Wigston chess club

Fixtures next 3 weeks

Coming soon (events at Home in bold)
Wednesday 16 September 2026	Braunstone v Wigston (Wylie Cup)
Thursday 17 September 2026	Handicap blitz tournament
Thursday 24 September 2026	LRCA Charity Quickplay (Anstey)
Thursday 01 October 2026	Wigston 1 v Wigston 2
Thursday 01 October 2026	Wigston 4 v Braunstone 1
Thursday 08 October 2026	Wigston 3 v Shepshed 1
Thursday 08 October 2026	Wigston 5 v Melton 2
Tuesday 13 October 2026	Syston 1 v Wigston 1
Thursday 15 October 2026	Wigston 2 v University 1
Thursday 15 October 2026	Kirby 1 v Wigston 4
Wednesday 21 October 2026	Thurnby v Wigston 3
Wednesday 21 October 2026	Loughborough 2 v Wigston 5
Thursday 22 October 2026	Wigston 1 v Harborough 1
Thursday 29 October 2026	Club night
Thursday 29 October 2026	Anstey 1 v Wigston 2
Thursday 05 November 2026	Club night
Thursday 05 November 2026	Anstey 3 v Wigston 3
Tuesday 10 November 2026	University 1 v Wigston 1
Thursday 12 November 2026	Anstey 2 v Wigston 2
Thursday 12 November 2026	Wigston 4 v Harborough 2
Thursday 19 November 2026	Club night
Thursday 19 November 2026	Anstey 1 v Wigston 1
Thursday 19 November 2026	Ashby 1 v Wigston 3
Tuesday 24 November 2026	Heathcote 2 v Wigston 5
Thursday 26 November 2026	Wigston 2 v Loughborough 1
Thursday 26 November 2026	Wigston 4 v Harborough 3
Thursday 03 December 2026	Wigston 3 v Syston 2
Thursday 03 December 2026	Anstey 5 v Wigston 5
Thursday 10 December 2026	Anstey 2 v Wigston 1
Thursday 10 December 2026	Wigston 4 v Ashby 2
Wednesday 16 December 2026	Harborough 1 v Wigston 2
Thursday 17 December 2026	Christmas Doubles Blitz
Thursday 24 December 2026	Closed
Thursday 31 December 2026	Closed
Thursday 07 January 2027	Wigston 1 v Loughborough 1
Thursday 07 January 2027	Wigston 3 v Heathcote 1
Thursday 07 January 2027	Anstey 6 v Wigston 5
Tuesday 12 January 2027	Syston 1 v Wigston 2
Thursday 14 January 2027	Wigston 5 v Anstey 4
Tuesday 19 January 2027	University 2 v Wigston 4
Wednesday 20 January 2027	Melton 1 v Wigston 3
Thursday 21 January 2027	Club night
Wednesday 27 January 2027	Braunstone 1 v Wigston 4
Thursday 28 January 2027	Wigston 2 v Wigston 1
Wednesday 03 February 2027	Melton 2 v Wigston 5
Thursday 04 February 2027	Club night
Thursday 04 February 2027	Shepshed 1 v Wigston 3
Tuesday 09 February 2027	University 1 v Wigston 2
Thursday 11 February 2027	Wigston 4 v Kirby 1
Thursday 18 February 2027	Wigston 1 v Syston 1
Thursday 18 February 2027	Wigston 3 v Thurnby
Wednesday 24 February 2027	Harborough 1 v Wigston 1
Thursday 25 February 2027	Wigston 2 v Anstey 1
Thursday 25 February 2027	Wigston 5 v Loughborough 2
Thursday 04 March 2027	Wigston 1 v University 1
Thursday 04 March 2027	Wigston 3 v Anstey 3
Tuesday 09 March 2027	Harborough 2 v Wigston 4
Thursday 11 March 2027	Wigston 2 v Anstey 2
Thursday 18 March 2027	Wigston 3 v Ashby 1
Thursday 18 March 2027	Wigston 5 v Heathcote 2
Wednesday 24 March 2027	Loughborough 1 v Wigston 2
Wednesday 24 March 2027	Harborough 3 v Wigston 4
Thursday 25 March 2027	Club night
Thursday 01 April 2027	Wigston 1 v Anstey 1
Thursday 01 April 2027	Wigston 5 v Anstey 5
Tuesday 06 April 2027	Syston 2 v Wigston 3
Thursday 08 April 2027	Club night
Thursday 15 April 2027	Wigston 2 v Harborough 1
Thursday 15 April 2027	Ashby 2 v Wigston 4
Tuesday 20 April 2027	Heathcote 1 v Wigston 3
Thursday 22 April 2027	Wigston 1 v Anstey 2
Thursday 22 April 2027	Wigston 5 v Anstey 6
Thursday 29 April 2027	Wigston 2 v Syston 1
Thursday 29 April 2027	Wigston 4 v University 2
Wednesday 05 May 2027	Loughborough 1 v Wigston 1
Thursday 06 May 2027	Wigston 3 v Melton 1
Thursday 06 May 2027	Anstey 4 v Wigston 5

September 18, 2026

The club had sucess in the county individual tournaments held over the summer. Lewis Turner won the County Championship with a score of 4/5 and Ben Langman won the Major section with 4.5/5. Congratulations to both.

21 players took part in the club's handicap blitz tournament. There was a four-way tie for first place with Sathsara Dissanayake, Fahim Nasiri, Arav Ajaykumar and Laurence Norton all scoring 4/5. Full results are here.

September 09, 2026

Ahead of the new league season there are a few opportunities to get some practice in:
17 September - handicap blitz tournament
24 September - LRCA prize giving and charity team quickplay tournament at Anstey

There is also a new video, on endgame tactics.

Looking further ahead, the Christmas doubles blitz tournament will take place on 17 December.

May 29, 2026

At the AGM the Player of the Year was awarded to Lewis Turner who scored 91% in his league games. The full statistics for the season can be found here.
The Junior Player of the Year was won for a second succesive time by Laurence Norton who won 12 out of his 14 games in the league.The Clubmanship Trophy was awarded to Ben Langman who played for several teams during the year, often at short notice.
Despite the hot weather there was a good turnout of 17 players for the 5 round handicap blitz tournament after the AGM. It was won by Alan Ward on 4.5/5 with second place shared by Fahim Nasiri and Lee Robinson on 4/5.

March 08, 2026

The Learning page has been updated and now includes two videos that Lewis Turner has recorded, as well as a link to the notes in Lichess.

February 12, 2026

Lewis Turner will be doing a series of online coaching sessions. The first one, on openings, will be broadcast on Monday 16th February at 7.30pm. If you are unable to join it live then it is recorded and can be viewed afterwards.

January 05, 2026

A new annotated game has been added.

December 19, 2025

This year’s Christmas doubles blitz event threw up some challenges for the organisers with a record number of entries that was unhelpfully an odd number. 11 pairs were randomly chosen, plus a team of three which made things even more chaotic than usual. Just as we were ready to start, the computer pairing software decided to down tools, so we had to switch to a manual approach, based on a modified round-robin (the “Christmas robin” system). The winners of the event, with an impressive 5/5 were Sathsara Dissanayake and Madhav Eradi. In joint second on 4/5 were Lee Robinson and David Marshall, plus the trio of Fahim Nasiri, Peter Mottram-Epson and Harley Hudson. An enjoyable evening was rounded off with a trip to the Cuisine of India.

September 2026

Wigston beat Braunstone in the final match to overtake Market Harborough and win the Wylie Cup.
Our Harrod Cup team beat Heathcote Arms and Market Harborough 1 to finish in 7th place.

August 2026

Wins against Heathcote, Syston and Anstey moved our team up to second place in the Wylie Cup.
The Harrod Cup team suffered defeats against Anstey Juniors and Ashby 1.

May 2026

Wigston 2 beat Loughborough 2 to win Division 2.Wigston 4 beat Ashby 3 and finish 5th in Division 3.The Summer Cups started with defeats for our teams in both the Wylie and Harrod Cups.

April 2026

Wigston 2 moved joint top of division 2 with a game to play following wins against Thurnby and Ashby 2 (twice).Wigston 3 narrowly missed out on winning division 3 after a draw in their final match against Anstey 4, following an earlier win against Melton 2 and a draw with Market Harborough 2.Wigston 5 went joint top of division 5 with wins against Syston 3 and Melton 3 (twice).

March 2026

Wigston 1 clinched the division 1 championship following narrow wins against Market Harborough 1 and Syston 1.Wigston 2 had a win, draw and loss in the month and are 4th in division 2.Wigston 5 are 3rd in division 5 after a draw with Anstey 8, a win against Ashby 5 and a loss to Kirby Muxloe 2.

February 2026

Wigston 3 are 2nd in the table after beating Wigston 4 and drawing with Ashby 3. Wigston 4 won their other games in the month, against Braunstone and Anstey 4.Wigston 5 had a large win against Anstey 7.Wigston 2 won both games in the month, against Anstey 3 and Melton 1.Wigston 1 beat Anstey 1 but could only draw with Anstey 2.

January 2026

Wigston 1 remained top of division 1 with a win against Ashby 1.Wigston 2 moved up to 4th in division 2 after beating Shepshed and having a win by default against Loughborough 2.Wigston 3 fell to 2nd in division 3 after losing to new leaders Heathcote 1.

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