ECF Clubs
You can play in upcoming club events by logging in to your provider account and going to the relevant club home page on chess.com and/ or lichess.org which can be found here:
Weekly Club Events
We are currently running online club tournaments as follows in the chess.com and lichess.org clubs:
Chess.com
ECF Members Club – https://www.chess.com/club/english-chess-federation-members – (ECF Members Only – All events below are ECF online rated with rating updates appearing in the next month’s list following the event)
| 5-30 pm Tuesday | ECF Tuesday Improvers Congress (U1600) | Various Swiss Formats |
| 7-00 pm Wednesday | ECF Wednesday Evening Rapid | 4 Round Swiss at 15|5 |
| 5-00 pm Thursday | ECF Thursday Afternoon Blitz | 7 Round Swiss at 5|2 |
| 8-00 pm Friday | ECF Friday Evening Blitz | 90 Minute Arena at 10|0 |
| 8-00 pm Sunday | ECF Sunday Evening Rapid | 5 rounds Swiss at 10|2 |
ECF Open Club – https://www.chess.com/club/english-chess-federation – ( Open to all – Events are not ECF online Rated)
| 7-00 pm Tuesday | ECF (Open) Tuesday Evening 10 minute | 90 Minute Arena at 10|0 time control |
| 7-00 pm Thursday | Under 1700 ECF (Open) Thursday Evening 10 minute | 4 round Swiss Swiss at 10|0 time control |
Lichess.org 
English Chess Players Team– https://lichess.org/team/english-chess-players – (ECF Members Only – All events below are ECF online rated with rating updates appearing in the next month’s list following the event)
| 5-00 pm Monday | ECF Monday Afternoon Blitz | 7 round Swiss at 5|2 time control |
| 8-00 pm Wednesday | ECF Wednesday Evening Blitz | 9 round Swiss at 3|2 time control |
| 8-00 pm Saturday | ECF Saturday Evening Rapid | 120 minute Arena at 10|2 time control |
ECF Clubs also take part in International Team Matches on chess.com and lichess. Please note that you will need to be logged in to chess.com to view the relevant chess.com events and to the relevant platform (chess.com or lichess) to register. You can register for chess.com events one hour before the start time, or you can register now for lichess events.
International Programme
Our clubs take part in International Events against other National and Federation teams on chess.com and lichess.
We are currently playing in chess.com Live Chess World, European and Mediterranean Leagues with matches usually on Saturday or Sunday evenings with players from the ECF open club .
We are also playing in lichess International Leagues including the Bundesliga at 7 pm on Sunday and Thursday evenings, the Liga Ibera on Sunday afternoons, the Champions League on Tuesday evening, and the Mega A Team Battle on Friday afternoons. Fixtures are updated on this page as they are scheduled.
? ▶ Commentary and Streaming
– GM Matthew Sadler and WIM Natasha Regan generally cover a selection of the ECF events with their excellent commentary on the games . These are broadcast on their Youtube Game Changer Channel here:
Game Changer Chess
and also on the ECF twitch commentary channel here:
Twitch ECF Commentary
– where the team are joined by a selection of guest streamers.
ECF Twitch commentaries are also available on the ECF youtube channel where you can catch up on previous Twitch commentaries at the link here:
?https://www.youtube.com/c/EnglishChessFederation/videos
Rating chess.com ECF members club and lichess English Chess Players tournaments are all ECF online rated except for Internationals. Ratings are published in the ECF monthly lists in the month following the events. ECF online ratings are completely separate from OTB grades which are not impacted.