Bradford & District Chess Association

Bradford & District Chess Association The official governing body of chess in Bradford, UK

With a 3 division league of 24 teams, we provide a well structured facility for chess playing activities in the City; from novice to master on behalf of a rapidly growing 500,000+ population.

28/12/2024

Just over one week now until the Bradford Blitz (5th Jan) at the Latvian Welfare Club, Bradford.

International Master Gediminas Sarakauskas will be there. Come and join him in this 12 round ECF Blitz rated event.

Details - www.Ilkleychesscentre.com

Excellent news for next year, the 2023 British Rapidplay Championships will be on our doorstep:
22/12/2022

Excellent news for next year, the 2023 British Rapidplay Championships will be on our doorstep:

We’re pleased to be able to confirm that after a break of nearly four years the ECF are supporting the 4NCL in organising the 2023 edition of the British Rapidplay Championship on 15-16 April 2023 at Mercure Bradford, Bankfield Hotel. Both organisations are grateful to the British Isles Coordinati...

20/09/2022

First round of clough Cup competition tonight.... Good luck too all....

The grading handicap for the clough on Tuesday night...
14/09/2022

The grading handicap for the clough on Tuesday night...

Today junior players at The Chess Centre, Ilkley, will do battle for the Scurfield Shield. In memory of our late friend ...
09/07/2022

Today junior players at The Chess Centre, Ilkley, will do battle for the Scurfield Shield. In memory of our late friend and former BDCA President Sam Scurfield.

02/03/2022

The Bradford Congress won’t run this year, so the Ilkley Chess Featival will take its place 16-18 Sept 2022 at the Kings Hall & Winter Gardens in Ilkley.

We hope that as many BDCA players as possible will support this Congress in its first year.

https://www.chesscentre.online/events/festival/d5e7229b-f574-48a1-97af-0e93db241078

A dedicated venue for learning and playing chess. Located in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, we are open to all ages and welcome all abilities.

17/08/2021

Now is the time to join or rejoin the English Chess Federation as your new membership will run until the end of August 2022.

Benefits include:

Chess Moves, a monthly 40+ page magazine covering all the news across English chess, and including regular articles and annotations from GMs Michael Adams, Keith Arkell and Peter Wells, as well as many other contributors;

A regularly-updated monthly rating, reflecting your very latest results whether you play over the board or online (or both!);

GoMembership discounts, which can save you £000s a year from over 270 of your favourite online and high street retailers (for just a small added fee); plus big discounts on chess products from major chess suppliers.

Supporter membership is just £10 a year.

You can see the different membership levels at https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-membership-rates-and-joining-details/ where there is also a link to join / renew.

20/05/2021

Social Chess
We open tonight for adult OTB Chess!
This will be the first time in many years that Bradford District will once again have a dedicated Chess Cafe style venue for likeminded chess players to come together and play some chess in a relaxed environment.
This is an open invite to all of our BDCA friends to call in to see us at one of our Thursday socials at any time.
We look forward to seeing a few of you tonight, its been way too long!

Over The Board Chess can resume in the coming weeks as the COVID restrictions continue to lift. We wish all BDCA clubs ...
09/05/2021

Over The Board Chess can resume in the coming weeks as the COVID restrictions continue to lift. We wish all BDCA clubs well as they start up again after 12+ months of inactivity.

If you are interested in playing Chess and would like to know about opportunities for both adult and junior players over the summer then please get in touch.


22/03/2021
08/03/2021

Bob Burns Summer Tournament is being hosted at the New Chess Centre in Ilkley this year. Entries limited to first 18 people.
Contact [email protected] to enter. Round 1 starts 22nd June.

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