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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 weeks booklet focuses on really practical examples like you will find time after time on your games.   I really like these types of puzzle as they help you so much when […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Larissa Cuthbert was recently invited to play in the Brentwood School Invitational Chess Tournament. Brentwood School has a very well established chess programme, an annual chess scholarship and some exceptional international players. The tournament consisted of all age groups and both genders mixed together in one section. Two sessions were held on Saturday to establish […]

Many thanks to Adrian Cuthbert (aka Larissa Cuthbert’s dad) for bringing this opportunity for girls to our attention through his contact with Lorin D’Costa. International Master Lorin D’Costa is providing free weekly training to girls via Zoom followed by a girls’ tournament. More information on Lorin can be found at http://www.lorinchess.com    There are also a […]

For all interested junior chess players, please see the following notice from Sarah Longson, Director Delancey UK Chess Challenge (for which a number of Dorset juniors have already qualified) regarding the 2020 UK Chess challenge…….. The UK Chess Challenge will be taking part entirely online in 2020 – on lichess.org. We felt this was the […]

We have updated our puzzle pages with 25 new problems across the different levels.

Larissa played in the Wilts & West of England Junior Chess Championships in Swindon, becoming the joint u11 Wiltshire Champion.