100 Members!
We've reached 100 members and counting. It's been a long time coming, but we are proud to reach this milestone for our club. Thank you for your support. We will announce a celebration tournament shortly.
Rook endgame series
We are starting a new series of practice tournaments based on rook endgame positions. These tournaments start off with the simple positions before proceeding to more advanced positions. In the first tournament all games start with the Lucena Pos...
Bookworm Club Defeats Knight's Move
Congratulations to f040 chicks02 toxic_rabbit Arnaut10 and PresentColony on getting a first vote chess win for The Bookworm Club. No doubt this will be the first of many.
First Live Tournaments
The first Live tournament starts next Sunday. This is an Under 1600 tournament and each game lasts 10 minutes https://www.chess.com/play/tournament/2561807 If you are interested in a longer time format or a tournament for higher or lower rated ...
Which Openings Would You Like To Practice?
First I will talk a bit about our general tournaments and then move on the specific openings We are looking for players below 1200 to join our Under 1200 tournament: https://www.chess.com/tournament/bookworm-u12-tourney In the Under 1500 Bookwor...
Evans Gambit tournament - we have a winner!
Congratulations to diezezhik7 on winning the Evans Gambit tournament. He defeated International Master Peter Large in the final, winning as Black and drawing as White. Here are the two final matches:
Play Like Paul Morphy
The Bookworm Club is starting a new series of tournaments based on some of the most famous games played by American Chess Grandmaster Paul Morphy. We are starting with two 16 player tournaments. These games are unrated and are an opportunity both...
The Queen's Gambit Declined
There are two new Daily Tournaments for practicing the Queen's Gambit Declined opening Under 1500s sign up here: https://www.chess.com/tournament/u1500-queens-gambit-declined-tournament Over 1500s sign up here: https://www.chess.com/tournament...
News Roundup
It's been a month since the last club update and lots has been going on. The club tournament Bookworm Club v The Groovy Gang is underway. https://www.chess.com/club/matches/the-groovy-gang/1254653 Best of luck to chicks02, AunTheKnight, AndyCo...
Battle Of The Century
Calling all recruits! We will be starting a club match against The Groovy Gang on 12th July Sign up here: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/the-groovy-gang/1254653
Oh so English!
What could be more quaintly English than a game of chess with starting with the English opening? Come and join our vote chess game against the English club Brewood Chess Circle: https://www.chess.com/votechess/game/200185
Vote Chess
We have two vote chess matches underway, both against English clubs who have a good win rate. Brewood Chess Club game: https://www.chess.com/votechess/game/200185 Royal Chess Club game: https://www.chess.com/votechess/game/200143 All our vote...
Welcome!
Welcome to this brand new club! Here we will be discussing a variety of topics to help improve ourselves as chess players. I will be setting up an inaugural vote chess match once we have enough members interested in forming a team. Let us know w...
