Steve Rigby, the founder of Oldham-based 3Cs chess club over forty-six years ago, has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the  2025 King’s New Year’s Honours for services to chess and his work with young people in the community, therefore becoming only the thirteenth person in the country to receive a national honour from…

Alfred Milner was born at about the same time as the Lancashire Chess League Association. A report of the Oyston Lancashire Congress, at Blackpool in March 1981, in which Mr Milner was runner-up, gave his age as ninety-two (B.C.M). Mr Milner replied that he was only ninety. Mr Milner was playing for Manchester Chess Club…