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The 2024 Keith Richardson Memorial Tournament was held on Saturday 28th 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 …

Shreyas Royal, the UK’s newest and youngest chess Grandmaster, came to Camberley Chess Club and shared his experience and advice with a group of aspiring juniors, parents and local chess players. He went through many of his games showing how he progressed from an 8 year old new to chess …

We had 24 players at our latest Open Blitz tournament including many non club members. It was played over 6 rounds at 5 + 3 (five minutes for each player plus three second increment per move). There was a large variation in player strength, but as usual the Swiss pairing …

It was great for Camberley Chess Club to welcome players from outside the club to play in this Open Blitz Tournament. 16 Juniors played for 6 rounds, with 5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment per move. Congratulations to all who took part. Below are some photos of the evening and …

The Club Rapid Championship returned for its second year on three Thursdays: 18 July, 25 July and 8 August 2024. After a fun, closely fought and tense at times, 6 rounds of 20 minutes plus a 10 sec increment, we had an outright winner, David Bean on 5.5 points. Congratulations …

Congratulations to the winner, Zac Welling and all who played and help organise this years club championship. The last game on board one between Zac and Nisandu was a wild one that looked like it could go either way. You can play it through on our Games page. Click …

The second running of our annual Club Blitz Championship was held on 6 June. This was an exciting evening of fast-paced chess over 8 rounds with a total of 20 participants. The evening began with the prize giving for our recently completed Rapid Matrix Tournament, which ran from January to …

We had a great Endgame session last night run by Paul Sloane, one of our highest rated members. Paul took us through some essential basic endgame techniques including how to handle King and Pawn and King, Pawn and Rook endings. Techniques such as the King square, King opposition, bridging, shouldering, …

Well done to all who played in the Gordon’s School Rapid Play 5 round tournament. Full results are below these photos. For full online details, click image below: …

Camberley Chess Club have at least 6 chess tournaments between June and September 2024. There are Blitz, Rapid as well as Standard play tournaments. All are ECF rated. All the details are on our Tournaments page as well as included in our Events page …

The Rapid Matrix Spring 2004 tournament is in full swing. We have had 4 rounds in January with a total of 74 games played, all of which are already included in latest ECF Rapid ratings. If you haven’t played a Rapid Matrix game yet, just come along, ask any member …

Another very successful Junior 5 round rapid play Swiss tournament was held in the Band Room at Gordon’s School. There were a record number of entrants. Well done to all the juniors, the standard of their chess playing has continued to improve. These events are all ECF rated, so the …