At the end of the half term period, we received 24 keen and enthusiastic young chess aficionados. Tony Sanderson set out a variety of puzzles with differing levels to encourage the advanced section of the 1st session to find mating solutions. Leo/Nathaniel/Harry/Tristan/Nicolas & Noah all did well and enjoyed this Read more
Happy Birthday Zander, a sing song from some of the gang sent on What’s app video, – (the wonders of technology when it works) while you’re far away on holiday in South Africa. Thinking of you. We had a good turnout yesterday of 25 juniors despite it being half term week. In the Read more
Take a peep at these suggested designs for our chess club T shirt, lettered alphabetically for you to choose, let us know if any grab your liking, or send us your ideas. Comments are allowed on this posting.
I am delighted to report we had an enjoyable and successful junior chess club yesterday when 28 keen and enthusiastic kids/juniors came along to learn and play chess in our Autumnal season. First, let me see cheerio to Kane who joined us in year 3, many years ago, and has Read more
Another full house at the library yesterday and great to see Zander there along with newcomers – Neil (brother of Nidhi, from many years ago) Ben/George/Violet and a one off Marco(friend of Harry). All in all, 29 keen and enthusiastic young chess players. Leo stepped up to the demonstration board Read more
As the autumn session is now underway, we say goodbye to September 2023 and in our 4th week we enjoy seeing growing numbers and new players weekly to join many of our regulars, with a total of 30 juniors at the club yesterday. It was really nice to see the Read more
Tony Sanderson set up various puzzles with questions & answers in our 1st Advanced group session of Leo/Nathaniel/Dima/Nicolas and Tristan. Good progress is being made by Lathujan and Harish in the intermediate section & great to see Markus back and welcome to James who came for the 1st time. In Read more
31 juniors of all ages ranging from 5-16 years old, 5 tutors, ladder board competition resumption for the autumn term and an enthusiastic and enjoyable session yesterday. Welcome back, Marcel, Yash, and Nathaniel and newcomers, Tudor, Viktor, Cem, Alfie and Victor. Tony Sanderson gave the 1st advanced session tutorial on Read more
After a break of 3 1/2 years due to covid, we returned to the Bournemouth Central Library to carry on our junior chess club held in the two conference rooms on the 2nd floor. It was great to welcome back from the summer break 20 of our junior chess players Read more
Hi all! Hope you are well. As promised, sending some pictures of Robert Fischer museum in Iceland! Will see you very soon! Noah is extremely excited! Regards, Diana Serpenskaite