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Kingston Council put up three lovely tables in a park in the centre of town a couple of years ago, and they were vandalised and unusable within a month. A complete waste of 7K. There is no proper oversight or supervision in the park, so putting them up and expecting them to stay that way was decided...

It would be very good to see you Christopher. I imagine the prize-giving will be around 8pm. But why not come earlier to see some of the play? Or indeed come for both. The prize-giving is sure to be chaotic as we try to calculate who has won what while simultaneously taking out the liveboards and re...

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Kingston Chess Club is happy to announce that we will be holding a fifth edition of the Kingston Invitational this year, running from Monday 17 to Friday 21 August at the Richard Mayo Centre, United Reformed Church, Eden Street, Kingston KT1 1HZ – home of the Kingston club. Paul McKeown will, as las...

I met Timman at Wijk in 2014, one of his last appearances there. I interviewed him for my "Rookie" book. He was charming despite being very tired; quite lugubrious. He did well at that Wijk, playing by then I think in the second group, but he told me he had failed to claim a threefold repetition bec...

Thank you for all kind words Jonathan. Numbering of the moves in the opening game now corrected - I hope.

I have produced a report for the Kingston club website on the opening 4NCL weekend. The report covers all three CSC/Kingston teams, but since we are currently joint top of division 1 I thought it appropriate to post it on this thread. Those are also the games I looked at in most detail. I am hoping ...

Brilliant stuff John. Thank you so much for your superb reports and photographs.

The fields have now been finalised for the Kingston Invitational, https://kingstonchess.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=18187&action=edit which starts on Tuesday. The event, at the United Reformed Church in central Kingston, will comprise a 10-player all-play-all with norms https://s2.chess-results.com/t...

The winner of the Swiss at the Kingston Invitational will receive, with Leonard's blessing, the Barden Cup. (We gave this to the leading junior last year to reflect Leonard's work with English juniors, but this year and henceforth it will go to the overall winner of the event.) The tournament finish...

Thank you Jack, that would be terrific. Please email me so we are in contact: [email protected]

The field for the norm tournament is now complete: GM Jakub Kosakowski [Fide 2530] IM Vladyslav Larkin (2443) IM Peter Large (2335) Supratit Banerjee (2312) FM Roland Bezuidenhout (2295) David Maycock (2274) IM Graeme Buckley (2259) Adam A Taylor (2258) WIM/FM Liwia Jarocka (2251) Peter Lalić (2144)...

We are pleased to announce that we intend to run a fourth edition of the Kingston Invitational in August. The summer calendar seems even more crowded than usual this year and we did wonder about having a Glastonbury-style fallow year, but because it is the official 150th anniversary of the club (the...

Thanks Chris, that's very kind. Your point about juniors having all the time in the world and being happy to sit at the board for an extra hour to get mated while seasoned adult players reckon they have better things to do is an astute and brilliant one. There must be a PhD to be written there. I ga...

Black has sealed a move and pairings have been published.