Battersea Chess Club - London's friendly chess club, established 1885

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chairApril 4, 2024
Rook odds – the Handicap Trophy from March 19thMarch 15, 2024
Half price membership for 2000s – GM/WGM/IM/WIM freeFebruary 10, 2024
Nimzowitsch Memorial BlitzSeptember 27, 2023

Grand PRIX

Grand Prix returns for Summer KnightsJune 17, 2023
Paul Stokes ends 21 years of hurt to be crowned club champ while Tom Butterworth wins the BarrowDecember 9, 2019
Grand Prix update: New round, new leaderAugust 28, 2019

London Chess League

ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chairApril 4, 2024
Battersea Power on! Club’s ‘Power’ team wins Minor West divisionJune 17, 2022
Everything you need to know about our league teams UPDATEDNovember 10, 2021
Captains, fixtures & venues: Details of 2021-22 league season revealedSeptember 14, 2021

Club History

Battersea’s Surrey chess champions: Roll of honour spanning 91 yearsMay 7, 2024
New evidence ignites Battersea’s bitter 100-year chess feud with BrixtonJanuary 25, 2021
Revealed: How Battersea’s strongest ever player was nearly world championDecember 12, 2019
Result just in: Battersea thrashed Hammersmith in first-ever El Chessico 124 years agoAugust 1, 2019

SURREY CHESS LEAGUE

Brave Battersea lose tight Alexander Cup final to KingstonApril 17, 2023
Here we go, here we go, here we go! Battersea into cup finalMarch 9, 2023
Blair’s team kicks off return to Surrey competition with winSeptember 28, 2022

What's on at Battersea Chess Club

Musings About Chess

Portrait of a chess club: 6 players deep in thoughtJuly 10, 2018
Fool if you think it’s over… Battersea skip CHRIS BECKETT on when to agree a drawJuly 20, 2017
My best ‘worst’ game, a chess confessional by CHRIS BECKETTJuly 3, 2017

Tim Spanton's blog

Press & PUBLICITY

Battersea Variants