Manchester & North West England Prestige Awards – Chess Club of the Year 2025/26 Hi Barbara, It was a pleasure speaking with you today and to be the bearer of…
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Hello Chess People, I would like to say a big thank you to two Junior Eccles Players Johnny Hunt and Elsa Low for taking part in the 4th Warrington Junior…
Eccles Community Chess Club Celebrates Top Honours! The Chess Community of Eccles is proud to celebrate being hailed as the strongest chess club across Greater Manchester and the Stockport leagues!…
Learn the Grünfeld Defence in an hour with Grandmaster Danny Gormally We’re delighted to welcome Grandmaster Danny Gormally (pictured) one of the UK’s most active and respected chess players, for…
A Remarkable Year for Eccles Community Chess Club The 2024/25 season has been an exceptional one for bringing people together to play chess across Greater Manchester. Two delegates from Eccles…
Eccles Community Chess Club – Hosted their first one day Classic Chess Event 27/07/25 Image gallery: https://eccleschess.com/event-history/ This was a FIDE/ ECF one day fundraising classic chess event. There were…
Chess Grandmaster Daniel Gormally paid a visit to Eccles following his participation in the Warrington RapidPlay tournament 23/05/24. Photographs taken at the event can be seen here https://eccleschess.com/event-history/ Danny pictured…
Eccles player Charles Palmer with an ECF rating of 1679 played an epic game against grandmaster Keith Arkell in the Spring Chess Challenge, and can consider himself most unfortunate not…
ChAMPS (Chess Association for Manchester Players & Supporters) Spring Chess Challenge 2025 with GM Keith Arkell is now over. After three days of playing great chess there were a few…
The (NCCU) first round matches 2024/25 have ended and I am pleased to announce that all five Greater Manchester teams have made it through to the National stages. The captains…