Saturday 17 January 2026

Play will commence at 9:30 and finish by 16:30
Prize giving and photos 16:30 to 17:00

Fee: £5 for each entrant
Payment & completed forms to be received by Saturday 10 January 2026. Completed entry form to be handed to Roger Newton  or emailed to tauntonchessclub@gmail.com 

Late entries or entries on the day will NOT be accepted

Payment can be made by electronic bank transfer or cash.
Name: Taunton Chess Club
Sort Code: 30-90-90
Account Number: 44813260
Please use your full name + RAPID as a reference on the payment.

There will be 8 rounds using ratings as at 1 Jan 2026. Each player has 15 mins on the clock, no increments. Please note that this tournament is not eligible for ECF grading and games are therefore unrated

Cash Prizes: Maximum of one prize per person

1st Overall £40; 2nd Overall £20;
1st Under 1500 £25; 2nd Under 1500 £15;
1st Junior, Under 16’s £20
1st Senior over 65 £20

Bring your own packed lunch – Hot drinks available – Tesco Express 50m away

The Club is closed for all of June, July and August.

The Club reopens Tuesday 3rd September 19:30

Tuesday 30 April 2024 at 19:30

No Chess will be played that evening.

A fun day was had by all who attended, games moved rapidly and the only noise to be heard was the clicking of the timing clocks, more intensly as the games neared an end.

All of the participating juniors received a medal for participating:

Jeff

Abel

Georgios

Jethmi

Adri

Josh

Louis

Louis won the First Junior trophy

Alan Stonebridge won the First Senior trophy

Josh was Second in the Under 1500 category

Louis Mallender won the First Under 1500’s  Adri won the Third Overall trophy  

Arnold Acibar came Second Overall 

And finally Niall Homer was the winner of the First Overall trophy                           

We look forward to holding another tournament next year.

We now have a Taunton Chess Club online shop to order t-shirts, polo shirts, hoodies and caps with the Taunton Chess Logo.  Junior and adult sizes available.

A big thank you to our club member / logo designer, Sophia Wainwright and to Stud Sports / Macron SW for helping us create the online shop.

Items can be bought online for delivery to your home and you can even personalise them for an additional price.  Head over to the menu tab “club clothing” to place your order.

CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Where:
St Michaels Church
Pitts Close
Galmington
Taunton
TA1 4TP

Cost:
£2 per session to help with additional costs.
(This charge still applies if you are a club member)

The sessions will be led by Chris & Niall who are both DBS checked, and Niall is the clubs safeguarding officer.
All equipment will be provided just bring yourself along and maybe a notebook and pen if you want to make a note of any tips you may pick up!

Can we also ask you to fill out the form below and return to either tauntonchessclub@gmail.com or hand to Chris and Niall on Tuesday.
Taunton Chess Club junior form

We look forward to seeing you there.

The gradings suggested that Taunton would win 2 ½ to 1 ½ but you will have to read on to discover the actual result.

Ioannis on Board 1 unexpectedly lost following a slight miscalculation (blunder?), whilst Richard on Board 2 duly won against his lower graded opponent. Even though you outrank your opponent you still have to play well to win. Well done, Richard.

On Board 4 Mike Ward was easily beaten by an opponent who outgraded him quite significantly so no real shame in losing that one Mike.

On Board 3, Phil who was playing with the Black pieces made a poor start but recovered to finish in an end game with a Rook and Bishop versus White’s Rook.

At one point there seemed to be loads of pawns but the next time I looked they had all gone. I thought this was going to be a draw and we would lose but he played very well and his opponent resigned before an inevitable mate.

2-2 was the final result. Well done everyone. It is great to be back playing OTB matches against other clubs.

And good luck to our Bishops who visit Weston Super Mare on Thursday.

Beware decommissioned oil rigs!

It also gave our Junior players some experience of playing against a very high graded player; teaching them patience as it took 15 minutes for Hugo’s rotation to complete.

Ultimately Hugo was able to keep his street cred in order and ended up winning 10 games and 5 draws.  Unfortunately for the club we had no victors but it was enjoyable to see the whole club participate.

This is the first time the club has held a simultaneous event and although we were short on time I think it was very successful and we hope to invite another high rated player to do it again in the future.  Other activities to look forward to are a rapid tournaments and dobble chess.  See you at the next event!