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Formby Chess Club |
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The place to play chess in Formby |
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Formby home of the red squirrel is also home to Formby Chess Club |
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Formby Chess Club is the place to play chess in Formby. Due to the fact that Internet Explorer 8 cannot correctly read this site we have opened another site at http:\\formbychessclub.weebly.com which has replaced this site.
If like Kevin Howard (our Publicity Officer) and Phil Fisher (our President), pictured above you want the chance to match yourself against a Grandmaster, or like more social chess, you will find the opportunity at Formby Chess Club
We meet during the winter season at Ravenmeols Community Centre in Park Road every Tuesday from 7.15 pm. In the summer we meet at the Royal Hotel in Formby on Tuesdays at 7.30 pm.
We run three teams in the Merseyside and District League, and one in the Wirral League.
In addition our club championship is graded and you also have the opportunity to play graded games at any time by entering our Club Ladder competition.
If you don’t know whether you want to play formal chess or not, come along and have a casual game against one of our members.
Comments on the website or contact with the club should be made through the Club Secretary at the telephone number given on the Membership page. Due to the fact that Internet Explorer 8 cannot correctly read this site we have opened another site at http:\\formbychessclub.weebly.com which has replaced this site. Home News History Membership Locations Competitions First Team Second Team Third Team Wirral League Team Warrington League Team WDCL Matters Social PGN Viewer Photo Gallery Club Championship Links Results Summary Former Members Members News Improvers
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Ravenmeols Community Centre 225 Park Road Formby Merseyside L37 6EW |

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Some of you may not know that our President is a poet. Here is one of his efforts published in CHESS magazine. THE AWAY GAME by C.P.Fisher It is the usual mess A long wait in the rain The arrangements do not impress Hopes of transport may be in vain At last we are on our way Discussions about the opposing team The row over who is to play Late arrival is certain it would seem That is before we get confused Or in reality totally lost With diversionary signpost misconstrued And no hope of 'phoning our host We navigate less informed than Columbus Passers-by don't live here Try following that bright green bus The venue's moved since last year Arriving by starlight, clocks have started Tired cold and deadbeat Long since our brains departed And of course there is no heat The light is dim, vision slight Not space enough to put your feet Here you must battle with all your might Last week's loss you must not repeat A few moves on, in trouble already No thought of retreat Although to be safe and steady A Kingdom for a comfy seat
If the upper hand you start to gain Your opponent gives a cough And coughs again and again Any trick to put you off
The opponent's progress to retard Such tricks we all can copy And fight back very hard Crunching crisps and slurping coffee
The inevitable march of time Now at our vitals claws As though it was one chime We offer a flurry of draws
'Tis not good play or calculation Allows our victors to strut But our own realisation That the pubs are about to shut |