At the NCA AGM in July a straw poll was taken from attendees about their use of social media. The only medium with significant usage was shown to be Whatsapp. Arising from this it was agreed that a Whatsapp Group for Notts Chess would help to improve communications and fast dissemination of news and information. This has now been set […]

Round 5 of the 4NCL online took place on 5th November. The games can be viewed here – 4NCL Replays. Ashfield Anonymous “A” With two rounds to spare, the “A” team have already ensured a place in the play-offs. Their fifth win in a row to maintain a 100% record was not without incident. Board One was lost in tactical […]

Radcliffe and Bingham Chess Club is delighted to announce that we are the proud winners of the English Chess Federation’s ‘Small Club of the Year’ Award for 2024. This national award recognises the enthusiastic and enjoyable environment we have created and also the contribution our members make to chess throughout the county. We have also had great success in starting […]

Round three of the 4NCL Online took place on the 8th October Ashfield Anonymous “A” 3 v Dundee “C” 1 A win is a win. Richard’s opponent blundered into a mate in two after our early advantage had dissipated. Although material up David faced a pawn steam roller whilst Justin’s opponent exceeded the time limit with still plenty of play […]

4NCL Online week two took place on the 24th September. Ashfield Anonymous “A” v Shropshire & Friends For a second successive week we were gifted a default win, David C was the recipient this time. With a penalty –½ it should have been plain sailing. However two of the games finished with blunders; Steve lost a piece and Alex C […]

Ashfield Anonymous field three teams in the 4NCL Online. The 10th season is being played over seven rounds leading up to semi finals and finals just before Christmas. Ashfield Anonymous “A” started with a win over Oxford 3 who defaulted a board which resulted in a penalty ½ point deduction. Although Steve lost we had a relatively easy win from […]

Jonah Willow has secured his first Grandmaster norm at a tournament in Norway. The event was held in the town of Fagernes, which is situated 114 miles north-west of Oslo. Jonah was first equal (second on tie-break) with GM Rinat Jumbayev of Kazakhstan with whom he drew his game in round 7. Jonah was unbeaten on 7/9, with a tournament […]

The Nottinghamshire Chess Association AGM will be held on Monday 8th July at The Wolds, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford starting at 7:30 pm Clubs are entitled to attend, with one voting member per club plus one for each team in the NCA league for 23-24 season (including minor league teams). Officer Reports: please send to Nick London by 1st July […]

The grand finale event to celebrate our centenary was a Grandmaster round-robin tournament in early November.  A range of invited English and overseas young stars competed against each other and against the established GMs in the hope of gaining title norms as well as valuable experience in a hard-fought event.  The venue was the Nottingham Mechanics Institute which proved to […]

NCA has celebrated its first 100 years with the first ‘Chessfest’, an open-air event held in Nottingham’s Trinity Square – and all involved agree it was a tremendous success.  An estimated 500 people visited the event during the 6 hours that we took over the Square, including lots of enthusiastic children, parents and many passers-by who stopped for a game […]

Further to the previous post, the Agenda and Proposals for the meeting have been sent to clubs They are also available here (you will need to press the “Continue Reading” button first). The EC Minutes, where the Centenary events were discussed, including the Centenary Working Group report are also available here.

Radcliffe and Bingham Chess Club has recently suffered the loss of two long-standing members of the Nottinghamshire chess community, both well known to generations of chess players in the area as teammates and foes over the board. George Murfet had early roots in the area and was an ‘old boy’ of Nottingham High School – from where I gather he […]

Sadly we have lost another former pillar of the Notts Chess community. Alan was a valued member of the Sutton/Ashfield and Rainworth clubs for many years and held NCA posts, for example publishing the monthly Notts Bulletin in pre-website days. We hear that he passed away on 14/02/2023, aged 87 years old, and the funeral will take place, 3.00 pm […]

We are sad to announce the loss of two longstanding members of the Notts Chess community. We understand that George’s funeral will be held at 14:30 at Wilford Hill Cemetery on Monday March 6th. If you wish to attend, we suggest you check with the Cemetery, as we don’t have direct contact with his family. We will pass on details […]

The new charity for chess in Nottinghamshire has been established for year.  It has contributed to the success of several initiatives in the county and the trustees are looking forward to extending chess development in the next 12 months. The website for the charity has now been launched.  You can visit it and take a look at some of our […]