In 1975 Mike Fox and I co-founded Richmond Junior Chess Club. After he moved out of the area in 1979 I continued to run it, with a lot of help from parents and colleagues, until 2006.
For most of that period we were arguably the strongest children’s chess club in the country, and perhaps also one of the strongest in the world.
I wrote a history of the club for British Chess News between 2022 and 2023, which is now republished here.
Chess with Richard 