Simultaneous Display
Grandmaster Ameet Ghasi plays several games at the same time. Two sessions. Second session starts at 9pm. GM Ameet Ghasi smashes Kingston The simultaneous display last night featuring Grandmaster A…| Kingston Chess Club
Grandmaster Ameet Ghasi plays several games at the same time. Two sessions. Second session starts at 9pm. GM Ameet Ghasi smashes Kingston The simultaneous display last night featuring Grandmaster A…| Kingston Chess Club
Coulsdon were severely handicapped in this match by a train stoppage in the Waterloo and Clapham Junction area. Their board 7 defaulted, and several other players lost time which might have proved valuable later, although we made a concession to the circumstances by agreeing to start 10 minutes late. On paper, they were significantly weaker than Kingston below board 1, and weaker than we would expect them to be at home. Nevertheless, halfway through the evening the match could easily have bee...| Kingston Chess Club
This game is about the consequence of relaxing in a winning position, the need to use up all your time and the necessity of continuing to play precautionary moves. This game was remarkable because Kingston player Seth Warren managed to obtain a draw from being a queen behind against Rohan Gadre. He said afterwards "I still don't quite believe it! He was winning right until the very end", describing the game as a swindle.| Kingston Chess Club
A silent disco was taking place at Surbiton station on my evening journey to the North Star pub in Chessington. "Yes sir, I can boogie." But could we? Kingston's players – all but one of them anyway – arrived well ahead of the 7.30pm start time and enjoyed the music (more soft rock than disco) and drink (in moderation) at the pub. But there was no sign of the opposition and we started thinking "Right venue, wrong day, darts match anyone?"| Kingston Chess Club
On Monday 6 October Kingston B (nominally the home team) and Kingston A did battle again in Thames Valley League division 1. Clearly shaken by their relatively narrow 4.5-1.5 win in the first encounter, Kingston A felt impelled to draft in yet another titled player, Supratit Banerjee, to their team, which already contained two international masters and one Fide master. Plucky Kingston B were strengthened by the welcome additions of Peter Hasson and FM Julian Way.| Kingston Chess Club
It is a new season, and Kingston A began the defence of their Thames Valley League Division 1 title at a new venue – the United Reformed Church in central Kingston (pictured above) – and with a new captain. Kingston B also have a new captain, and are in a new division for them. Nothing stays the same.| Kingston Chess Club
Simultaneous display 15 September 2025 at the Willoughby Arms, Kingston The Kingston club’s grandmaster Ameet Ghasi gave an impressive simultaneous display as the last event of our 2025 summe…| Kingston Chess Club
The 14th All Saints Blitz at Kingston’s All Saints Church brought together a select group of chess enthusiasts eager to kick off the new season. Tension mounted as Peter Large faced a surpris…| Kingston Chess Club
After a hectic summer of challenging norm events, Peter Large is back in the old routine – winning the Kingston autumn Blitz with a perfect score of 6/6| Kingston Chess Club
Borough News March 23, 1973 Photo: Time is the enemy as these players concentrate [Kingston is playing on the right hand side. Chris Clegg, front right, in a familar chess pose; Peter Roche on 4th …| Kingston Chess Club
Michael Healey has christened a new opening – the Baboon, which hinges on an early b5 as Black and is a kind of mirror image of the Orangutan opening. But is it any good? Photograph by Leila Boujnane The Orangutan (1. b4) is a beautiful, rare, fascinating opening. And animal. Yet there is its mirror […]| Kingston Chess Club
After a short gap of 35 years, I played my first rated tournament since the 1990 British Championship at the Kingston Invitational Open in mid-August. Going into the event, I was quite apprehensive, not really knowing what to expect but hoping for a plus score and some improvement in my ECF rating, even if my 1990 vintage Fide rating of 2350 was likely to take a battering.| Kingston Chess Club
Played in 1969 at Richmond Primrose Westcombe (1926 – 2024) was a member of Kingston Chess Club covering at least the period between 1969 and 1973. We only became reacquainted with this fact …| Kingston Chess Club
David, by profession a teacher of English and history, is Kingston first-team captain in the Thames Valley League| Kingston Chess Club
John is president of Kingston Chess Club, director of the Kingston Chess Academy and director of ChessPlus Ltd| Kingston Chess Club
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Stephen is the author of books on chess and cricket, and club captain at Kingston| Kingston Chess Club
