Cumbria Individual Championships 2023

Seven Penrith players headed for Shap Memorial Hall on Friday for three days of chess. There were two sections, the Minor, playing for the Keswick Knight Trophy and the Bob Greenhalgh Trophy, catered for players rated 1700 or less and the Major, playing for the...

Champions!!

Penrith A arrived at Maryport, to play last year’s league champions, with the same team that beat Windermere 3-1 to win the 2019-20 league title. Realizing the importance of this match, Maryport fielded their top 4 players.   Board 1 was first to finish...

A team surging on and B team end the season with a draw

Penrith A won in style against a strong Barrow team yesterday. Matthew Mackenzie suffered his first league defeat of the season at the hands of Jacob who found a forced mate after just 20 moves. Alice was held to a draw by Russ Hayley who at least managed to save a...

First win for Penrith B

Penrith B won their first match of the season, against Carlisle B, despite an early win by Carlisle’s Alan Little against Dave on board 4. Lewis evened the score with a win against Alan Hiatt, on board 2, after winning a piece in the opening. Board 1 always...

Penrith out of the Whitaker

Despite drawing the Semi-Final match against Carlisle II, Penrith I lost on handicap. Ironically, both Alice and Eggert beat their respective opponents in the first League match of the season. Had they both managed a draw, as they did in last year’s Whitaker...

Penrith do the double!

Way back in 1885, Dr R. Walker, founder of Carlisle Chess Club, donated a silver cup to be contested by the, newly formed, Cumberland Chess League. In 1982, some 97 years later, Penrith Chess Club, at last, had their name engraved on the trophy.Thirty-eight years...