*** Florian wins the British Championship U200 Rapidplay – 2 August 2026 ***

*** Mike B wins the Nottingham Summer Festival Blitz – 29 June 2026 ***
*** Mike B wins the Gambit Club Championship – 2 June 2026 ***
*** Mike N-E wins the Gambit Rapidplay Open – 12 May 2026 ***

Welcome to our club’s website.

Feel free to pop in on any Tuesday evening. You can find us in the upstairs function room at the excellent Lincolnshire Poacher real ale pub, 161 Mansfield Road, NG1 3FR, just 10 minutes walk from Victoria Centre, and only a couple of stops by all NCT buses going up Mansfield Road (Stop FO12 ‘Huntingdon St’ coming from town, FO09 ‘Huntingdon St’ going towards town).

Parking is available near the pub on Mansfield Road (a parking charge applies until 10pm), and also on North Sherwood Street (restricted times) and on other side streets.

We are located perfectly for students at Nottingham Trent Uni.

We enter as many teams as we can in the Nottinghamshire Chess League (see the League Management System website at https://lms.englishchess.org.uk/lms/organisation/680) providing ample opportunity for anyone interested in league chess.
This season we will have 6 or 7 teams.

We also run internal club competitions, both casual (for example, our club championship which Mike Barnes won this season) and ECF rated (for example, our Rapidplay Swiss which Mike Naylor-Eade won this season).

Our Club Information page includes a brief history of our club and the News page is updated regularly with reports of the league season, club events and members’ performances in weekend tournaments.

For more information please contact our club president John Huthwaite (07852 309521) or our web master Marian Talmacel (07795 629776 – talmacelmarian@gmail.com)