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

    Battersea’s Surrey chess champions: Roll of honour spanning 91 years
  • ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chair

    ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chair
  • Rook odds – the Handicap Trophy from March 19th

    Rook odds – the Handicap Trophy from March 19th
  • Half price membership for 2000s – GM/WGM/IM/WIM free

    Half price membership for 2000s – GM/WGM/IM/WIM free
  • Documentary short: women in London chess

    Documentary short: women in London chess
  • Nimzowitsch Memorial Blitz

    Nimzowitsch Memorial Blitz
  • Battersea to host London Women’s Chess Festival

    Battersea to host London Women’s Chess Festival
  • 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
  • Grand Prix returns for Summer Knights

    Grand Prix returns for Summer Knights
  • Tense finale as Battersea Women beat Hammersmith

    Tense finale as Battersea Women beat Hammersmith

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chairApril 4, 2024
  • Rook odds – the Handicap Trophy from March 19thMarch 15, 2024
  • Half price membership for 2000s – GM/WGM/IM/WIM freeFebruary 10, 2024
  • Nimzowitsch Memorial BlitzSeptember 27, 2023

Grand PRIX

Battersea Grand Prix
  • Grand Prix returns for Summer KnightsJune 17, 2023
  • Paul Stokes ends 21 years of hurt to be crowned club champ while Tom Butterworth wins the BarrowDecember 9, 2019
  • Grand Prix update: New round, new leaderAugust 28, 2019

London Chess League

  • ECF women’s chess award for Battersea chairApril 4, 2024
  • Battersea Power on! Club’s ‘Power’ team wins Minor West divisionJune 17, 2022
  • Everything you need to know about our league teams UPDATEDNovember 10, 2021
  • Captains, fixtures & venues: Details of 2021-22 league season revealedSeptember 14, 2021

Club History

  • Battersea’s Surrey chess champions: Roll of honour spanning 91 yearsMay 7, 2024
  • British Chess Magazine from 1922
    New evidence ignites Battersea’s bitter 100-year chess feud with BrixtonJanuary 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 championDecember 12, 2019
  • Battersea in the Morning Post, February 4, 1895
    Result just in: Battersea thrashed Hammersmith in first-ever El Chessico 124 years agoAugust 1, 2019

SURREY CHESS LEAGUE

  • Brave Battersea lose tight Alexander Cup final to KingstonApril 17, 2023
  • Here we go, here we go, here we go! Battersea into cup finalMarch 9, 2023
  • Blair’s team kicks off return to Surrey competition with winSeptember 28, 2022
What's on at Battersea Chess Club

Musings About Chess

  • COPYRIGHT: Julian Love Lifestyle Photographer London
    Portrait of a chess club: 6 players deep in thoughtJuly 10, 2018
  • A draw is agreed in chess
    Fool if you think it’s over… Battersea skip CHRIS BECKETT on when to agree a drawJuly 20, 2017
  • Stephen Dilleigh, Chris's opponent
    My best ‘worst’ game, a chess confessional by CHRIS BECKETTJuly 3, 2017
Tim Spanton's blog

Press & PUBLICITY

  • Battersea on the BBC's The One Show
    Battersea goes primetime as club features in BBC One Show item on Shreyas Royal
  • Battersea's team of junior's Vs Wood Green
    Can you solve it? Battersea brainteaser featured in The Sunday Times chess column

Battersea Variants

  • Battersea Variants 10: Get into Infiltration Chess!
  • Battersea Variants 9: Double-trouble in No Doubles!
  • Battersea Variants 8: Three is the magic number!
  • Battersea Variants 7: Say Yas to Seirawan Chess!
  • Battersea Variants 6: KNIGHTMATE on Falcon Road

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