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We are pleased to announce that we are running the 2nd Ringwood Rapidplay on Sunday 23rd June at Greyfriars. There ...

15/12/23 – Last week Richard Ormesher won an important B&DCL game against a strong opponent. In so doing we saw ...

In September Ringwood Chess Club won the English Chess Federation Small Club of the Year Award. We won this prestigious ...

The diagram above is from a Bacchus league match between Ringwood Waifs and Strays vs Southbourne Seagulls, with Tim Rushworth ...

Our internal Club Championship is running from now until 29th April 2024. The winner will have their name engraved on the ...

18/9/23 – Ringwood defeated Southbourne 4 – 2 in the semi-final of the KO Handicap Cup. Given how the handicapping ...

In the 2023-24 season Ringwood will once again be entering a team in the Bacchus competition run by the Bournemouth ...

Whereas the 2021/22 was one where all chess clubs, including ours, were gradually emerging from COVID and were often not ...

Introduction The first Ringwood Rapidplay tournament took place on Sunday 18th June at Greyfriars Community Centre. There was a full ...

Over the summer we will be running some fun internal blitz tournaments for members. The dates for these are: Monday ...

Another month of mixed results but overall we have reason to be happy. In Division 1 of the B&DCL we had ...

After “Fabulous February”, March was decidedly mixed, arguably a bit miserable! Out of our 8 matches we scored 2 wins, ...

Overall the club had an excellent set of results in February. In Division 1 of the B&DCL our A team ...

The diagram above is from a recent game in the Ringwood vs Bournemouth B Dorset League match, featuring Ben Willis-Owen ...

The diagram above is from a recent game in the Highcliffe C vs Ringwood B B&DCL match, featuring Neil Salinger ...

The diagram above is from a recent game in the Ringwood vs Salisbury Robertson Cup match, featuring David Fuller vs ...

31/1/2023 – We are now roughly half-way through the season, so it seems an appropriate time to take stock of ...

21/12/22 – We managed to win our two last matches of the year. Both were important wins in their own ...

11/12/2022 – We had an excellent start in the leagues but were bound to hit a rocky patch sooner or ...

13/11/22 – Our good start to the season has continued. On the 24th October our B&DCL A Team drew against ...

19/10/22 – Two more of our teams have got off to a good start to the 2022-23 season. On Monday, ...

On Friday 7th October, Ringwood A traveled to face Southbourne A in the B&DCL League Division 1. Southbourne were without ...

The 2021/22 season was an interesting one: as the country poked its head out to resume collective life again, chess ...

Our 4th Summer 10 minute + 2 second blitz tournament was held on Monday 4th June. Peter came first with ...

The friendly Summer League finished on Monday 25th July with our match against Highcliffe at the Fish Inn.  As with ...

We held our third Summer Blitz tournament on 4th July. There were a few people missing through variously holidays, birthdays, ...

In the summer of 2021, just as COVID was beginning to ease, Ringwood and Highcliffe arranged to play some friendly ...

7/6/2022 – We held the second of our monthly summer blitz tournaments last night and a very sociable evening it ...

3/5/22 – We held the first of our summer 10 minutes plus 2 seconds tournaments last night. Nine players participated ...

30/3/2022 – Having had a difficult start to the season with COVID impacting the strength of our teams in all ...

Here is the end of a game from the recent New Milton A vs Ringwood match. Martin Clancy was playing ...

19/1/22 – Fielding the same team that beat Poole A before Christmas, albeit in a different board order, Ringwood were ...

14/12/21 – Fielding our strongest team of the season so far and after a bit of a sticky start to ...

The results of the Ringwood Online tournaments will be disappearing from the Results page as it is revamped for the ...

Martin Clancy provides a summary of the COVID disrupted 2019-20 season. After an incredibly successful season the year before, the ...

From 20th September Ringwood Chess Club has a new venue – Greyfriars Community Centre. The Original White Hart had been ...

We will meet on Monday 13th September at the Fish Inn, weather permitting in the garden. This will probably be ...

There will be no face-to-face chess on Monday 6th. We will be holding our AGM that evening using online facilities ...

13/8/21 – On Wednesday 11th the return friendly match between Ringwood and Highcliffe took place at the Amberwood pub. There ...

30/7/21 – On Wednesday 28th Ringwood and Highcliffe held a friendly match at the Fish Inn, organised by Adam Ursell ...

22/7/21 – Monday saw the final Team Battle organised by Martin. Ringwood came in second, behind Southbourne but ahead of ...

6/7/2021 – Ringwood could not repeat its feats of two weeks ago and came fourth in last night’s team battle, ...

3/7/21 The UK Chess Challenge is a national event for junior chess players. It is a multi-stage competition with snazzy ...

24/6/21 – Following the success of the impromptu meeting the week before, last night we held another informal club night ...

22/6/2021 – Ringwood put in one of its top performances at last night’s Team Battle, scoring a very creditable 65 ...

8/6/2021 – With seven players we were the largest team and with some solid scoring we did well against some ...

25/5/2021 – Ringwood came second in last night’s Team Battle but that hardly begins to tell the story. We scored ...

11/5/2021 – Ringwood were fifth again in last night’s Team Battle, whilst Poole set a record streak of 4 first ...

27/4/21 – Last night’s Team Battle was an exciting affair at the top but not for Ringwood! After a string ...

13/4/21 Ringwood came second in last night’s Team Battle, with exactly the same score as last time, 53 points. Once ...