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SEASON 2024-25 SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) Sunday 27th April 25 Round 9 (last) + the Scottish team lighting tournament Dundee City teams are a joint venture between Castlehill CC & Dundee CC Division 1 The final Round of this season’s[...]

CASTLEHILL ONLINE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP Round 4 Draw The round 4 draw is now up on the website and the deadline date for matches, is Sun 30th March 25. Andre Babin leads the way after 3 rounds on a[...]

The George Pyrich OTB Allegro Championship Series 24-25 The 4th George Pyrich OTB Allegro Championship Series took place at Castlehill Chess Club, on Thursday 27th February 25, 7:30pm. Format: 5 round Swiss, 15 minutes each player It was another[...]

SEASON 2024-25 SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) Sunday 23rd February 25 Round 5 & 6 Dundee City teams are a joint venture by Castlehill CC & Dundee CC. Report by Alastair Dawson As New Year faded over the horizon, the four chess[...]

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the first incarnation of Castlehill Chess Club. To celebrate this milestone the club is running a  one day/6 round allegro on Saturday 21st June. We hope that past as well[...]

The George Pyrich OTB Allegro Championship Series 24-25 The 3rd George Pyrich OTB Allegro Championship Series took place at Dundee Chess Club, on Monday 27th January 25, 7:30pm. Format: 5 round Swiss, 15 minutes each player It was[...]

SEASON 2024-25 4NCL (Nations Chess League) SEASON 2024-25 Tues 17th Dec 24 – 7:30pm Season 10 – Play-offs – Div 1 Final Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City B (1989) 1 – 3 (2123) Wessex Some Stars A Oh[...]

SEASON 2024-25 4NCL (Nations Chess League) SEASON 2024-25 Tues 10th Dec 24 – 7:30pm Season 10 – Play-offs – Div 1 Semi-Final Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City B (1989) 2½ - 1½ (2060) Heffalump Hunters This was truly[...]

SEASON 2024-25 4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 3rd Dec 24 – 7:30pm Season 10 – Round 7 Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Three wins and 3 losses to finish of the qualifying rounds. Well played Dundee City F, winning[...]

SEASON 2024-25 SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) Sunday 24th November 24 Round 3 & 4 Dundee City teams are a joint venture by Castlehill CC & Dundee CC. On Match Day 2, our 4 Dundee City teams set about a[...]

SEASON 2024-25 JUNIOR 4NCL (Nations Chess League) Season 10 – Rounds 7 Division Three – Swiss A joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. Thurs 21st Nov 24 – 6pm Div 3 – Round 7 Swiss Cottage Gambits C[...]

SEASON 2024-25 4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 19th Nov 24 – 7:30pm Season 10 – Round 6 Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Well not the best week for Dundee City teams with only two wins, one draw and[...]

CASTLEHILL ONLINE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 24-25 Round 1 draw The draw for round one of the online club championship is finally up on our website, apologies for delay! The deadline for all matches to be played is Sunday 8th[...]

SEASON 2024-25 4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 5th Nov 24 – 7:30pm Season 10 – Round 5 Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City teams - 2 wins, 2 draws & 2 losses! Div 1 – Group A Wessex Some[...]

SEASON 2024-25 Dundee City teams are a joint venture by Castlehill CC & Dundee CC. We have an amazing 4 teams entered this season! The SNCL entry is 36 teams, and 180 players each round! SNCL (Scottish National[...]

CASTLEHILL OTB RANDOM KNOCKOUT 2023-24 The much anticipated, but delayed Random Knockout final, finally took place! Congratulations to Vladyslav Drabych on becoming the Castlehill Random Knockout Champion 2023-24, after beating Subhayu Banerjee in the delayed final, which[...]

SEASON 2024-25 SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) Sun 27th Oct 24 Round 1 & 2 Dundee City teams are a joint venture by Castlehill CC & Dundee CC. We have an amazing 4 teams entered this season! The SNCL entry is[...]

CASTLEHILL OTB CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024-25 - Round 1 draw Apologies, for lateness of draw, but it`s been a very busy time, chess wise! The round one draw is now up and the "MATCH NIGHT" is "THURSDAY 28th[...]

SEASON 2024-25 4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 22nd Oct 24 – 7:30pm Season 10 – Round 4 Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City teams is a joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. Div[...]

DUNDEE CHESS CONGRESS 2024 Fri 11th Oct to Sun 13th Oct 24 Chaplaincy Centre Dundee The Dundee Congress from a Castlehill perspective! Apologies, for late report, but time is still my enemy. The Dundee Chess Congress was a great success[...]

The 19th BOBBY GOW MEMORIAL 2024 Mon 30th Sept 24 – 8:00pm Dundee Chess Club Dundee (1427) 10½ - 14½ (1487) Castlehill Chess Club Oh, what a night at Dundee Chess Club, who hosted the 19th Bobby Gow Memorial 2024. We had[...]

Ayr Congress 2024 A personal report by Iain Sneddon Castlehill had 5 representatives at the recent Scottish Chess Tour event in Ayr, 13th-15th September (Rishi Vijayakumar , Andre Babin and me in the Open and Colin Young[...]

CASTLEHILL CHESS CLUB - SEASON 2024-25 is now open! Here we go again as the new chess season for 2024-25 starts. Castlehill hope to see all our present members join again, and hopefully welcome back some[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 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[...]

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.[...]

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[...]

PERTH CHESS WARRIOR - CHECKMATE Apologies, I meant to post this when I found out late. It`s personally sad to hear that Ronnie Cutting (Perth Chess Club) had died a few weeks back (I did not[...]

CLUB NIGHT – ROCKING In COMFORT Thurs 30th May 24 Well, what was supposed to be a quiet night, turned out to be a busy competitive battle, with 7 matches on. The players just kept coming out[...]

PERTH CHESS CONGRESS Fri 24th to Mon 27th May 24 The Salutation Hotel was once again the stage for the Perth Chess Congress, organised by Scottish Chess Tour. This year saw an extra day added, making it[...]

TAFCA 2023-24 SEASON - Oct 23 - Apr 24 The TAFCA 2023-24 season is now over and while as always it`s great to play in, it was not the best season for Castlehill Chess Club. Having[...]

The Bob Dunn OTB Summer Championships 2023-24 Round 1 - 9th May 24 We have an outstanding 22 players entered so for the main summer tournament, the Bob Dunn OTB Summer Championships! You still have time to enter[...]

CASTLEHILL ONLINE QUICK-PLAY SERIES - ROUND 1 Tuesday 7th May 2024 - 7:30pm Season 2023-24 In the 1st Online Quick-Play of the 2023-24 season held on Tuesday 7th May 24, 7:30pm on Lichess.org, we had 8 players involved. A[...]

CASTLEHILL OTB QUICK-PLAY - ROUND 1 Thurs 2nd May 24 We had an amazing 16 players down for the first Quick-Play of the summer season! In someone else's words, "I was not expecting that"! Of course having[...]

CASTLEHILL SUMMER ONLINE CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 Summer is here in name, if not in warmth! We have 14 players in this years Summer Online Championship. The round one draw is now up and the deadline for the matches[...]

THE 15th IAN McNAB MEMORIAL TROPHY 2023-24 Thurs 25th April 25 – 7:30pm Not many members left who knew Ian McNab, but those that do, have many memories, good and bad! Ian would have loved this event[...]

SEASON 2023-24 4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 23rd April 24 – 7:30pm Season 9 – Sem-Final play-off`s Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City teams is a joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. Div[...]

SEASON 2023-24 SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) Sunday 21st April 24 Round 9 (last) + the Scottish team lighting tournament Dundee City teams are a joint venture between Castlehill CC & Dundee CC The final Round of this season’s SNCL[...]

BOB DUNN OTB SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 We have an excellent 18 players entered so far (but you can still enter if you want to!), and the first round draw is now up on our website. The[...]

4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 2nd April 24 – 7:30pm Season 9 – Round 6 Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City teams is a joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. RESULTS Div[...]

WORLD CHESS LEAGUE “LIVE” A joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. Time-Control – 10 minutes + 5 seconds (Two matches each player) Round 7 – Group A – Sun 24th Mar 24 -[...]

4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 19th March 24 – 7:30pm Season 9 – Round 5 Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City teams is a joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. Seven[...]

SNCL (Scottish National Chess League) Sunday 17th March, 2024: Rounds 7 & 8 Dundee City teams are a joint venture between Castlehill CC & Dundee CC And so, the day finally arrived. Our three Dundee City teams faced some[...]

SEASON 2023-24 JUNIOR 4NCL (Nations Chess League) Thurs 14th March 24 – 6:00pm Season 9 – Round 5 Division Three – Group B A joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. RESULT Dundee City Juniors (954) 6 – 2[...]

The 5th TAFCA ONLINE ALLEGRO CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 2023-24 Tues 12th March 24 – 7:30pm on Lichess.org Format: 5 Round Swiss: Time-Control: 15 minutes each player There were 14 players taking part in the final online Allegro night of[...]

ONLINE "LAST PERSON STANDING" KNOCKOUT - Q/F DRAW   Congratulations to all 8 players for reaching the Q/finals of the Online Last Person Standing Knockout! The draw for the Q/Final`s is now up on our website. The deadline[...]

4NCL (Nations Chess League) Tues 5th March 24 – 7:30pm Season 9 – Round 4 Time-Controls – 45 minutes + 15 seconds increments Dundee City teams is a joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club. It[...]