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The ECF Online Grand Prix Series 2024 starts on 7th April 2024 and runs for 9 months. The ECF Online Blitz and Rapid Grand Prix events are held at 2.00pm on the first Sunday of each month (for the blitz tournaments) and the third Sunday of each month (for the rapid tournaments) from April to December 2024. The leaderboards and schedule can be ...
British Championship 2023. Saturday 22nd to Sunday 30th July. 9 round Swiss Championship with rounds starting at 2.30pm each day, aside from round 9 which will start at 10.00am on the final Sunday. First 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes added for remainder of game, with 30 second increments added from move 1.
Supporting this great event is The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust. The Trust (an independent registered charity) was founded in 2006 to support junior chess in England. . The Trust has generously supported the British since 2006 and in 2023 awarded the English Chess Federation £10,000 to facilitate the promotion and organising of the event and to provide junior coaching during the champions
Results. Schedule. News. Dashboard. See the current results and standings of the British Rapidplay Championships 2024 games, updated live.
Eligibility. Championship events are open only to British Isles Citizens, British Overseas Territories Citizens or players resident therein for the past year, or those with British Overseas Dependent Territories Citizenship. In Junior Championships, ages relate to 1st January 2021 e.g. an Under 10 will be born in 2011 or later.
British Championship (1904–present) The current championship series was begun by the British Chess Federation in 1904. The championship was not held in war years. It was also not held in 1919, 1922, 1927, and 1930 as major international events were then being held in England. José Raúl Capablanca won the BCF Victory Congress held in ...
BCC History. The British Chess Championships have run in an almost unbroken series since the first British in 1904, which was played in Hastings and won by William Ewart Napier as British Chess Champion and Kate Finn as British Women’s Champion. Leicester player H E Atkins won the second event in 1905, and still holds the record for the most ...
