About the Club

Loughborough Chess Club was founded about 1890 and currently is one of the strongest clubs in the Leicestershire Chess League. For the 2006-07 season, the club has entered three teams in the League.

The club also organises a few annual tournaments:

The Quickplay Championship (all your moves in 10 minutes), normally at the beginning of October.
The Xmas Lightning competition (10 seconds per move). The 2007 champion is John Mitchell.
The Club Championship (League time controls), which runs throughout the season (this has not been held every year). Alan Jex has held the title since 2005, by virtue of no Championship having been completed since.

Any chess player who drops in on a club evening can usually be sure of a game. The most popular format is a 'friendly' 10 minutes game.

People who continue to attend the club are expected to pay an annual subscription fee. Currently, the standard rate is £45.

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