Great NLC chessplayers of yesteryear (part 5)
Think of a decade, and pick your great Liberal Club chessplayer. The 1890s? Mister Herbert William Trenchard led from the[…]
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Clean sweep!
Wednesday night is NLC chess night, so on Wednesday 15 April the creme of Liberal chess duly met online to[…]
Read moreA bumper crop turn out for NLC chess
Wednesday 08 April saw the third installment of the NLC’s Corona lock-down online chess evenings. It gets better each week,[…]
Read moreThe growing band of online Libs
There are few upsides to the Corona virus. Very few. But it is not wholly without its merits. It has,[…]
Read moreWhat’s your Trenchard number?
It’s difficult for members of the Lib Chess Circle to pass the time these days. Stuck at home, the fingers[…]
Read moreLiberals go space age
And so it came to pass. The NLC Chess Circle, furthering it’s long tradition, went online. It was certainly experimental.[…]
Read moreThe NLC’s long tradition of distance chess
These are strange days indeed, with sights we’d never thought we’d see in our lifetime: pandemics, lock-downs, Doctor Kirby winning[…]
Read moreNLC in ‘not bottom’ shocker!
This is indeed news. News in the sense that it is new. Never happened before. Not seen. Not once. And[…]
Read moreWe love it when a plan comes together!
March 11th saw the NLC ‘A Team’ braving the dangers of darkest South Kensington to play the Chelsea Arts Club.[…]
Read moreStatesman, winner, loser, idiot, annotator, debutant: the many faces of NLC chess
The Statesman It is oft-remarked in the NLC bar that, of all NLC members, it is Mister Whiteley that most[…]
Read moreGetting there in half points
The creme of NLC chess headed off to Pall Mall to play the Oxford and Cambridge Club – the current[…]
Read moreTwo glasses of club red and a dodgy knight fork
Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson in 1991. The Netherlands beating England by 45 runs in the ICC Cricket World[…]
Read moreLessons from the Athenaeum Akademeia
NLC hopes were reasonably high heading into this five board friendly against the Athenaeum. The Hamilton Russell match had finished[…]
Read moreLibs get taken back to School
“What,” asked Adam Smith, “can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt,[…]
Read moreA second in time…
Aficionados of such things are to be found in unanimous agreement that the MCC vs NLC is one of the[…]
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