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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/26/c… This week's puzzle tests your defensive skills.

Chess Puzzle of the Week (415)

I’m spending a lot of time with Agnes at the moment, although I must say I’m not terribly impressed with her standard of play. Here’s a position from one of her games. It’s …

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Remembering IM Mike Basman (16-iii-1946 26-x-2022) - British Chess News

Happy 76th Birthday IM Mike Basman (16-iii-1946)Remembering IM Mike Basman (16-iii-1946 26-x-2022)

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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/23/c… We hope you found the solution to Monday's endgame study.

Chess Puzzle of the Week (414): Solution

Yuri Belyakin3 Pr Sverdlovsk TourneyNa smenu! 1951-52 White to play and draw. The main line of the solution is:1. Na2 Rxa3 2. Nc1 Rc3 3. Ne2 Re3 4. Nd4+ Nxd4 5. Nf5 Nxf5 with a beautiful stalemate …

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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/19/c… We have an endgame study for you to solve this week. Simple but pretty!

Chess Puzzle of the Week (414)

It’s quite some time since I offered you an endgame study, so here’s one now. Yuri Belyakin3 Pr Sverdlovsk TourneyNa smenu! 1951-52 White to play and draw. I found this in the September…

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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/16/c… How did you get on with analysing Monday's position? Click here to find out, and study a classic Lasker game.

Chess Puzzle of the Week (413): Solution

Monday’s position, featured in Chess Heroes: Puzzles Book 2, comes from the game Lasker – Chigorin (Nuremberg 1896). White’s queen and knight are a potent attacking force, but Bla…

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Having strengthened our team with some close-season signings we opened our Thames Valley Div 1 campaign with a convincing away win against newly promoted Wimbledon A.
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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/12/c… Another position from Chess Heroes: Puzzles Book 2 for you to analyse this week.

Chess Puzzle of the Week (413)

As we approach the publication of the last two Chess Heroes books, here’s another of the more challenging positions from Chess Heroes: Puzzles Book 2. White to move. What would you play, and …

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The return match between our Thames Valley D and E teams resulted in a draw.
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Here's the result of our first London League match of the season.
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rtchessclub.com/match-result… The return match between our D and E teams in Division 4 of the Thames Valley League resulted in a draw.

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rtchessclub.com/match-result… Our first London League match of the 2026-27 campaign resulted in a narrow victory over King's College London.

Match

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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/09/c… Did you choose to accept Black's sacrifice in Monday's puzzle? Click here to find out whether your analysis was correct.

Chess Puzzle of the Week (412): Solution

On Monday I asked you if you would accept Black’s knight sacrifice here. There were some conflicting views in our club’s WhatsApp group. The answer is that the sacrifice is unsound, so …

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Our first Surrey match of the season last week resulted in a draw against Streatham in the Ellery Williams Trophy.
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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/05/c… Here's another position from Chess Heroes Puzzles Book 2 for you to analyse.

Chess Puzzle of the Week (412)

Here’s another position from Chess Heroes Puzzles Book 2 for you to analyse. White to play. Black has just offered a knight sacrifice. Should you accept it or not?

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rtchessclub.com/2026/10/02/c… How did you get on with analysing Monday's position? Click here to find out.

Chess Puzzle of the Week (411): Solution

Monday’s position was taken from Zukertort – Weiss (Vienna 1882). White, one of the two strongest players, along with Steinitz, of his time, played Rd8 here, eventually losing after erring ag…

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rtchessclub.com/2026/09/28/c… Here's a puzzle from the forthcoming Chess Heroes Puzzles Book 2. Can you find the best continuation in this position?

Chess Puzzle of the Week (411)

The final two Chess Heroes books will be published soon. Here’s a position from Chess Heroes Puzzles Book 2. Zukertort – Weiss (Vienna 1882) White, to play, has a bunch of passed pawns …

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THE FIRST-EVER 11-YEAR-OLD WGM!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Congrats to Bodhana Sivanandan on becoming the first 11-year-old in chess history to earn the WGM title! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 She just made her final WGM norm at the Olympiad! Only Hou Yifan & Kateryna Lagno were even WGMs at 12! 🤯 📷: R Oleksiewicz
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rtchessclub.com/2026/09/25/c… Did you find the solution to Monday's Proof Game puzzle?

Chess Puzzle of the Week (410): Solution

On Monday I offered you a Proof Game puzzle composed by Gianni Donati (Source: Mark Kirtley’s series of Proof Game Shorties articles found on Angela & Otto Janko’s website and origi…

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