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Once upon a time all chess activity at our club used to stop for the summer, and we all went on our holidays, or sat in the garden and forgot how to refute the terrible Blackmar-Diemer Gambit. By contrast, and despite the record breaking hot sunny weather this year, we have enjoyed a record-breaking level…

This was a fiercely fought contest running throughout the season, and with a record number of games played (118!). With so many members new to the club, the competition provided an outlet for those who had to take turns at selection for league matches.The time handicap system evidently worked well, as only Alan G gained…

With the club now competing in the new Notts Summer Rapidplay competition as well as running its own summer tournament, there is no let-up in activity over the summer months. Here’s a recap of the 2024/25 season: Final league positions: First team (captain: Stuart Humphreys)– Second in Division 2: Promoted to Division 1 for the…

After our second and third teams won promotion from their respective divisions the previous month, April saw the first team play their final two matches in their attempt to return to the top flight of Notts chess for the first time since 2003. Our second, third and fourth teams played their final matches of the…

Members of Radcliffe & Bingham Chess Club organised a unique event on Saturday 26 April 2025, when a visiting junior team from Lithuania competed with children from the South and East of Nottinghamshire over the chess board. The event took place at Carnarvon Primary School, Bingham, which generously provided accommodation for the European visitors as…

March was always going to be a pivotal month for our teams’ fortunes in the league and so it proved. Of the seven matches played in the month, we won five, drew one and lost one. This meant that two of our teams won promotion from their respective divisions whilst another retains an evens chance…

Barry Redburn, long-time member and officer of Radcliffe and Bingham Chess Club, has passed away.He died suddenly earlier this month. Barry was a stalwart of Club, League, County and Congress chess for many decades.  He first got involved in chess at Radcliffe in 1980 after he moved into the area, having engaged with the game,…

The club juniors of ‘Radcliffe Rockets’ have been competing in the Notts Minor League against (mostly) junior teams from other clubs in the County.  The season finished with an emphatic 7-3 win against ‘Ashfield Rapids’ with every player winning at least one of their two games each. The main aim of the Minor League is to give new and young players an opportunity…

Going into February, our first, second and third teams were top (or joint top) of Divisions 2, 3 and 5 respectively, whilst our fourth team were keen to continue their impressive form in Division 5. NB. In Divisions 2-5, the top two teams at the end of the season are promoted. Overall, it turned out…

The 34th Nottingham Rapidplay was held at the High School on Sunday, 2ndFebruary. Rapidplay is a form of chess where the time control is relatively short, in this case each player having 20 minutes plus an incremental 10 seconds per move to complete each game. The organisers, the Nottinghamshire Chess Association, were delighted at the…