4NCL Weekend 5
The final weekend of the 4ncl was in Coventry, and with 3 rounds across the bank holiday weekend, there was everything to play for, except promotion, which was just out of reach, [...]
4NCL Weekend 4
Weekend 4 of the 4NCL provided a welcome chance to make amends for weekend 3 when Castell Nedd contrived to lose both matches, before half the team managed to get lost on [...]
4NCL Weekend 2
There is, it turns out, one good thing about January—the 2nd weekend of the 4NCL! Fortunately, we only had to go as far as Coventry this time although we did take a [...]
Dragon League Round 1
January results: Clydach 0.5 Glynneath 3.5 Allan Paul 0 Calvin Gale 1 Mariya Sony 0 Angel Bithell 1 Sophia Harris 0 Mia Matson 1 Justin Joseph 0.5 Charlotte Elson 0.5 Crymlyn 0 Barbarians [...]
4NCL Weekend 1
With the continued success and growth of the club, it was decided to team up with some friends from Cardiff and enter an official Castell Nedd team in the 4NCL [...]
Spooky Halloween & Pizza Night
Ghosts and ghouls took to the chessboards for the club’s annual pizza night, this time with a Halloween theme. Throughout the evening, kids enjoyed both chess and themed activities, playing “Splat the [...]
“Tactics flow from a superior position.”
“Even the laziest king flees wildly in the face of a double check.”
“Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.”
“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
“When you see a good move, look for a better one.”
“The pawns are the soul of chess.”
“The hardest game to win is a won game.”
“A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.”