13-10-2024WFM Title awarded to Arita Strade

Congratulations to Guernsey player Arita Strade on obtaining the title of Woman FIDE Master this month.

Arita earned the title for her performance at the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest in September where she scored 6.5/10.

13-10-2024WCM Title awarded to Gerda Nevska

Congratulations to Guernsey player Gerda Nevska on obtaining the title of Woman FIDE Candidate Master this month.

Gerda earned the title for her performance at the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest in September where she scored 6/11.

12-10-2024CM Title awarded to Garth Owen

Congratulations to Guernsey player Garth Owen on obtaining the title of FIDE Candidate Master this month.

Garth earned the title for his performance at the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest in September where he scored 4.5/8.

06-10-2024CM Title awarded to Jamie Morgan

Congratulations to Guernsey player Jamie Morgan on obtaining the title of FIDE Candidate Master this month.

Jamie earned the title for his performance at the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai in 2022, where he scored 4/9.

23-08-2024The FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championships 2024

The FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championships 2024 took place in Krakow, Poland in July and Guernsey fielded a team for the first time.

Peter Kirby, Peter Rowe, Toby Brookfield, Jamie Morgan & Colin Goman represented Guernsey and played nine rounds against the Norway Oslo Schakselskap, Poland Caissa, Brazil, Poland Malopolska Team, Scotland, England 4, USA 5 Brothers, Luxemburg TASM Scheffleng & San Germany Women teams.

Team and individual results are available here.

Read Peter Kirby's report on the championship, available here.

17-06-2024Summer League 2024

The Guernsey Chess Club 2024 Summer League starts on Tuesday 25^th June.

The league is open to non-members.

Contact tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg for more information or to register.

Games start at 19:15

02-06-2024The Summer Season begins with a Blitz Tournament on Tuesday 11th June.

The time control will be 5 minutes with a 3 second increment from move one.

Usual blitz rules apply.

There will be a minimum of 5 rounds.

The tournament is open to both members and non-members & anyone wishing to participate is invited to contact the Tournament Secretary (tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg) and register to play.

13-04-2024AGM - Tuesday 14^th May 2024

Members are invited to attend the AGM on Tuesday 14^th May at Les Cotils Coffee Shop starting at 19:30.

Anyone with an interest in standing for election for the role of any of the club officers, please e-mail gcf@gcf.org.gg.

We look forward to seeing you there.

08-03-2024European Small Nations Individual Tournament Selection

Congratulations to Arita Strade (pictured right), who has been selected to represent Guernsey in the 5th European Small Nations Individual Open Championship in Andorra starting on the 22nd June.   Congratulations to Gerda Nevska (pictured left), who has been selected to represent Guernsey in the 2nd European Small Nations Individual Womens Championship in Andorra starting on the 22nd June.   Arita and Gerda will be competing against players from (in alphabetical order): Andorra, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco and San Marino, over 9 rounds.   We wish them both the best of luck in the respective tournaments.

05-02-202485^th Inter-insular match between Guernsey and Jersey

The 85^th Inter-insular match between Guernsey and Jersey for the Hollis Trophy will take place on Saturday 27^th April 2024 at the Ambassadeur Hotel, Jersey.

Guernsey players wishing to participate should e-mail chess@gcf.org.gg.

09-01-2024Free Adult Beginners Chess Course

The Guernsey Chess Club will be running a free Adult Beginners Chess Course starting on Thursday 25^th January 2024.

The course will be running for eight weeks and will cover the basic rules of chess, what makes a good move and simple checkmates, basic tactics (forks, pins, skewers) and checkmating techniques.

The courses will take place at Les Cotils in Meeting Room 1 (opposite reception) and will start at 19:00.

The courses will be held on 25^th January 2024, 1^st February 2024, 8^th February 2024, 15^th February 2024, 22^nd February 2024, 29^th February 2024, 7^th March 2024 & 14^th March 2024.

Interested individuals are invited to e-mail chess@gcf.org.gg to reserve a place on the course.

01-01-2024Happy New Year

Wishing you a very Happy New Year from the Guernsey Chess Federation & Club.

May all your tactics be clear, your forks productive and none of your mates stale!

The club re-opens on Tuesday 9^th January 2024.

22-11-2023The Winter Season continues with a Blitz Tournament on Tuesday 12th December.

The time control will be 5 minutes with no increment.

Usual blitz rules apply.

There will be a minimum of 5 rounds.

The tournament is open to both members and non-members & anyone wishing to participate is invited to contact the Tournament Secretary (tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg) and register to play.

21-11-2023The 8^th European Small Nations Association Team Championships Results.

Congratulations to the Andorra Team who finished in first place in the 8^th European Small Nations Team Championship 2023 which concluded in Jersey earlier this month.

Peter Kirby, Fred Hamperl, Arita Strade, Gerda Nevska & Jamie Morgan represented Guernsey and played nine rounds against the Andorra, Faroe Islands, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Jersey & San Marino.

Team and individual results are available here.

Read Peter Kirby's report on the championship, available here.

21-09-2023

Congratulations to Matthew Kirk (pictured), winner of the 2023 edition of the Guernsey Chess Club Summer League.

Second place went to Nick Royle and Garth Owen placed third.

The Winter League starts next week and anyone wishing to participate is invited to contact Matthew by e-mailing tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg to register to play.

13-09-2023The Winter Season commenced on Tuesday 12^th September with a Lightning Tournament.

Arita Strade & Gerda Nevska (pictured receiving the trophy from Tournament Secretary Matthew Kirk) emerged as joint winners after five rounds and will share the trophy.

The Winter Leagues start next Tuesday 19^th September.

Anyone wishing to participate is invited to contact the Tournament Secretary (tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg) and register to play.

10-09-2023Junior Chess Club 2023/24

The Junior Chess Club resumes for 2023/24 on on Tuesday 12^th September.

Junior Chess Club is for young people aged 8 to 16 years old and is from 6:00PM to 7:15PM every Tuesday during the school term.

Interested parties should contact juniors@gcf.org.gg for more details or visit us at the Les Cotils Coffee Shop.

07-09-2023The Winter Season commences on Tuesday 12^th September with a Lightning Tournament.

The tournament is open to both members and non-members & anyone wishing to participate is invited to contact the Tournament Secretary (tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg) and register to play.

This will be followed by the start of the Winter Leagues and several social chess evenings beginning in September.

1. The time limit between moves shall be ten seconds.

2. Where a buzzer is used, each player on his turn to move, shall move

    immediately the buzzer sounds - not before or after.

3. A move must be completed before the buzzer ceases to sound. Any player

    exceeding this time limit is likely to be defaulted if this is repeatedly

    not done. An Arbiter should only give one warning of this, and there

    after enforce the Rule.

4. If a player completes an illegal move, their opponent can immediately

    claim the game. If they do not do so, but instead replies to the illegal

    move with a move of thier own, the illegal move stands and the game must continue.

5. Except insofar as they conflict with the Rules given above, the normal

    Laws of Chess (including the touch move rule) shall apply.

The overall plan is to have fun and this to be a friendly in this tournament, so we

should try to be fair and patient with a player that is new to this format.

16-06-2023Summer League 2023

The Guernsey Chess Club Summer League starts on Tuesday 20^th June.

The league is open to non-members.

Contact tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg for more information or to register.

Games start at 19:00

07-04-202384^th Inter-insular match between Guernsey and Jersey

The 84^th Inter-insular match between Guernsey and Jersey for the Hollis Trophy will take place on Saturday 22^nd April 2023 at Les Cotils, Guernsey.

Games start at 14:00

22-11-2022Guernsey retains the Hollis Trophy

The 83^rd Inter-insular match between Guernsey and Jersey for the Hollis Trophy took place on Saturday 19^th November 2022 at Jersey's Pomme D'Or Hotel.

The match, played for the first time since 2019, was hard fought and the result was in doubt until the last games finished.

Jersey were ahead 7-6 until the last two games finished in wins for Guernsey's Arita Strade and Colin Goman when their Jersey opponents ran out of time. Arita Strade won the David Browning Trophy for her win on Board 3.

Other winners for Guernsey were Toby Brookfield, Garth Owen and Dan De Lisle.

Earlier in the day the top board clash for the Garde Trophy ended in a draw between Jersey's Jem Gurner and Guernsey Champion Fred Hamperl.

Guernsey players Peter Kirby, Peter Rowe, Jamie Morgan, Terry Harnden and Nick Royle also drew their games with Jersey opponents.

13-11-2022The Winter Season continues Tuesday 15^th November at 19:30 with the fifth round of the Winter League.

Anyone wishing to take part in the Winter League should contact the Tournament Secretary via e-mail at tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg.

Social play continues throughout the Winter Season and anyone wishing to play a friendly game is welcome to come along.

02-11-2022

Congratulations to Gerda Nevska, who has been selected to represent Guernsey in the 1st European Small Nations Individual Women Championship in the Principality of Monaco starting on the 19th November.   Gerda will be competing against players from (in alphabetical order): Andorra, Cyprus, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco and San Marino, over 9 rounds.   We wish her the best of luck in the tournament.

01-11-2022

Peter Kirby represented Guernsey at the 4^th ESNA European Small Nations Individual Tournament in the Principality of Liechtenstein recently, see his report here.

31-10-2022The Winter Season continues Tuesday 1^st November at 19:30 with the fourth round of the Winter League.

Anyone wishing to take part in the Winter League should contact the Tournament Secretary via e-mail at tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg.

Social play continues throughout the Winter Season and anyone wishing to play a friendly game is welcome to come along.

22-09-2022The Winter Season continues next Tuesday 27^th September at 19:30 with the first round of the Winter League.

Anyone wishing to take part in the Winter League should contact the Tournament Secretary via e-mail at tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg.

Social play continues throughout the Winter Season and anyone wishing to play a friendly game is welcome to come along.

21-09-2022Last Tuesday's Blitz Tournament was won by Matt Kirk with a perfect score of 5/5.

He was followed in second place by Colin Goman with Arita Strade & Gerda Nevska sharing third place out of a field of twelve players.

07-09-2022The Winter Season commences on Tuesday 13th September with a Blitz Tournament.

The tournament is open to both members and non-members & anyone wishing to participate is invited to contact the Tournament Secretary (tournament.secretary@gcf.org.gg) and register to play.

This will be followed by the start of the Winter Leagues and several social chess evenings beginning in September.

28-06-2022

Congratulations to Peter Kirby, who has been selected to represent Guernsey in the 4th ESNA European Small Nations Individual Chess Championship in the Principality of Liechtenstein starting on the 24th September.   Peter will be competing against players from (in alphabetical order): Andorra, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and San Marino, over 9 rounds.   We wish him the best of luck in the tournament.

11-06-2022

Championship Results 2021/22 Fred Hamperl became Guernsey Chess Champion for the 10th time in his career as "Over the Board" chess returned to the Guernsey Chess Club at Les Cotils for the 2021/22 following 2 years of pandemic disruption. The Championship is played over two cycles, one before and one after Christmas and Fred had an outstanding second cycle winning all his 7 games to have a total of 11 points after both cycles and overtaking Gerda Nevska and Toby Brookfield with scores of 8.5 and 7 respectively. The runner up in the Championship was decided after Gerda Nevska followed up on her first cycle win over Toby Brookfield with a decisive victory over him in the second cycle. Former Guernsey Champion Peter Rowe placed 5th behind Andy Hale in 4th place.

01-06-2022We now have an Instagram account and you can find us there using GuernseyChess

06-05-2022We now have a Twitter account and you can follow us using our handle @GuernseyChess

04-05-2022The AGM will be held on Tuesday 7^th June at Les Cotils at 7.30pm.

05-12-2021Congratulations to the Guernsey Team who finished in sixth place in the 7^th European Small Nations Team Championship 2021 which concluded in Malta yesterday.

Peter Kirby, Fred Hamperl, Andrew Hale & Gerda Nevska represented Guernsey and played nine rounds against the Faroe Islands, Andorra, Monaco, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, Jersey, Liechtenstein & the ESNA Women.

Team and individual results are available here.

Read Peter Kirby's report on the championship, available here.

English GM Mark Hebden won the open section of the 45^th Guernsey International Chess Festival with a perfect score of seven wins in seven games to achieve his sixth tournament victory in the Festival.

Arita Strade won the Holiday tournament for the second year running, becoming only the third person to do so.

Congratulations to Chris Holland for scoring an excellent 4/9 in the 106^th British Chess Championships.

Guernsey scored 11.5 to Jersey's 4.5 for an emphatic win in the 82nd Inter Insular. Congratulations to Chris Holland for sharing the Channel Island Championship trophy and to Fred Hamperl for winning the Browning trophy.

Guernsey and Latvia's Arita Strade won the 2018 Holiday Tournament

Summer League started contact Peter Rowe

Champion 2017/18 is Chris Holland

Guernsey and Latvia's Gerda Nevska won the 2017 Holiday Tournament.

Winter league starts Tuesday 19 September 2017 see fixtures matrices.

Arita Strade won the quickplay buzzer tournament played on Tuesday 12 September 2017 at the Grange Lodge Hotel.

Fred Hamperl won the Malta summer FIDE rated tournament (while he was on holiday) see final standings here.

Summer League starts Tuesday 30 May contact Kerry Bateman if you wish to play in it.

Fred Hamperl won the Blitz tournament on 23 May 2017 with Gerda Nevska second with the same score (Fred won the play-off).

Guernsey clutched defeat from the jaws of victory at the 80^th inter-insular match, losing 7.5 to 8.5 (see inter-insular pages for full results).

Chris Holland won the winter league and became the 18^th Guernsey champion.

The 42^nd Intertrust Guernsey International Chess Festival was won by grandmaster Tiger Hillarp-Persson of Sweden (for a record 7^th time).

Grandmaster Jean-Pierre Le Roux of France came outright second.

In the Holiday Tournament, Adry Goris-Schouwstra grabbed a share of the title alongside Wim van Hoek, as the week-long leader conceded a final round draw.

Winter league starts Tuesday 27 September 2016 see fixtures matrices.

At the Baku Olympiad Guernsey finished 136^th out of 170 countries taking part (180 listed but only 170 actually played) against seeding of 143^rd.

The team of Kirby, Rowe, Brookfield, Hale and Bateman all contributed to a total of 20.5 points achieving 3 match wins, 2 drawn matches and 6 losses.

Rowe and Brookfield were joint top scorers with 5.5 out of 10 with Kirby close behind on 5 out of 9.Hale contributed 2.5 points and Bateman at his first Olympiad 2 chipped in with 2 wins.

Highlights were the 4-0 victory over Lesotho and a hard fought 2-2 draw with Jersey.

Summer league is starting see fixtures matrix here.

Guernsey narrowly lost the 79^th Inter-Insular match in Jersey on Saturday 23 April 7.5 to 8.5.

There were wins from Chris Holland, Graham Tyre, Jonathan Spicer and Oliver Rowe and draws from Peter Kirby, Toby Brookfield, Peter Rowe, Colin Goman, David Savident and Terry Harnden.

Fred Hamperl retained the Channel Island champion honours for the 7^th consecutive year.

The reserves match was won by Guernsey with Philmore Pascua winning and Bogdan Nalichowski drawing. See results here!

Peter Kirby represented Guernsey at the Small Nations Individual tournament in Luxembourg he did exceptionally well, see his report here.

79th Inter-Insular teams exchanged for Saturday 23 April match in Jersey. Fred Hamperl plays Louis Jouault on board 1 as champions from each island. Arita Strade from Latvia living in Guernsey plays on board 6, David Savident faces Jersey's Philip Le Feuvre again! see Inter Insular pages for full line-up.

Guernsey's Toby Brookfield had his brilliancy published in the Daily Telegraph and the Guernsey Chess Festival was covered as well, see article Brookfield Brilliancy!

The 41st Intertrust Guernsey International Chess Festival ended with a four-way tie for first place between Thorben Koop and grandmasters Petar Drenchev, Mark Hebden and Marian Petrov.

The quartet shared £2,300 of the £4,280 prize pot, while Koop received the trophy on countback.

David Newell, Wim van Hoek and Brian Stuart were joint winners of the Holiday Tournament, with the trophy going to Newell, the long-time outright leader.

Toby Brookfield became only the second Channel Islander to receive the coveted Brilliancy Prize.

See press reports here.

Blitz 22/9 and winter league starting 29/9 please contact Matt Kirk if you're interested.

Guernsey lost the match with Domloup only managing wins from Matt Kirk and Fred Hamperl. Toby Brookfield and Andy Hale finished equal 3^rd in the Domloup open. Chris Holland won the Domloup blitz open.

August 31^st 2015 Guernsey will play Domloup chess club in the inaugural match of what we hope will become an annual fixture between our two clubs. Details for the event are progressing well and there may still be an opportunity to participate if you find that your calendar opens up. Contact Oliver Rowe if you may have an interest in playing what promises to be an enjoyable event.

Fred Hamperl's combination is published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper click here to see.

Oliver Rowe played in Domloup in France 6/7 June 2015 and finshed with a 50% score see results.

Jersey won the inter insular match on Saturday 30 May, 9 - 7. Fred Hamperl won on top board for Guernsey retaining the Channel Island Championship title for the 6^th consecutive year a Channel Island all time record.

October Festival Holiday Tournament will be FIDE rated!

4th European Small Nations Tournament, 18-25 April 2015 Les Cotils Guernsey. Go to tournament site click here.

Fred Hamperl won the 2015 Championship.

Peter Rowe leads championship after first cycle with 7 points, Andy Hale and Fred Hamperl are only half a point behind. Steve Naftel and Jon Bridel are promoted, with Terry Harnden and Matt Kirk relegated.

Festival open games now available on festival pages.

GM Eric Hansen from Canada won the 40^th Guernsey International Chess Festival Open tournament!

The Holiday Tournament Winner was Dennis O'Connell of Ireland.

Ralph Hallerod from Sweden won the most brilliant game prize.

Olympiad Tromso August 2014 - Guernsey team achieve all their goals and more!

The Guernsey team scored 21 points out of a possible 44, a fantastic 48%! The target was to try and beat the Torino 2006 record of 38% but the team smashed that, equalling the Channel Island combined team record of 48% from Nice 1974 and Dubai 1986.

Andy Hale stood out with his 5.5 out of 9, achieving the CM title after only 5 rounds and so narrowly missing out on FM. Fred Hamperl scored 6 out of 9 for FM again and Chris Holland, Toby Brookfield and Peter Rowe put in good performances. Guernsey's coach/captain was the 2013 best book award winning Axel Smith from Sweden, he helped the team enormously see his report on Guernsey's performance here.

President of FIDE - Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visit to Guernsey 15 June 2014. He likes (a lot!) the Euro Small Nations April 2015 venue - Les Cotils See Report

Junior chess club and summer league start this evening Tuesday 3/6/2014 at Grange Lodge 7pm juniors & 7.30pm summer league. Please contact Fred Hamperl re junior club hamperlfred@hotmail.com.

Guernsey tied the 77^th Inter Insular match 8 - 8 and won the reseves match on Saturday 17 May at the Normandie Hotel in Jersey.

Fred Hamperl won on the top board to retain the Channel Island championship trophy, Peter Kirby won the Browning trophy for Guernsey on board two. press report

AGM is Tuesday 13 May at Grange Lodge 7.30pm.

Peter Kirby represented Guernsey at the 1st Small Nations Individual Zonal Tournament in April 2014 in Larnaka Cyprus.

He did very well winning two games and drawing two.

He beat Jersey and San Marino see tournament website.

Guernsey won two matches(beating Jersey and Malta) in the 3rd Euro Small Nations tournament in Monaco (finished 2 December 2013) see report

GM Sergei Tiviakov won the 39^th Guernsey International Chess Festival Open tournament!

Holiday Winners Dennis O'Connell and Wim van Hoek.

Jude Lenier won the most brilliant game prize see report.

Winter League starts Tuesday 24 September, matrices now online!

Fred Hamperl won the 2013 summer league and the 15 minute reapid play on Tuesday 17 September.

AGM is Tuesday 14 May at Grange Lodge.

Summer League is being organised by Toby Brookfield please let us know if you can play in it.

Guernsey lost the 76^th Inter Insular match 5.5 - 10.5 on Saturday 27 April at Les Cotils, but Fiona Naftel made sure everyone had a great time.

Fred Hamperl drew with Black on the top board to retain the Channel Island championship trophy.

GMs Mark Hebden and Marc Narciso won the 38^th Guernsey International Chess Festival Open tournament!

Holiday Winners Jonathan Perrin, Wim van Hoek and Peter van Nijen.

Twelve year old Theo Slade won the most brilliant game prize see report.

Winter League starts on Tuesday 25 September - Grange Lodge 7.30 pm - Check new matrices to see who your opponent is.

The Guernsey team have returned from the Istanbul Olympiad see results on Olympiad link.

Photo: Board1: Fred Hamperl, Board2: Peter Kirby, Board3: Peter Rowe, Board4: Toby Brookfield (not in photo Reserve: Tim Knight).

Guernsey won the 75^th Inter Insular match 9 - 7 on Saturday 28 April at Hotel de Normandie in Jersey.

Fred Hamperl won with White on the top board to retain the Channel Island championship trophy.

Team Captain Kerry Bateman was the last to finish his game and he sealed the victory for Guernsey with his win.

David Savident played his way back into form as several Guernsey players entered the Bournemouth Congress 21 April 2012.

75^th Inter Insular teams have been exchanged tonight 18 April 2012 click on Inter Insular link in menu and then click match results query button to see pairings scroll down for reserves match.

Fred and Toby go to Avoine and stay in Chinon, Loire Valley, 9-11 March 2012.

Fred beats the local hero IM and wins the open, Toby is equal 11th See Report  Results see game in interesting games section

See article in Gallery magazine (February 2012 edition), have a laugh at the terrible photo of Fred, Page1 & Page2

Guernsey has selected its summer 2012 Istanbul Olympiad team: Fred Hamperl, Peter Rowe, Toby Brookfield, Tim Knight and Peter Kirby see announcement here.

The Guernsey Press had this photo question on Wednesday 18 January Click to see! do you know who it is?

Answer with other young Guernsey greats!

Division 2 cycle 2 matrix now online.

Congratulations to Bogdan Nalichowski and Jonathan Spicer who are promoted to the first division after the first cycle.

Wasif Anees won the 10 minute blitz tournament held on 10 January 2012.

John Cummins was second and Matt Kirk third.

Richard Thorburn did very well in joint fifth with a 50% score.

Guernsey's Kerry Bateman was recognised in the Daily Telegraph for his brilliancy see article Bateman Brilliancy!

GM Sarunas Sulskis won the 37^th Guernsey International Open with 6/7.

GMs Pert and Hebden were 2^nd equal with David Collier and Tiger was 5^th with 3 other players.

Peter Hoogakker finally won the Holiday tournament after coming 2^nd four times before.

Click buttons on top left corner for pairings and crosstables - also see press articles here Festival 2011

2005-6 World Champion, Veselin Topalov visited Guernsey on 5/6 October 2011 and palyed a simultaneous match against the Guernsey Chess Federation see report - press report

Silvio Danailov president of the European Chess Union made a presentation to the Guernsey Education department in connection with chess in schools in Guernsey.

The meeting was very positive and was a good start to the CIS iniative in Guernsey.

Matthew Kirk and Fred Hamperl won the Blitz tournament held on 20 Sept 2011 with 6 points over 7 rounds.

David Savident was third with 5 points and Peter Rowe and Andy Hale were joint fourth with 4 and half points.

Blitz 20 Sept 2011, Winter League starts 27 Sept 2011, please come along!

Peter Rowe won the 2011 Summer League with 10 points out of 12.

2^nd Euro Minor Nations in the Faroe Islands August 2011. Guernsey beat Jersey 2.5-1.5! see report.

Jonathan Spicer is the St Peter's Master, winning with a perfect score, held at La Pomare Saturday 9 July, 2pm.

Jonathan beat Channel Island champion Fred Hamperl in the last round, on a board balancing on a high wall (both players standing).

In fact all the boards were scattered around the the big traditional Guernsey granite farmhouse, inside and outside in the gardens.

The non regular chess player trophy went to Matt Cable with 2.5 out of 4 (I never thought I'd ever see the day when I'd be adding Matt's name to a chess website for chess prowess, then neither did he I expect :-).

Thanks to Mark Dunster for hosting and Toby Brookfield for organising. see poster.

Tuesday 31 May 2011 - Tim Knight and Peter Rowe shared first place in the Buzzer quickplay, 3^rd were Matthew Kirk, David Savident and Fred Hamperl.

Remember summer league starts next week.

Summer League starts Tuesday 7 June, contact Toby.

Buzzer quickplay Tuesday 31 May, contact Fred.

All at Grange Lodge Hotel.

Please come along!

Tuesday 24 May 2011 - Fred Hamperl won the deferred 2010 Blitz tournament.

Peter Rowe was 2^nd, Wasif Anees 3^rd and Bogdan Nalichowski 4^th.

Toby Brookfield has written an excellent newsletter please see it on this link Knights before Bishops.

The AGM is Tuesday 17 May 7.30 pm at the Grange Lodge Hotel.

Please come along!

Jersey won the 74^th Inter Insular match 9 - 7 on Saturday 14 May at the Grange Lodge Hotel.

Fred Hamperl drew with black on the top board to retain the Channel Island championship trophy.

Toby Brookfield won the Browning Trophy for highest board win, Jonathan Spicer won the hat-trick trophy for his magnificent 3 wins out of 3 in Inter Insulars.

Sam Smith was crowned Channel Island junior champion.

Many thanks to grandmaster Neil McDonald for attending and helping players from both islands. press report.

Fred Hamperl came equal 17^th in the Thessaloniki Open in Greece out of a field of over 100 players.

Inter Insular teams were exchanged on 12 April see teams in Inter Insular section.

Fred Hamperl is the new 2011/12 Guernsey Champion.

Peter Rowe came second and Toby Brookfield stormed through the field to gain third place.

Andy Hale was fourth.

At Castle Chess weekend tournament in Jersey, Guernsey's Toby Brookfield finished second and Jonathan Spicer won the junior and a grading prize.

In Choisille, Loire Valley France, Fred Hamperl got a good 2100 performance.

David Smith and Toby Brookfield played in Gibraltar 2 week tournament.

Nick Pert won the 36^th Guernsey International Open on tie break from Tiger-Hillarp-Persson and Evgeny Sveshnikov.

ieter Sandijck won the holiday tournament - see press articles Festival 2010

Guernsey's Olympiad team are in Siberia - see press articles 28-09-2010   01-10-2010   05-10-2010   08-10-2010.

Winter league starts 28 September.

Matrices updated online now.

Jonathan Spicer finished equal 19^th in the British under 16's with 2.5 out of 7.

Fred Hamperl finished 8^th equal with 2 other players in Ischia (Italian island north of Capri).

The tournament had 6 GMs, 2 IMs, 1 WGM and 2 FMs in it.

Fred mated the French WGM (Women's Grand Master) in the last round to win Euro 200 (he finished above the Itlaian champion), see interesting games.

Also see humorous press article on his last round game see press article.

Dave Smith lead a very successful last minute organised rescue mission to the 4NCL bank holiday weekend 1, 2 & 3 May 2010.

Guernsey beat e2-e4 3.5-2.5 on the Saturday with a win from Fred Hamperl on board 1 and a great captain's victory from Dave Smith on board 6. On Sunday we lost to Bristol 2 2-4, but the match was closer than the scoreline suggested.

Then on Monday Guernsey Mates won 4-2 to make Guernsey's final score for the season look much more respectable.

Many thanks to Graham Mooney, Matthew Simmons and Shankar Kumar from the Jersey squad that helped us out.

Also thank you to Ian Jamieson and David Sedgwick for supporting us.

Not forgetting Toby Brookfield who played well but was just a little unlucky seeing a couple of great positions slip away.

Guernsey win 2010 Inter Insular 9.5 - 6.5 see press article.

Change of venue from 20 April 2010 until end of September 2010 - Cobo Bay Hotel back function room.

Colin Goman clinches the second div 2 promotion place.

Jonathan Spicer holds on to his division 1 spot with a great win with the black pieces in a critical relegation one on one game.

Summer League starts Tuesday 13 April Grange Lodge, see matrix on summer league pages.

Dave Smith is the winner of Division 2 and will play for the championship next year.

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 35^th Guernsey International Chess Festival with 6.5 out of 7.

John Gibson won the Holiday tournament.

There will be giant chess in the market square Saturday 17 October 10 am to 3 pm to promote the 35^th 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 9^th 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 72^nd 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 4^th 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 38^th 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 34^th 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 71^st 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 3^rd 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 71^st Inter-Insular will be held in Jersey on Saturday 19th April 2008, at Les Charrieres Hotel.

33^rd 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 2^nd Spectrum Guernsey Tournament -  click to see TV report

Guernsey player Toby Brookfield shared first place at Spectrum Chess 2^nd Guernsey Congress on the weekend 16^th, 17^th and 18^th 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

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 32^nd Guernsey International Chess Festival. See festival pages for the crosstables and statistics etc.

See the pictures here. 

Channel Television video report on 32^nd Fortis Guernsey International Chess Festival. Features GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson, CM Kevin Thurlow and Island Champion Peter Rowe -  view here.

New! - Play through past festival games online in Java applet see Festival pages.

Guernsey team at 37^th 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.

Jersey win 69^th 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.

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 31^st International Festival (see festival pages).

Report

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 68^th 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.