Monday puzzle / game
Black to play Black is a pawn up. How does he force the win of more material to leave a won position? Solution
Daily Quiz
Online Rapidplay on Sunday 14th March – Latest Update: Team Prize
Bulletin No.51 – How Do Our Local Chess Players Think?
Bulletin No.50 – Mike Waddington on the BIG money Isle of Man Grand Swiss
Bulletin No.49 – Alan’s Column Revisited – Local Games and More.
Bulletin No.48 – Valentine’s Special – Share the Love, Share the Draw, Share the Point!
Bulletin No.47 – 7 Deadly Sinful Traps for White
Bulletin No.46 – The world champions & what you may not know! – Part 2 Petrosian to Carlsen
Bulletin No.46 – The world champions & what you may not know! – Part 1 Steinitz to Tal
Bulletin No.45 – The Stunning Stafford Gambit
Western Counties Championship – Dorset and Wiltshire Lose
Bulletin No.44 – Chess Players – Are we just a little bit different?
Bulletin No.41 – Christmas Puzzles and Quiz – ANSWERS
Festive Bulletin No.43 – A Review of our Extraordinary Year
Bulletin No.42 – More Local Games Fireworks!
Bulletin No.41 – Christmas Puzzles and Quiz Special
Thursday puzzle / game
White to play and win quickly The solution to the last puzzle before Christmas is both simple and at the same time a little hard to spot. You’ll kick yourself if you don’t find it! White has a number of ways of winning but one is much more convincing that the rest, forcing a quick […]
Countdown to Christmas
Bulletin No.40 – Christmas Opening Gifts and Gaffs
Bulletin No.39 – In Praise of Chess Variants!
Bulletin No.38 – 7 Deadly Sinful Traps for Black in less than 10 moves!
Bulletin No.37 – Ringwood Online Lockdown Tournaments
Bulletin No.36 – The 1993 World Chess Championship Revisited – Part 2
West of England Counties Online Championship Details
Ian Clark has provided an update on the West of England Counties Online Championship and reports that good progress has been made in both organising the event and assembling a squad. The key points are: Dorset and Wiltshire will be fielding a combined team to ensure a large enough squad which currently comprises 15 Dorset […]
Bulletin No.35 – Allan Pleasants – Dorset’s Own Welsh Chess Champion!
Halloween Quiz Special: Answers
Bulletin No.34 – Halloween Gambit Horrors!
Bulletin No.33 – Mike Waddington Talks Titles
Western Counties Championship Online – Call For Dorset Players
Coronavirus Update – Further Guidance From ECF
Coronavirus Update – Completing the 2019/20 season – Please have your say
Bulletin No.24 – The Dorset Chess Website (Mike Jay and Peter Anderson discuss its history and future)
A brief history of the Dorset Chess website
14th June: Coronavirus Update
Below is a message from Martin Simons regarding the coronavirus and local chess. I hope you are all keeping well. It has been almost a month since the last update on the Dorset Chess Website and this update comes in two parts. 1. League Season Update The UK Government has started to relax some of its […]
Bulletin No.22 – Chess at the Cafe Tratt in Swanage
With lots of thanks to Derek Mount and Steve Peirson who produced the article. Pictured above, left to right, are Dick Woodford, Brian Beard, Paul Stanley and Derek Mount enjoying a relaxing game of chess at Caffe Tratt. Taking inspiration from the Flirt Café in Bournemouth, in autumn 2017 Purbeck Chess Club member Derek Mount […]
Bulletin No.21 – History of the Dorset Individual Chess Championship
The history of the Dorset Chess Championship in words and photos, and a few introductory words on bulletins for the comings weeks and months.
Poole win first online team challenge.
“Dorset Local Chat” – Articles 1 to 10
Dorset Local Chat N0.10 – The Dorset Rapidplay – 25 years strong and last UK Chess Tournament standing in 2020 by Martin Simons and Mike Jay How it all started, then developed – The Tuckton Social Club years (1995 – 2012) – Martin Simons discusses these early years (pictured above Bruce Jenks playing in […]
Bulletins 1 to 20 – Martin Simons reflects on 30 articles, 61 puzzles & 2 Towns
(Pictured above Martin Simons, Chair B&DCL and DCCA Executive Committee member. He has been the inspiration behind all the website “Bulletins” & “Dorset Chess Chats” over the last 2 months, providing interest and information during lockdown. They have required a huge amount of research and we are all very grateful to Martin. Also, as several […]
Castlepoint Junior Chess Group Suspended
17/3/2020 Following yesterday’s government advisory notice, the Castlepoint Library Junior chess club will not be running this Saturday and will, sadly, be closed until further notice. We will review the situation after Easter. In the meantime, we encourage the junior players to take a look at the puzzles available on the junior puzzle page of […]