Our 2 EACU teams have a new set of fixtures. The U160s will play Cambs and Suffolk on 6th Dec, Suffolk and Norfolk on Jan 31st 2016 and finish against Norfolk and Cambs on 21st Feb.

The Open team wil play in a 5-team league with 4 fixture dates - Nov29th against Suffolk and Norfolk, Feb 7th against Beds and Suffolk, Feb 28th against Cambs and Beds and finish on 13th March against Norfolk and Cambs

The provisional fixture lists for our U120 and U140 teams were announced today.

Peter Baker's U120 team begin the defence of their dual titles at home to Essex on October 3rd, followed by trips to Middlesex on 14th November and Kent on 19th March 2016. In between the road-trips is a home match with Surrey on January 16th.

At the EACU AGM on 11th July it was agreed that the EACU county matches in which our Open and U160 teams compete, would adopt Fischer time controls incorporating an increment of 15 seconds per move, where digital clocks were available for all boards.

The new Herts Chess Association website has been launched today, Friday 17th July 2015.