Shropshire’s top woman chess player Kate Walker reached the women’s finals of the British Chess Championships, battling top opponents in an online tournament in which some games had a live commentary by a Grandmaster. Kate, who plays for the Shrewsbury-based Telepost club, became one of 12 English players to make it to the finals after …
A Shropshire chess player has been banned for the rest of the season after an anti-cheating probe found that he had been playing better than many grandmasters. Suspicions were aroused by his stellar performance in this month’s Shropshire online team quickplay competition in which his spectacular run included beating much stronger local players. An investigation …
Following the Shropshire Chess Online Quickplay event on Sunday 10th January, a complaint was made to the tournament organiser that one of the players had been using electronic assistance. The tournament organiser investigated this complaint and found strong evidence to support it. The senior Shropshire Chess officials then referred the matter to LiChess. LiChess carried out …
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A very strong Newport outfit held off a powerful challenge from Shrewsbury-based Telepost to win an innovative New Year quickplay chess tournament played entirely over the internet. While Newport fielded real heavy artillery with International Master Lawrence Cooper on top board, and Gavyn Cooper on board two, Telepost countered with Nigel Ferrington – who is …
Tributes have flooded in to the “father of Shropshire chess,” veteran player and multiple county champion David Everington, who has died. Everington joined Shrewsbury chess club aged 16 in September 1963, and was the county champion on nine occasions, including for six consecutive years in the 1970s. As captain of the club’s A team, he …
Shropshire Chess mourns the passing of a true great of the local chess world. Appreciation from Shrewsbury Chess Club here.