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

HAPPY NEW YEAR and all the best for 2010 from all at Wolverhampton Chess Club.

Attention All Members: Club Quickplay Tournament 04/03/10. 20 mins all moves. 7.30 start. All members put it in you diary. Not to be missed!

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.

Club Events Achievements and General News Summary

Wolverhampton Summer League 2008 Champions of Division 3 South.

Wolverhampton Show UPDATE:

Sat 11 & Sun 12 July 2009. What a fantastic weekend we all had. Great fun for all who attended and played friendlies.

A Great successful event. Wonderful to experience outdoor Chess at the Wolverhampton Show and to be a part of this huge event!

Thank you to all who turned up, helpers, players, and to the many members of the public who played Chess games with us. A great Team effort!!!

The Wolverhampton show wouldn’t have been a success without members and key members such as Barry Lewis, Richard Dawson, Gordon Sands, Paul Walters and Steve Wilson (all subcommittee).  All helped during the weekend as well as Frank Wood, Mike Townsend, Max Wooton, Bob Khoshnevis, Colin Haughton, Mike Steed.  Ray Dolan of SCA did an excellent job on both days supporting us with promotion and playing public.   Also Peter Broomhall’s attendance on Sunday much appreciated!  

We hope to see you soon at our club every Thursday evening.

Wolverhampton are Pittaway Cup Winners for 2009.

2009 WDCL C team promoted from Div 3 to Div 2 .

Club Hosted Wolverhampton Summer League Quickplay and Awards 6 Aug 2009.

Website supported 1st Macmillan Rapidplay 2009. Press Release: Read More

All Wolverhampton Chess Club 2009/10 Winter and Summer fixtures on website. Winter League WDCL 2008/9 and all 2007/8 fixtures and archives. All club fixtures on this site.

04/02/10 BDCL A score 3-2 with 1 adjournment pending so we're guaranteed a match draw whatever happens. Well done team.

02/02/10 DDCL Div 1 team draw at Halesowen and Dave Wightman increases his points tally and 100% record. Well done all.

21/01/10 Busy night at our club with a total of 13 boards playing. Wolverhampton beat Stafford 5-3 in round 2 of the Pittaway Cup. Our WDCL B team draw with Walsall Kipping. With the score at 1.5-2.5 to the visitors board 4 would decide the match. Dave Wightman won on board 1 and maintains his 100% record. Paul won on 4 and Peter Jones on board 2. Well done all and thanks to visiting teams for the great contests.

19/01/10 WDCL A score at Halesowen 2 - 2 with 2 adjournments pending

14/01/10 BDCL A team beat visitors Olton B 4-2. Well done all

WDCL B Rugeley match postponed.

05/01/10 St George's WDCL A match final score 4-2 upon the board 1 adjournment being settled.

17/12/09 WDCL A beat St George's A. Well done all. We put up a strong team. So 2 match wins before Christmas is a nice present. Next match 19/10 at Halesowen.

Pittaway Cup: Pittaway Cup fixture's next round is 21/10 playing Stafford at home; 8 players needed.

10/12/09 Well done to our WDCL A team for beating West Bromwich. Our bottom 2 boards fell to the visiting team so we were trailing behind. Frank Wood(Cap) drew on board 4 and this proved crucial to secure the win as our top 3 boards Mike Townsend, John Mangdwende and Phil Porter all triumphed. Frank's team are in action again next week playing St George's. Let's hope we emulate this weeks success and may the best team win. Happy Christmas everyone.

03/12/09 A busy night for our club with 3 matches to play. Frank's Dudley league Div 1 team achieved 2 draws on boards 1 and 2 but lost match 2 of their debut season at Warley Quinborne. Our Div 3 team played host to the Warley Quinborne Div 3 team and they also narrowly beat Wolverhampton.

Gordon's WDCL B team played Rushall B in the 2nd home match of the evening. Max won by default, Dave Wightman notched up another win and remains undefeated. Gordon and Richard lost on 3 and 2. Paul Walters faced a tricky and complex endgame but played it well and built on a time advantage. A draw was declined by the Rushall player but soon after time pressure led to a mistake and so Paul gained the full point we needed to win the match. Well done team and thanks to Rushall for another great battle. Wolverhampton 3 Rushall 2. A nice victory following the previous emphatic loss to Rushall A.

30/11/09 BDCL A draw at S Birmingham. Well done all on this great result.

26/11/09 Wolverhampton beat Halesowen 3-1 in the first ever Wolverhampton, Dudley league Div 1 match.

23/11/09 Our WDCL B had a tough match against Rushall A and lost 4-1 Away. David Wightman scored the only win of the night and remains undefeated this season on 5/5. Dave is an early contender for AGM trophies but can any of our members catch up?

12/11/09 Two home matches: Well done to our WDCL B team for beating visitors Bushbury. Our Dudley Div 2 team faced an unbeaten Boldmere St Michael's. Our team wasn't up to usual strength due to players supplementing our WDCL B but some good battles. Board 1 was close and Paul was optimistic about his position but low on time and blacks bishop pair trained on the white king.

05/11/09 Well done to our WDCL B team for beating visitors Boldmere St Michael's. A very close match.

03/11/09 Our BDCL A team lose at Olton 4-2 but well done to David Daniels who won his club debut match on board 1. Gordon Sands and Phil Porter drew.

29/10/09 Cannock league team: Barry's team achieve their 3rd consecutive Cannock league draw this season. Very well done to Jared Gill for acheiving his first club win of the season and to Dave Wightman for making it 2 out 2 in his debut season for our club.

2009/10 New Members and returners

Welcome to all New members David Daniels and David Wightman, Matthew and Peter Tudor, Amrik and Jared Gill.

Also a hearty welcome back to Munroe Morrison. Great to see you back.

Welcome back to Peter Jones after a long absence.

Welcome back to Ben Marlow

New Grades: The long awaited NEW grades are out as of 11/08/09 Wolverhampton new grades. Richard Dawson, Munroe Morrison and Max Wooton have achieved the most improvement to their grades.

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