Dear Parents, Kids & All Our Chess Friends!
The Elite Online Chess Club has helped to prepare our junior students for their National and International tournaments and matches since 2021.
We work together on strategy, tactics and mindset to build the confidence and skills necessary to compete beyond Chess Rising Stars. Grandmasters regularly make guest coaching appearances.
Each term the Elite Club has 6-10 students. Based on our students’ performance during the previous term, plus our sense of who would make the best use of the opportunity, we only offer places in this club by invitation.
Sunday Elite Chess Club
Time: 10:30-12:00 noon
Age: 8+
Number of children: 6-10
Spring Dates 2026
January: 18, 25
February: 1, 8, 15
March: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Summer Dates 2026
April: 25
May: 2, 9, 16, 23
June: 6, 13, 20, 27
July: 4
Cost
£21 per lesson when all 10 sessions are booked in advance
£26 per single lesson
Individual Achievements
• Retained U14 Major title at the 2025 LJCC Finals on tie-break with an unbeaten 5/6.
• Double 1st place at the LJCC Finals 2024 in the U12 and U14 Major sections.
• 1st place in the U12 Boys category of the EJCOA National Youth Finals 2024.
• Two members were selected for the EPSCA South West England team, plus one for the South East England team, to face Wales in 2024.
• Elite Club members reached the Terafinal of the UK Chess Challenge in 2023 and returned as 3rd and 7th place finishers.
Team Achievements
• Elite Club members often go on to represent Chess Rising Stars in the Junior Four Nations Chess League Online team competition.
• Since registering our first team in 2022, we have achieved many successes in the J4NCLO and are 7-time Divisional champions and 3-time runners up.
• Division 5 runners-up in our first season of the main 4NCLO, followed by winning Division 4.
Additional Information
• The sessions will be delivered by FIDE Trainer GM Martin Petrov with guest lessons from the Elite Club founder, FIDE Instructor Chris Russell, plus FIDE Trainers GM Marian Petrov and GM Spyridon Kapnisis.
• This is an international club with children from 5 different countries having taken part.
• Please check out our Parents’ Guides series: Junior Tournaments, ECF Membership and Chess Ratings.
• Map your child’s chess progress with Chess Rising Stars.
• Registration is open for our other Spring Term Online Chess Clubs, including the Rising Stars Online Club for local and regional tournament players.
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