User:CharlesHiggie/sandbox/Charles Higgie

'''Charles Lowick Higgie is known in Britain as a chess player, writer. organiser and teacher'''. Charles was born in 1957. He learned to play when he was six. He attended The King's School, Chester, which had a strong chess club, and he was coached by older players. By the time he reached the 6th form he was the 4th best player in the school. In 1975 he went to Sheffield University, joining a group of players who had been attracted to it as the university of Tony Miles. Returning to Cheshire in 1978, Charles became Cheshire & North Wales Chess Champion in 1980 and 1990. He gave up chess in 1992, on his election to Chester City Council, and started again after his resignation from the council in 2001. In June 2022 Charles played top board for Wales Cymru in the World Senior Team Championship, where he beat a Master and drew with a Grandmaster.

Charles the chess writer, organiser and teacher. Charles has annotated 283 games on the Gameknot chess website. He has had articles printed in the magazine Chess. In the 1980s he ran a Chess Club at the Alport Primary School, Malpas. When the older children moved up to the Bishop Heber High School, he ran a club there too. In 1991-1992 he ran a Bishop Heber High School team in the 3rd Division of the Chester & District League. In 1990 he became Captain of the Cheshire & North Wales team in the English Chess Federation[6] County's League. He gave up this, and his junior chess clubs in 1992. Charles returned to organising chess in 2012, he entered a Malpas team based at The Carden Arms in the Chester & District Chess League. They were Champions of Division 3 2012-2013. The Carden Arms changed into being "Malpas & Whitchurch" and were Division 2 Champions and Cup winners in the Chester & District League 2015-16.

Currently he is running the Oswestry side in the Shropshire over the board League. The 4 Shropshire & Friends sides in the 4NCL Online. A Shropshire & Friends side in the 4NCL over the board League. The Sheffield University Graduates side in the 4NCL Online. Two Oswestry sides in the Shropshire Online League. He runs a club on a Thursday night at the Bishop Heber High School library In the summer he runs sides in the Five Counties Online. He is hoping to run a Wales Cymru over 65 in the 2023 World Seniors Team tournament.