BCC Winners!
Congratulations to Michael Adams on winning the British Chess Championships and to Lan Yao, winner of the British Women’s Championship, who also gained a WGM norm
July 2023
Members’ Representatives for 2023/24
The ECF Members’ Representatives for 2023/24 will be — Life Members – Stewart Reuben; Gerard Walsh Platinum Members – Adrian Elwin; David Eustace Gold Members – Tim Wall; Mike Waddington…
Incorrect membership expiry email
The ECF office recently completed an exercise within the membership system designed to prevent members with two active memberships from being reminded to renew twice, once for each membership. However,…
European Senior Teams Chess Championship
England had another successful tournament in the European Senior Teams Chess Championship, which finished in Swidnica in Poland on Thursday 20th July, winning two team Gold medals, one Silver and…
109th British Chess Championships
Today is International Chess Day – a fitting day for the 109th British Chess Championships to start. We kick off today at DMU in Leicester with an evening blitz tournament…..
ChessFest!
The UK’s largest chess event took place on Sunday 16th July in London’s Trafalgar Square. Now in its third year, the annual open-air chess festival saw over 14,000 people attend…
English Women’s Online Blitz Championship 2023
The second English Women’s Online Blitz Championship will be held during August 2023. The top finishing player will become the English Women’s Online Blitz Champion for 2023. The event is…
BCC2023 Chess Festival events entry form
Running alongside the British Chess Championships in Leicester we have a raft of events for players and visitors alike to enjoy, including simuls with GM Keith Arkell, outdoor drop-in chess…
Shreyas Royal at the Kasparov Chess Foundation
Shreyas Royal was recently selected for training by the Kasparov Chess Foundation. He was first invited to a preliminary training camp in Vienna, as one of eight top European juniors,…
Wood Green Invitational 14th – 18th July 2023
For the third successive year there will be an all-play-all title norm tournament taking place in Stafford, the home town of the organiser Lawrence Cooper. Thanks must go to The…
Peter Campbell Gibbs 1934-2023
The chess community is much saddened by the news of the death of former MCCU President Peter Gibbs. Peter was educated at Bradford Grammar School and trained as a solicitor….
ECF Awards 2023 – closing date extended
Submissions are open for this year’s ECF Awards. The closing date for nominations has been extended to August 5th 2023 … Details for this year’s ECF Awards are now available…
British Chess Championships on the BBC
You can hear a British Chess Championships interview with BBC Radio Leicester’s Ben Jackson, featuring the ECF’s Home Director Nigel Towers and Paul Mottram, the Leicester Chess Association president, on…
Silver Members’ Representatives Election 2023 – election addresses
John Reyes — Election Address 2023 Gavin Cartwright— Election Address 2023 Julian Morrison — Election Address 2023