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 Chess Club Awarded club of the year title 2007 by Staffordshire Chess Association.

Summer league B team become Wolverhampton Summer League Champions of Division 3 South as of 10 July 2008. Well Done everyone!

Wolverhampton Summer League Quickplay & Awards: Thurs 7 August 2008 7.15pm onwards.

Time control 10 mins all moves. U110 and 110+ entries and prize sections on night!

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

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.

The Wolverhampton Summer league fixtures on this site also Winter League WDCL 2008/9 and all 2007/8 fixtures and archives. Summer Leagues commenced 15/08/08. All club fixtures on this site.

Wolverhampton B are the Champions! Our Summer league B team become Wolverhampton Summer League Champions of Division 3 South as of 10 July 2008. Our B team secured a draw at Walsall Kipping and 10 points from 3 match wins and 1 draw. Well Done everyone and particularly to captain Gordon Sands!

team: Richard Dawson, Bob Khoshnevis, Peter Hubbard, Barry Lewis, Rob Parker, Gordon Sands, Paul Walters.

Team also achieve 75% average performance. 20 match games, 13 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses.

19/06/08 Wolverhampton B beat Rushall C 19/06/08. 05/06/08 Wolverhampton B beat Warley Quinborne 5-0 at home. 20/05/08 Wolverhampton B beat Halesowen Away, and win match 1, 1-4.

Wolverhampton Summer A team: Win their final match of the season by beating Rugeley 4-1. Hence, A team finish season on 10 points. 07/07/08 Summer league A team lose at Rushall 4.5-0.5, 03/07/08 A team draw at Stafford, 26/06/08 A Team beat Northfield Checkmates 3-2. 04/06/08 Wolverhampton A beat Bushbury B Away 1.5-3.5.

22/05/08 Wolverhampton retain the Walrus Trophy by just 0.5 points. Well done to all participants and players for making it a very enjoyable event on our chess calendar. Full board scores tobe published soon. Walrus Full Scores

08/05/08 Club AGM took place and lasted a bit longer than usual as a lot was discussed. Many new captaincies and changes of post. Normal club chess nights resume next week.

WDCL Lightning Chess event held at our club 24/04/08

None of our 4 teams won but Paul Walters achieved joint 1st place in the Minor section by scoring 5 out of 6, 4 wins 2 draws.

Newsletter Issue 3 completed and distributed at AGM 08/05/08. Comprehensive match, team, play, club statistics included.

More detail in Members section for club members.

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