Wessex Some Stars, 4NCL Round 5 Results and Game
Western Counties Championship Online – Call For Dorset Players
Poole Win Again In Team Battle
Menu Changes
In case you were wondering where things have gone… The Archives page is now on the top (blue) menu The Bacchus League page is now under Dorset League on the main (black) menu.
Wessex Some Stars, 4NCL Round 4 Results and Game
New ECF Rating System Live
The new ECF rating system is live and can be found here. It features 4 digit ELO style ratings and will be updated monthly (though presumably due to the coronavirus there will be little or nothing to update for a while). Clubs are encouraged to enter any rated internal competition results through LMS which automatically […]
Update to Bulletin No.30 – The Chess Problem Column in the Echo
After Bulletin 30 on the Chess Problem Column in the Bournemouth Echo was published, Roy Egginton kindly sent us more scans of Ivor Sander’s problem articles from the Bournemouth Echo, all of which give a good insight into the types of problems involved and how the competitions ran. The extra scans have been added to […]
Poole Win 7th Team Battle
Wessex Some Stars, 4NCL Round 3 Results and Game
Online Schedule Change
Please note that the Ringwood Online tournaments that are run by Martin Clancy and are open to all local players have had a schedule change: the Friday afternoon arenas are being discontinued because of insufficient interest. Monday and Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons are continuing as usual. As you can see on the home page, […]
Southbourne Win 6th Team Battle
More Clubs Starting to Meet – Updated
Bournemouth and Wimborne join Purbeck in resuming over the board chess.
Wessex Some Stars, 4NCL round 2 results and game.
2020 Dorset Blitz Cancelled
It is with much regret that I have decided to cancel this year’s Dorset Blitz Championship. The three main reasons are: 1. Although I understand that a couple of chess tournaments are planned for late September, I’m not entirely convinced that such a gathering is legal yet. 2. As far as I’m concerned, the Blitz […]
Historical League Tables Added to Archives Section
The B&DCL and Dorset League tables for 2004/05 through to 2016/17 have been added to the Archives section. For most years cross-tables have been added too. Records for 2017/18 onwards are held on LMS
Dorset Juniors UK Chess Challenge success: bring on the Terafinal!
The weekend of the 5th and 6th of September sees the final and toughest round of the prestigious UK Chess Challenge tournament, the Terafinal. Dorset Chess are very proud to have two of its juniors, Leo Camopy (U8 boys) and Larissa Cuthbert (U12 girls), taking part in this weekend’s final. Congratulations to both and good […]
Southbourne win 5th Team Battle
Wessex Start 2nd 4NCL online season
Online Team Events Schedule
Martin Clancy has set the dates for the forthcoming Ringwood Invitational online team battles, all at 7:30 pm: Monday 31st August Monday 14th September Monday 28th September Monday 12th October Monday 26th October Reports on past events and the winners are here: Poole Poole Southbourne Ringwood
Success as Dorset juniors reach the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal
2020 Dorset Open cancelled
Ian Clark advises that the Dorset Open which was provisionally scheduled for 16th – 18th October has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
Southbourne win 3rd Online Team Battle
Mind Sports Olympiad: Online, Free to Enter, Cash Prizes
The 2020 Mind Sports Olympiad runs from August 1st to 30th and includes chess and other games such as draughts, backgammon and poker. This year it is online and there are 15 different chess events to be held over the month starting with blitz on the evening of Saturday August 1. All the chess events […]
July 2020 Grades Out
The latest ECF grades are out. This will be the last set of grades in the old 3 digit ECF format. Later in the year, probably in October, we will be moving to 4 digit Elo style grades and monthly updates.
Monday 20th July is International Chess Day
The 20th of July every year is International Chess Day. FIDE in their press release are encouraging chess players to participate by teaching chess the weekend before and promoting chess via social media on the day. If you are feeling brave on Monday you can watch a big meeting of UN and FIDE officials, government […]
Delancey UK Chess Challenge – congratulations to our local junior players
Poole win again in online team event
Some Wessex Stars A lose in play-offs
Some Wessex Stars A lose on tie-break against St Benildus A
4NCL final round: Wessex A tops group, Wessex B survives.
Final round results all OK for Wessex teams.
Welcome to Peter and Martin – as Mike retires
I would like to extend a very warm welcome to Peter Anderson as Webmaster and Martin Clancy, League Controller, both appointed from tomorrow, 1 June ’20. With my retirement from chess admin today, I would just like to say it has been an honour and privilege to serve both Leagues for the last 6 years […]
Martin Simons – now step up the player, who was a club champion at 17
Mike Jay wrties a few words about Martin Simons
Remembering Tim Crouch, who “greatly supported Dorset events” – “a true legend, always courteous and gentlemanly”
The recent passing of Tim Crouch has been reported – another tragic victim of Coronavirus. As Martin Simons has commented, “he greatly supported events in Dorset and originally came from this county”. Tim was also very well known on the chess congresses circuit across the country and was “hugely liked and respected”. His loss to the […]
