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For information about Guernsey and how to get here see Visit Guernsey site also see links to Guernsey sites. Cheap flights can be found with early reservation.
Fred Hamperl has won the Guernsey Championship, his first time outright. Fred will play board 1 at the inter insular for the Channel Island championship trophy. It isn't clear who his opponent will be yet. There is a close fought battle between Jon Hawes, Christoff Belzo and Alan Rosenbeiger with just a few games to go in Jersey.
Pictures from Pia van Rossum that she did during the 2009 Guernsey Festival. Thank you, Pia!4NCL results: R1 Gsy v Gloucestershire Gambits loss 2 - 4, R2 Gsy v SCS win 3.5 - 2.5, see 4NCL page for more details.
Tiger Hillarp-Persson won the 35th Guernsey International Chess Festival with 6.5 out of 7. John Gibson won the Holiday tournament. The 36th Festival will be held at the Peninsula Hotel again from 17th to 23rd October 2010.
There will be giant chess in the market square Saturday 17 October 10 am to 3 pm to promote the 35th Guernsey International Chess Festival 18-24 October at the Peninsula Hotel.
Guernsey will be entering a team into division 3 of the 4NCL (Four Nations Chess League). There will be 11 rounds spread over 5 weekends at good venues in the UK. Please let Jonathan O'Connor know if you would like to play for the "Guernsey Mates" team. Player registration is currently underway. We could particularly do with help over the first weekend 24-25 October as it clashes with our festival here in Guernsey see link
Follow the Guernsey team's performance at the Euro Minor Nations in Andorra 20-28 June 2009. Guernsey beat Liechtenstein 3-1! see report
The club is meeting temporarily at the Guernsey Bowl Stadium from Tuesday 9th June until Tuesday 23 June (inc). This is the one behind the Houge du Pommier Hotel.
Fred Hamperl won the 2009 Open Quickplay with a perfect score see results, matrix.
Summer League starts Tuesday 26 May and Open Quickplay is Saturday 30 May. Contact Jonathan O'Connor for more information on the tournaments.
Guernsey lost the 72nd Inter-Insular match to Jersey 4.5-11.5 at the Jerbourg Hotel Saturday 25 April 2009. Well done to Jonathan Spicer for his win and to Tim Kinght and the Reserves team for their wins (Nick Argent, Matt Kirk).
Peter Rowe is the 2009 Guernsey Champion! After an exciting finale game with Fred Hamperl on 7 April 2009. Fred with white needed to win to be champion and went all out for it, but Peter came through to be champion for the 21st time!
Peter Kirby of the Guernsey Chess Federation won the 4th Spectrum Guernsey tournament held at the Peninsula Hotel 3-5 April 2009.
The Yacht Club has knocked down its club room as part of building works, this interefed with Mark and Fred's league game on Saturday morning (10/1/09), the board was vibrating with the whole building as the foundations were ripped off the sea wall. As a result of this on Tuesday night we had no room so Jonathan O'Connor organised a fun blitz tournament, Fred won see results matrix.
Peter Rowe won the blitz tournament held on 16 December 2008. Fred Hamperl was second and Wasif Anees third.
Follow the Guernsey team's progress at the Dresden 38th Olympiad, 12-25 November 2008. Guernsey now have 3 match wins and a match tie, having beaten Rwanda 3-1, Namibia 2.5-1.5 and Gabon 2.5-1.5 and tied with Angola 2-2 and Zambia 2-2. Also Peter Kirby achieved the Candidate Master title with his win on 23/11/08. It snowed overnight on 21-22/11/08 and it's all white here now. report - official website - results site - press article
GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson won the 34th Guernsey International Chess Festival with an outstanding 6.5 out of 7. GMs Bojan Kurajica and GM Kevin Spraggett were clear second equal on 5.5 points.
Division 1, 2 and 3 matrices for 2008/09 now available
The highest placed eligible player in the Open tournament will receive entry into the British Chess Championship 2009!
East beat West of Guernsey 7 to 4 - East v West results
Jonathan O'Connor has won the Spectrum Bideford Challengers with 4.5 out of 5. Congratulations Jonathan!
Jonathan Spicer scores 4 out of 9 in Dubai. Well done!
Jonathan Spicer is off to Dubai to play in the 7th Dubai Juniors 6-15 July 2008 for juniors under 14 years of age. The Guernsey Chess Club wishes him good luck! - See press report
Andy Hale won the Open Quickplay at the Yacht Club on Saturday 31 May 2008. Fellow school teacher Jonathan Hills lost to his pupil Jonathan Spicer!
Guernsey were defeated by Jersey 5-11 in the 71st Inter-Insular match. Guernsey won the reserves Withers shield and Fred Hamperl became the first Guernsey player to win the Dave Browning trophy in its 8 years existence. See Inter-Insular pages for all the results.
Peter Rowe is the 2008 Guernsey Champion. This is the 20th time Peter has won the title (including 3 joint firsts).
Fred Hamperl from Guernsey wins the 3rd Guernsey Spectrum Tournament (see game against Louis Jouault from Jersey in interesting game section). Jonathan Spicer won a prize with 2.5 out of 6 overall, which is a fantastic achievement for a Guernsey junior against overseas opposition.
The 71st Inter-Insular will be held in Jersey on Saturday 19th April 2008, at Les Charrieres Hotel.
The 34th Fortis Guernsey International Chess Festival will be held from 19th to 25th October 2008, in keeping with our tradition of the 3rd Sunday in October. It was a very difficult decision for us because such a good contingent of English juniors attended in 2007 and the 2008 half term holiday is a week later than our tradtional 3rd Sunday in October. Despite this we are hoping many of the juniors will still be able to attend. Entry Form.
33rd Fortis Guernsey International Chess Festival GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson wins with 6 out of 7 having taken a half point bye in round 1. GM Vladimir Epishin was equal second - click to see TV report - Press Reports - Festival Pages.
Fred Hamperl and Peter Kirby play at Neuchatel in Switzerland - see report.
Guernsey win 70th Inter-Insular 8.5 - 7.5. Fred Hamperl wins on board 1 to win the Garde trophy and become outright Channel Island Champion, last time that happened for Guernsey was in 1977, 30 years ago with Dave Browning - see reports - Full Report - Press Report
3 Guernsey players do really well at Cappelle La Grande, Toby and Anton were on stage with trophies winning their grading prizes and Fred got a 2281 performance! - see report.
Video of Peter Williams, 10 years old at the 2nd Spectrum Guernsey Tournament - click to see TV report
Guernsey player Toby Brookfield shared first place at Spectrum Chess 2nd Guernsey Congress on the weekend 16th, 17th and 18th of March at the Peninsula Hotel. See report. Entry form see pdf, Word doc, image 1 and image 2. See the Spectrum website here. Peninsula Hotel website.
IM Robert Bellin played 9 Guernsey Juniors and school teacher in simultaneous match, he won 10-0. See reports - Full Report - Press Intro - Press Report
33rd Fortis Guernsey International Chess Festival will be held at the Peninsula Hotel from 21st to 27th October. First prize £1,200 (approx Euro 1,800), second prize approx £800, two tournaments and lots of other prizes. See Festival pages for entries so far and history. Entry Form (web) Entry Form (pdf) - Information Leaflet . Good rates at such a high quality hotel £28 sharing and £35 for single occupancy with breakfast, see rates list Hotel special rates - Hotel web site.
GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson played a blindfold simultaneous match against 6 Guernsey Chess Club members at the Guernsey Yacht Club Tuesday 24/10/2006 7:30 pm in front of an audience. He won 6 - 0. Later he said he didn't use any memory techniques and just had an excepionally good memory, amazing! £125 was collected and donated to the Guernsey Blind Association - click to see TV report
GM Leonid Gofshtein wins 32nd Guernsey International Chess Festival. See festival pages for the crosstables and statistics etc. See the pictures here Channel Television video report on 32nd Fortis Guernsey International Chess Festival. Features GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson, CM Kevin Thurlow and Island Champion Peter Rowe - click to see
New! - Play through past festival games online in Java applet see Festival pages
32nd Fortis Guernsey International Chess Festival will be held at the Peninsula Hotel from 15th to 21st October. First prize £1,200 (approx Euro 1,800), second prize £600, two tournaments and lots of other prizes. See Festival pages for entries so far and history. Entry Form (print in landscape) - Information Leaflet Exceptional rates at such a high quality hotel £26 sharing and £33 for single occupancy with breakfast, see rates list Hotel special rates - Hotel web site.
Guernsey team at 37th World Chess Olympiad in Torino. Another record team score as well as Fide Master and Cadidate Master titles for two players. The Guernsey team is improving gradually all the time, many thanks to Robert Bellin for his coaching and support. See report. Report
Jersey win 69th Inter-Insular 11-5, Guernsey retain the Withers reserve match shield, held in Jersey on 6 May see Inter-Insular pages for pairings and history. Report
Southend Open, 3 Guernsey players take part, see report. Report
Spectrum Chess held weekend congress in Guernsey on 17-19 March 2006. The Guernsey players took away most the prize fund see report. Report
New Junior Club will meet every Friday evening at 6:30 pm at the Yacht Club.
John Bisson passed away on Sunday 23 October 2005. The founder of the Guernsey Festival and great ambassador for Guernsey Chess over many decades. He will be sadly missed by all of us. Obituary 90th birthday
GM Oleg Korneev wins 31st International Festival (see festival pages). Report
31st International Festival will be held from 16th October to 22nd October 2005 at the Cobo Bay Hotel (see festival pages for entry information). Festival pages
Fred Hamperl reports from Paignton and the important Guernsey Olympiad play-off match that was played there. Report
The Winter League returns to 3 divisions with 31 players, back to the old days, the Yacht Club venue has helped boost numbers.
East beat West of Guernsey in a fun match
Guernsey win 68th Inter Insular on 23 April 2005 despite losing all top 4 boards. Report Results
Peter Kirby reports from Dubai. Report
New Photo Galleries and Active Server Pages, full Guernsey International Chess Festival history under Festival section and new Inter-Insular pages.
Guernsey achieve record score at Calvia, Mallorca Olympiad.
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