With 16 starters this month and a couple of regulars away on Easter holidays, it was an open invitation for some new faces to add...

It was a great pleasure hosting Greenwich, one of the newly established London clubs, for the fifth instalment of our club head to head...

We've been focussing recently on behaviour and values at BGiE. A good club atmosphere makes for a fun & welcoming club, and that's our...

Another busy GP night saw 20 players battle it out for an early lead in this year's title race. There were group wins for Peter Bennet,...

Well inside The Grange it was bright and warm - perfect for some backgammon. Even with Brentford playing Manchester City at home, 20...

Well - not quite yet, but we know we need to tweak the format a bit. Our Grand Prix has been a bit of a victim of its own success - with...

The last BGiE club night of the year saw six doubles teams play a Swiss with lots of close matches and good discussions. To give you some...

In an earlier blog post we mentioned that we might need to make a year-end adjustment to the Club Standings on our Hub club page. This...

Our regular playing year has ended - 3,198 matches after we started. That makes us the second biggest club by matches reported on UKBGF...

It's that time of year, when it gets dark early, Christmas comes around quicker than you expect - and players make their final moves to...

I'm sure everyone who played yesterday has their own stories of the twists and turns that the day took. For the finalists the same was...

The stage was set for a showdown between Tariq, Henry and Yas for the overall Grand Prix title this Monday past. From the off it was a...

Our photo shows Andrew A (left) playing on his beautiful 1970's era Crisloid board. Andrew recently acquired the board in a cafe in...

We've all been there - an unbroken string of losses against a particular player, and then one day you win! Well it happened to Gavin...

At 20-19 to Twickenham and with 3 matches still to be decided, it could have gone either way, including a dead heat. Suffice to say...

Valérie Hayes (pictured right) and Merzad Eshghi each took the crown in their 8-player Swiss last night. Congratulations to them and also...

Congratulations go to Roger Phillips for winning all 5 of his matches in a 28 player starting lineup on Monday night and taking the...

1. We have a website (who knew!) at www.bgie.club. Lots of info on it, including all our blog posts and the weekly puzzles we set at club...

And he's not the only one on a roll; Andrew Ankrah is undefeated 2 weeks on the trot, winning his Swiss last night and beating all his...

We still didn't win. After the first round of matches we were up 5-1, after round 2 we were up 8-4, needing just 2 wins in the last round...