Club History
Battersea’s Surrey chess champs: A 91-year roll of honour
The Surrey Challenge Cup is the Surrey County Chess Association’s top individual honour with a list of winners going back to 1884—and…
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Club History
New evidence ignites Battersea’s bitter 100-year chess feud with Brixton
Battersea Chess Club can today reveal new research that proves 99-years-ago it was the victim of a shocking injustice in the London Chess League.
Club History
Revealed: How Battersea’s strongest ever player was nearly world champion
Isidor Gunsberg, a strangely neglected figure in chess history, was one of the best players of his generation.
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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.
Club History
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.