Three rounds are underway, and we are having a cracking start to life in the top Division. A win against the very useful Glamorgan side in round 1; and we lead both Surrey and Dorset. The Royal County of Berkshire promises to be a step up in ...
I've been flying solo here in the Admin ivory tower for a few months. My fellow admin, rjproton, (Robert) has stepped back from playing on our platform. We need another volunteer, please: a dedicated individual willing to give a slice of t...
A few weeks ago, I posted an announcement asking Members to help with Club recruitment. Coincidentally, Team Scotland Admins have also been looking at ways to recruit new players. One outcome is that Team Scotland and the nine CC County Championsh...
Our second round robin group opponents are neighbours Aberdeenshire. A quick recap on the tournament format. The EIRC Grand Prix 2025 comprises 16 Clubs from the UK, Ireland, Italy, and Germany. They will play a Group Stage (4 groups of 4 Clu...
ECL Round 4: Our opponents are another big club with 300+ members, 5 of whom are titled. With three rounds underway, the stronger teams are starting to emerge, even though few matches have reached a conclusive result. Budapest is currently in...
It's time to enter the recruitment market... 4 trophies last year... and I'm hoping we can add to that tally in 2025. We have 'lost' a few members in recent weeks for one reason or another. TFS membership now stands at 42, of which circa 10 are 's...
The first match in a new tournament format, the EIRC Grand Prix 2025, consists of 16 Clubs from the UK, Ireland, Italy, and Germany. They will play a Group Stage (4 groups of 4 Clubs each) with rounds of 10+ boards starting on January 26, followed...
The first two rounds are well underway against powerful Eastern European opposition, a step up from the 2024 season. We are playing a blinder in Round 1 against Odessa (16-9; 18 boards), though aided and abetted by some Ukrainian timeouts. Round...
Happy New Year Everyone. 2024 was a great season for TFS, with no less than four trophies won. Let's see if we can match that in 2025. Dates for your diaries. Open Tournament Standard Chess Fixtures in the first quarter of the year.
Merry Christmas All. Positively my last announcement or post until the New Year. Hurrah! CC Round 2 vs Surrey sees us back in action against opponents we comfortably defeated in the second round of the Knock Out Cup (17-8, with one game to finis...
The match against Dorset in the CC Knock Out Cup, which begins in three days, will now also count as the third-round match in the CC Open League, which was due to start at the beginning of February. Respective team admins agreed that this was a se...
Having eased past Surrey in Round 2, we face another Division 1 team, old foes Dorset, in the last 16, having played them twice in 2024. In the CC 2024 Open League, we narrowly beat our West Country opponents by 22.5 to 19.5 points. They finished ...
It's a new season, and now we play with the best of the best month in and month out. First up: a great opener to gauge our strength: Glamorgan, the County of my Birth. I could be playing for our opponents! Oh boy. Valleys man born and bred, but no...
Division 2 of European Cities League appears stacked with strong teams. Certainly, a step up from the opposition faced this year in Division 3. First up, Odessa. 355 members with a record of winning trophies, including ECL in 2018. Has their day...
Round 1 of the 2025 World Cities League (WCL) and we are off across the Atlantic for our opening match against Mexico City. Having sat out the 2024 iteration of the WCL we start with a clean slate in Division 4, which is split into five parallel g...
Betwixt and between the end of the 2024 Open League season matches and the start of the 2025 campaigns. How to fill the gap for chess enthusiasts looking for a match to hone their openings, middle games, gambits or end games? We have the answer:...
We have taken a winning lead in the final match of the season against Cambridgeshire to make it: Played 9 Won 9 An amazing performance in our first season in the 2nd Division. Congratulations and a big thank you for the 32 Club Members who pla...
The final round of the tournament pitches us against Dorset who we narrowly beat in the Div2 Open League match earlier in the season. So we can expect another close contest. Having started the season slowly we have steadily moved up the league t...
It may be only the first day of meteorological autumn but the 2025 Knock Out Cup is already up and running with the 1st round ties underway. As a seeded club we were granted a bye into the 2nd round; that's the good news. The more challenging news...
The penultimate round of the U1600 campaign pits us against Munster, who currently lie in 4th place, one position ahead of TFS, with a similar set of results. The Irish province was chalked up wins against Hampshire and Hertfordshire , and fell to...
Two rounds remaining in the tournament and we currently lie in second place in the league standings, albeit helped by winning two matches through our opponents defaulting. We can win the Divisional title if we gain maximum points here on in,...
Next up in the Under 1600 campaign is the Capital City Club; it must be great being their senior admin with 12 million plus potential players (lol). London currently sits in third spot, two places higher than TFS, but on the same points. Round 5 o...
The 9th and Final Round of the CC Open League against Cambridgeshire, fellow newbies in Div 2. The final straight; we sit on top of the table with promotion to Div 1 at our first attempt secured and in pole position to win the Divisional title. On...
The 9th and Final Round of the 2024 ECL campaign and we play the German team of Rostock. Our opponents currently lie in 7th place with 3 wins, including Bratislava who are proving tough opponents in our Round 7 tie which lies at 10 points apiece. ...
