The latest news from around the club.
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When the Lichfield Club Championship continuedwith the final three rounds on Thursday, 2nd January it was expected to be a close finish with five leading players separated by only half a point. And that is how it turned out when the final three rounds were played on 2nd January. Ben
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Thirty one years ago your web editor’s son, Nigel Short lost in the final of the Chess World Championship against Garry Kasparov and for a while was a minor celebrity in Britain but became a much bigger celebrity in scores of countries around the world. Recently he went to
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It is with great sadness that we wish to share with members news of the recent passing of Peter Collins. Peter was a former club chairman and long-standing captain of the Lichfield first team, and played for over 40 years for Lichfield sides in all of the local leagues. He
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It would be a shock win at any time. But after Albert Chacko had gone through a demoralising run of 11 losses it was just A.M.A.Z.I.N.G as Strictly’s Craig Revell Horwood would no doubt have said. Far from being demoralised by a total
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Membership of Lichfield Chess Club, plus recent newcomers has reached 73, the highest number in the club’s 55 year history, surpassing the previous highest totals in the early 1970’s and 1990’s. The surge in membership at Lichfield started last year and reflects a worldwide chess boom attributed
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It is hard to believe but the early years of Lichfield Chess Club ended with a punch up in the Guildhall and that in turn led to the club splitting into separate entities in the 1960’s. What happened next is unrecorded but in November 1970 Lichfield Chess Club was
