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Camberley Chess Club meet Tuesdays 8PM on Zoom and Sundays 4PM on chess.com
If you would like to join in online, please request by email info@camberleychess.co.uk
A schedule of events can be found here: Camberley Chess Club Events
Below are examples of recordings of past Tuesday online meetings for you to catch up on.
These can also be found on the Camberley Chess Club YouTube channel which you can subscribe to here
GO – An introduction to the ancient game by Mark Payne
This week our talk will not be about chess! Instead, club member Mark Payne will introduce us to the ancient Chinese game of Go, which is renowned for being extremely profound and complex despite its relatively simple rules. Mark is an experienced Go player and was introduced to the game by the British champion.
A summary and some games from the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational
This week’s meeting featured a talk by Colin Lyne – A summary and some games from the 2021 Magnus Carlsen Invitational.
The Morra Gambit – A Free Pawn by Ken Coates
Following on from our last session with Andrew Martin on various gambits, this week’s meeting will feature a talk by Ken Coates from Crowthorne Chess Club about the Morra Gambit.
This is an ambitious plan for white against the Sicilian and has a long history. Ken is a good friend of CCC and an excellent coach, and his lecture is sure to be entertaining and informative.
Gambit to Victory by IM Andrew Martin
Respected Author and International Master Andrew Martin presents a number of gambits to be aware of.
Some games from The Keith Richardson Tournament 2020 by Clive Frostick
Clive Frostick, from Farnham Chess Club, will talk us through some of his games from our recent 2020 Keith Richardson Memorial Tournament. This also doubled as the Camberley Chess Club’s annual championship, which was won by Julien Shepley. It was played on-line for the first time, on the Lichess platform.
The Candidates 2020-21 Part 1 – some of the games by Colin Lyne
Colin Lyne shows us some of the games from the 2020–21 Candidates Tournament. The tournament is an eight-player chess double round-robin tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2021. The winner will earn the right to challenge the defending world champion, Magnus Carlsen of Norway.
The first half of the tournament was played in Yekaterinburg, Russia, from 17 March to 25 March 2020. It was suspended at the halfway point due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave sharing the lead. The tournament was initially scheduled to resume in November 2020, but later it was postponed to the spring of 2021.
Rewire Your Chess Brain by IM Cyrus Lakdawala
Prolific author and International Master Cyrus Lakdawala presented selected material from his new Everyman Chess book “Rewire your Chess Brain”..
Some games and quotes from Bent Larsen
Bent Larsen was one of the world’s best players during the 1960’s and 70’s, and was also a notable author. Mark Taylor from Crowthorne Chess Club will talk us through some of the Great Dane’s best games with some entertaining quotes included along the way.
Christmas 2020 – Quiz Event
This year the Christmas Quiz Event was held online:
The Queens Gambit – the games of Beth Harmon by Paul Sloane
The recent Netflix series “The Queens Gambit” has boosted the public’s interest in chess. If you enjoyed the series and would like to find out more about the games played by Beth Harmon then join Camberley Chess Club’s weekly Zoom meeting. Club treasurer and former club champion Paul Sloane will talk us through some of the games, all of which are based on real Grandmaster encounters, and which were selected for the series by legendary former world champion Gary Kasparov.
3 great games from Colin Lyne, Bobby Fischer & Gary Kasparov
Our weekly Zoom meeting presented by Colin Lyne, showing us 3 great games from Colin Lyne, Bobby Fischer & Gary Kasparov!
Tony Williams on Tigran Petrosian
Our weekly Zoom meeting presented by Tony Williams on the subject of the 9th World Chess Champion, Tigran Petrosian
Colin Purdon discussing games from the recent Altibox tournament
Our weekly Zoom meeting presented by Colin Purdon discussing games from the recent Altibox tournament
Attacking the King with IM Andrew Martin
International Master and Camberley Chess Club member, Andrew Martin presents “Attacking the King”
Chess by Postcard with Colin Lyne
Once upon a time, before the days of strong analysis engines, correspondence chess was a worthy activity for players to learn openings, practice middlegame and endings.
Strong correspondence players tended to be potentially strong OTB players.
Colin Lyne will take us through some of his earliest postal games.
The Nimzo-Indian Defence with Colin Lyne
On Tuesday, October 13th 2020, noted correspondence chess and openings expert Colin Lyne demonstrated plans, strategies and ideas in the popular Nimzo-Indian Defence and the related Bogo-Indian and Queen’s Indian Defences.
Grandmaster Keith Arkell guests at a weekly Zoom session
Grandmaster Keith Arkell guests at a weekly Zoom session for Camberley Chess Club to discuss two games in detail. First a very technical double rook ending from a Smyslov Caro-Kann and secondly a win against GM Julian Hodgson from the Sutton Congress.
