West Nottingham Chess Club

• The chess club for Stapleford, Bramcote, Beeston and all points west of the city centre

Games

Throughout the season we’ll be adding interesting games played by the club’s members. To play through the games you’ll need to have Javascript enabled in your web browser.

The controls below the board should be self-explanatory. You can also click on any move in the game or in the notes to go directly to the position for that move.

If you want to download the games to view them offline, click on the PGN link at the end of the game page.

Games from 2006–07

• A win by Steve Thacker from the Paignton Congress (28 July)
• Two games by Matt Basey (28 July)
• The final of the Club Championship between Ian Kingston and Jonathan Day (26 June)
• John Collins demonstrates how to punish an opponent for trying to hold on to a pawn at the expense of development – Collins–Wagenbach (WNA–Belper B) (21 March)
• Ian Kingston’s win against Nick Payne in WN2’s surprise victory over Grantham 1 (31 January)
• David Levens’s win against Tony Wright (15 January)
• Daniel Lin’s neat win against Drag Sudar in the victory over Gambit 2 (6 November)
• Kingston–Exton: a thematic pawn sacrifice in the Sicilian Defence (20 November)

Games from 2005–06

• Guy Hinton’s win that decided the 2006 Club Championship (23 July)
• Daniel Lin’s entries for the Best Game prize (23 May)
• Nottingham Congress Two games from this year’s congress (30 April)
• E. Williamson–Unknown An original windmill tactic (27 November)
• M. Hill–M. N. Nguyen (West Nottingham 2–Nomads 1, Board 1) (27 November) Winner of the 2006 WNCC Best Game prize
• J. Billingham–Ian Kingston (West Nottingham 1–University 1, Board 5) (17 November)
• Pete Harrison–David Levens (Oxford 3–Nottinghamshire 2, 4NCL Division 4) (8 November)
• Ian Kingston–Marcel Taylor (West Nottingham Nightmare–Radcliffe Rockets, NCA Handicap Rapidplay Round 1) (1 November)
• Amisha Parmar–Robert Thompson (Ampleforth Junior Masters, Round 4: Game of the Round prize) (30 October) Winner of the 2006 WNCC Under 16 Best Game prize
• Ian Kingston–Ross Blake (West Nottingham 1–Newark 1, Board 4) (26 October)
• John Collins–Dave Flynn (West Nottingham 2–Fiveways 1, Board 4) (9 October)
• Two wins by Steve Thacker from the 2005 British Championship for the Visually Impaired (27 August)
• Two games from the 2005 BCF Congress (14 August)

Games from 2004–05

• Tim Walker–David Levens (West Bridgford 1–West Nottingham 1, Board 1): winner of the 2005 best game prize for both the NCA and WNCC.
• Games from the 2004–05 season
• Games from the simultaneous display given by Agnieszka Matras and Katarzyna Toma