Club History
Battersea vs Krommenie: 80 Years of Unfinished Business
Battersea resumed an 80-year-old relationship with SV Krommenie from the Netherlands with a online match full of bonhomie.
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Result just in: Battersea thrashed Hammersmith in first-ever El Chessico 124 years ago
The year 1895 was a very, very different time. Except, perhaps, for one thing: back then the great Battersea Chess Club still smashed up Hammersmith with all the ease and elegance of a W.G. Grace cover drive.
Surrey is the hardest word: Brief history of Battersea in the Surrey League
The perennial question came up in our AGM the other night about whether we should re-enter the Surrey League, organised by the Surrey County Chess Association.