Leeds chess club

Established 1834

CHESS LESSONS

Winning Endgames

All of these positions are wins by white within 50 moves

Endgames versus a lone King

Loosely ordered in difficulty from easiest to hardest

Queen and King vs King

Rook and King vs King

Pawn and King vs King

Two Bishops and King vs King

Bishop + Knight and King vs King

Advanced Positions

Queen and King vs Pawn on the 7th Rank

Lucena Position

Queen and King vs Bishop and King

Queen and King vs Knight and King

Queen and King vs Rook and King

Rook + 2 Pawns vs Rook

Two Knights vs Pawn

Queen vs Bishop + Knight + H-Pawn

Four Pawns + Rook vs Three Pawns + Rook

Force A Draw!

All of these are draws for white, if you can manage it!

3 Pawns vs Rook

Philidor Position

 

"I lose Queen, it's no problem!" - Zana Aziz.

Contact us

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!

Book Club.

Click here to view books that are available for loan.

New grades.

Both the 2010 ECF and YCA grades have finally been published, click here to see what your YCA is if you play for Leeds Chess Club. Click here to see what your ECF is.

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.