Mick sadly died last week after a short illness. He joined Gambit in 1991-92, after two seasons at West Bridgford, and became a reliable and regular player, playing over 30 league games in a season several times. In 2000-01 he and Austen Carlton joined Dark Horses to experience a different club but ended up rejoining Gambit when the two clubs […]

It’s getting interesting in division 3. Our 3rd team, on 17 points after 11 matches, lead by 2 points from Uni 2 and RB 2 with just 3 matches to go: Central 1, RB 2 and Newark 2. RB 2 still have to play all three Gambit teams. Newark 2, lying 6th but with two games in hand, can catch […]

4 of our teams played this week with two wins and two losses. On Monday our 7th team lost 3 – 1 at division 5 leaders RB 3. Albert continued his development with an impressive draw against seasoned campaigner Marcel Taylor who is more than 500 points higher than him. Marshall also played well to draw with someone 150 points […]

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; […]