The New Arbiter Appointments Policy The new policy for appointments was published last summer: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Arbiter-Appointments-Policy.pdf This was the first time the ECF had a published policy for its own events,…

Nominations are now invited for this year’s ECF awards, covering the period from 1st June 2025 to 31st May 2026. To apply for an award you must complete the official…

Organised by the British Chess Problem Society!  Entry to this competition sponsored by Winton is by solving the starter problem below.  White, playing up the board, is to play and…

England’s most prestigious team chess competition for schools has found a new homegrown sponsor in educational books specialist CGP. The Cumbria-based publisher has stepped forward to support the 2026 English Schools Chess Championships,…

Please ignore any emails that are not from a named person in the ECF Office asking you to ‘Update Password’ or similar, and claiming your email account passord is set…

We are delighted to share the news that Kayal Vijay has been crowned Under 9 Girls Champion at the European Schools Chess Championship 2026, held in Croatia from 27th April…

The 2026 ECF Official Chess Yearbook is now available as a free PDF to all readers here: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Yearbook-2026-compressed.pdf Weighing in at just over 300 pages, the yearbook’s contents include: Home…

The 2026 Glorney Cup, involving junior teams from six nations including England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, is being held at the University of Limerick, Ireland on 27-30 July. England will be…

Our hosting provider, which provides the server for our websites, email, rating and LMS systems, has informed us of a global security incident impacting managed cloud servers across the internet….

There is an ongoing problem at the moment in that Swiss Manager, the main pairing program used at events around England can’t access the latest ECF rating list. There is a…