Established 1942. Seven times Bristol & District league Champions
Black to play at the end of an 80 move marathon on Board 2. The game was drawn but a nice win is available. Can you find the win? The early skirmishes in the match went in our favour, although I was under some pressure on board 4, with most of Shane’s pieces aimed in …
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An interesting position from a Nf6 Scandinavian on Board 5... A new season and a new time limit. Increments have arrived! The beauty of them is that it gets rid of those ridiculous time scrambles and matches being decided by the clock instead of by play. Anyway, that's the theory. First, though, you have to …
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Yate A are a strong side who have very solid top boards and must be in with a good chance of promotion this season. Horfield D struggled against them. Lee and Alan lost first. Alan was a pawn up and but came under a mate threat and may have resigned prematurely. Peter won. Howard was …
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It was never going to be easy opening our campaign against reigning champions Downend A. However, we certainly had our chances in this match although I was too occupied with the complications which erupted in my own game to observe the details of the critical stages of the other games. On board 1, Aaron’s Tarrasch …
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The C team season got underway with a trip to Downend and a chance to get use to the new time increment rule. It felt good playing an opening and after 10 moves finding that you had about the same amount of time on your clock that you started with. Brent got the team off …
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I'm pleased to report that the new fixtures for the 2017/18 season are now out! They can all be found in the relevant fixtures pages of this website as well as on the main website for the Bristol & District League. Notable fixtures in the first month include: Horfield A vs. Downend A (5th September) …
Hello Bristol Chess Fans, I have recently taken over as "webmaster" of Horfield & Redland Chess Club (one day i'll write a blog how nobody uses the phrase webmaster anymore, basically its not the 1990's). I am planning on pumping out lots of new exciting content around Horfield CC but also the Bristol & District …
Grendel had already notified us that they were going to be a player short a few days before the match so we started a game up. Prakash's queen side opened up quickly before any of his King side pieces had developed, which initially caused him a few problems. He managed to even up after various …
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Huzzah! Following the clubs annual AGM on the 23rd May 2017, Jon Fisher was appointed webmaster for Horfield Chess Club. It is with great pleasure that we are able to launch the new Horfield Chess Club website. We will be updating and improving the design as over the coming weeks ready for the start of …
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