2024 World Senior Championships Porto Santo, Portugal

                                                                             EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (DEADLINE 7th September 2024)

The 2024 FIDE World Senior Championships will be […]

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 […]

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:

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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 […]

Memories of the 2022 Olympiad

Greg Toczek has kindly provided the video below showing Wales at the 2022 Olympiad in Chennai, India.

 

Wales Open and Women’s 2024 Olympiad teams announced!

The Open team consists of the following:

Jose Camacho Collados IM Daniel Kozusek FM Grzegorz Toczek FM Jonathan Blackburn FM Alex Bullen CM

The Open Captain will be Marcos Camacho Collados IM

The Women’s team consists of the following:

Olivia Smith WFM Lynda Smith WCM Imogen Camp WCM Emma Kong Kimberley Chong

The Women’s Captain […]

2024 Olympiad: Budapest, Hungary: 10th Sept (arrival) to 23rd Sept (departure)

The WCU Selection Committee will meet in April (a little after the Welsh Championships at Easter) to choose, for both the Open Section and Women’s Section, our team, its captain and reserves.  The outcome of the meeting will be announced shortly afterwards.

It is expected that this Year’s Olympiad, to be held in an accessible […]

2023 World Senior Championship Italy

Recently the 2023 FIDE World Senior Championships took place in Terrasini, Italy between 24th October and 6th November. Wales were represented by Peter Varley in the Over 65 Open and was seeded 77/150.

He finished on 6/11 and finished in 60th place.

Very well played!

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1982 European Championship remembered

A Hungarian chess publication discusses this event in which Wales competed.

The original article can be found here.

The translation is below.

This match was played as part of the European Team Championship that year. A three way semi-final comprised of Wales, France and Hungary.

Hungary—Wales 13:3

As a consequence of the group draw of […]

UK Open Blitz Qualifiers Bridgend Results

Open: Bao Nghia Dong (14.5) and Daniel Kozusek (14.5) Women’s: Bodhana Sivanandan (8) and Emma Kong (5.5)

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