Welcome to Newbury Chess Club

The chess club opened for the 2024-5 season on Thursday 12th September 2024. Attendance has been very variable - from 3 to 9 players turning up. So we are now meeting only once or twice a month on a Thursday at 7.30pm. The provisional dates for the rest of the 2024-5 season can be found on the diary page. To be informed of changes to opening dates and other local chess news please register your email with us to be on our blind copied mailing list.

For two seasons running (2022-3 and 2023-4) our A-team who were champions of Division 2 of the the Berkshire Chess League. Promotion to division 1 proved too much of a challenge. So having come bottom of this division, the team were relegated to division 2. However, our team captain could no longer guarantee to field a full team of 5 players for matches, so for the 2024-5 season we have withdrawn our team from the Berkshire Chess League.

We welcome players of all abilities. When we are not playing rated games, we play Social Chess in a friendly atmosphere, without obeying the rules to the letter (e.g. in a match, of you touch a piece you must move it; in social chess, just take it back as soon as you realise your mistake!)

Other pages on this website give details of our former teams and include archive reports and tables, including that of our Club Championship which ran for six years from 2011-2017.

If you are interested in joining us, please contact the secretary whose details you will find on the club information page.

This page last updated 14th February 2025