England Triple World Champions!
England won three world titles in the World Senior Chess Teams Championships yesterday in Acqui Terme, Italy. England’s men won both the World Over 50 Championship and the World Over…
June 2022
WSTCC 2022 – updated 29/6/22!
Queens Online Chess Festival – updated!
These are the players who qualified to play on behalf of England for the team tournament, which will be held on June 26 2022 — Category A – Louise Head…
Girls Only unrated online tournament
FIDE, together with ChessKid and in the frame of the Queens Festival, is organizing very important initiative – a Girls Only unrated online tournament! The event will run from the…
ChessFest 2022
The ECF is delighted to report that Chess in Schools and Communities will be holding another ChessFest this summer on Sunday 17th July in Trafalgar Square, London. ChessFest is a…
Caplin Menchik Memorial
Vera Menchik (1906-44) was the first women’s world chess champion, as well as the longest reigning champion, gaining the title at the age of 21 and defending it multiple times…
A special offer for new ECF members
In the past the ECF membership year has run from 1st September to 31st of the following August, and each year during July we open the sale of new memberships…
Girls National Schools Championships – semi-finals
Entries have re-opened for the ECF Girls’ National Schools semi-finals on October 9th in the South and November 20th in the North. Entries may be made here – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/NSCC/girls-championships-2022/ and…
Arbiter appointments for the Chennai Olympiad
The arbiter appointments for the Chennai Olympiad have been announced at https://arbiters.fide.com/news/7464. There is a relevant article at https://www.fide.com/news/1801. There are 22 senior roles and the arbiters appointed to these positions come…
2022 Cotswold Chess Congress
The 52nd Cotswold Chess Congress was held at The Kings School, Gloucester Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th June. The organizers are grateful to Karen Gulley from the school who assisted…
Bloxwich Juniors return
Bloxwich Junior Chess Academy and Club return on Saturday 11th June 2022 at 9.45am to celebrate their 12th Birthday with a chess match from 10.00am till 11.30am. They will be…
England teams announced for the 2022 Olympiad
The England teams for the Open and Women’s Olympiad at Chennai are — Women’s team – WGM/IM Jovanka Houska, WGM Katarzyna Toma, FM Akshaya Kalaiyalahan, WIM Lan Yao and WCM…
Winton British Chess Solving Championships 2022-2023
The starter problem is attached below. White, playing up the board, is to play and force mate in two moves against any Black defence. There is no entry fee, and…