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Milton Keynes Chess Club meets at The Berrill Cafe, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
on Thursday evenings starting at 7.30pm.

Milton Keynes runs teams in the Bedfordshire League. Home matches take place on the normal club night, Thursday.
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Club News

 
MKCC AGM :
The Milton Keynes Chess Club AGM will be held at the Berrill Café on 5th September 2024 at 7:45pm. Minutes of last year's AGM and the agenda are available on the Club Documents page.
16th June 2024
 
Internal Competitions :
The second round draws of all Knockout and Swiss competitions are now on the website - see Internal Competitions.
16th June 2024
 
Bedfordshire Individual Championship :
The final 2 rounds of the 2024 Bedfordshire County Championship were played at the Open University on the 19th May. Whilst not achieving the successes of last year, Milton Keynes players picked up a number of prizes. Graham Borrowdale and Adrian Elwin both won their last round games to share 2nd place on 4½. Andrew Bowler finished on 4 points claiming a performance prize with David Phillips and Sumit Bhalla both scoring 3 which was sufficient to claim a Slow Starter prize (for players on 1 point or less after 3 rounds).
Click here for final table.
26th May 2024
 
Adrian's last round game:

26th May 2024
 
New Venue

From 18th April 2024, Milton Keynes Chess Club will be moving to the Berrill Cafe. This is still on the same campus, but in a different building
Maps to find the new venue are at the top of this page.
11th April 2024
 
Bedfordshire County Championship

The final 2 rounds of the Bedfordshire Individual Championship were contested in the Berrill Cafe, Open University, Sunday 14th May.

In round 5, the top board was contested between Rob Whiteside and Adrian Elwin, both of Milton Keynes, which ended in a hard fought draw. This gave Steve Ledger the opportunity to take the sole lead, but he suffered a rare loss to James Gardner, which allowed James to catch Rob and Adrian.

In the final round, James had white against Adrian and Steve got the upfloat against Rob. Both games ended in draws.

With his second win of the day, Graham Borrowdale also managed to get to 4½ points resulting in a 4-way tie for first place. This is the first time that the County Championship has been won by a Milton Keynes player since 2011-12 and, this year, 3 of the 4 are from Milton Keynes.

The final standings can be found here.
18th May 2023
 
Team allocation for 2022-23 can be found here. 14th October 2022
 
The Milton Keynes Chess Club held their annual stocktake and blitz on 25th August 2022. The crosstable for the blitz can be found here. 26th August 2022
 
The Milton Keynes Chess Club Christmas Covid-19 protocols and Risk Assessment have both been updated in line with the new government regulations and guidelines and the OU's response to them. See Club Documents page 14th December 2021
 
The 2021 Milton Keynes Chess Club Christmas celebration will be held at the OU on 23rd December. It will start about 7:45, but please aim to get there about 7:30 to allow time for preparation.

Mince pies and prizes for all!
28th November 2021
 
The Milton Keynes Online Chess Club is no longer holding weekly tournaments due to lack of interest. Nor are any new members being admitted. 28th November 2021
 
The 2021-22 Milton Keynes Chess Club internal competitions have been published. See the Internal Competitions page. 24th November 2021
 
The Milton Keynes Chess Club have entered 4 teams in the Beds Chess League. Players have been assigned to the teams as listed here. 12th November 2021
 
The Milton Keynes Chess Club held an EGM last Thursday,7th October and will be holding regular club nights at 7:30pm on Thursdays at the Open University Hub. A CoVid protocol has been accepted by the club and can be found here. 9th October 2021
   
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