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The club meets at 7:30 on Friday evenings, between September and early May, at Manor Park Club, Albert Road North, Malvern WR14 2TL. This is next to Malvern Hills College.
New players are always welcome.
The club has teams in the Worcestershire Championship and the Worcestershire Challengers.
Contact: John Knee on 01684 565378
This is a position from James Allsopp (Malvern) 1-0 Peter Lawrence on board 2 of Worcestershire U1650 v Surrey U1650. The full game can be found on the games page.
Friedrich Quigley receiving the Club Championship trophy from John Knee. Friedrich scored 5.5/7.
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July 15th
Lee Davis, Brian Turner, Joshua Clarke and James Allsopp played in the Worcestershire Closed tournament at Kings in Worcester. Lee finished 2nd with 3/4, retaining the title of Veteran Champion and James became Junior Champion with 2/4. Brian also scored 3/4 and Joshua scored 2/4.
June 6th
Joe Friar of Kidderminster beat Ian Clarke to win the Bennett Cup in a game played at Worcester.
June 2nd
James Allsopp scored an excellent 4.5/5 in the Megafinal played at Malvern and goes on to play in the Gigafinal.
May 29th
James Allsopp 1-0 Peter Lawrence can now be seen on the games page.
May 27th
Lee Davis scored 3.5/6 at the Cotswold Congress played in Gloucester.
May 18th
James Allsopp represented Worcestershire in the national quarter-final of the U1650 competition against Surrey. The county lost 9.5-6.5 but James won his game against a stronger-rated opponent. Results.
May 11th
Lee Davis and Ian Clarke represented Worcestershire in the Quarter-finals of the Minor Counties at Abingdon in Oxfordshire against a strong Sussex side. Worcestershire fought hard but eventually lost 8.5-7.5. Lee Davis won his game. results.
April 26th
Friedrich Quigley won the 2023-2024 Club Championship with 5.5 from Matthew Jordan and Lee Davis with 5. Pierre Lipinsky came 4th with 4.5.
April 20th
Malvern's final match of the Championship has been won by default. This means that the team is undefeated this season in both leagues, winning 14 and drawing 4 matches.
April 3rd
Malvern travelled to Redditch for their final Challengers match of the season and came away with a 2.5-1.5 win thanks to their junior players. James Allsopp and Joshua Clarke both won their games which means Malvern can't be caught and win the league.
Headlines from last season 2022-2023
Malvern had a successful season in the Worcestershire Championship finishing second to Halesowen. There were 6 teams again this year and we finished with 7 wins, 2 draws, and a loss. Alexandr Mityaev scored an impressive 6.5/7 on board 1.
Malvern also did very well in the Worcestershire Challengers, again narrowly finishing second, this time to Longbridge by just one game point. Again there were 6 teams and we finished with 5 wins, 4 draws, and a loss. George Charman was the most successful Malvern player with 5 out of 5.
Lee Davis and Ian Clarke both took part in the Bennett Cup and made it an all-Malvern final. The first game was drawn but Lee played an excellent second game to win the competition. There were no Malvern players in the Ball Cup last season.
Lee Davis, Brian Turner and Ian Clarke played for Worcestershire in the Minor Counties whilst James Allsopp represented the County in the U1650 competition.
Malvern again had excellent representation at the closed Worcester County Championships congress with 6 players taking part. Lee Davis became Veteran Champion. He finished in 3rd place, just half a point behind Peter Kitson of Worcester who became County Champion and Joseph Friar of Kidderminster. Joshua Clarke scored 2 out of 4 and retained the title of Junior Champion on a tiebreak from James Allsopp who also scored 2 out of 4. Ian Clarke scored 2.5 out of 4 and both Brian Turner and George Charman scored 2 out of 4.
The Club Championship was won by Ian Clarke with 7 out of 8. Brian Turner was second with 6.5 out of 8 and Lee Davis third with 5.5 out of 8.
Lee Davis represented Wales in the European Seniors Team Championship and performed superbly to score 6 out of 9 on board 3. With 3 wins and 6 draws he was undefeated throughout.
James Allsopp finished an excellent second out of 22 entrants in the Shropshire Junior Chess Tournament under 14 section with 4.5/6 and also qualified for the gigafinal after scoring 3.5 out of 6 in a competitive megafinal in Birmingham.
The 6 Malvern players at the County Championship
Left to right James Allsop, George Charman, Lee Davis, Joshua Clarke, Ian Clarke, Brian Turner.
Lee Davis at the European Seniors.