West Nottingham Chess Club

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

Other chess sites on the web

This is a selection of useful and entertaining chess web sites. If you know of any others, please email the webmaster.

Chess in Nottingham

• Nottinghamshire Chess Association
  Contact details for the league and its clubs; news and results; league rules and constitution.

Other local clubs

Notts League

• Ashfield Chess Club
• Gambit Chess Club
• Navigation Chess Club
• Nomads Chess Club
• Nottingham University Chess Club

Derby & District League

• Derbyshire Chess Association
• Derby & Mickleover Chess Club
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Chess Club
• Spondon Chess Club
• Trent Chess Club

National and international chess

• Midland Counties Chess Union
  The regional governing body.
• English Chess Federation
  The governing body of English Chess. Includes details of forthcoming events (including the British Championship) and links to county associations and leagues.
• Britweb
  UK Web Chess Guide: a portal to many other chess sites around the UK.
• FIDE
  The international governing body.

News

• The Week in Chess
  A weekly round-up of international chess news, including all of the week’s games from various tournaments available for download.
• ChessBase News
  Reports on the latest news from around the chess world.
• British Chess Magazine
  News from the world’s oldest continually published chess periodical.
• English Chess Forum
  Discussion of all things related to chess in England.

Playing chess on the Internet

There are many ways to play chess online. Here are a few:

• The Internet Chess Club (ICC)
  A hugely popular site – many of the world’s top players are members. Annual membership costs US$49.00, but you can play individual games as a guest for free.
• The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)
  FICS is similar to the ICC, but costs nothing to join.
• myChess.de
  Play correspondence chess via email. Basic features for free; extra features by subscription.

Books, equipment and software

• British Chess Magazine shop
  A large selection of chess supplies.
• Chess and Bridge Ltd
  Another general chess supplies store. If you happen to be visiting London, the BCM and Chess and Bridge shops are only one stop apart on the underground.
• ChessBase
  Home of the ChessBase database program and the very strong Fritz chess-playing program.
• XBoard and WinBoard
  Free programs for Linux and Windows that you can play against or use as an interface to ICC or FICS.

Game collections

• ChessBase’s online game database
  Search for any game online.
• ChessGames.com
  Another searchable database, but with many more attractive features than the ChessBase site.

Coaching

Our very own David Levens coaches many of Nottinghamshire’s top juniors. Find out more at David’s site.