History

Nick Holmes, with contributions from John Casewell and Dennis Bonner, reports on our experience of lockdowns in an article which first appeared in the February 2022 edition of the English Chess Federation ChessMoves newsletter 10 March 2020 – teams from four Shropshire clubs, including one from Telepost Club in Shrewsbury, are squeezed into a small, airless …

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Kate Walker reports on an unprecedented edition of the British Chess Championships, held online in the midst of the pandemic Playing 19 chess matches in 10 days is tough, but playing 19 matches in the days leading up to Christmas in a British Championship is even tougher! With all chess currently being played online since …

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Club founder Bill Clarke, from his home in Paris, reflects on rejoining the club and changes in chess Earlier this month I re-joined the club after an absence of around 25 years. How the chess world has changed since I formed the NALGO club in 1978. There has been a massive improvement in communications and …

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John Casewell takes us to the present day My father taught me the game of draughts and referred to chess as too complicated a game to learn. When my son Ian came along I decided to teach myself the game in order to teach him. At that time there was a TV programme by the …

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Keith Tabner takes up the story From 1982 to 1987 I played chess for Shifnal in Shropshire league division 1. NALGO were of course one of our rivals in those days. I remember one match played in December 1983. Colin Roberts and I had adjourned games which we had to win as NALGO were leading …

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Bill Clarke tells Keith Tabner about the origins of Telepost Chess Club You have really set the memory going and I am very happy to tell the tale. Even better I have dug out the original NALGO Chess club record book which I still have. We played our first game on 23rd August 1978 and …

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