Woodseats Chess Club, which is actually in Heeley and easily accessible on the 24/25/43 bus routes out of the town centre, is one of the oldest chess clubs in Sheffield and welcomes players of all strengths. Whether you’re a beginner who has discovered chess on the Internet or in the …
Perhaps you’ll say that there isn’t one but, if you’re a chess player (or anybody else for that matter) who is seeking a challenging alternative to the 64 squares, why not try this: the amazing game of Backgammon! There’s strategy, tactics, it doesn’t take as long and you can talk …
Yesterday, Andrew Ledger and I attended a training day in Hull for CSC. It was a great success, lots of interesting content and very well delivered by chess trainer Sean Marsh. He’s written a full report here. Here are some pictures to give a taste of what we got up …
There is still every opportunity to come to play Chess at Woodseats Library. We now have more boards and sets, books that you could borrow if you want to learn more, and worksheets and books that young players could take away to help practise and progress due to the kind …
The 4NCL will be running its third Harrogate congress at the Old Swan Hotel on Friday 18th to Sunday 20th of January. Entry forms, information etc can be all be found online, here: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/fide/information_21.htm
Another session at Woodseats Library yesterday and there is much to report. The ghosts of great players (and we’re talking about World Champions) were abroad! I was playing against Steve, we’d seen our publicity and decided that he’d come along for a game. He’d not played since he was at …
Another rousing Chess session in the library this afternoon. Bushira Karim and Azhara Miller brought their enthusiastic band of young players again, two of whom had distinguished themselves in a Junior Tournament in Leeds over the weekend. We were also joined by Joanna Kromka who has been playing in the …
Here’s a chance to practise your reading of the Cyrillic alphabet. ’64’ was the chess newspaper published in the old Soviet Union. I can remember following this tournament in ‘Chess’ magazine-that’s still going! Anybody submitting a correct list of the participants gets a special prize: A two-page spread in ’64’ …
Drawing seems to be in Fashion: I thought I’d try to follow in the World Champion’s footsteps (oh! oh!) . . .
If you decide that, since you own a computer, you’d like to play Webserver Chess for Woodseats (see recent posts), possibly you might want to invest in some chess software to record games, look up openings etc. Obviously you wouldn’t use to analyse the position :). If you use a …
