Puzzle
White to move – checkmate in two moves. Thanks to Lucas for showing some of us this puzzle last week.
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Gwent Quick Play League (prov)
The Fixtures are in for the Quick Play League: You can find the Malpas Games in the Gwent League Menu (above). The first match is on Monday – 17th March 2025 at Home against Pontypool B.
Library at Malpas Club
Can I say thank you to Peter S for donating a large number of Chess books to the Club. These will be added to the Library (viewed via the Library tab at the top of the menu list) and anyone can borrow these to improve their chess strategy. Please, let me know if you would […]
10 min Rapid at New Malpas Venue – Mon 9th Sept
We are moving to the Malpas Unionist Club on Monday 9th September, 6.30pm. To celebrate, we cordially invite members of the Gwent League to come and join us for a 10 min Rapid play competition. The competition will start at 7.00pm at the above Venue. Clocks will have 10min each with 10 sec increments from […]
Gwent League Fixtures (prov)
The Gwent League Fixtures (provisional) are out. I have put the games for Malpas on this website. Please, if anyone can see any errors, let me know asap. Away teams (and home team members) are kindly advised that home matches are to start promptly at 7pm. Good Luck to all Teams in the Gwent League!!
Chess 960 Event
There is an event hosted by Newport Chess Club on Wednesday the 4th September 2024 at 7pm held at the Pen and Wig, Stow Hill, Newport. It is a Chess 960 event. Chess 960 is played with randomised positioning of major pieces although they are matched for both white and black. This enables players to […]
Recent Gwent Closed Championships
Congratulations to James Lavender, Lee Davis and Peter AC Varley for jointly winning the Gwent Closed Championships with 3.5/5 points. A hotly fought contest which allows them to jointly be names Gwent Champions. James did well to hold onto this title. Congratulations to Ron Williams who came joint first in the U1600 section with Bob […]
Gwent AGM
Can I make members aware that the timing of the Gwent AGM will be as follows: Wednesday 26th June 2024 at 7.15pm at the Sebastopol Social Club (Pontypool Chess Club Venue) Please inform Dave N if you wish to attend.
Quickplay League Schedule Announced
The Quickplay schedule has been released and the Malpas games are published below:
Newport Chess Congress 2024
We are gearing up at after Easter to get the ball rolling with spreading the word about the Newport Chess Congress. Here is a flyer. Details can be found at https://newportchesscongress.uk Please feel free to start spreading the word!