London Metropolitan Chess Club

All players welcome. Chess club based in the City of London. Est. 14th of April 1890.

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Ladder Games 2024-2025 Signups
https://t.co/m7cYmj076J

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Summer Tournament 2024 - Update after round eight

We can now start to see the potential winners!

https://t.co/JJ58sShC0R

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

🏆Our annual Summer Tournament for 2023 ended and the winners had been announced.
Congratulation to all the winners! 🥳

https://t.co/plabtK1ppf

#chess #ecf #london

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Metropolitan Summer Tournament 2023 is going well and around half of the games have been already played.
The winners have not been decided yet, anything is possible, but we can start to see who the potential winners could be at the end.

https://t.co/VMqk984PEe
#chess @ecf

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

🏆We have started to organise our annual Summer Tournament.🏆
Sign up now! 🙂
https://t.co/ZPGKQ9KCIq

[Richmond & Twickenham Chess Club @richtwickchess]

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 04 April 1896 - 126 years ago today - reported on a great success for Twickenham Chess Club against Metropolitan.

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Great @ll_chess games last night!
MetroGnomes won against Battersea Power and Met 1 won against Battersea 2.
With this Gnomes went to the top of the league table! 🥳
Thanks for the great games @BatterseaChess.
#chess #London

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Happy New Year
New year, new website! 🥳
https://t.co/4YIfku13SG
If your New Year's resolution is joining a chess club just let us know.
#chess #london #NewYearResolution

[English Chess Federation (ECF) @ecfchess]

Please spread the word - it would be great if all Clubs could respond to the ECF Clubs Support Survey - more info at https://t.co/pmgFOLBKx6

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

As unbelievable as it is, we are going to have our 52nd online #chess tournament next Thursday (18th)! 🥳
Which means we have our weekly online meetings for an year now.
As always, every #metropolitan member is welcome to join and celebrate @chesscom.

https://t.co/pQKef8vwDj

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

While still no OTB games in sight, our weekly online tournament is still running on every Thursday.
Here is a really interesting recap of tournament #31, thanks to Jeremy Law.
https://t.co/Dor2TWZtBj

[English Chess Federation (ECF) @ecfchess]

Congratulations to the winners of the Elections for the ECF's Direct Members’ Representatives: Gold — Lorin d’Costa and Rob Willmoth; Silver — John Reyes and Tim Wall; Bronze — Aga Milewska and Chris Skulte

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Our first Online Rapid Metropolitan Chess Tournament has just finished.
Congratulation for the winners!
1st Jeremy, 2nd Henry, 3rd Cheik and Sandeep

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Because of the Covid-19 situation, it has been decided that there will no further meetings until further notice.
In the meanwhile join our virtual Metropolitan Chess Club on https://t.co/LuFaCELwrR, where we plan to organise online tournaments.
https://t.co/pQKef8vwDj

[English Chess Federation (ECF) @ecfchess]

ECF online chess is live! Please spread the word. There are clubs on @chesscom and @lichess Open to ECF members and supporters. You can play in ECF online tournaments, internationals, and gain an online rating. Full details at https://t.co/yAAfTfkFgI

[benji @howlingmadbenji]

Want to read something chess-related over xmas? But not a theory/hard work book? I have you covered with a biased selection of a few of my favourites . Thread 👇

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Christmas/New Year Closures
Please note that the club will be closed on Thursday 26th December and Thursday 2nd January.
We will re-open on Thursday 9th January.
Happy Holidays and New Year.

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Brace yourselves Ladder Games are coming!
To get more information and to sing up contact Peter Szabo (@Cricket_PSz) by email or in person at the Club.
Good luck everyone!
#chess #laddergames

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Congratulations to our Gnomes' performance in the London Chess League Div6 (@ll_chess).
So far played 3 matches and won all 3 with a steady performance of 2.5-1.5 in ALL of them.

"Only" 9 more matches to go! ;)

#chess #playchessinlondon #TwoAndAHalfIsOurLuckyNumberNow

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Our trophies are amazing historical artefacts and we are proud of the long club tradition they carry 🏆

[London Metropolitan Chess Club @MetChessClub]

Congratulations to Jeremy and Ronan for winning two trophies each (internal club tournament and scoring highly in the London league)