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View fixtures and results for a particular St Albans team by clicking on one of these buttons.

League tables are available on the Hertfordshire results website: chess-results.e2-e4.co.uk

Hertfordshire chess club venues and websites: http://ccgi.stevelaw0.plus.com/chess-results/files/clublink.php

Double Cross - St Albans 18½ - 31½ Harrow



This year's annual match against Harrow was played online using Lichess. There were two rounds played over 25 boards.

For full match score card see: Double Cross Match 2020

St Albans Club Championship - Silver Rook

The three qualifying tournaments were played on the dates:

Day 1, 16th September 2019

Day 2, 11th November 2019

Day 3, 13th January 2020

The eight players qualifying for the knockout stage are:

Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell (794 pts, day2), Robert Collopy (779 pts, day 3), Ben Sommerbauer (757 pts, day2), Jon Freeman (750 pts, day1), Aidan Ellis (744 pts, day3), Neil Willmott (720 pts, day 1), James Palmer (684 pts, day1), Liam Price (674 pts, day 2)

Qualifying tournament crosstables are available at:

Quarter Finals

Q1 v Q8

Q5 v Q4

Q3 v Q6

Q7 v Q2

For competition rules see: Silver Rook Rules

Cheshire Trophy Match vs Watford

This year's match took place at the West Herts Sports Club, Watford, on Monday 23 September. It was played over 18 boards.

Watford 12½ vs 5½ St Albans. See Cheshire Match Score Card

On the same night the two junior teams met in their first challenge cup match.at County Club, St Albans, It was played over twelve boards and two rounds.

Early Knights 12½ vs 11½ Watford Juniors. See Junior Match Score Card

Annual Subscriptions and ECF Membership

Annual subscriptions to St Albans Chess Club are now due.

If renewed before 1st October 2019: Early Knights £35, Adults £50, Concessions (u18 juniors / unwaged etc) £25.

Please, make all cheques payable to "St Albans Chess Club" and hand them to the Treasurer, Simon Narbeth.

When paying by electronic transfer, it would be helpful to include your name as the transaction reference and email Simon (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) to confirm that a payment has been made. Bank details are:

Bank: Lloyds Bank Account name: St Albans Chess Club Sort code: 30 93 90 Account Number: 16047868

It is also time to renew your ECF membership. There are several options:

BRONZE (£18, junior £6) is usually sufficient if only participate in club and local league,

SILVER (£27, junior £6*) if you intend to play in other ECF graded events (e.g. weekend congresses),

GOLD (£39, junior £19.50) for FIDE rated events,

PLATINUM (£75) as GOLD plus a donation to the ECF.

For further information on ECF Membership see: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-membership/

Renew or upgrade ECF membership online: https://ecf.azolve.com/Account.mvc/Login?ReturnUrl=%2f

* Junior Silver ECF membership is available FREE to players who have not previously been members of the Federation in any category.