The club AGM will be held on 10 August, followed by the League AGM on 17 August, both at the Fishbourne Centre,

Jaimie Wilson and Bill McDougall shared 3rd place in a field of approximately 50 at the Fareham Rapid Tournament on 6 June.

Portsmouth Individual

The Portsmouth Individual Championship will be held at Emsworth chess club on Saturday 4 July.

Entry form is here. https://form.jotform.com/261246257142352

Remel held the draw versus Vinuda to reach an excellent score of 5.5/6 and claim the 2025-26 club championship.

Deatails of final round and standings can be found in the Internal Competitions tab

The final game can be found in the Interesting Games section.

Remel leads the tournament on 5 wins out of 5. Impressive stuff, including his win against title rival Rolandas in his round 5 match up. He now has to face defending Champion, Vinuda, in his final game – so if he walks away with the title, he will have well and truly earned it.

White			Black
Board	First	Last	vs.	First	Last
1	Vinuda	Gunatilake	vs.	Remel	Ramirez
2	Rolandas	Lukosius	vs.	Jaimie	Wilson
3	Stephen J	Smith	vs.	Ian P	Judd
4	Alfie	Edwards	vs.	Steven	Coe
5	Daniel	Hardy-Wallace	vs.	William M	McDougall
6	Graham	Ellis	vs.	James	Wheeler
7	John A	Hargreaves	vs.	Michael	Webber
8	Chris R	Squires	vs.	Kyall	Guy
9	Mike	Spence	vs.	Ian A	Richardson
10	Ryan	Kinzett	vs.	Julius	Cayago
11	Matthew	Furnell	vs.	Penny	Cullum
12	Alan	Reed	vs.	Chris	Wheeler
13	Lloyd	Jolley	vs.	Lucas	Summers
14	Adam	Taylor	vs.	Philip	Carr
15	Richard	Burle	vs.	Jim	Estey

Remel takes the sole lead on an outstanding 5/5 but 3 players follow on 4 points so still all to play for!

Match results can be found under the Internal Competitions tab, Standings are as follows:

Building works are underway that will impact the venue for chess.

In the short run  for this coming Monday (23rd Feb), we are only confident of having enough space to cater for the games scheduled to be playing in this round of the championship (12 boards).

Therefore, if you are not scheduled to be playing, we kindly ask you to please skip this week – unless you plan to come and watch but not play. Thanks for your understanding whilst we adjust to the new/changing arrangements.

Very well done to Kyall Guy who leads the competition with a great score of 150.96 points at the end of round 1.  He is closely followed by Penny Cullum (142.07 pts) in second place and Adam Taylor (135.43 points) in third.

Full results and Leaders table can be found in the Internal Tournaments tab.

All round 2 games need to be played by Monday 15th June 2026 at the latest.

Round 4 has left us with two clear leaders on 4/4 – Rolandas and Remel.

The chasing pack is a full point behind.

Round 5 pitches our two leaders together:

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.