Click here for a list of Durban Chess Club champions.
Click here for a list of Kwa-Zulu Natal champions
This website is devoted to the history of the Durban Chess Club and to the stories of chess players who lived and breathed chess in Durban
and its surrounding areas. Durban Chess Club was founded in 1893, making it one of the oldest chess clubs in South Africa. I joined the club
in 1974 and was privileged to win the club championships a record 25 times, before retiring from active play at the end of 2018.
A full list of Durban CC champions and Kwa-Zulu Natal champions is included here.
These pages highlight the achievements of some of those players, as well as paying tribute to a number of players I have met over the board
in Durban. Detailed cross tables are available from 1953 for the Durban championship, and for most years for the Kwa-Zulu Natal championship.
The Downloads page includes the games from the 1969, 1971 and 1972 Natal Opens, as well as games from the 1978,
1993, 1995 and 1996 South African Opens held in Durban - some 3,300 games in total. A special collection is all of the games (over 1,200)
published in the Durban Chess Club Bulletin from 1973 to 1996. There are over 6,000 games in the various collections.
