It was another busy week for us with 5 of our teams playing; two members ended up playing three times. On Monday our 1st team travelled to Newark and recorded a 4 – 1 win. John S was as solid as ever, drawing with David Coates. Mike N-E defeated Alex Combie while Mike B outplayed Graham Ladds. Nikolai defeated Keith […]

2025 got off to a dramatic start as Gambit 1 faced Gambit 2 while Gambit 4 played Gambit 5. Draw expert John S played draw expert Steve and the game ended in a draw. Mike B and Nikolai were in a fairly equal game until Mike won a pawn. Florian took advantage of Drag yet again messing up his move […]

Drag successfully defended the Derbyshire Congress Major title he won last year, but this year managed a perfect 5 out of 5 score. As usual, he had some luck along the way as his 4th round opponent threw away a bishop when winning and then missed a chance to draw. There was little else to shout about for other Gambit […]

Marian came joint first this weekend in the Sheffield FIDE U1700 section. After storming into the lead with three wins, he came unstuck in round 4 but recovered like a champion to win his final round and end up joint first on 4 points with 3 others. Well done Marian!

It was a busy evening at the club on Tuesday with 4 of our teams playing, two against each other. In those 4 teams were 5 of our 7 team captains, and amazingly all 5 won! Our 2nd team faced newly promoted Grantham 1 who welcomed the return of Paul Cumbers who had been on loan to Newark last season. […]

The 2024-25 season began last night (week 0 in the NCA Fixtures) with two matches between teams in our club, Gambit 2 v Gambit 1 and Gambit 5 v Gambit 4. The matches were affected by several members’ unavailability, a potential flight delay, a car problem and a traffic issue. Otherwise it was a perfectly normal evening, and we comfortably […]

The now traditional pre-season Swizzle took place on Tuesday, featuring 14 members, 3 new members and 2 quests. As usual it was a 5 round time handicap Swiss. Players got time depending on their and their opponent’s colour group (1900+ = Blue, 1700-1899 = Red, 1500-1699 = Green, <1500 = Black), with the biggest difference being when Blue played Black; […]

Mike Barnes won his 8th county title this weekend coming 1st on 4 points, closely followed by Dave Flynn, Eldars Gulijevs and Shabir Okhai on 3.5 points. Florian and Drag finished on 3 points and Paul, playing in his 1st weekender, scored 1.5 points. Mike beat Florian in round 4 after Florian had beaten Drag in round 2. In the […]

26 players entered in week one, a record attendance. In round 1 there were 2 shock results with Marian beating Graeme and Leo beating Mark, while the rest of the higher seeds avoided slip ups. Round 2 saw more shock results as Peter G-M beat Drag and young Albert beat Keith, a man 8 decades older than him. Felipe played […]

After 5 rounds of our club’s ECF rated Rapidplay we have a tie between Mike Barnes and Florian Biermann, both on 8.5 points after both won their 5th round games v Felipe Lessa & Drag Sudar respectively. There will now be a two match playoff in July. The final standings are:- 8.5 Barnes, Biermann F6.0 Huthwaite, Talmacel5.5 Lessa, Radford, Sudar4.0 […]