Our online activities began during the pandemic and have continued as over-the-board chess resumed.

Telepost Dark Knights

Telepost Dark Knights is intended as a place for social chess, friendlies against other clubs, and club tournaments. It is based on Lichess.com, which is the platform used for the Shropshire League 2020-21 season, 4NCL Online, ECF County Online and other tournaments.

In 2020, we pllayed our traditional pre-season friendly against Shrewsbury Light Squares (Shrewsbury Chess Club) as the Dark Knights, and held two club competitions - a Winter 20 Individual Swiss competition held over six rounds, and a Chess Ladder in which each month players challenge a player above them in the ladder, in an attempt to reach the top of the ladder and become the White Knight. The Lighter Knights Individual, held in Spring 2021 was a round-robin of two divisions with inter-division finals.

Post-pandemic, the Winter 21/22 Online Individual ran in tandem with the over-the-board club championship - details here.

TDK is also a place to arrange social chess amongst club members. John Casewell is the Dark Knights co-ordinator.

If you would like to join the Dark Knights:

Create a Lichess account if you don’t already have one.

Let John Casewell or Nick Holmes know your Lichess username so we know who’s asking to come in!

In Lichess, log in, go to Community, then Teams, then All teams

Use search box on top right of that page to search for Telepost Dark Knights.

Once Telepost Dark Knights appears, hit return to go to that page, then click on Join.

Lichess makes it very easy to spectate a particular game and Kate Walker has created a calendar of online matches taking place "in" Shropshire. So, if you fancy watching Shropshire's answer to the Magnus Carlsen Tour, plan your viewing on our online matches calendar. Contact Kate to add a game to the calendar.

Current Tournament:

TELEPOST ONLINE SUMMER SWISS 2022

This is a four-round Swiss to find the Telepost Online Summer Champion 2022.

Controller - John Casewell.

Grading used - ECF standard online grades for May 2022.

Time control - 45 minutes plus 15 seconds per move.

Schedule - one round per month with the final round in September.

Match arrangements - the white player should organise the game. Two points for a win, one for a draw.

TOURNAMENT TABLE

Last update: 31 May

PLAYER	RATING	PLAYED	WON	LOST	POINTS
John Casewell	1326	1	1	0	2
Alex Brims	1597	1	0	0	2
Rob Nield	1778	1	1	0	2
Matthew Clark	1740	0	0	0	0
Matt Ryan	1725	1	0	1	0
John Westhead	1558	1	0	1	0
Nick Holmes	1534	0	0	0	0
Jack Gough	UG	1	0	0	0

SCHEDULE AND RESULTS

Round One - matches to be played by 30 June

W	Rob Nield	1-0	John Westhead
W	Nick Holmes	0-0	Matthew Clark
W	Matt Ryan	0-1	John Casewell
W	Jack Gough	0-1	Alex Brims

Online Tournament Archive

Results of our online competitions, both on Chess.com and Lichess, can be found on the link below.

Online Tournament Archive

Dark Knights Lichess Homepage