DING DING – Round 1 Finn watched and notated this game played on Saturday between Alfie and Bertie, it may not be the best game played that day, but it’s worth looking at and understanding what were good / bad Read more
A Bank holiday chess bonanza when 38 juniors turned up to learn and play chess. The new players seem to be coming every week and we welcomed Carlos and Harish and wish them well with their chess. Next Saturday is Read more
With the Easter holidays now over we had a return of some of our regulars, so welcome back Woody, Jiya, Swara, Shriya, Leland, Noah, Lathujan, Pavina and Lewis, plus new players Robin & Roni, which resulted into a major 2nd Read more
We always expect the numbers to drop during the Easter holidays and half term break, however we still had an enthusiastic 20 budding eager young chess players learning and socialising on this last Saturday of the School Holidays. It is Read more
Happy Easter to ALL our readers, good to see so many youngsters dropping by for a game of chess this Easter weekend. A warm welcome to both Nico and Alfie, our latest new members. G’day to our international chess player Read more
24 keen and enthusiastic players turned up to sample a novel and fun ‘suicide and Fischer random’ event and with the addition of Alvin who is our engaging regular latecomer made it 25 in total. The purpose of the competition Read more
Four of our juniors have played for Poole Chess Club and have scored very well. This chart shows the Top section of 30 of Poole’s Player Stats. Quite impressive really, well done boys!
From Natalia Liubchenko – 6th March 2023 Unfortunately, it was our last session in Bournemouth Junior club as we have to move to London. I would like to thank you and your team, children and their families for your support, Read more
Matching the number of squares on the chess board, a fitting 64 junior chess players – 13 from our Bournemouth junior chess club (over 20% of entrants) – from across Dorset turned out on Sunday 26th February to play in the Read more
We had a magnificent number of 34 juniors that came along on Saturday morning and the mix now between the regulars of advanced / intermediate players is being matched by 15 beginners that came to learn and play chess yesterday. Read more