Gainsfield Chess is organising another 1-day tournament, in 6 age-groups. Click on the images below for more details.
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Category: News
General news about the BCC and the chess world
FIDE Blitz tournaments
The monthly FIDE blitz tournament will be moved to the 2nd last friday of the month, at the Queen Victoria Pub.
This month it will be held on 24th August, next month will be 21st September, etc.
10th BCC Rating Tournament
Won by Khun Thanadon, whose FIDE rating goes up by 25 points.
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Is that a Louis Vuitton leather chess board by Michael Phelps?
Larisa Latynina and Michael Phelps, olympic gymnast and swimmer, pose for Louis Vuitton – and chess board! Photo by Annie Leibovitz
Short Stories
The British Magazine New in Chess has published a 3-page article written by our Champion, the outspoken GM Nigel Short. Download the article here
12th BCC Open 2012 Tournament Journal
We have created a souvenir tournament journal which you can download free in PDF form here (it’s a 14Mb file, so I hope you have broadband!). There are 86 full-colour pages featuring participants from the Open and Challenger groups, interviews with the top players and more.
Beautiful magazine-style professionally printed versions can be produced to order.