Metropolitan Chess Club

Founded 1890

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About the club

Our venue is the Middlesex Community Centre which is situated in Petticoat Square on the right hand side of Middlesex St, 250 yards from the junction with Bishopsgate.  Nearest Stations are Liverpool St., Aldgate and Aldgate East.  The square is elevated and is reached via the concrete steps in Middlesex St adjacent to the parade of shops. The Community centre is on the opposite side of the square.

The venue is available for use from 6pm to 10pm every Thursday.  Play should cease at 9.45 and the building vacated by 10pm. London league matches will start at 6.25pm and Middlesex league at 6.45pm


Venue map

The Metropolitan chess club is one of the oldest clubs in London.  It was founded in 1890 with the amalgamation of two existing clubs 'The Three Pawns' and 'The Monument'. 

We currently have over 60 members and welcome new members of all abilities.  We have many teams in both the London and Middlesex Leagues, so players of all standards are always able to find a serious game if they want to. As we are based in a central location in the City of London , most of our matches are played at home or very nearby in the Barbican.  In addition, we have also had teams in the 4NCL in previous years.

If you are interested in joining our club, please feel free to come along to any of club nights (Thursdays), play a few games and speak to a member about joining.  Alternatively you can download and return the membership application form to the address shown on it.

The annual subscription is currently 72 pounds annually, which runs from the 1st October until the 30th September each year. If you join part way through the subscription year a pro rata subscription will apply.  There are also discounts available to those under 21 or over 60.


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Click here for an application form

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 11:02
 

WEST LONDON v METROPOLITAN 2 Mets win while Grandmasters look on!?

It was an interesting night with a DIV 1 match between Kings Head 3 and Wood Green being played on the same night at Golden Lane.

Did Luke McShane take a few minutes to checkout the action in our DIV 3 match with West London?  Well I'm not sure but there was plenty decisive action on our boards!

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London Chess Centre

London Chess Shop has closed its Euston shop.

Click here for latest location

 

Tony Peterson finds some old footage of Bristish chess in the good olde days

The links below may be of interest to members, perhaps to put on the website. Reminiscences of how one of the famous London clubs used to be back in the 50's.

Also I found the short pathe newsreel very amusing to see all those old fellows trying to eat their dinners and play chess at the same time!
Regards
Tony 

Click here for  News from the British Isles [BCM, February 1958, p42] by John Roycroft

Click here for the amusing Pathé film clip on chess at lunch time!

(Ed. I had a quick look around the Pathé News website and found all these cold war clips - check out the Mikhail Tahl reports!)

Click here for General search of chess on Pathé

Last Updated on Monday, 15 February 2010 13:39
 

Noel Stewart reports from National Club Major ILFORD vs METROPOLITAN

It is probably newsworthy to include the result of this match played away at Ilford on Sunday 24th January 2010.  

Ilford fielded a useful team, led by a 193 graded player on board 1. Unfortunately, we lost 3.5-1.5; the match was closer than the score suggests with a couple of key games just running away from us towards the end of the session.

Board details are give below: note that in the National Club Major the average grade of any team must be under 160.

Ilford won the toss and had white on the odd boards.

           ILFORD                            METROPOLITAN

1. John Hodgson   (193)     1-0      Tony Peterson   (181)

2. Syd Kalinsky    (162)   0.5-0.5   Ian D Calvert      (172)

3.Tom Barton        (162)     1-0      Petr Vachtfeidl   (174)

4. Jason Kilmach  (150)      1-0      Peter C Doye    (156)

5. Jef Page           (149)      0-1      Noel M Stewart  (145)  

                           Score 3.5 - 1.5

 

Many thanks to all those who played and we will look forward to some good results in the Plate competition.

  

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:45
 

DRUNKEN KNIGHTS 2 V METROPOLITAN 1 A Lost Opportunity?

George Dickson reports from Metropolitan Team 1.

 

On the 9th November, last year, we played against the strongest team in this years London League Division 2 and we played really well, only losing 4.5-5.5.

 

The measure of our performance can be judged by the fact that just five weeks later in London League Division 1 the Drunken Knights first team (containing no less than five players who played against us) held the mighty Wood Green 1 to a 6-6 drawn match.

 

The five players who had played against us - Rich, Rawlinson, Makepeace, Bennett and Leyton scored 3/5 against Wood Green 1 but scored only 2.5/5 against Metropolitan 1.

 

Our match on the 9th November could easily been a draw or a win for us, both Zafer and myself drawing games that we might have won.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 04:11 Read more...
 

Stephen Hamilton annotates his victory against an ECF 173

Stephen shows how to mix it with those big hitters when he beats an opponent who out grades him by +20ECF
Last Updated on Friday, 29 January 2010 09:42 Read more...
 

Best of Luck to Geoffrey Bishop at the Gibraltar Chess Congress Challengers

Geoffrey is playing in this years Gibraltar Chess Congress in the Challengers section.  Look out for his progress and wish him luck.  In the week 1 Challengers Geoffrey got 2/5.  He has just started the second week so keep an eye out - current score 1/3!

Click here for Gibraltar Chess Congress

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 16:44
 

Pawn storming action from Met 1 vs Mushrooms

Andrew McGuinness comments on a recent London League Game

Click here to see game

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:01
 
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Club Calendar

March 2010
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28 29 30 31 1 2 3

Upcoming fixtures

Thu Mar 11, 2010 @18:30 - 10:00PM
Committee Meeting
Thu Mar 11, 2010 @19:00 - 09:25PM
Middlesex 2 v Hendon
Mon Mar 15, 2010 @19:30 - 10:30PM
Willesden v Middlesex 1
Thu Mar 18, 2010 @18:45 - 09:45PM
Middlesex 1 v Kings Head II
Mon Mar 22, 2010 @19:00 - 10:00PM
MET 4 v KINGS HEAD 4
Thu Mar 25, 2010 @18:45 - 09:45PM
Middlesex 2 v West London
Thu Mar 25, 2010 @18:45 - 10:00PM
MET 1 v LEWISHAM
Thu Mar 25, 2010 @18:45 - 10:00PM
CAVENDISH M v MET M
Mon Mar 29, 2010 @18:45 - 09:45PM
Middlesex 2 v Barnet Knights
Mon Mar 29, 2010 @19:00 - 10:00PM
WILLESDEN & BRENT v MET 4
Tue Mar 30, 2010 @18:45 - 10:00PM
GLCC 1 v MET 2
Wed Mar 31, 2010 @19:15 - 10:15PM
Athenaeum v Middlesex 1
Wed Apr 07, 2010 @19:00 - 10:00PM
MET M v BATTERSEA M
Thu Apr 08, 2010 @18:30 - 10:00PM
MET 1 v MORLEY COLLEGE 1

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