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 chess club night.

We are next meeting at the North Leeds Working Men's Club on Wednesday 10th March from 7pm onwards.

Most improved player of the year award 2010.

I am introducing this award at the end of the season, for a player to be eligible he must be a member of Leeds Chess Club, have a current YCA grade & to have played 10 or more games for the club by the end of the season.


More details can be found on the Team News page after clicking on the LCC STATS 2009/10 link, there you will be able to see who has the highest plus score currently. John Light is the current leader on +15 although Oli Weiss has the higher plus score - He has only played 4 games so far this season!

Most recent updates.

STATS 2010 - Have updated the files but have not yet been able to upload to the site due to server problems.

LCC GRADES - Current provisional grades have been updated.

Last updated - 07/03/2010.

Next matches:

Tuesday 09th March 2010:

Bingley Bees B Vs Leeds 175

Wednesday 10th March 2010:

Leeds A Vs Alwoodley A

Copperworks C Vs Leeds B

Leeds C Vs Rose Forgrove 5

Club Championship.

The club championship 2009 is now complete, the results can now be found here. Entry forms for the club championship for 2010 will shortly be released.