Welsh Chess Union (Undeb Gwyddbwyll Cymru)

Upcoming Events

2025
July
28th – 30th	Glorney Cup 2025	Celtic Manor Resort, Coldra Woods, Newport NP181HQ	Live Links
Aug
15th – 17th	2025 Newport Chess Congress	Rougemont School Auditorium, Malpas Road, Newport NP206QB	Info
Sept
13th	UK Open Blitz Championship Qualifier	Mercure Cardiff North Hotel, Circle Way East, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff CF23 9XF	Details
26th – 28th	9th WCU Senior Chess Championships and Autumn Under 50s Weekend Congress	Mecure Cardiff North Hotel, Circle Way Eat, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff CF239XF	Info
Oct
25th – 26th	Welsh Autumn Congress	Mecure Cardiff North Hotel, Circle Way Eat, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff CF239XF

2025-26 WCPL and Under 1850 Registation (deadline August 15th)

The deadline for teams to register for the 2025-26 WCPL and Under 1850 is 15th August.

The registration form is here.

News


Glorney Cup 2025	Geof Tyrell Best Game Prize awards 2020 – 2024

ECU E-Magazine June 2025	2025 WCPL Entry Form (Deadline August 15th)	Welcome Inn Chess Club	David Andrew Bennion RIP

Camacho Collados wins 2025 Welsh Champs	ECU E-Magazine April 2025	ECU E-Magazine May 2025	WCU Newsletters

The Neath & District rises again	Wales Silures finish 4th in 2025 European Seniors O50	Christopher Davies RIP	Steve Cunliffe RIP

Taking on the Giants	ECU E-Magazine February 2025	Iwan Cave on 2025 World Junior	2025 Welsh Blitz results

ECU E-Magazine January 2025	2025 Spring Congress and Junior Championships Results	Roy Purnell RIP	Castell Nedd member on BBC Chess Masters (10/3/25)

BCET awards notice to be published	2025 South Wales Winter Congress Results	ECU E-Magazine December 2024	Adam Hunt IM RIP

January 2025 Live Rapidplay Rating List	Sligo 2025	2025 Dragon League Results	FM and CM titles awarded at 2024 European Club Cup

WCU Fees 2024-2025

Please note that the WCU fees for season 2024-2025 remain the same as season 2023-24.

These are:

Existing WCU members

Seniors / Adults: £20 Juniors (U-18 on 1/9/2024): £10

New WCU members

Seniors / Adults: £10 Juniors (U-18 on 1/9/2024): £5

Anne Veale RIP

It is with great sadness that we have learned that Anne Veale (who used to be a member of Upper Killay and Swansea Chess Clubs) has passed away.

Anne was involved in junior chess in West Wales in the 1980’s.

The WCU would like to express our sincere condolences to Anne’s family and friends at this sad time.

The funeral will take place on 6th September at St Ann Church, Dunvant followed by cremation at Swansea Crematorium at 2.00pm.

Golding and Grieve win 2024 South Wales International

FM Alex Golding (ENG) and IM Harry Grieve (ENG) tied for first place in the 2024 South Wales International in Bridgend with 7/9.

GM Jose Fernando Cuenca Jiminez (ESP), FM Aaravamudhan Balaji (ENG), IM Yichen Han (NED), GM Boris Chatalbashev (DEN) and FM Daniel Kozusek (WLS) tied for third place on 6.5/9.

The full results can be found here.

Welsh Chess Chat E-Magazine issue # 1

Jonathan Blackburn has produced this e-magazine which he hopes to produce monthly.

Issue # 1 can be viewed here.

2024 World Seniors Team Championship, Krakow, Poland

Two teams are currently competing in these championships between 1st and 12th July.

Wales Silures are competing in the Over 50’s championship. The players are:

Sven Zeidler
Lee Davis
Mark Adams
Anthony Hughes
Gary Thomas

Their results can be found here:

Another Wales Silures team are competing in the Over 65’s championship. The players are:

Peter Varley
Rudy van Kemenade
John Fletcher
Peter Quinn
Anthony Hughes

Their results can be found here.

The Championship website is here:

We wish them well.

The annual WWCL Rapidplay for the AO Jones trophy was held at Morriston Rugby Club on Saturday 18th May 2024. We’ve opened the event to non -WWCL members for some years now and again attracted players from the East Glam & Dyfed leagues. The AO Jones trophy is awarded to the highest placed WWCL member.

The event is a 6 round swiss (20 mins & 5 second increments), run as one tournament. All the entry fees were returned as prizes.

FM Grzegorz Toczek (2328) was the top seed, with Adam Musson (2043) and Derek Jones (2023) the only other players rated over 2000 on the WCU rating list. The event gave a number of lower graded players the chance to play a Fide Master & member of the current Olympiad Team. Grzegorz didn’t have it all his own way, conceding a draw to Ian Jones (1972) in Rd3 and to 14-year-old Vismith Prabhu (1388) in Rd4. Vismith also drew with Derek Jones (2023) in Rd6.

Results

1^st= Ian Jones (Morriston), winner of the AO Jones trophy & Grzegorz Toczek (Cardiff)

3^rd= Adam Musson (Morriston) & Derek Jones (Cardiff)

U-1500

1^st Farouq Nasir (Morriston)

2^nd Sam Brown (Morriston)

3^rd Bill Davies (Rhondda)

Junior

1^st Vismith Prabhu (White Knights)

2^nd Bobby Taylor (Morriston)

The full results can be seen on Chess-Results website here.

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2024 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship New York

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

DEADLINE FOR INTEREST: 15 July 2024

The 2024 FIDE World Individual Rapid and Blitz Championships wil be held in New York during the last week in December.

Anyone interested in representing the WCU in this event needs to contact the International Director, Peter Bevan (email: internationaldirector@welshchessunion.uk) by 15th July.

Regrettably, the WCU cannot provide any financial support towards this event.

The regulations are available here.