Well done to Ron Williams (shown) and Bob Wiltshire of Malpas Chess Club for bringing home a well deserved rating prize achieving 3/5 at the Gwent Closed Championship 2026 held in Pontypool’s Headquarters at Sebastopol Club. It was a great event with 16 or so entrants. May we at Malpas convey our congratulations to Cwmbran’s […]
Can we congratulate Madged, a new player to the Malpas club, for achieving 4.5 out of 7 in the recent Welsh Open tournament. Well Done!
Please find details of this tournament which will be help on the 25th to 27th April on the Link below.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
With one week to go we are still open for entries into the 2nd Aberystwyth Rapidplay on February 17th 2024. The venue is Gwleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol International Politics, Aberystwyth SY23 3FE. The entry costs are £18 for Aberystwyth Students, Alumni and Under 18s/Juniors and £23 for all others It will be a 7 round tournament with the first round […]
The South Wales Autumn Congress is held on Sat 7th – Sun 8th October 2023 this year at the Mercure Cardiff North Hotel in Cardiff. Details can be found at: