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 […]
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Week 7 Highlights
University 1 deliver blow to Gambit 1’s title chances with wins on top three boards. Nomads 1 still seeking first point in Division 1 for 20 years after defeat to Gambit 2. The players on Board 1 in this match were clubmates through the 1990s for Oxclose and Fiveways. Drag’s win over Julian set up a win secured by Nikolai. […]
Continue reading4NCL Online Week 2 Report
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 […]
Continue reading4NCL Online – Week One Highlights
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 […]
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The 34th Nottingham Rapidplay will take place on the 2nd February 2025 at Nottingham High School. This will be a six round FIDE rated event. The first round will start at 10.00am. Enter online here. Details can also be downloaded from the entry form.
Continue readingWeek 6 Highlights
Mansfield motor on in Division 1. University 1 and 2 open with draws. Radcliffe & Bingham, winner of the ECF Small Club Of The Year Award 2024 show they are a club on the rise. R&B 1 continue to set a hot pace in Division 2, defeating Ashfield 1 in the first match between these two teams for decades. Previously […]
Continue readingJonah Willow has a first Grandmaster norm!
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 […]
Continue readingWeek 5 Highlights
Gambit 1 are held to a draw by West Bridgford 1. WB’s Shabhir Okhai has notched an opening top board hat-trick over Julian Cast, Jonathan Tait and now Mike Barnes. A good week for Newark. Newark 1 bounce back to winning form over Nomads 1 with a 4-1 win. Newark 3 better this score. A winning week too for Radcliffe […]
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Mansfield follow up their 5-0 win at Grantham with a 4-1 win over West Bridgford. Gambit 1 trounce Newark 4.5-0.5. In Div 1 the League table already looks telling. After two games, two teams are on 100% – Mansfield with a 9-1 points difference and Gambit 1 on 8-2. The only other unbeaten team is University 1, yet to play […]
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Mansfield, Post-Covid 3x League champions, launch their campaign with a statement 5-0 win at Grantham, despite being outrated on the top two boards. Nomads 1, who last appeared in Division 1 in 2005, narrowly lose at West Bridgford 1. In Division 2 Beeston 1 and R&B 1 fight out a 2-2 draw, of 4 decisive games. In D3 wins for […]
Continue readingNPSCA Chess Lessons Start on 12th October
Th Nottinghamshire Primary Schools Chess Association provides lessons at Nottingham High School. The first session takes place on Saturday 12th October. For for more information please see https://nottsprimarychess.uk/, or email.
Continue readingWeek 2 Highlights – More teams in action, promoted clubs struggle
Grantham 1 returned to the top flight after a 4 year absence and lost narrowly to Gambit 2. It doesn’t get easier for Grantham. Next up, they host the Champions, Mansfield. West Bridgford 2 and Nomads 2, the promoted clubs in Division 2, both lost. WB2 lost narrowly to Radcliffe & Bingham 1. The teams were matched on rating, Alan […]
Continue readingWeek One Update & Week Two Preview
Intra-Club Matches Gambit 2 could not pull off their usual upset win against Gambit 1, losing 1.5- 3.5. As the ‘home’ team they had the disadvantage of 3 Blacks. The reverse fixture in January might be closer. Gambit 5 did share the points with Gambit 4. Three more intra-club matches follow next week. Radcliffe and Bingham 4 host R&B 3. […]
Continue readingNew League Season 2024-25
Fixtures for the new season are now on LMS. The season will kick off on Tuesday 10th September with Gambit 2 v Gambit 1 and Gambit 5 v Gambit 4. Can Gambit 2 pull off another upset? There are new League rules, including that the standard time limit for all clubs is now 65 minutes + 10 second increments. You […]
Continue readingAGM – July 8th 2024 Minutes
The AGM of the Nottinghamshire Chess Association was held on the 8th July 2024. NCA-AGM-Minutes-July-2024.pdf NCA-AGM-2024-Appendix-1-Reports.pdf NCA-AGM-Appendix-2-Treasurers-Report.pdf
Continue readingAGM Monday 8th July 2024
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 […]
Continue readingExecutive Committee 25/04/2024 Minutes
A meeting of the executive committee was held on 25th April 2024. The minutes of the meeting can be viewed by clicking on the minutes link.
Continue readingNottinghamshire County Championships 2024
Nottinghamshire County Championship 2023/2024 Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th June 2024 The Royal British Legion Hall Radcliffe-on-Trent Nottingham NG12 2BB Organised by Gambit Chess Club Eligibility: 1 Born in Nottinghamshire 2 Living in Nottinghamshire 3 Working in Nottinghamshire 4 Attending an educational establishment in Nottinghamshire 5 Member of a chess club based in Nottinghamshire or affiliated to Nottinghamshire Chess Association […]
Continue readingRules Revision Meeting 2024 Minutes
The annual rules and revision meeting will took place at 7:30pm on the 20th May at The Wolds pub, W Bridgford. Minutes of meeting
Continue readingRules Revision Meeting 20th May 2024
The annual rules and revision meeting will take place at 7:30pm on the 20th May at The Wolds pub, W Bridgford. Attached are the proposals for the meeting. Votes during this meeting are on the basis of one vote per club plus one vote for each team participating in the NCA league this season. RRM Proposals 2024.pdf
Continue reading47th Nottingham Congress
Following the successful conclusion of our Rapidplay last Sunday, we are now taking entries for our weekend congress. Full details can be found on our Competitions/Tournaments page.
Continue reading33rd Nottingham Rapidplay
Capacity has now been reached. We are pleased to announce our that our annual Rapidplay will take place on Sunday, February 4th 2024 at our usual venue, Nottingham High School, starting at 10:00 am. This will be a 6 round Swiss system event, with five ECF rated sections. The basic entry fees are £20 for Adults and £15 for Juniors, whilst […]
Continue readingCentenary Grandmaster Tournament: Report
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 […]
Continue reading33rd Nottingham Rapidplay
We are pleased to announce our that our annual Rapidplay will take place on Sunday, February 4th 2024 at our usual venue, Nottingham High School, starting at 10:00 am. This will be a 6 round Swiss system event, with five ECF rated sections. The basic entry fees are £20 for Adults and £15 for Juniors, whilst the prizes in each section […]
Continue readingNCA Centenary Grandmaster Tournament
Top-level chess comes to Nottingham in early November when invited Grandmasters take on some of England’s best young players, including the cream of Nottingham’s chess talent. It takes place from Monday 30 October – Friday 3 November. This special tournament is being organised to celebrate NCA’s centenary since its foundation and is the strongest tournament to be held in the County since […]
Continue readingDerbyshire Congress
The inaugural Derbyshire weekend congress takes place 23-24th September, with sections for all standards of player. Notts player are encouraged to support this new event on our doorstep. Click on [Continue Reading] for a link to the Congress web site.
Continue readingNottingham Chessfest 2023
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 […]
Continue readingRules Revision Meeting on 22nd May 2023 – Agenda and Proposals
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.
Continue readingCounty Correspondence Team
The Counties and Districts Correspondence Chess Competition started on 14/4/23. Our team is in the Ward-Higgs, Division 1 section. Nottinghamshire team. 1 SIM Jonathan Tait 2419 2 CCM Gordon Anderson 2378 3 CCM Richard Webster 2361 4 CCM John Shaw 2322 5 CCE Phil Morgan 2232 6 Kevin Williamson 2120 7 Glenn Halfpenny 1800p 8 Andrew Robins 1800p We have […]
Continue readingGeorge Murfet and Len Morrell
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 […]
Continue readingRIP Alan Morrey
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 […]
Continue readingRIP George Murfet and Len Morrell
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 […]
Continue reading46th Nottingham Congress
We are pleased to announce that the Congress will take place on the weekend of April 15th & 16th at our usual venue, Nottingham High School. It will be a five round, ECF-rated, standard play Swiss, with five sections. Full details of the event, the entry form and access to online entry are available on our Competitions page.
Continue reading32nd Nottingham Rapidplay
The event went ahead successfully on Sunday, 29th January. A full report and results are available by clicking Continue Reading on the News page.
Continue readingCounty Correspondence Team
Playing in the Second Division of the Counties Championship, our team had a successful 2022/23 season, finishing in second place and so gaining promotion to Division 1. A link to the results can be found here by clicking Continue Reading on the News page.
Continue reading32nd Nottingham Rapidplay
We are pleased to announce our next tournament, the Rapidplay, to be held on Sunday 29th January 2023 at Nottingham High School, our usual venue. The main details, such as the rating limits for the five sections, can be seen on our competitions page, where a downloadable entry form with all the details can be seen. There is also a […]
Continue readingRevised League Fixture List
A new version of the fixture list for 2022-23 has been posted via email to all club secretaries and team captains. The new version includes additional teams in division 4 and division 5. It also includes fixtures for the new rapid play ‘Minor League’ which is intended to give juniors and those new to league chess an opportunity to play competitive […]
Continue readingNottinghamshire County Championships
Nottinghamshire players, past and present, are invited to enter the County Championships on Sunday 13 November at Bramcote Memorial Hall. The NCA Annual General Meeting agreed with the Tournaments Committee’s proposal to run a six-round Rapidplay in the hope that this new format may attract larger numbers of players and also help to celebrate the NCA’s centenary year in style. […]
Continue readingWebsite for Notts Chess Foundation
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 […]
Continue readingLeague Fixtures 2022-23
A draft fixture list has now been circulated to all club secretaries, for comment and corrections. Clubs should check this list and provide any feedback to the League Secretary by Sunday 4th September. First match week is currently expected to be 19 – 23 September.
Continue readingJunior Newsletter
The latest edition of the Newsletter has been issued and is available at Junior Newsletter August 2022 Simon Scott
Continue readingBest Games and Swindles
With the return of “over the board” chess also comes the chance to show off your best efforts. Any games played in NCA tournaments (Rapidplay or Congress) league or county teams in the past 12 months are eligible. There are prizes for best games (open and under 1800 sections) and also for your best swindles. Please send entries to me […]
Continue readingFuture Events
The latest edition of the Junior Newsletter is now available on the Juniors page. It includes details of several upcoming events suitable for Juniors. We are also looking for views on the format for our County Championship later this year. Please take a look on the competitions page
Continue reading2022 EJCOA NATIONAL YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS
The East Midlands Regional Final will be held at Nottingham High School on Saturday, May 21st. There are numerous age-group sections from under 20 down to under 8. Each will be five rounds of Rapidplay (25 mins + 10 sec/move) starting at 10:00 and finishing 17:45. Entry Fee £15. The top boy and the top girl in each age category […]
Continue readingCongratulations to Jonah Willow!
Jonah competed in Dublin, achieving his final IM Norm and qualifying for the International Master title. On his return to Nottinghamshire, he followed this up by winning the Open Section of the Nottingham Congress. Further details of the Congress can be seen on the Competitions page
Continue reading45th Nottingham Congress
We are pleased to publish details of our Congress, to take place at Nottingham High School on 23rd & 24th April, and start taking entries. Full details are available here Competitions – Nottinghamshire Chess Association
Continue readingNail-biter in NG9
On 26th February, our Notts u1450 juniors hosted Leicestershire u1450 for a winner takes all clash at Bramcote. A good natured and well fought match, prefaced with Leicestershire’s captain and a couple of their players kindly helping us with setting up some of the tables and boards. As the match started, it quickly looked like a lot of the games […]
Continue reading31st Nottingham Rapidplay – Sold Out!
We are pleased to announce that we have received the maximum 150 entries and so entries are now closed. Entrants should monitor the Competitions/Tournaments page of the website for any late developments.
Continue reading31st Nottingham Rapidplay
In view of the improving Covid situation, and the entries we have received so far, we are reasonably confident at present that the Rapidplay will go ahead as planned. Of course, Covid has a history of throwing out curve balls, so please keep an eye on the website in the run up to the event.
Continue reading31st Nottingham Rapidplay
In view of the continuing uncertainty about Covid developments, we cannot yet be absolutely certain that the event will be able to go ahead. However we have decided to start taking entries, which will be limited to a maximum of 150 in total. A full update on the current situation can be seen on the Tournaments tab of our Competitions […]
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