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Where to find us
Club nights – Thursday evenings at: Newcastle Labour Club (opposite Haymarket Metro), Northumberland Street, Newcastle NE1 7PF
Juniors – Sundays 14:30-16:30, Jesmond Library, St George’s Terrace, Jesmond NE2 DL
Chess at the Library – Saturdays 11:00-13:00, Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge Street, Newcastle NE1 8AX (either on Level 6 or
on Level 2)
Four teams reach KO Cup finals
/in NewsThe Northumberland Summer Cup and Plate’s 22 teams have been whittled down to just four for the Finals, which take place on Monday September 16 at Gosforth Chess Club. Morpeth take on Forest Hall Badgers in the Cup Final, while Gosforth Regents play Gosforth Centurions in the Plate Final.
Gosforth’s Moreby wins at Northumbria Masters
/in NewsThe Northumbria Masters Congress in Darlington concluded this Bank Holiday Monday with a striking success for Gosforth’s James Moreby, who won the International Master tournament. His IM result, called a norm, means he needs just one more such success to qualify for the title.
Leading masters battle it out in Darlington
/in NewsThe Northumbria Masters Congress is in full swing this Bank Holiday weekend, with a total of nine Grandmasters and 11 International Masters playing nine games each at the Dolphin Centre, Darlington. The congress, with 150 players in total, is the North of England’s top annual international event.
Local entries welcome for Northumbria Masters
/in NewsNorth East players are welcome to enter the 7th Northumbria Masters Congress at Darlington’s Dolphin Centre, which takes place over the Bank Holiday weekend, from Thursday 22 to Monday 26 August. Entries are being accepted online until August 21 to give players the chance to play in the North of England’s premier international chess festival.
Grandmasters flock to Northumbria Masters
/in NewsSeven Grandmasters and 10 International Masters are expected to play in the North East’s premier chess congress, the Northumbria Masters, which runs over the Bank Holiday weekend (22-26 August) at the Dolphin Leisure Centre in Darlington.
Gosforth events brighten up summer
/in NewsWhen you think of Tyneside football history, Wallsend Boys Club inevitably comes up. It was established more than a century ago, in 1904, initially to teach boxing to lads from Swan Hunters shipyards. The club switched its focus to football and became the stuff of legend. Among the 65 professional footballers who got their start at Wallsend are world-class players Alan Shearer and Peter Beardsley, to name just two. Today, the club has state-of-the-art sports facilities, and caters for girls and boys equally.
Searching for the North East’s next champions
/in NewsGreat sporting talents, such as those at Euro 2024, do not appear overnight – they are many years in the making. Yet football clubs such as Newcastle tend to buy in the best talent from around the world, rather than undertake the hard work of developing homegrown talent, which takes far longer. If this is true with football, it’s doubly true with chess, where top players’ careers are measured in decades.
Forest Hall giantkillers qualify for Cup semi-finals
/in NewsThe Northumbria Summer Handicap groups have produced a bevy of dramatic last-round matches, with both Forest Hall teams qualifying for the Cup semi-finals, while two Gosforth teams have made it through into the Plate semi-finals.
Northumberland outgunned in Counties Final
/in NewsNorthumberland’s long journey to the Counties Championship Final ended as they were outgunned 10-6 by Surrey at Newark-upon-Trent last Saturday, despite valiant efforts against a higher rated team.
Summer Cup groups promise last-round thriller
/in NewsAs any England football fan can tell you, the final matches of group stages in knockout competitions are when things get really tense. In the Northumberland Chess Association Summer Cup and Plate, the group stages are now nearly concluded.