Portishead Chess Club Rapidplay Tournaments This month both the Junior Blitz (6-7pm) and the Club rapidplay (7-9pm) will be held on 14...

Portishead Chess Club Last night both the A and B team were in action against Clifton and the University respectively. The B team were...

Portishead Chess Club Championship The long delayed semi-final play-off of the 2024 club championship was played today resulting with a...

Chess Training at Portishead Chess Club The Queen's Gambit is one of the most powerful and iconic of all chess openings. Furthermore it...

There were two matches this week. On Tuesday, our B team were up against a Horfield who out-graded us by 200-400 grading points on all...

For the the next three weeks from 6.15-6.45 I will be running short group coaching sessions. Each will examine a number of “priyomes” - a...

Andrew plays a highly instructive game against a much higher rated opponent in which white's wrecked pawn structure is compensated by...

While the juniors were strutting their stuff in the Wakes and West Jamboree, two of our more mature (in age only) players were competing...

On Saturday eight of our juniors represented Somerset in the Wales and West Jamboree where they were pitted against the finest juniors in...

On Saturday from 11.00 am, at Bristol Grammar, a group of our juniors will represent Somerset in the Wales and West Jamboree! They will...

On Monday night there was a double-header at the Old Mill with our A and B teams both in action! There was some nervousness about the A...

Forty of the best juniors in Somerset met today (Sunday, 15.12.24) at Redcliffe Bay Hall for the first of our Squad Training Sessions....

All juniors (adults too!) are invited to a training session this Friday at Redcliffe Bay Hall. Iain will be testing out a series of fun,...

On Monday night four of our juniors turned out to play for our C Team against Horfield E. All the games were well-fought but thanks to...

On Monday night our A Team took on Hanham A while the C Team took on Clevedon C - both at the Old Mill! Just as well because a...

Last Wednesday the A team put in a fine performance to win 4-2 against a Downend team. Baptiste maintained his 100% performance on board...

Last night the B team set off to face a strong Bath team. In the end luck wasn’t with us. Alice pulled off a fine victory. Meanwhile,...

The C Team travelled to take on a Bristol & Clifton team last night and came away with a fantastic 3-1 win! Santosh, on board one, had a...

Eighty budding junior chess champions plus their friends and family joined us at Somerset Hall for our 3rd Portishead Junior Rapidplay....

It wasn’t just the A team in action on Monday night, the B team were also taking on a Clifton side. Unfortunately the only information I...