News at the start of the new season

En Passant match, Thanet Congress and website updates

We played a home match in the En Passant Cup last Wednesday and ended up drawing 3 - 3 with Rainham:

Thanet Congress 2026

The 54th Thanet Chess Congress was held at the Baypoint Club in Sandwich, Kent over the weekend of the 9th to the 11th October.

From the club Neil Williams, Julian Ward, and Robert Thompson entered the U1800 section and Igor Sieradzski entered the U1550 section.

There were 20 entrants in the U1800:

Neil finsihed 7th with 3/5

Julian finished 17th with 1.5/5

Rob finished 19th with 1/5

There were 28 entrants in the U1550:

Igor finished in a very respectable joint 2nd place with 4/5. Congratulations to Igor!

Website Updates

Due to the LMS enhancing the security measures on their site I am, for the timebeing, no longer able to pull the data about the fixtures and the tables etc onto our site. Therefore for now I have just added links to the various pages and you will be redirected to their site for the information.

This season's internal competitions

I believe there is still time to sign up to these if you haven't already. Please email Luke for details.