Oxfordshire Chess - Links
There is a separate list of local clubs.
Admin
Clocks
www.chessarbitersassociation.co.uk/html/clocks.html
Highly useful information on how to set and adjust all sorts of digital clocks. Could anyone at your club give you the extra two minutes if your opponent makes an illegal move? Watch the videos and find out.
EPSCA
www.epsca.org.uk
English Primary Schools Chess Association - details of county ('inter-association') and schools tournaments at U9 and U11, and the England U11 team. Site can get rather out-of-date.
Southern Counties Chess Union
www.sccu.ndo.co.uk
Inter-county competitions, news, results, links, and healthily irreverent window into British chess politics.
Coaching
Carl Portman's web site
www.carlsplanet.co.uk
Here, you will find chess book reviews and my chess CV including details for chess coaching. I am an ECF coach and coach for Chess in Schools and Communities.
chessKIDS academy
www.chesskids.com
A superb website run by the famous Richmond Junior Chess Club, which offers full chess tuition right from learning the moves up to an advanced standard. All free!
English Chess Federation - Coaching Website
www.ecfcoaching.org.uk/
Set up and maintained by John Upham on
behalf of IM Andrew Martin, the ECF Manager of Coaching. Includes some interesting links to studies of chess in education.
Test Your Chess
www.testyourchess.com
Take the checkmate challenge! Suitable for children and club-strength adult players.
County Juniors
Berkshire Junior Chess
www.bjca.org.uk
Comprehensive website covering junior chess in Berkshire. Check out in particular the Saturday Afternoon Events, low-key tournaments on most Saturdays in the season.
EPSCA Jamboree Results
www.oxfordfusion.com/epsca
Detailed results from the inter-county competitions held by the English Primary Schools Chess Association.
Wey Valley (Surrey) Junior Chss
www.weyvalleychess.org
Wey Valley are usually right there at the top of the EPSCA events.
Wiltshire Junior Chess
www.wiltshirejuniorchess.co.uk
Keep up with our western neighbours. Look out for details of the high-class Wiltshire Junior Congress, usually in February / March.
Leagues
Four Nations Chess League (4NCL)
www.4ncl.co.uk
Follow the fortunes of the Oxford teams in the UK's premier league. You can read the team's own reports (sometimes a little delayed) at oxford4ncl.org.
News and Blogs
British Chess Magazine
www.bcmchess.co.uk
probably the most informative UK chess website. Full listings of forthcoming tournaments for both adults and juniors, reports on national and international chess news, and much more.
Play on-line
BFCC
www.bfcc-online.org.uk
The national governing body for correspondence chess. The BFCC Open now offers email as well as postal play. For full details contact Duncan Chambers ([email protected])
ICCF
www.iccf.com
The international governing body for correspondence chess now offers play by server at correspondence time limits, as well as the established postal and email play. Want to know more? Contact Alan Rawlings ([email protected])
Internet Chess Club
www.chessclub.com
The world's most popular internet chess club, with players ranging from beginners to grandmasters playing on it using the special software provided.
Tournaments
Kidlington Congress
kidlingtonchess.org.uk
Our local high-quality congress, held over the first weekend in February.
London Junior Championships
www.ljcc.co.uk
High-quality event played each December. Qualifying is necessary for the U12 section and below, at tournaments through the autumn.
UK Chess Challenge
www.ukchesschallenge.com
The biggest chess tournament in the world, with tens of thousands of entrants! Submit entries via schools in January. Internal school tournaments lead to county Megafinals in May and North and South Gigafinals in July. If your school plays in one competition, this should be it.
