Herefordshire Worcestershire Shropshire

Our first match in the new European Inter Region Championship starts tomorrow, 22nd January.  The match currently looks very evenly balanced. Our opponents, Munster have one more board than us, so if anyone reading this wants a game, they will improve our chances.  Please join via this link: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/herefordshire-worcestershire-shropshire/1453813

Herefordshire Worcestershire Shropshire currently sit top of the 2023 County Championship table with a lead in our opening match against Sussex. We are currently slightly outnumbered / outrated in our second match against Kent which starts at 12.00pm on Saturday 7th January. If you are not one of the 20 members already signed up to play and could assist in this one it would help us to try and make a 2/2 start to the campaign. You can support the team by joining via this link: https://www.ch...

Although a few games are still ongoing, the final County Championship standings for 2022 are now decided and Herefordshire Worcestershire Shropshire have retained our place in the top Division 1 of the competition thanks to victory over Sussex in our final match of the season. This elevated us to 6th place Division One Table Points H2H SB Win % Norfolk Knights 18 72 60.00% Munster 14 46 59.01% Team Hampshire 11 34.5 47.47% Team Sussex 10 44 53.06% Somerset Wyvern 8 W1/L1 ...

Herefordshire Worcestershire Shropshire's first match in the 2023 Cup Competition (I know, it seems very early to be starting next season) is against Lanarkshire. At the moment we are outnumbered so if you have not joined already, please do so via this link: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/herefordshire-worcestershire-shropshire/1407507, and clicking 'Join'

Herefordshire Worcestershire Shropshire's penultimate County Championship Division 1 match this season is against Norfolk. The match starts on 7th June. We currently have 3 less players than our opponents so could do with some more team mates taking part in this one. If you are not yet registered to play and are able to take on a couple of games for the team please follow the match link here and click 'join' https://www.chess.com/club/matches/herefordshire-worcestershire-shropshire/1385815

Our next County Championship match against Lancashire starts at 09.00 on 7th May. A number of results this season have gone narrowly against us and we may well need to get a win in this one to avoid a threat of relegation. Please could anyone reading this not yet playing and able to take on a couple of extra games this month sign up to help. At the moment we are a couple of boards short of their numbers but hopefully we can turn that around a field a strong team for this fixture. You can joi...

Herefordshire Worcestershire Shropshire are playing the Isle of Man in our first match in the new 2022 County Championship for U1300 rated players. We are currently outnumbered so need some more of our eligible members to join the match which starts on 21st April. Please do so via this link and then clicking 'join' https://www.chess.com/club/matches/herefordshire-worcestershire-shropshire/1367533

Registration is now open for the U1600 and U1300 rated County Championship competitions for 2022. We entered the U1600 last season and I have registered us again for that. I will also enter us into the U1300 if there are at least 5 members interested in playing (the minimum boards will be 3 per match). Please respond to this News Item if you would like to play for Herefordshire Worcestershire Shropshire in the U1300 competition.

As the 2021 season reaches its conclusion, here is a summary of what we have achieved together this year. County Cup 2021 After narrow and hard fought wins in most of the rounds, we have reached the Cup Final and will play Norfolk to decide who are Cup Winners for this season. The match will open for registration shortly. County Championship In our first season in the top Division, we have finished a respectable 5th: Division One Table Points H2H Win % Munster 16 57.16% Team Su...

Our 2021 season is coming to an exciting conclusion. In our cup semi-final against Somerset we trail 12.5 to 13.5 but with 2 matches still playing we will go through to the final if Mark and Andrew can secure 1.5 points between them as in the event of a drawn match the last board (which we lost both games on) is removed from the score. If the match is undecided by 24th November any outstanding games are evaluated at that point and awarded to the player with an advantage at that time. Good lu...