The Chrismas Buzzer tournament was held on Monday 22 December with 19 hopefuls playing.

The usual carnage resulted, lost pieces, failing to move on time, sudden checkmates….all good fun.

This years winners were:

Santa – Alfie after a tie-break 3 second play off with Jaimie and Bill

Rudolph – Laurence witha clean sweep

The elves – Kyall with a full house

Mrs Claus – Paul winning all games too, and avoiding a clean sweep for the youngsters!

Photos in the gallery section of the web.

Round 4 draw can be found here.

We will have the Christmas buzzer tournament on Monday 22 December.

Move to the 10 second beat! Prizes! Fun!!??

Please be present at 7:10 for group set up.

The round two results can be found here.

For the most part the top seeds won through but Steve Coe defeated Bill McDougall having won a pawn early on to move on to 2/2.

Pairings for Round 2 to be played on 3rd Nov can be found here.

The Buzzer tournament is planned for 22 December.

Move to the 10 second beat! Lots of fun!

Here are the league tables for round 1 of this year’s box tournament.  You will see there are two leagues of 5 and a third league of 6 players.

All round 1 games need to be played by Monday 26th January 2026 at the latest.

Membership fees from Sept 2025
As you know Fishbourne Community Centre has had to raise their fees for the
coming year. As a result, we are raising some of our fees to make sure our club
finances don’t go into the red.
So the fees for the financial year starting September 1 will be:
 Adult monthly membership £9 a month, up from £8 a month last year.
 Adult annual membership £96 a year, up from £90 a year last year, but if you
pay before October1 st it’s just £90 for this year.
 Under 18s, students or unemployed monthly membership £4 a month or £45
a year, both the same prices as last year.
Big thanks to everyone who is able to pay and, if you are in financial difficulty, please
talk to the treasurer or a committee member.

Vinuda Gunatilake and Sidanth Pai  brought home big bacon from the British Championships in Liverpool.

Sidanth scored 5/7 ( unbeaten) in the u12 to finish 3= , 1/2 point off the winner. Excellent.

Playing in the Major Open , Vinuda, after a dispiriting 0/2 start racked up 6 points in the last 7  rounds, to finish 10= and gain 76+ rating points. We believe this may qualify Vinuda for the British Championship itself in 2026! Three of his victories came against players ranked over 2000 and 2100.  

Congratulations to both.

I am delighted to announce that the overall winner of this year’s Box Tournament is Graham Ellis with an outstanding overall score of 377.37 points.  Graham started the tournament in league 4 and finished the season second in league 2, so an amazing year of progress and a very well deserved winner.  Congratulations Graham!

Second place went to Jamie Wilson with an excellent score of 357.37 pts and Remel Ramirez was third with 343.37 points. Well done to both of you.

Other notable call outs are to Remel Ramirez and Penny Cullum for coming first and second respectively in the final round of the competition.

Thanks to everyone for their efforts to get games played by the various deadlines.  In total we managed to get 69 games played under competitive match conditions, with only 7 draws.