UK chess challenge

At our next meeting on the 21st March we will aim for each player to play two championship games as part of the UK chess challenge. We are looking forward to sending representatives from Rugby Junior Chess Club to the Megafinals in May. For more information google UK chess challenge.

Congratulations to Jamie Kearney

Well done to Jamie for winning two of his matches are the Warwickshire Open Chess Congress on the 12th and 13th February. Everyone at Rugby Chess Club is proud of you Jamie!

Next Meeting Monday 21st February

Although it is the school holidays in Rugby we will still be meeting at the Workers Club on 21st February.

We will start at 7pm with some coaching from Bob Wildig.

At 7:30pm we will continue with the UK chess challenge and ladder matches.

Hope to see you there,

Sue and Bob

Chess to music

The start of this does not appear to be about chess ... but then it gets down to business :-)

UK Chess Challenge

It was fantastic to see so many juniors playing chess at Rugby Workers Club last night. We went around and asked them if they wanted to take part in the UK Chess Challenge which we are aiming to start in our next club meeting which will be on Monday 7th February.

The UK Chess Challenge is a junior competition held every year right across the country in schools and junior chess clubs. Players who do well can play in the next stage of the competition which for us is in the Birmingham/Solihull area one Saturday in May. It is usually called the 'Megafinal' and there is a separate one for each county in the UK.

It is not compulsory so if you don't want to take part in the UK Chess Challenge that's fine. The ladder competition will take a secondary role but it will continue. Of course you can always play for fun or challenge one of the adult players.

Hope to see you next time.

Bob and Sue

Happy New Year

We will be meeting at Rugby Workers club on Monday 3rd January 2011 although quite often the club is closed on a Bank Holiday Monday.

In the coming weeks we will be looking to run the UK Chess Challenge which we have entered for the club and we will also be planning some formal coaching as part of the session.

Merry Christmas

Hope that you all have a good Christmas and here is a little something that I made specially for the chess blogs. Its easy to do if you have a bit of time on your hands. I used the words from 'I wish it could be Christmas every day' - it does this automatically. You can find the lyrics here (and the program seems to have added the word chess by itself). How clever!

You will notice that I have chosen purple to please a certain purple-prone person. :-)