Time for the Open team to play Brazil! I've been hunting this country down for a while as its the biggest in South America and it'll look impressive on our map! Good luck guys! Our next match is going to be against Mali for our U1200s, our first m...
Women’s Aid is a grassroots federation working together to provide life-saving services in England and build a future where domestic abuse is not tolerated. If you want to help raise some money, take part in our chess arena event. You can find det...
Our next match is going to be against Mali for our U1200s, our first match against a country in Western Africa. Good luck guys! https://www.chess.com/club/matches/castell-nedd/1503307
I'm currently working on setting up a charity event for Women's Aid in honour of Tyrone O'Sullivan, my father in law who recently passed away. On Saturday the 8th of July (6pm - 8pm), we'll be holding an Arena on chess.com. Everyone can drop their...
We have another match, this time up against India. With a couple of our players crossing the U1200 mark, I've opened this one as a U1400 https://www.chess.com/club/matches/castell-nedd/1496871
A match is on for the U1000, this time against South Africa. This is a chance for the newcomers to show us there stuff! https://www.chess.com/club/matches/castell-nedd/1494645
Get ready for our next match and make sure you sign up! This time its down to Africa to play an U1600 against Ethiopia https://www.chess.com/club/matches/castell-nedd/1493191
Still trying to get a match for the U1200 and we have another challenge accepted! Let's hope they'll actually play this time! Angola already have three players signed up against our three so they might be waiting for us to sign up. We need at leas...
I've been chasing Canada for a match for some time now and finally I've broken down their wall of no's. We're up against Chess Canada and need our best team! https://www.chess.com/club/matches/castell-nedd/1486964
So, thanks to some daring chess from @Greg Griffiths its a 3.5 - 2.5 defeat of 5 For Fighting, a non-country team that challenged us. They look to be from all over the place (Canada, Poland and Brazil). Greg prooved why you always fight on and how...
𝗖𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗜 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 One thousand five hundred years ago, a game was formed in India; a battle of two armies that could be used to plan and prepare for war. Over hundreds of years, it spread through Asia and Northern A...
You’ve started playing chess and you know the moves. You start moving pieces around the board and your friend, who also knows nothing about the game, randomly moves pieces too. Pieces get taken, games get played and one player ends the game by ...
Club Updates Chess Ladder The first week was fairly quiet with three games battling it out. I managed to keep hold of the top stop, despite two bad moves and a drawn game at the end (thanks for pointing it out Steve!), as time got the better...
We're currently running a tutoring program for all our members. It will just be a correspondence game on chess.com where you'll be given advice and tips as you go along. If you're 1200 or over and want to help our U1200s, give me a shout. If you f...
When the ladder changes I'll put it in this news article as images can be attached and edited. Congrats to Michael for being the first player to creep up the table!
So with 15 players taking part the ladder tournament begins tomorrow! For all those who haven't played in a ladder before: 1. You can issue a challenge to a play 1 or 2 places above you. 2. The challenge needs to be put on chess.com and ...
Another cancellation but we've had ten people looking to sign up for the ladder within a night. More details will be published later in the week, but three important facts are: 1. Its not run on a particular site (though chess.com would be nice t...
Our tournament online had some ups and downs. One down was that, with only three people signing up, it had to be cancelled! Unfortunately, chess.com states that there has to be a minimum of five. On the upside, we had Tomasz, Cam and Dave all comi...
It can safely be said that all goes well in our chess.com matches! The Mexico U2000 are well an truly defeated, 6.5 - 1.5 with only Martyn still playing means they cannot defeat us. Well done! James Silk has pulled our U1400 Mexico team back to th...
Congratulations to our U2000 against Mexico, I don't think I've seen them attack so aggressively before! Anthony has already finished off the opponent in both of his game, Dai as executed top board in one game, and although Hywel is struggling in ...
U2000 Team Martyn Griffiths 1896 Jonathan Thomas 1857 Hywel Griffiths 1656 Anthony Beck ...
