Club news

GCC update 19/03/25

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19 March 2025

Hi All.

A fantastic 36 at Juniors on Saturday, the gift that keeps on giving! 32 played in our Competition with Ethan winning on 5½/6, Joey and Lev chasing on 5 and Samira and Ellie topping the girls with 3.  

On Monday Our Siths team saw off South Shields 3-1 to remain top of D6.

During the week we also received notice from Arnold Clark that we were being awarded £400 for their support of local activities. The money will help pay for foldable tables, chairs and maybe a display item for our outdoor events.

As ever PPt attached and hope to see you soon – Mick

2024 Christmas Party

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Monday December 16th 7pm

Why not come along to our Christms Party. Full details to be confirmed over the next few months.

Hope to see you all there!!!

2024 3rd Annual Gosforth Summer Blitz Festival

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Firstly, can I say a big thank you from the Gosforth Chess Club Committee to everyone who attended these events. We have held 5 events over the summer to help keep over the board chess going and it has once again been a great success.

Overall, 77 different competitors came to the events with a high of 49 people and an average attendance of 38, it has been amazing.

So big Congratulations to the following people:

Open

Joint 1st FM Charlie Storey and Gustavo Leon Cazares (74 points) £28.50 each

Gustavo also wins the Gosforth Rapid play trophy for the highest placed Gosforth player.

Special mention to Charlie, he is off to pastures new in Dubai and has donated his winnings to our junior club…. Thank you 🙂 

Major

1st Alan Welsh (56.5 points) £33

2nd Alex Blake (54.5 points) £22

Minor

1st Reece Wright (50.5 points) £33

2nd Gianluca Pirozzi (44 points) £22

Junior

(Only one prize per person, top junior goes to next person after Gianluca)

1st Kai Harkensee (24.5 points) £13

1st Junior Competition

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On 7th July 2024 we had our first junior competition, an amazing 42 Juniors attended and the final standings are below:

2023 Urban Green Outdoor Event

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This year we had three park open days at:

  • Exhibition Park: June 19th
  • Gosforth Park: July 16th
  • Jesmond Dene : August 13th

These were all fantastic days and thank you for everyone who attended these events.

It was fantastic to see so many new faces, several of these people have attended local chess clubs after these events.

What a fantastic turn out we had, see some great photos below:

2022 Summer Days Out

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We attended the following three parks over the summer 2022:

  • Exhibition Park
  • Gosforth Park
  • Jesmond Dene