Division 1 at under 1600 level is proving a big step up from Div. 2 even though we were promoted as league champions. We are currently trailing in both opening rounds; needing to win the 4 in play games to scrape a draw with Glamorgan; and close t...
It’s not been the greatest of starts to the U1300 2024 campaign: a heavy loss in the 1st round to Kent and we currently trail Leicestershire and Rutland in Round 2 by 3-0 with 3 games in play. Guys, you are not doing yourselves justice; show your ...
Round 7 opponents are Lancashire Lads and Lasses. Just three rounds remaining and TFS are in a very strong position; I am predicting 5 wins and 1 loss from our first 6 matches. We have an excellent chance of winning promotion to Division 1. It’s i...
Our round 7 opponents from Slovakia are currently in 6th place with 2 wins (against the bottom two teams of Birmingham and Salerno) and a heavy loss to Edinburgh by 22-10. Their roster against our Scottish neighbours featured only 2 players with r...
We play our old friends Hertfordshire in the 2nd Round. Last season we pipped them to the Division 2 title by the tightest of margins on SB tie break following a 17-17 draw in the final round. You can bet your bottom dollar that they will be hungr...
Round 6 opponents are Northern Knights; the North of England Counties of Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham together with the metropolitan borough of Tyne & Wear. A small club of 43 members, 9 of whom are rated over 1600. On paper one of the weak...
Welcome to the 1st round of the Chess960 WCL 2024. With the EIRC 960 2023/24 tournament drawing to a close, a new opportunity for 960 Chess officinados to play competitively. Full details of the competition are in the forum at: https://www.chess....
Round 6 and are opposition are the Ukrainian city of Ternopil. Their Club has a membership of 200 with over a dozen players rated 1800 and above. Strong opposition on paper, although their record in the ECL this season is patchy: 2 wins to date, ...
No time for dust to settle on the 2023 Under 1600 Division 2 Champions Trophy: it’s the 1st round of our first season at any level in the top Division. First up, Glamorgan. County of my birth, so slightly split allegiances! In at the deep end. Ou...
Round 1 has now completed with the following 5 members qualifying for the 2nd and Final round. Good luck all.
First Round opponents in this season’s competition are Kent Checkmates, coincidentally our opponents in the opening round of the EIRC U1400 Qualifiers. TFS defeated Kent last season 7-5, although the Garden of England team finished in 4th place t...
Round 5 County Championship Open League opponents are Team Hampshire as we reach the halfway point in this season’s campaign. Our opponents are currently lying in 8th place (TFS 4th), yet to garner a point. This is a fixture where we start as slig...
We have reached the halfway point in the 2024 ECL campaign and our Round 5 opponents are the strong Italian team of Reggio Emilia. The Italians, alongside TFS and Edinburgh are in the current top three standings. TFS has three wins from the first...
A final round 17-17 draw with Hertfordshire was enough to confirm TFS as Under 1600 Division 2 Champions. Congratulations to all members who played in this season’s competition. With 11 points gleaned from a won 5, drawn 1 and lost 1 record, TFS...
It’s been a highly competitive start to our Division 2 campaign; all three round matches in play are close and could go either way. We could end up with 6 points and be in contention for promotion to Div 1 or 0 points and fighting to stay in Div 2...
Round 4 of the European Cities League is an all-Scottish top of the table clash with neighbours Edinburgh. The slick City boys and girls are flying high this season, top of Div 3 at present with Perth (TFS) in second place. Full league and results...
Round 3 of the 2024 County Championship is upon us; these matches seem to come thick and fast at every 4 weeks. And it’s another heavyweight opponent in Norfolk Knights; 172 members including a whopping 28 rated 1700 or higher. Our East Anglian...
Round 3, the last 16, in this season's CC Knock Out Cup and our opponents are high flying Division 1 side London. The UK capital city are currently ranked the fifth best team in the Championship. There are no easy matches from here on in. We wil...
Round 2 CC Open League opponents are Yorkshire Terriers. They finished mid table in the 2023 season with a won 4 lost 5 record. This will be a step up from the opening match against Derbyshire. We are showing good depth on our roster for the match...
We are off to a flyer in our opening round 1 match against Lyon, currently leading by 11 points to 1 (winning line 16.5 points). Round 2 opponents are Birmingham, the first of two British Clubs TFS faces in this season’s competition. We dispatche...
Round 1 of the 2024 CC Open League pitches TFS against Derbyshire who narrowly pipped us to the 2023 Division 3 title. We face stiffer competition this season with many of the Clubs able to draw on a bigger pool of highly rated players. A good sta...
County Championship 2023 Open Division 3 Still one fixture in play the result of which will determine who is promoted with Derbyshire and TFS to Div 2 for next season: either Herts. or Cambs. End of season cut off by which all games must be comp...
With the 2023 County Championship Under 1600 and Under 1300 Rating Leagues coming to a close, the TFS Club Members under 1600 Rating Winter Tournament provides playing opportunities in-house before the 2024 season gets into full swing for those me...
Our opening match in the 2024 ECL is against Lyon. We play under a new city name this season; Perth, having moved upriver from Dundee to avoid confusion with the Dundee City chess.com club. A new name and a reset. Hitherto we haven’t approached th...
