Leeds chess club
Established 1834
Last updated: Sunday 29 August 2010.
Welcome to the official Leeds Chess Club Website, we are a friendly chess club based near the centre of Leeds. We are currently looking for new members, if you are interested in joining us then everything you need to know can be found within these pages. Leeds chess club are the 3rd largest club in Leeds and we are the fastest growing club in the league. We now have teams in both the Leeds League and Bradford League (No other clubs in Leeds or Bradford do!) so we are now recruiting from the Bradford area as well! In the Leeds League we have an A-Team, a B-Team, a C-Team, a 3-man rapidplay team, a 3-man mini league team and a 3-man Arjay team. In the Bradford League we have a fairly strong 5-man team called Leeds 175 Insurgents. There's always room for anyone wanting a game, if you are interested, please get in touch! I must stress that we are still looking for new members, If you are reading this and you don't currently belong to a chess club but you would like to, please send me an email.
We are a young and extremely keen club, probably the keenest chess club in Yorkshire! Eager to learn more, eager to be a success and most of all... we want to be the best!
We can offer beginner to intermediate and some advanced players coaching, I also have a huge library of chess books that will offer something to anyone from beginner to grandmaster. If you like, we can play through some books on Wednesdays or... once you've been a member here for a while, I can even lend you some books to work on at home. To people who aren't interested in studying chess, that's not a problem! You are still very welcome to come down and play some chess.
Leeds Chess Club are all about meeting up and having some fun!
Here are a few shortcuts for both members and newcomers that I hope will save you time when browsing my site:
Join Leeds Chess Club, interested in joining my club? Click this link to send me an email.
Where do we play? This link will tell you everything you need to know.
What does it cost? Click this link if you're interested in joining but would like to find out how much playing chess will cost.
Members. Want to know what we look like before you come to the club? Then click this link.
Complete fixture list, this link contains all fixtures for all clubs in the LCA for 2009/10.
Latest results, League tables, results and other stats can be found here.
Chess tournaments, click this link if you are looking for chess tournaments in your area.
Local chess gradings, if you want to find out anyone’s grade. Alternatively, click here if you’d like to know how grades are worked out.
Other clubs, feel free to check out other clubs in Leeds. Our aim is not only to be the largest club but also to help the Leeds Chess Association as a whole!
Here's just a few of our members at the club playing some chess.
"Chess like love, is infectious at any age." - Flohr.
Next season.
The new chess season will start in October and should finish around May 2011. If you would like to play for Leeds Chess Club in the league this season, please click here and fill out the form. We are desperate for 3 teams and I need to know how many interested people we have. Thanks! Oh and you can view the provisional team lineups here.
New discussion area.
Hi members, just to let you know that you can now find a new discussion area on the team news page. Of course, this is a password protected area so you may talk about anything regarding your chess without giving anything away to other clubs! Also, if you forget the password or don't know it, send me an email and I'll let you know what it is. Cheers!
Recent Videos
Book Club.
Click here to view books that are available for loan.
New grades.
Leeds Vs Bradford.
Leeds are to take on Bradford in a pre season graded match, both Leeds and Bradford are hoping to get the best players from their respective leagues to join up. If you play in the Leeds league and would like to play for us in this match, click here for more information and a link to the entry form.
Next chess club night.
We are next meeting at the North Leeds Working Men's Club on Wednesday 01 September from 6.30pm onwards.
Leeds Chess Club Championship 2010.
The Leeds Chess Club Championship is now underway, the 2nd round is almost complete and 5 rounds remain. You can view the official Leeds Chess Club Championship page here, which is being updated on a regular basis.
Join Leeds on chess.com.
I now run a Leeds team on chess.com here and you can join if you fancy playing some team matches with us. We're currently playing matches with France, Kazakhstan, Austria, Australia, Korea and many, many more... It doesn't cost anything to join and play and new matches are started on a regular basis so you always have a chance to get playing some serious chess for us!
Team line ups for next season.
The team line ups for next season have been released, you can find them here.
