You can visit us by turning up on a Monday after 7pm at the Social Club. The  membership fees for the year are just £25 for adults & £10 for schoolchildren, but feel free to come along for a week or two before you decide whether to join. While you are welcome to come along & just play social chess each week, we are also members of local leagues & run teams of various standards for those players who want to play competitively.  Please note that those players who wish to play in club competitions & league chess would also need to purchase an English Chess Federation Membership.

The 500 Club (Played more than 500 league matches for Rushall up to August 2025):

Steve Wilcox  1042, Shane Cooksey  981, Ray Hancox  652, Peter Turner 636, Josh Hennion 585, Peter Leary 593.

COMMITTEE: Chair - John Grant, Secretary - Steve Wilcox, Treasurer - Stefan Winman, Tournament Organisers - Steve Wilcox , Craig Cowley & Matthew Blackwell, Publicity - Lisa Willetts-Pitt,  Webmasters - Roger Bray, Arslan Awan & Steve Wilcox,  Auditor - John Grant

Captains: Wolverhampton  Division 2 & Division 3B - John Grant, Wolverhampton 3C - Matthew Blackwell, Cannock Division 2-  Steve Wilcox, Cannock Division 3 - Craig Cowley, Cannock Division 4 - David Gaskell.

We have 3 internal club tournaments – the Club Championship, Les Wilcox Trophy & Junior Championship. The Club Championship has been held since the 1981/2 season. It has had several tweaks over the years, but is presently run on a random draw knock-out basis. If a match is drawn then a replay is arranged with opposite colours & an Armageddon game decides the winner if the replay is also drawn. 

We also run a few rapidplay tournaments each year.

Club Champions with number of outright wins (& years won):

9 - John Staniforth* (2001,2002,2003,2004,2009,2011,2012,2013,2019)

5 - Steve Wilcox (1991,1997,1998,1999,2010)

3 - Matthew Jebb (1986,1988,1989)

2 - Ray Hancox (1983,1987), Matthew Wragg (1992,1993), Jon Sadler (1995,1996) & Steve Whatmore (2023,2024)

1 - Ben Payne (1982), Dick Clarkson (1984), Barry Marshall (1985), Kevin Hadley (1990), Calvin Styles (1994), Richard Westwood (2000), Charlotte Wilcox-Banks* (2005), Devan Patel (2017) & Alex Jarvis (2018)

*In addition, the 2006 & 2025 Finals were drawn, so John Staniforth/Charlotte Wilcox-Banks & John Staniforth/Peter Leary were declared joint winners

Les Wilcox Trophy (for players rated below 1640 ECF):

David Jarvis won the 2025 competition & now leads the list with the most number of wins:

5 - David Jarvis 

4 - Peter Turner

3 - Jeff Horne & Shane Cooksey

2 - Nigel Sims, Paul Spencer & Roger Grant

1 - Nigel Parker, Chris Bell, Darren Bell, Manpreet Sangha, Syd Allen, Joe Wilcox, Devan Patel, Matthew Greenwood, Adrian Dibble & Richard Westwood