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Camberley Chess Club were pleased to be able to support the 20/20 Chess Championships at the prestigious Eton College venue. These championships are an unrated team-of-four, 6 round, rapid-play event with no membership requirements with all the net profits going to Oxfam, their chosen charity. The time control was 20 …

The 2025 Keith Richardson Memorial Tournament was held on Saturday 27th Sep at Camberley Chess Club. Keith was a valued club member from the 1970s, an International Correspondence Grandmaster and very well known in the English chess community. He played for the club right up to his death in 2017 …

We had 24 players at our latest Open Blitz tournament including many non club members and juniors. It was played in the spacious community centre hall over 6 rounds at 5 + 3 (five minutes for each player plus three second increment per move). There was a large variation in …

In July we held our annual Camberley Chess Club Rapid Championship, in six rounds over three days, two rounds per day our Champion was decided. Congratulations to our winner, FM Jon Ady! With an impressive score of 5.5/6. Scoring a victory over almost every opponent he faced. Our 2025 Club …

Last Thursday at the club we held our annual blitz championship. An 8-round showdown with levels from local patzer to FIDE Master. The night was filled with upsets, an early champion, some great chess and in standard blitz fashion, lots of flagging. Previous joint-champions Daniel Seaton and Colin Purdon were …

On Monday 19th May 2025, eleven Camberley Chess Club members travelled to Portcullis House in the Houses of Parliament to play the Parliamentary Chess Club. Captained by Peter Hornsby, the club had recently been re-launched following a friendly match between the House of Lords and the House of Commons, which …

Report from Camberley A v Fleet & Farnborough A – 24th March 2025 The lineups for this match looked as they typically do for Camberley, with a team consisting of Martin on board one, Colin two, Paul on three and Tim on four. On any other day this would be …

In January, our one and only Aditya Vikram Sengupta achieved the title of Arena Candidate Master (ACM). A feirce opponent to any over-the-board, now a proven Master in FIDE’s Arena! Achieving an ACM title is no small feat—out of millions of online chess players, only 1,213 hold this title worldwide …

A Win for Camberley Chess Club! The University of Reading Chess Club hosted their 1st Rapidplay Congress on this past Saturday 8th of March. It was a great event, where we had 9 members of Camberley Chess Club attending. Martin and Steve were representing Camberley in the open section, and …

December 19 2024 It was great fun during our yearly Christmas Chess 960 tournament (aka Fischer Random or Freestyle Chess), where we had a good turnout of players from the club. The format was a 6 round Swiss 5+0 Blitz playing Chess 960, with no castling. This promoted some agressive …

GM Simon Williams is well known in the English and International chess scene, creating many online courses and presenting coverage and analysis of top level matches and tournaments. Currently, GM Williams is ranked number 18 in the country with a rating of 2476! After the match, he informed us that …

It was very sad news for the club to hear that James Wallman passed away on the 17th October 2024, a week after his 96th birthday. James was the eldest member of Camberley Chess Club for 3 years, having moved from Dorset to Camberley after his wife died, to be …