Kingston Chess Club serves the chess playing community on the borders between Southwest London and Surrey. The club meets at Friends Meeting House, 78 Eden St, Kingston, KT1 1DJ on Mondays from 7.30pm to 10.30pm during the chess season. The next meeting of the chess club will be the AGM.
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 13th September 2010 at 7.30pm. Anybody interested in playing for the club are cordially invited to attend to meet the members.
John Foley, chairman of Kingston Chess Club has somehow managed to win the British Championships Quiz 2010. See quiz
His winning score was 14/15. The one that got away was “What year was the English Chess Federation formed? John had answered 1904 based on no less an authority than the Wikipedia page on the English Chess Federation. However, the correct answer is (click the logo on the right to find out)
Stewart Reuben provides an historical explanation.
Places are still available for the various British Championship events.
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The game between John Foley of Kingston and Stephen Berry of Wimbledon proved to be an attacking sacfest. Stephen, a FIDE Master has been in sparkling form recently. However, there is no undue respect for titles in the Surrey and John was determined to make Stephen play hard for the point.
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Richard Haddrell, the Grading Administrator at the English Chess Federation has been doing a bit of tidying up of gradings. He asked for some assistance with this exercise.
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The world champion Viswanathan Anand from India will be playing in the second London Chess Classic tournament in December 2010. This is something of a coup for the organisers who have built upon the successful format of the inaugural tournament last December. The tournament comprises four top British players with four of the top players in the world. The British players are the two veteran grandmasters over the last two decades, Nigel Short and Michael Adams and two up-and-coming grandmasters: Luke McShane and David Howell. In addition to the reigning world champion, the world players are the former world champion, Vladimir Kramnik from Russia, the USA champion, Hikaru Nakamura, and the highest graded player in the world, Magnus Carlsen from Norway.
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Paul Shepherd of Surbiton Chess Club explains the Quickplay v Slowplay debate in the Thames Valley League and gives the result of the club’s opinion survey.
more »Julian Way reflects upon the development of his chess playing strength and style.
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José Raúl Capablanca was one of the most divinely gifted chess players the world has seen. He had an effortless style and rarely lost. He was particularly effective at endgames – the mark of a grandmaster. He became world champion in 1921, the year in which he wrote Chess Fundamentals, which is one of the finest brief chess books ever written.
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I decided to follow online the final game of the World Championships today between Vishy Anand, the current champion and Veselin Topalov, the former champion. The match is taking place in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, the home ground of Topalov. This is a blow-by-blow account of the game as experienced by an internet user.
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