Welcome to the website of St Albans Chess Club. If you would like to play chess either in matches or just socially then you are assured of a warm welcome. We meet on Monday evenings from 7:30 at LRERA (London Road Estate Residents Association) on Cell Barnes Lane off Drake's Drive. The venue has a licensed bar. Club nights run every week of the year, except bank holidays. In July and August we move to the White Lion pub on Sopwell Lane. Aside from the regular club nights, handicap tournaments are played at Christmas and the last club night of June, and the club champion gives a simultaneous display in September. We have seven teams in the seven divisions of the Hertfordshire League (each playing twelve or fourteen matches per year). We also enter teams into the county's four knockout tournaments (open, U160, U140 and U100). There is an internal club championship for the Silver Rook trophy and an annual twenty-board match against Watford (the Cheshire Board).For further details, please contact enquiries@stalbanscc.org.uk
Lorin D'Costa will be running a coaching session for Seniors and Juniors at the club on Mon 12 April 2010
Subscriptions
Subscriptions are now overdue. for information please email treasurer@stalbanscc.org.uk
Prague 2010
This season's trip will be to Prague in February 2010. Please click here for details or contact Ian Cross for details and booking.
St Albans is ECF Club of the Year
St Albans Chess Club has been voted ECF Club of the Year for 2009. The award acknowledges the work done by the club for:
- Junior Chess
- the wider community
- our international activities, which makes us ambassadors for English Chess
Congratulations go to all members who helped maked this happen, with special thanks to Terry Douse and David Phillips for their work on Junior Chess, Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell who made the winning submission and to Chris Majer who presented our case to the ECF. The award was made on 21st September at the Simultaneous Match against Paul Littlewood. Click for picture, trophy and citation.
News of the 2009 - 2010 Season
For further details and other news form St Albans Chess club for this season please click on Latest News
Newsletter for 2008-2009 season click here
During July and August St Albans Chess Club meets at
The White Lion
Sopwell Lane
St Albans
The White Lion
The Lower Red Lion
www.buy-chess-sets.com
Who have kindly sponsored the South Herts Chess Congress. Please click on the links above or visit our Sponsors Page to find out more about these organisations and support them as much as they have supported chess in St Albans.