For budding chess masters from 5 to 18 years of age. All standards welcome.
Spring Term 2024 begins on Saturday 6th January, runs through to Saturday 23rd March with a break for half-term on Saturday 17th February, for a total of 11 sessions. Booking opens on 23rd December at midnight. See Our Classes for Read more
Dear Parents, The next Girls County Team Battle for November is tonight, Monday 20th, from 6pm to 7:30 p.m. To join the tournament, please join via the link: https://lichess.org/tournament/31T0R1cD. Our team is of course, “Richmond Girls,” so don’t forget to Read more
Richmond Junior Chess Club has a new social media account, connected to Mastodon. We will be posting the same content to it as we already do to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr feeds. If you use Mastodon, please Read more
Richmond Juniors has a strong record in the National Youth Chess Association (NYCA) Team Championships. Last year, we were Under 12 national champions. We will be hoping to repeat our previous successes this year, with the NYCA Jamboree taking place Read more
The Hampton Qualifier for the London Junior Chess Congress was held at Orleans Park School on Saturday, 14th October, with a good total entry of 90 young players. Winners of the age sections were: U8 – Djan Sennaroglu & William Read more
Please consider supporting some of the following tournaments organised by some of our neighbouring junior chess clubs and county associations: Berkshire Junior Chess Tournament – Sunday 15th October. Another London Junior Chess Championship Qualifying Tournament for U8, U10 and U12. Read more
This is a reminder to all our parents that Richmond Junior Chess Club is shut this coming Saturday, 14th October. Instead, we will be holding one of our ECF rated London Junior Chess Championship Qualifying Tournaments for Under 8, 10 Read more
The next Online Girls County Match takes place this evening, Monday, 18th September at 6 p.m., on lichess.org. Sorry for the late notice, I only received the email within the past half hour! If you have not already done so, Read more
Details of the club championship for Autumn Term 2023, including pairings, results, standings, etc., can be found on chess-results.com. Links to the relevant pages can be found at: https://rjcc.org.uk/our-classes/club-championship. Note that the club championship is divided now into separate divisions Read more
Our next Girls Class with Women’s FIDE Master Shohreh Bayat is taking place tomorrow, Saturday 16th September, from 2 to 5 p.m., at Orleans Park School. We recognise that girls can find the world of chess unwelcoming and difficult due Read more