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Category: Club History

  • But can he do it on a rainy night in Battersea Chess Club?

    But can he do it on a rainy night in Battersea Chess Club?

    Interesting Games
  • Battersea’s Surrey chess champions: Roll of honour spanning 91 years

    Battersea’s Surrey chess champions: Roll of honour spanning 91 years

    Club History
  • ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chair

    ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chair

    Announcements, London Chess League, Women in Chess
  • Rook odds – the Handicap Trophy from March 19th

    Rook odds – the Handicap Trophy from March 19th

    Announcements
  • Titled player? We have free memberships available

    Titled player? We have free memberships available

    Announcements
  • Documentary short: women in London chess

    Documentary short: women in London chess

    Women in Chess
  • Nimzowitsch Memorial Blitz

    Nimzowitsch Memorial Blitz

    Announcements
  • Battersea to host London Women’s Chess Festival

    Battersea to host London Women’s Chess Festival

    Announcements, Women in Chess
  • The king is dead—Long live the queen! Battersea elects first female chair

    The king is dead—Long live the queen! Battersea elects first female chair

    Announcements
  • Grand Prix returns for Summer Knights

    Grand Prix returns for Summer Knights

    Announcements, Grand Prix

  • Battersea’s Surrey chess champions: Roll of honour spanning 91 years

    Club History
    May 7, 2024
  • British Chess Magazine from 1922

    New evidence ignites Battersea’s bitter 100-year chess feud with Brixton

    Club History
    January 25, 2021
  • Isidor Gunsberg, a strangely neglected figure in chess history, was one of the best players of his generation

    Revealed: How Battersea’s strongest ever player was nearly world champion

    Club History
    December 12, 2019
  • Battersea in the Morning Post, February 4, 1895

    Result just in: Battersea thrashed Hammersmith in first-ever El Chessico 124 years ago

    Club History
    August 1, 2019
  • Hugh Alexander

    Surrey is the hardest word: Brief history of Battersea in the Surrey League

    Club History, Surrey Chess League, Surrey League
    June 9, 2019

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