Welcome to Castlehill Chess Club!

The largest and most active chess club in Dundee. For beginners to Masters, Juniors to adults. We’re always looking for new members – our membership is rapidly expanding!. We have male and female members, the young and the old. Coaching is available.
We also have our own dedicated “World Wide Online Chess Club” so no matter where in the world you are, you can become a member and play in our online competitions!

If you want to improve your chess, play casual chess, league chess, or any kind of chess, our club normally meets every Thursday throughout the year (Except Christmas). Doors open at 7:15pm and play starts from 7:30pm.

If you are local to the Dundee area, a student at Dundee or Abertay Universities or you are interested in playing online, please complete this form and we will be in touch with you (remember to check your spam emails!). We welcome players of all ages and level of ability.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Due to ongoing remedial work at our club venue (Chaplaincy Centre), the club will be closed on Thursday`s 22nd & 29th Aug & 5th Sept 24. Apologies for any inconvenience.
We reopen on Thursday 12th September 24. ALL WELCOME!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

August 20th, 2024

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Due to ongoing work at the Chaplaincy Centre, our venue is off limits (Chess Club Closed) for now. We should be back up and running on Thursday 12th September 2024, 7:15pm. That is also the night of our AGM and fittingly the start of the 2024-25 Castlehill season! If possible, attend the AGM as that is where your voice counts the most! We wish to hear everybody`s opinion on our fantastic chess club and any improvements you would like to see! Any questions, please email Daniel Coleman for general club matters, and Ray Noble for competition matters. CLUB CLOSED Thurs 22nd Aug 24;[...]

SCT Edinburgh Standard Tournament: Report by Iain Sneddon

August 20th, 2024

SCT Edinburgh Standard Tournament Novotel Edinburgh Park - Friday 16 to Sunday 18 August 2024 5-Round Swiss - 60 minutes plus a 30 second increment from move 1 Report by Iain Sneddon The first of the Classical Scottish Tour's tournaments was played over the weekend and most enjoyable it was too. I was joined by fellow Castlehill member, the Chess Ronin himself, Steve Thomson, who must clock up some mileage attending tournaments in Scotland far and wide!. I played here last year when there was a Premier U2200 section and I'd played in the Major, this year there was no Premier and the Major was U2000. This meant[...]

CASTLEHILL TOURNAMENT ROUND-UP 2023-24 NEWS

August 18th, 2024

CASTLEHILL TOURNAMENT ROUND-UP 2023-24 NEWS OTB CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2023-24 5-Round Swiss (Oct 23-June 24) – 90 minutes all moves, no increments Congratulations to Vladyslav Drabych on becoming the new Castlehill OTB Club Champion 2023-24 with a perfect 5 out of 5! Well done, Vladyslav! Alisdair McLeod was also on a perfect record going into round 5, where he faced Vladyslav. Alisdair McLeod and Euan Murray finished runner’s-up on 4 points (as did Ray Noble), with Ray Noble taking the under 1600 trophy on 4 points! We had 36 entries and to be fair, not too many problems over the 5 rounds running from Oct[...]

Scottish Championships 2024 Personal Report by Iain Sneddon

July 23rd, 2024

Scottish Championships 2024 8th to 14th July 24 Carnegie Conference Centre Apologies, for late report, but I am just so busy at the moment and chasing my tail! There were a few events on, but the main event was the Scottish Open Championship. The defending champion was the Dundee Chess Club stalwart and club legend, Ed Spencer! Ed was not favourite to win last year, but win he did in style, and became the Scottish Chess Champion 2023, a proud moment in his already amazing chess career! It was always going to be tough to repeat that, and of course the other players were out[...]

The Bob Dunn OTB Summer Championships 23-24 - Round 2 report

June 24th, 2024

The Bob Dunn OTB Summer Championships 2023-24 Round 2 The second round went to the form book for the most part. Colin Young got a good win against Ray Noble, and young Joshua Smikle J13, got a great result against one of the hardest players to beat, Andy Rowe! Well played the both of you. We have 5 players on the full 6 points, with two rounds to go. For all the results and standings so far, click the link below. Round 3 draw is up on our website and takes place on Thursday 18th July 24. Bob Dunn Summer[...]

EACU 5th FIDE Chess Congress – Open - Report

June 14th, 2024

EACU 5th FIDE Chess Congress – Open King Edward VII Memorial Hall, High Street, Newmarket, CB8 8JP 31/05/24 to 02/06/24 Castlehill Chess Club Dundee have been very lucky with the juniors we have produced over the years. Declan Shafi (no longer a junior!) was a special talent and is well established now with a grade of 2293! Rishi Vijayakumar J13, is our latest junior and he already has a grade of 2275! Both these players took part in a Fide rated congress in Newmarket, which is perfect for a race to the finish, but no horsing around please! This was a 5-furlong Swiss,[...]

CASTLEHILL OTB QUICK-PLAY ROUND 2 - REPORT

June 14th, 2024

CASTLEHILL OTB QUICK-PLAY ROUND 2 - REPORT Thurs 13th June 24 - 7:30pm We had 14 players down battling it out for supremacy on the night! This included some big hitters like Andre Babin, Jan Klingelhoefer, Vladyslav Drabych & Robert Jackson, plus some good juniors including Joshua Smikle! We played an 8 round Swiss, with the time-control, 3 minutes + 2 seconds increments (Madness!). In the end it was a one-mam show, with Jan running away with it to finish in 1st place on 7½/8! Well played Jan Vladyslav & Andre tied for 2nd place on 6 points, with young Joshua in 4th place on[...]

September 5, 2024

CLUB CLOSED

Starts: 7:30 pm

September 12, 2024

Castlehill CC AGM - 7:30pm

Starts: 7:30 pm

Full calendar here.

CASTLEHILL COMPETITION & TROPHY WINNERS 2022-23
Updated: 09/09/23
Congratulations to all winners & runners-up!

OTB
Club Champion: Rishi Vijayakumar J11
Club Runner-Up: Helge Magnussen, Alastair Dawson, Euan Murray, Andy Rowe & Subhayu Banerjee.
Club U1600 Winner: Euan Murray, Andy Rowe & Subhayu Banerjee.

Random Knockout Champion: Alisdair McLeod
Random Knockout Runner-Up: Rishi Vijayakumar J11

Bob Dunn Summer Champion: Ray Noble
Bob Dunn Summer Runner-Up: Alisdair McLeod & Jan Barron-Majerik

Quick-Play Champion: Andy Rowe

Ian McNab Memorial Champions: Cosmo Bobak

ONLINE
Club Champion: Richard Kynoch
Club Runners-Up: Graham Mooney & Andre Babin

Summer Champion: Graham Mooney, Rishi Vijatakumar J11 & Ray Noble

Junior Champion: Rishi Vijayakumar J10 (8½pts)

OUTSIDE EVENTS
TAFCA (Tayside & Fife Chess Association)
TAFCA Team Battle: Castlehill A
TAFCA Team Individual: IM Richard Polaczek, Rishi, Vijayakumar (Castlehill) & Ed Spencer (Dundee)
J.R.Chalmers Grand Prix Memorial: Alastair Dawson (Dundee)
TAFCA Most Improved Junior: Rishi Vijayakumar J11
TAFCA Allegro Online Newport Champion: Not held
TAFCA Allegro Online Castlehill Champion: Ed Spencer (Dundee)
TAFCA Allegro Online Dundee Champion: Ed Spencer, David Findlay & Jacque Ophoff CM (Dundee)
TAFCA Allegro Online Kirkcaldy Champion: Ed Spencer (Dundee) & Rishi Vijayakumar J11 (Castlehill)
TAFCA Allegro Online Perth Champion: Alisdair McLeod (Castlehill) & James Anderson (Dundee)

4NCL (A joint venture between Castlehill CC & Dundee CC)
Division One Champions: Dundee City A

Checkout our website for all the details!

On our website we have a searchable database of games by Castlehill Members.
You can go through the games or download them.
To go to our database you click “Club Info” in main menu and then “View Club Games“.
Or alternatively click “HERE” to take you to the database.

Ray Noble v Andy Rowe
Castlehill Arena Lichess Tournament -5 minutes+ 3 seconds

We are always looking for new games, so players please submit your games
and if possible with some analysis or thoughts.
It does not matter your level, the games are part of the clubs history!