Streatham and Brixton Chess Club

In 2021 Streatham and Brixton Chess Club celebrated 150 years. To find out more visit their website at

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S&BCC will be there 1st June - taking on allcomers, and sharing our chess heritage. See you there!

[Mark Bery @SocStreatham]

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Heritage Day returns to the Woodfield Pavilion- a Wandsworth Heritage Festival Event, on Saturday 1st June 2024 10:30am-4:30pm.
*A selection of short talks on local history and a guided walk on the Balham bits of Tooting Bec Common...

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@summerstown182 @I_W_M @ExploreWellcome @BritishChess @RoadSw9 @SocStreatham Find out about Frank Steadman's chess & WW1 exploits in Ch. 8 of 'Movers & Takers' @ https://t.co/fY7tJ9EROl

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@angusjfrench Winifred Knights (painted Angus's fav pic) was born 5 xi 1899 at 54 Hitherfield Rd., Streatham. Her parents were both Brixtonians. Family moved to 22 Madeira Rd., Streatham by 1907. She went to James Allen's Girl's School, Dulwich.

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Seasonal Best Wishes from S&BCC to all our chess friends...and beyond.
All welcome to our free social chess: 4.30-7.30pm, Tuesdays, from 2 Jan at Tooting Conservative Club (temp venue till further notice). Club league matches at St Thomas's Church café, Streatham.

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@SocStreatham Great find @SocStreatham. Thanks. Another Mercer local chess cartoon (below) in Norwood News 11 11 1955. Featured a simul by Barden v S&BCC. Yet another in NNews 25 11 1960 - a Bob Wade simul at Eardley Rd Junior School; Linda Bott played.
#chesshistory

[Mark Bery @SocStreatham]

Jim Mercer and the Streatham and Brixton Chess Club cartoon in the The Streatham New #OTD 19 December 1952 #StreathamHistory

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@pslnational Kk

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In 1884, Mrs Webb of 'Cherwell', Morland Road, 'put her home at the disposal' of the embryonic Croydon Ladies Chess Club. One of the first of its kind. She was encouraged by suffrage supporting Agnes Larkcom (grandma of celebrated horticulturist Joy Larkcom).
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1/3 Eliza Phillips b1823 Wandsworth was twice widowed when she moved in 1889 to Morland Road, Croydon where she held animal conservation meetings, in particular to campaign against the use of feathers & plumage in women’s hats which had the effect of decimating bird populations.

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Three great late C19/early C20 chess players. Bird lived & died in Upper Tooting, Gunsberg Streatham, and Blackburne Lewisham. Buried respectively: Streatham (1908), Streatham Vale (1930), and Brockley (1922) Cemeteries. @SocStreatham

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Henry Bird, Isidor Gunsberg and Joseph Blackburne in 1894

Photo and info via: Olimpiu G. Urcan / Chesshistory,com

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“The Board Beside Me”? @Berlin_Endgame @ejhchess @angusjfrench

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Just a week away...chess on Streatham Common again!
Come along and give it a go! Saturday 21 October 11am to 3pm. Part of the Streatham Festival.
@Rookery100 @sccoopstreatham

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Check it out! Next Streatham Common chess gig: Saturday 21 October. 11am - 3pm. Part of the Streatham Festival. All levels welcome!
@Rookery100 @sccoopstreatham @ecfchess #Streatham

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@KingstonChess - great addition to the southwest London chess-scape (even if requiring police protection 😉).

[John Saunders @johnchess]

Councillor John Sweeney @jnsweeneytweets and @KingstonChess chairman John Foley @ChessScholar formally open the three new public chessboards in Fairfield, Kingston-upon-Thames @MPSGrove @inkingstonuk #kingstonuponthames

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Good luck, KCC, with your Opening Moves!
Same design tables as on Streatham Common. Nice!

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Come along to the Fairfield and play some chess this afternoon in the open air. @RBKingston @kinglibheritage @richtwickchess @SurbitonChess

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....and matches start, and finish, in the dark.

[Richard James @chesstutor]

You can tell it's Autumn when the Richmond & Twickenham Chess Club match season and the Richmond Concert Society season both start on the same evening.

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Great vibe at packed Streatham Library Rapid 23 Sept. Well done winners: Major - 1 Phil M*, 2
Alexander C*, Minor - 1/2= Enitan O* & Keith O. Grading prizes: Li H (Maj) & David F* (Min). Smoothly run by James T & Richard T. (*photo)
@ecfchess @streathamlib #Londonchess

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Good to see Sir Wyke Bayliss, artist and chess player, featured in Guy's tour of significant graves.
Thanks to FoSC for organising the event. Great cakes. Shame about the weather.

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Another pop-up by S&BCC on Streatham Common y'day. 2 hours of sun and sacs.
Joined by keen junior passing by.
Brought own sets & clocks. But sets always available from Rookery Café.
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@SocStreatham @heartstreatham Isidor Gunsberg, challenged for World Chess Champ'ship, lived at no. 37 in 1911 - so special chess coaching on offer, too?