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Captain Mackenzie: Greatest Chess Scot!?
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Edinburgh Chess Club are delighted to announce that international Master and renowned chess author Craig Pritchett will be giving a talk at the club on Thursday 25th June. In this talk, Craig will rattle through the life, times and achievements of Scotland’s universally acknowledged eventual ‘world top ten player’; the great Paul Morphy’s successor…
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World Senior Team Championship
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Today’s blog has very kindly been written for us by our minutes secretary, Neil Irving. Take it away Neil… One of my few remaining ambitions in chess was to represent Scotland in an international team tournament. Having just passed the age of 50 I was now qualified to play seniors chess, so I was…
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Johnny Marr Allegro 2026
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The picture shows David Montgomery and Mike Ridge wearing their matching Edinburgh Chess Club fashions at last night’s Johnny Marr Allegro tournament in the club. Feeling jealous and underdressed? Check out our website and get your own! Who is the most famous “Johnny Marr” that you know? If you say the guitarist from The…
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Richardson Cup 2026
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Many congratulations to our old friends and rivals, Edinburgh West Chess Club, on winning this year’s Richardson Cup. The Richardson Cup is Scotland’s premier team chess event which was first held in 1899 and first won by our own club in 1901!! This year’s final was held at the National Piping Centre (music, not…
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Edinburgh 3 win SNCL Division 3!
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You can’t have enough ‘3’s can you? Many congratulations to our third team who recently won the Scottish National Chess League (SNCL) third division with an outstanding 8 wins and 1 loss from 9 matches. Edinburgh Chess Club were running four teams in the SNCL this year. The rules are that teams must be…
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Edinburgh Chess Club May Allegro – Results
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As we glide serenely towards the end of the season, exciting chess events are still happening. On Saturday 2nd May we held an open allegro tournament at the club which was massively oversubscribed with a long waiting list. Get your entries in fast for the next event! The entries ranged wide and far –…
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Aberdeen Congress
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Fancy a game of curling? No, me neither – too cold. Almost as cold as a league match in a draughty church hall in the middle of January – we’ve all been there… Luckily, despite being held at Curl-Aberdeen, there were no slip-ups at the recent Aberdeen Chess Congress where Edinburgh Chess Club first…
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Freddy and ECC on the BBC
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Not content with dominating the UK chess scene, our star player Freddy Waldhausen Gordon is now a global media star! Read the article about Freddy on the BBC News website using the link below – and discover the joys of trying to balance chess mastery with school exams. A great article reflecting the positive…
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Freddy Wins British Rapidplay Championships
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Many congratulations to Edinburgh Chess Club’s star player, Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, on a spectacular victory at the 2026 British Rapid Championships played over the weekend of March 14/15 in Peterborough. This is such an outstanding achievement that it has even made it into the prestigious Financial Times newspaper. Read the article here https://www.ft.com/content/d7c34db8-e0ae-4d3c-b93a-1d8770818ea4 Freddy…
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Freddy Earns IM Title
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Congratulations to Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, who is seen here receiving an International Master (IM) norm for his brilliant 2500+ performance at the very strong Graz International Open Tournament last month. Amazingly, this is Freddy’s seventh (!) IM norm. In the old days, getting three was enough, but recent changes to the rules meant that…