Welcome to our Wolverhampton Chess club website. Visitors can find out more about our club here and those who are already members will also find this site and its various sections very useful.WDCL

Wolverhampton Chess Club provides opportunities for playing chess socially and competitively. The club runs teams in the Birmingham, Cannock, Dudley and Wolverhampton leagues. Hon. Sec for our club is Barry Lewis, Tel: (01922) 479845.

The Chess Club meets at 7.30 - 11.00pm on Thursdays at Wolverhampton West End Working Men's Club, Merridale Street West, Wolverhampton, WV3 ORW. All are welcome.

Wolverhampton Summer League 2008 Champions of Division 3 South.

Wolverhampton Show

Sat 11 & Sun 12 July 2009

Wolverhampton Chess Club will be present at this huge event from 12pm til 6pm.

Want to find out more about Chess? Play some friendlies with some of our members? Everyone welcome, come along, check out our stall. See what our Chess Club is about.

About this site

This site is an exciting venture and project. It's hoped this site will extend the club's horizons by bringing a flavour of what our club is about via the world wide web. As well as this, it is envisaged that this new club site will help promote Wolverhampton Chess and it's Chess club as well as helping players and those with Chess interests.

As of 26/07/07 website has it's own domain name. So if you're viewing on atspace url please note new domain name. www.wolverhamptonchessclub.org.uk/
29 Aug 2006 This site is now well developed and includes a Club History section and gallery. If anyone has further historic details relating to Wolverhampton Chess Club please email our webmaster.

As of 1 June 2006 this website was more or less constructed but still incomplete in parts as some sections required more information and content. The site was still being developed.

Members Achievements notice board

2007/8

04/09/08 Club rapidplay 15 mins Tourny. Ben Marlow 1st place, Martin May 2nd

Wolverhampton Summer League Quickplay 07/08/08:

Paul Walters U110 section outright winner scoring 4.5 points out 5.

Frank Wood 110+ section outright winner

Wolverhampton Summer League achievement: Gordon Sands officially Best player Division 3 South for scoring 3.5/4 points and captained team to become Division 3 South Champions..

WDCL Lightning Chess event Thurs 24 April. Paul Walters achieved joint 1st place in the Minor section by scoring 5 out of 6, 4 wins, 2 draws.

Blitz 10 Thurs 10 April

Rob Parker 1st place
Bob Khoshnevis 2nd place
Paul Walters 3rd place

2006/7

Dominic Bader (7.5/8)/1st place 100+ Blitz 10 17/05/07

Martin May (5.5/8)/ 2nd place 100+ Blitz 10 17/05/07

Rob Parker (6.5/8)/1st place U100 Blitz 10 17/05/07

Paul Walters (5/8)/2nd place U100 Blitz 10 17/05/07

2005/6

Rob Parker 1st place winner of our club Blitz 5 min Championship event, Ungraded section..

Paul Walters 2nd place Runner up Blitz 5 min club championship, Ungraded Section.

Rob Parker joint 1st place winner, Minor section of the Wolverhampton Summer league Quickplay Aug 10 2006.

Robert Marshall retains his title as Wolverhampton Blitz Champion in the graded section.

Rob Parker 1st place winner of our club Blitz 5 min Championship event, Ungraded section..

Paul Walters 2nd place Runner up Blitz 5 min club championship, Ungraded Section.

All Wolverhampton Chess Club 2008/09 Winter and Summer fixtures on website. Winter League WDCL 2008/9 and all 2007/8 fixtures and archives. All club fixtures on this site.

Wolverhampton Show

Sat 11 & Sun 12 July 2009

Wolverhampton Chess Club will be present at this huge event from 12pm til 6pm. Admission is Free. Gates open from 11am.

Want to find out more about Chess? Play some friendlies with some of our members? Everyone welcome, come along, check out our stall. See what our Chess Club is about.

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11/06/09 Well done to our Summer league B team for beating Rushall 3-2.

08/05/09 Walrus event at Walsall Kipping: Well done to Rushall for winning the Walrus trophy for 2009. Wolverhampton were runners up just half a point ahead of Walsall Kipping. Well done to all who took part and thank you to Walsall Kipping for hosting this years event.

23/04/09 Pittaway Cup the Final! Halesowen had a 2.25 point headstart due to being in a lower division. Their team were strong though and have recently gained promotion to WDCL Div 1. Our team were 5 regular players short so we knew we'd have a battle on our hands. Despite being outgraded Wolverhampton achieved an amazing and historic victory playing Halesowen at Stourbridge.22/04/09 Very well done to our team and acting captain for the night Martin May and also to Captain Mike Townsend for steering Wolverhampton to victory! Also well done to Halesowen for doing so well and reaching the Pittaway Cup Final.

16/04/09 WDCL C team gain 2nd place promotion spot in WDCL Div 3! The final match of the season bought St George's to us. The visitors shared joint 3rd place with us and a match win for either team would earn promotion. Our board 2 had a bad game and lost. Our boards 4 and 5 won and our captain on board 1 drew after the demise of an apparently superior position. Richard Dawson on Board 3 declined an early draw and with the score at 2.5-2.5 with the game looking drawn our player offered the draw again. This longest game of the match was drawn after an epic tense battle. With a 3-2 Score Wolverhampton won the match and have gained 2nd place promotion from Division 3! So, with our WDCL B being relegated and our WDCL C team being promoted at least our club still have teams in Divisions 1 and 2. Well done everyone! Particularly Richard, Dawson, Peter Hubbard and Steve Wilson for achieving so many wins. Our boards 1 and 2 Gordon Sands, Paul Walters, Colin Haughton and Brian Walker have also scored valuable points to secure match draws and wins. Special praise to our captain Gordon Sands too for leading the team to promotion success in an ever stronger Division 3.

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