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Our popular player Paulo Rosario has had a difficult season but he came up trumps with a beautiful win in the crucial victory against Athenaeum last week. Says Paulo: “I have been having a very disappointing season (missing wins, and failing to save some draws) so it was great to have my first win of the season. I made an

Hackney Gorki are waiting on a crucial adjournment after finishing their Division 6 match against Athenaeum 2-1 ahead with George Perkins adjourned. A draw will be enough to secure a vital win in Gorki’s title challenge. There were wins for Mateo Lario de Miguel and Omar Jassim. Here is Mateo’s winning game with the White pieces.

In what was one of the great nights for HCC, our third team came away from Fortress Albany with a magnificent victory which has gone some way to helping us avoid the drop to Div 4. Wins by Jeff Leung, Paolo Rosario, Salim Kriman, Shaun Tracey and Danny Rosenbaum, and a very good draw from Paul Conway on top Board

Chris Thorne is captain of our Hackney Gorki team and has done a brilliant job in bringing our newest team to the edge of glory in only his second season playing for HCC. His sons Alex and Joe, along with a raft of other promising juniors and lower graded adults, make up the Gorki Squad. This season has been particularly

Alistair Dyte is one of our newer members having joined the club in 2016. Alistair was a very strong junior player for Slough in the 1980s and had a long break from chess. Living in Hackney he decided to come to the Rochester Castle for some blitz and we were delighted to welcome such a good player. And since his

A great night for Hackney in the London League with our second team playing a blinder to beat Ilford 6-4 in the ‘Beasts of the East’ derby match. Chris Gribben’s Div 5 team went top of the pile after a 3-1 win over Lewisham and Hackney Gorki stayed well in contention for the Div 6 title after an exciting 2-2

Our club sponsor is Mergul Law (mergullaw.co.uk) and the senior partner of the firm is Rauf Khalilov who is having a great chess season (much of his success is down to the great coaching of Jochen Wittmann!) Here is one of Rauf’s recent wins in London League against Wimbledon 2. We love you Rauf!

Ten year old Joe Thorne is one of HCC’s promising juniors and is on 100 percent with two wins out of two for Hackney Gorki in Division Six of the London League this season. Here is his game against Ivan Fernandes on 13.2.