Category: NLC chess news

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[…]

Think of a decade, and pick your great Liberal Club chessplayer. The 1890s? Mister Herbert William Trenchard led from the[…]

Wednesday night is NLC chess night, so on Wednesday 15 April the creme of Liberal chess duly met online to[…]

Wednesday 08 April saw the third installment of the NLC’s Corona lock-down online chess evenings. It gets better each week,[…]

There are few upsides to the Corona virus. Very few. But it is not wholly without its merits. It has,[…]

It’s difficult for members of the Lib Chess Circle to pass the time these days. Stuck at home, the fingers[…]

And so it came to pass. The NLC Chess Circle, furthering it’s long tradition, went online. It was certainly experimental.[…]

These are strange days indeed, with sights we’d never thought we’d see in our lifetime: pandemics, lock-downs, Doctor Kirby winning[…]