Nottinghamshire Blitz Championship 2025 Monday 11 August 2025 5 Round Swiss. Enquiries to drag_sudar@yahoo.co.uk Eligibility: Born in Nottinghamshire Currently living, or formerly resident for at least 3 years, in Nottinghamshire Working in Nottinghamshire Attending an educational establishment in Nottinghamshire Member of a chess club based in Nottinghamshire or affiliated to the Nottinghamshire Chess Association For full details and and online […]

Nottinghamshire County Championship 2024/25 Sunday 15th June and Sunday 20th July Royal British Legion Social Club 17 Main Road Radcliffe-on-Trent Nottinghamshire NG12 2FD Organised by Radcliffe and Bingham Chess Club Enquiries to: Nick London, email: nicklondon2222@gmail.com Eligibility: 1. Born in Nottinghamshire 2. Currently living, or formerly resident for at least 3 years, in Nottinghamshire 3. Working in Nottinghamshire 4. Attending […]

Beeston 1 won 3-1 at Nomads 2 in the final game of the season to clinch the Division 2 title. Congratulations to the Beeston Club on this success. Nomads 2 finish in a relegation spot. Hope that all clubs have enjoyed the season’s play. It’s been a notable season with very tight, hard-fought title races, completed without any disputes arising […]

48th Nottingham Congress The 48th Nottingham Congress took place at a later time (10-11 May) than our more usual late March/April berth. This was not our preference, but 4NCL dates occupying the first three April weekends, EPSCA dates and a March event at our venue, Nottingham High School, forced our hand. This timing probably accounts for our numbers (138) being […]

Notts Summer Rapidplay • Entries close on Sunday May 25th • Teams of four players • Play as a club or with your mates!! • 4 Sections (Open; U-1800; U-1500; U-1200 -all averages) • Two matches at home; Two matches away. All rated. • Week 1 – w/c 2nd June • Week 2 – w/c 16th June • Week 3 […]

Our annual event returns as usual to the Nottingham High School on the 10th & 11th May with 5 rounds of standard play chess. Rate of play is all moves in 90 minutes with 10 seconds increment from move one. We have sections for all abilities.  Online entry and online payment are available via the Congress website.  Free entry for […]

We welcomed a record capacity (180) entry to the 34th Nottingham Rapidplay, held as usual at Nottingham High School. This was ECF-rated as normal and also FIDE-rated for the first time (but bear in mind that FIDE only now publishes ratings above 1400). We also used the congress.org site for the first time, enabling online payments rather than cheques in […]

Our annual event returns as usual to the Nottingham High School on the 2nd February with 6 rounds of quick chess. New this year, our event will also be FIDE-rated. We have sections for all abilities.  Online entry and online payment are available via the Congress website.  Free entry for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. For more information and to […]

The 34th Nottingham Rapidplay will take place on the 2nd February 2025 at Nottingham High School. This will be a six round FIDE rated event. The first round will start at 10.00am. Enter online here.  Details can also be downloaded from the entry form.

The entry system for the 2025 Rapidplay is now live. Please see this post for more information.

The 34th Nottingham Rapidplay will take place on the 2nd February 2025 at Nottingham High School. This will be a six round FIDE rated event. The first round will start at 10.00am. Enter online here.  Details can also be downloaded from the entry form.

Nottinghamshire County Championship 2023/2024 Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th June 2024 The Royal British Legion Hall Radcliffe-on-Trent Nottingham NG12 2BB Organised by Gambit Chess Club Eligibility: 1 Born in Nottinghamshire 2 Living in Nottinghamshire 3 Working in Nottinghamshire 4 Attending an educational establishment in Nottinghamshire 5 Member of a chess club based in Nottinghamshire or affiliated to Nottinghamshire Chess Association […]

Following the successful conclusion of our Rapidplay last Sunday, we are now taking entries for our weekend congress. Full details can be found on our Competitions/Tournaments page.

Capacity has now been reached. We are pleased to announce our that our annual Rapidplay will take place on Sunday, February 4th 2024 at our usual venue, Nottingham High School, starting at 10:00 am. This will be a 6 round Swiss system event, with five ECF rated sections. The basic entry fees are £20 for Adults and £15 for Juniors, whilst […]

We are pleased to announce our that our annual Rapidplay will take place on Sunday, February 4th 2024 at our usual venue, Nottingham High School, starting at 10:00 am. This will be a 6 round Swiss system event, with five ECF rated sections. The basic entry fees are £20 for Adults and £15 for Juniors, whilst the prizes in each section […]

We are pleased to announce that the Congress will take place on the weekend of April 15th & 16th at our usual venue, Nottingham High School. It will be a five round, ECF-rated, standard play Swiss, with five sections. Full details of the event, the entry form and access to online entry are available on our Competitions page.

The event went ahead successfully on Sunday, 29th January. A full report and results are available by clicking Continue Reading on the News page.

We are pleased to announce our next tournament, the Rapidplay, to be held on Sunday 29th January 2023 at Nottingham High School, our usual venue. The main details, such as the rating limits for the five sections, can be seen on our competitions page, where a downloadable entry form with all the details can be seen. There is also a […]

Nottinghamshire players, past and present, are invited to enter the County Championships on Sunday 13 November at Bramcote Memorial Hall. The NCA Annual General Meeting agreed with the Tournaments Committee’s proposal to run a six-round Rapidplay in the hope that this new format may attract larger numbers of players and also help to celebrate the NCA’s centenary year in style. […]

Jonah competed in Dublin, achieving his final IM Norm and qualifying for the International Master title. On his return to Nottinghamshire, he followed this up by winning the Open Section of the Nottingham Congress. Further details of the Congress can be seen on the Competitions page

We are pleased to publish details of our Congress, to take place at Nottingham High School on 23rd & 24th April, and start taking entries. Full details are available here Competitions – Nottinghamshire Chess Association

We are pleased to announce that we have received the maximum 150 entries and so entries are now closed. Entrants should monitor the Competitions/Tournaments page of the website for any late developments.

In view of the improving Covid situation, and the entries we have received so far, we are reasonably confident at present that the Rapidplay will go ahead as planned. Of course, Covid has a history of throwing out curve balls, so please keep an eye on the website in the run up to the event.

In view of the continuing uncertainty about Covid developments, we cannot yet be absolutely certain that the event will be able to go ahead. However we have decided to start taking entries, which will be limited to a maximum of 150 in total. A full update on the current situation can be seen on the Tournaments tab of our Competitions […]

We are currently planning to hold this ECF-rated event on Sunday 20th February 2022 at the usual venue, Nottingham High School, starting at 10:00am. However, in view of the current uncertainty about Covid developments, we cannot yet confirm this or start to take entries. Hopefully circumstances will allow us to do this in early January. Meanwhile, the currently expected details […]

During the Coronavirus restrictions we have been unable to hold these annual events. We expect that they will return following the lifting of virus related restrictions.