Suffolk Junior Chess

SJC now has some amazing t-shirts ready to order for over-the-board chess. Please contact Tim Kent, if you would like to order one.   The ‘crown’ design is inspired by the Suffolk flag…

Suffolk Juniors have been regular participants in the monthly Inter-County Blitz Battle events, organised by FIDE arbiter, Alex Holowczak. The monthly Inter-County Blitz events started at the beginning of the pandemic to give…

Founded in 1900, FC Bayern Munich now has over 200,000 members and doesn’t just focus on football. Other departments include basketball, handball, chess, ten-pin bowling, table tennis and football referees.  Last Saturday, different…

Over the past few months or so, the SJC online team has been swotting up a bit on the Sicilian Dragon, a popular chess opening played at all levels. In addition to the…

On Sunday 8th May, the Bury St Edmunds Junior Chess Congress takes place at the Sybil Andrews Academy. This all-day event, where all entrants play six games, will attract junior chess players from…

In 2020 and 2021, the majority of chess has been played online. The Suffolk Junior Chess Club meets regularly online on Wednesdays and Sundays for different online events and these online events are…

The Suffolk junior online chess club has been running in one form or another since March 2020.  It originally ran on ChessKid and we then moved to Lichess in late autumn / early…

Some of the Suffolk Junior Chess players took part in ChessFest. ChessFest was themed around the book ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’, which author Lewis Carroll designed around chess 150 years ago. On Saturday…

Recently, the 7th East Anglian Chess Arena took place. Online East Anglian Junior chess events have been running since January and typically feature a longer rapid play time format, giving players to focus…

FC Bayern kindly invited Essex to join Suffolk in a friendly team battle involving another German side Werder Warriors (Werder Bremen). The full report can be found below on the FC Bayern website:…