Leeds Chess Club

Welcome to the
Leeds Chess Club Website

We meet every
Wednesday from 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm

Venue
The West Riding Hotel
Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 2DE
(A minute's walk from Leeds City station)

We participate in the Leeds Evening League on Wednesday and the Yorkshire League on Saturday afternoon. We offer levels of competition to suit all abilities, including the very strongest. We are often represented by titled players on our higher boards.

NEW MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME

The Rayner Memorial Trophy (Fattorini 1898), our club emblem.

More about James Rayner and the "Silver Knight".

SUMMARY OF THE SEASON
2023/24

Leeds Evening League

DIV 1 - Leeds A - CHAMPIONS
Leeds B - Relegated
DIV 2 - Leeds C - 4th
DIV 3 - Leeds D - 3rd
MINI LEAGUE - Leeds M3 - CHAMPIONS
RAPIDPLAY LEAGUE - Leeds R1 - CHAMPIONS
ARJAY KNOCKOUT ("FA Cup") - Leeds A1 - WINNERS
(Randy Donahue captained 3 of the 4 teams!)
APPLEBY (u1700) All-Leeds Individual Swiss
CHAMPION - Essa Abakr
ELLIS (Open) All-Leeds Individual Swiss:
=2nd - Andrii Huk

Yorkshire League

WOOHOUSE CUP (Division 1)
(Leeds "A")
The league table says it all:

Huddersfield relegated after play-off.

A memorable Woodhouse season. Hull & East Riding, Sheffield (South Riding) and York (North Riding) fought it out at the top. Congratulations to Hull on winning it ahead of two very strong outfits. The rest of us stuck in the West Riding with ten different teams who have hated each other since birth were batting to avoid relegation. We stayed up on game difference after a very tough season. IM Gavin Wall, FM Tim Wall (no relation), WFM Liza Kisteneva and FM Pete Gayson travelled long distances to help keep us up. Pete also won the "Silver Knight" Trophy as top scorer in the team. Put all those titles together and we would still have been relegated wiithout the wily organising skills of FM Rupert Jones, the mug we've found to take all the stress. Thanks to all from the membership. We love it.

SILVER ROOK (Division 3)
(Leeds "B")
Back in the real world, the league table says it all:

Click or tap to enlarge.

Doncaster "A" were always going to run away with it, but we figured we could nab second place for promotion. New kids on the block, Ilkley Chess Centre B ("Knights") had other ideas. We beat them in our match, but slipped up on other occasions. We have lots of new members and some big improvers. Next season for certain.

Our Venue
We meet at the West Riding Hotel on Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 2DE. Club nights are on Wednesday evening, 7.00 till 10.00. The West Riding is a busy cosmopolitan pub literally a minute's walk from Leeds city station. The food is good, but the bar can get busy and noisy at peak times. The chess club meets in a quiet upstairs room. We also play matches on Saturday afternoons in the Yorkshire league.