Wigston chess club

Fixtures next 3 weeks

Coming soon (events at Home in bold)
Thursday 30 April 2026	Wigston 1 v Ashby 1
Thursday 30 April 2026	Wigston 3 v Anstey 4
Wednesday 06 May 2026	Loughborough 2 v Wigston 2
Thursday 07 May 2026	Wigston 4 v Ashby 3
Wednesday 20 May 2026	Latimer v Wigston (Harrod Cup)
Thursday 21 May 2026	County Championships
Wednesday 27 May 2026	Market Harborough v Wigston (Wylie Cup)
Thursday 28 May 2026	AGM and blitz tournament
Thursday 4 June 2026	County Championships
Thursday 25 June 2026	Wigston v Heathcote (Wylie Cup)
Thursday 25 June 2026	Wigston v Anstey Juniors (Harrod Cup)
Thursday 2 July 2026	County Championships
Thursday 30 July 2026	County Championships
Thursday 13 August 2026	Wigston v Anstey (Wylie Cup)
Thursday 27 August 2026	Wigston v Heathcote (Harrod Cup)
Thursday 3 September 2026	County Championships
Thursday 10 September 2026	Wigston v Market Harborough 1 (Harrod Cup)
Wednesday 16 September 2026	Braunstone v Wigston (Wylie Cup)
Thursday 17 September 2026	Handicap blitz tournament
Thursday 24 September 2026	LRCA Charity Quickplay (Anstey)

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.

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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