Congratulations!
Can we congratulate Madged, a new player to the Malpas club, for achieving 4.5 out of 7 in the recent Welsh Open tournament. Well Done!
Gwent Closed Chess Championships 2025
Please find details of this tournament which will be help on the 25th to 27th April on the Link below.
10 min Rapid at New Malpas Venue – Mon 9th Sept
We are moving to the Malpas Unionist Club on Monday 9th September, 6.30pm. To celebrate, we cordially invite members of the Gwent League to come and join us for a 10 min Rapid play competition. The competition will start at 7.00pm at the above Venue. Clocks will have 10min each with 10 sec increments from…
Gwent League Fixtures (prov)
The Gwent League Fixtures (provisional) are out. I have put the games for Malpas on this website. Please, if anyone can see any errors, let me know asap. Away teams (and home team members) are kindly advised that home matches are to start promptly at 7pm. Good Luck to all Teams in the Gwent League!!
Chess 960 Event
There is an event hosted by Newport Chess Club on Wednesday the 4th September 2024 at 7pm held at the Pen and Wig, Stow Hill, Newport. It is a Chess 960 event. Chess 960 is played with randomised positioning of major pieces although they are matched for both white and black. This enables players to…
Recent Gwent Closed Championships
Congratulations to James Lavender, Lee Davis and Peter AC Varley for jointly winning the Gwent Closed Championships with 3.5/5 points. A hotly fought contest which allows them to jointly be names Gwent Champions. James did well to hold onto this title. Congratulations to Ron Williams who came joint first in the U1600 section with Bob…
Quickplay League Schedule Announced
The Quickplay schedule has been released and the Malpas games are published below:
Newport Chess Congress 2024
We are gearing up at after Easter to get the ball rolling with spreading the word about the Newport Chess Congress. Here is a flyer. Details can be found at https://newportchesscongress.uk Please feel free to start spreading the word!
Payment of Subs
Can I gently remind those who have yet to pay their subscriptions that these should be made soon. Jon Gilbert has to pay zone fees to the WCU by the end of October. If Dave Norris could receive the subs then he will forward payment to Jon Gilbert. Many thanks David