. Wednesday 27 May was the tenth edition of NLC lockdown chess. So how’s it all gone? The first[…]

With your usual chess correspondent attending to other matters it fell to Captain Chamberlain to report on this week’s proceedings.[…]

She’s been threatening it for some time. For the last few weeks the NLC’s own Vera Menchik has been quietly[…]

Online chess is a great leveller. The mighty slip up, the mediocre achieve occasional brilliance and the weak from time[…]

Another exciting week of online Lib chess action. Plenty of games, plenty of blunders, plenty of fun. This week it[…]

It happened last week and it happened again this. The talented new influx of Lib chess players showed the old-timers[…]