Heywood Chess Club

Welcome to the Heywood Chess Club website!   

last updated 2nd August 2021

The club will officially open on 1st of September with a welcome back to Heywood Chess Club evening. The welcome back will include a competition which Steve Flaherty is calling 'The Chase' . Some of you may have seen one of our members, Martyn Hamer winning £££££ on the ITV version of 'The Chase'. It will be a fun event in which the better players will be heavily handicapped and each round will involve a negotiation with your opponent. Intrigued ? Well you will just have to turn up. We may even throw in one or two prizes. We don't know if and when the leagues may recommence so we are keeping our weekly online swiss tournament running each week on a Wednesday at 19.30 (link always points to latest tournament).

Due to the covid restrictions now being lifted we are able to attend the club for over the board games on Wednesday evenings please check on the whatsapp group to see if any one is attending, we will have to adhere to the clubs restrictions regarding covid rules.

Below you will find up to date links for our on line activites and contacts for other usefull web sites.

1. Our latest Swiss Tournament  This is our weekly 5 round swiss event. NB to play you must first join at link no. 2 below. Our tournaments are held every Wednesday from 7.30pm in line with our OTB club timetable. 

2. Click on this to go to our on line team on lichess This is our Lichess on line club. You can access our tournaments from the club home page. 

3. Blackpool & Fylde On line league fixtures We have 2 teams of 4 in Div 2.

4. Eccles on line team You will need to join this if you wish to play in Eccles numerous weekly events and anyone is welcome. 

As of 20th April 2021 we now have a new Facebook group created so that you can keep up to date with all the information being shared by the members of the chess club. 

Please do consider joining us on Social Media and stay in touch!!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1844521119044248

See you there! 

We also have a whats app group which is open to all for chess and general chat please request the join link  Here