The Doctor’s Report 2020
Tradition has it that each summer the players of the NLC Chess Circle reluctantly submit themselves for a forensic examination[…]
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Tradition has it that each summer the players of the NLC Chess Circle reluctantly submit themselves for a forensic examination[…]
Read moreLife is beginning – only beginning – to get back to normal. Lockdown is easing and the NLC players, having[…]
Read moreIt was well overdue. Captain Chamberlain is a feared over-the-board player, able to better anyone from the club on his[…]
Read moreA small and select online gathering this week, with Mister Widdicombe nobly at his desk protecting the health of the[…]
Read moreAs the famous saying goes: “The pipped shall become the pipper”. With Mister Giffin QC MA (Oxon) getting so narrowly[…]
Read moreOften on a Wednesday night there is a player on form who starts well, gets better, and leaves the others[…]
Read moreA quick report this week as the entire reporting staff have been tied up on other matters. So here’s what[…]
Read moreA milestone. Wednesday 27 May was the tenth edition of NLC lockdown chess. So how’s it all gone? The first[…]
Read moreWith your usual chess correspondent attending to other matters it fell to Captain Chamberlain to report on this week’s proceedings.[…]
Read moreShe’s been threatening it for some time. For the last few weeks the NLC’s own Vera Menchik has been quietly[…]
Read moreOnline chess is a great leveller. The mighty slip up, the mediocre achieve occasional brilliance and the weak from time[…]
Read moreAnother exciting week of online Lib chess action. Plenty of games, plenty of blunders, plenty of fun. This week it[…]
Read moreIt happened last week and it happened again this. The talented new influx of Lib chess players showed the old-timers[…]
Read moreThink of a decade, and pick your great Liberal Club chessplayer. The 1890s? Mister Herbert William Trenchard led from the[…]
Read moreWednesday night is NLC chess night, so on Wednesday 15 April the creme of Liberal chess duly met online to[…]
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