{"id":535943,"date":"2026-04-17T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:29:10","slug":"the-gooners-gambit-how-club-met-arsenals-chess-loving-goal-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535943\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gooner\u2019s Gambit! How club met Arsenal\u2019s chess-loving goal king"},"content":{"rendered":"

The London Women\u2019s Chess Club with Eberechi Eze<\/p>\n

A WOMEN\u2019S chess group based in King\u2019s Cross brushed shoulders with a footballing chess enthusiast last week.<\/p>\n

The London Women\u2019s Chess Club, a community dedicated to getting women and girls learning and enjoying chess, meets weekly in the Pancras Square Library to play the game in a space not dominated by men. Last week, however, they were doing something a little different.<\/p>\n

After a special invitation from the Chess in Schools charity, they met Eberechi Eze and watched him take on a highly rated opponent who is close to achieving grandmaster status \u2013 the title given to players at the very top of the game.<\/p>\n

Zoya Boozorginia, founder of London Women\u2019s Chess Club (LWCC) said: \u201cIt\u2019s good that there are sports people who are into chess. We were so privileged to be invited by the Chess in School Charity and Malcolm Pein, the organiser. It\u2019s just to support his movement as well as supporting our own club.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eze in action on the board<\/p>\n

While the Camden women\u2019s group didn\u2019t get to play Eze personally, they did meet the Arsenal forward and chat with him about the game, which he became interested in a few years ago and now promotes through his foundation, the Eze Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to meet him, he was very cool and was very kind when I told him we were from London Women\u2019s Chess Club,\u201d said Ms Boozorginia.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was just playing chess and was playing with somebody who was very high rated and he kept on losing and didn\u2019t really stand a chance but it was utterly fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe support others interested in chess and for me it\u2019s good to be connected with others in chess. The guy who played Eze is nearly a grandmaster so Eze did a good job as he is at an intermediate level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event was held at Cafe 1001 in east London during the Knight Club chess nights, where people gather for evening chess sessions.<\/p>\n

Ms Boozorginia said: \u201cThe place was full of young people and the fact that it was in a nightclub type venue \u2013 it\u2019s quite loud to play chess but it\u2019s really attracting the younger generation. It\u2019s serving a purpose, it\u2019s very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

London Women\u2019s Chess Club meets on Sundays at Pancras Square Library from 1pm-5pm. On May 30-31, the group will host a chess congress \u2013 a weekend event for women and girls with cash prizes for winners.<\/p>\n

Registration is available via the link: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5e85xx23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Women\u2019s Chess Club with Eberechi Eze A WOMEN\u2019S chess group based in King\u2019s Cross brushed shoulders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,7840,8418,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-535943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-king","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}