Delancey UK Chess Challenge announces timing for 2021 events, starting in June
5th June: ChessKid UK Championship!
Intercontinental ChessKid/FIDE Challenge Returns on 19th June! Advanced notice!
Chesskid.com has announced that, following the tremendous success of the first edition, the Intercontinental Chesskid FIDE Challenge will return! This second edition will be on Saturday 19th June 2021 and is once again open to any child aged 12 and below. Local junior player Max Teverson played in the first challenge back in January and […]
UK Chess Challenge Puzzles
UK Chess Challenge Puzzles
Dorset Junior Chess – recent March online Chess events
UK Chess Challenge Puzzles
UK Chess Challenge Puzzles
Dorset Junior Chess – 12th March online Chess event
UK Chess Challenge weekly chess puzzles – NEW FORMAT!
For the past few weeks we have been posting the UK Chess Challenge puzzle booklets. This week the team at UK Chess Challenge (Sarah and Alex) have introduced a new interactive format, as shown in the screenshot below Sarah says, “This week we are trying out a new format for the weekly chess puzzles. The […]
Dorset Junior Chess – 5th March Online Chess event
UK Chess Challenge Activity Booklet
International online tournament for junior chess players – TODAY Sunday 28th February
The next tournament in this International online chess championship is today, Sunday 28th February, at 7pm – 8pm UK time. Harry from the Dorset Libraries Junior chess played in the January tournament and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The tournament is open to players aged U8 to U20. Why not join Harry today in the next […]
UK Chess Challenge Activity Booklet
Dorset Junior Chess – 17th& 19th February: two online Chess events this week
As it has been half term, Dorset Junior Chess has run two coaching sessions this week. The first one on Wednesday 17th February, with 15 people attending, covered: Three fun and brain tingling chess puzzles. A “hand and brain” match with the juniors taking on the coaches, Andy and Martin. The juniors outplayed the more experienced (??) […]
UK Chess Challenge Activity Booklet
Half Term Special Newsletter + Newsletter 10.
Dorset Junior Chess – 12th February Online Chess event
UK Chess Challenge Activity Booklet – This Week: Mixed Tactics
Dorset Junior Christmas Quiz – Answers
Dorset Junior Chess Christmas Quiz Winners
Dorset Junior Chess – 5th February online chess event
UK Chess Challenge Activity Booket – This Week Forks and Mates
Dorset Junior Chess – 29th January online Chess event
Intercontinental Chesskid.com FIDE Challenge: well done to Max!
Dorset Junior Chess – 22nd January online Chess event
UK Chess Challenge Activity Booket – This Week Checkmate Puzzles
The latest Activity Booklet is available on our dedicated page for these superb training publications, together with the answers to last week’s puzzles. This week’s booklet focuses on checkmate! The puzzles range from mate in one move up to mate in four moves. There are also the usual fun puzzles: a Triple Loyd, a move […]
23rd of January: Intercontinental Chesskid.com FIDE Challenge
Following the success of our Dorset Junior chess sessions on a Friday evening which include tournaments on the Chesskid.com platform, we thought that many of the junior chess players aged 12 years or under would be interested in the following Chesskid.com Intercontinental tournament on 23 January 2021. Chesskid are partnering with FIDE to bring us […]
Delancey UK Chess Challenge 2021 – register now for Megafinal waiting list!
Latest UK Chess Challenge Puzzle Booklet
The latest Activity Booklet is available on our dedicated page for these superb training publications, together with the answers to last week’s puzzles. This week’s booklet contains a mix of puzzles, from attacked pieces escaping to mating combinations, together with the usual fun bonus puzzles. Don’t forget the prize draw puzzle which this week asks […]
Dorset Junior Chess – 15th January: online Chess event now with Rookies and Improvers groups
UK Chess Challenge Activity Booklet – Advanced Pawns!
This week’s Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge Activity Booklets focuses on advanced pawns and how to make the most of them. The booklet, together with those from previous weeks and answers can be found here. Don’t forget that each week there is a prize draw puzzle.
Dorset Junior Chess – 30th December online Chess event has record number of attendees
Dorset Junior Christmas Quiz
Dorset Junior Chess – Friday evening online Chess event with Santa and Christmas jumpers.
This Friday (18th November) saw another highly enjoyable online chess coaching and tournament for Dorset junior chess players. An amazing 15 juniors, 3 coaches (Andy Baskett, Martin Simons and Nikki Forster) plus several parents attended and the whole evening proved such great fun and very successful. The evening started at the usual 5pm slot with […]
Delancey Activity Booklet – Your Weekly Puzzle Challenge!
The latest Delancey Activity Booklet is now available here, together with past booklets and answers. These are superb booklets that have: five levels of puzzle, suitable for complete beginners up to strong county level players some special fun puzzles a chance to win a prize each week. Doing these puzzles each week will help develop […]