Horsham Chess Club

More coverage of Phil Stimpson's successes...

(Photo credit: Brendan O'Gorman) Current club champion Phil had a great return to over-the-board tournaments by finishing equal third in the over-65 section of the British Senior Championships...

After a couple of second place finishes in earlier online MSL competitions, Horsham emerged victorious in the Summer Swiss...

It was great to see everyone back playing competitive chess last night . While most were playing in the Quickplay there was even the first Rook game taking place.

Above all it was great to see competitive chess returning for the first time in too long!

Discussions are ongoing to see if the junior club can return in some form in October. I will email parents when more detail is known.

You will all have seen Anthony's email about the AGM on Tuesday 7 September, back in our normal hall at the church hall.

It will be good to be back properly - see you there...

Its official - we are returning to club chess on Mondays for August. So we will be meeting Monday 2, 9, 16 and 23... no chess on the Bank Holiday on the 30th.

Really looking forward to meeting up again in the club ... but remember that the car park behind the club is not available due to the temporary Covid test centre :)

Sadly the PM announcement tonight means that the club cant return just yet. We will keep our fingers crossed and see when we can get back to the club.

There remains lots of online chess - enjoy that for now :)

On 5th May the Mid-Sussex online league was decided with Horsham teams vying for the top spot in both divisions...

Great news that we are returning to chess club on Monday June 21 at 7.30pm at London Road Methodist Church Hall - and we welcome new members so just come along and join in!

We have all very much enjoyed the online chess we have been playing for the last year but we can finally return to over the board chess.

Even more importantly it will be great to see all our friends again after so long. It will be an exciting moment.

Of course this will all be linked to the scheduled national changes on June 21 - fingers crossed!