We’ve Moved!
We are no longer at the Red Lion on Chesterfield road. Our new home, is The Abbey, futher along Chesterfield road, at the junction with Abbey Lane. The Abbey 944 Chesterfield Rd, Sheffield, S8 0SH
Recent Match Results
Hillsborough D 1½ – 2½ Woodseats C
On the evening of January the 7th, we ventured out, to play Hillsborough D, at the New Barrack Tavern. I was the first to arrive,...
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Worksop B 4½ – 1½ Woodseats B
Worksop B 4½ – 1½ Woodseats B Mon 10th Dec 2018
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Woodseats B 3½ – 2½ Barnsley B
Woodseats B 3½ – 2½ Barnsley B Mon 3rd Dec 2018
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An alternative to Chess?
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 …
Chess in Schools and Communities
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 …
Chess (and now Backgammon) at Woodseats Library!
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 …
Harrogate Chess Congress
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
New! World Championship Chess with Woodseats Chess Club@ Woodseats Library!
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 …
Woodseats Chess Club @Woodseats Library
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 …
On this day . . . !
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’ …
New! Drawing time at the Red Lion-anything a World Champion can do . . .
Drawing seems to be in Fashion: I thought I’d try to follow in the World Champion’s footsteps (oh! oh!) . . .