Player Profiles
Peter Andrews is chair of Kingston Chess Club. He has been a club member since 2022. Peter plays for the first and second teams and is captain of the first and second teams in the Surrey League. He also captains the team in Surrey’s Lauder Cup. Peter is noted for his excellent match reports which judiciously analyse the crucial points in each game.
Peter used to be a senior official in the Bank of England and still plays for the BoE in the Banking League. Peter’s other great love is cricket and he continues to go on cricket tours in Devon during the summer.
John Foley is the president of Kingston Chess Club. He has been a club member since 2002 and has served in various roles as team captain and chair from 2010. He has been the club’s webmaster since 2010. John plays for the first and second teams, and for Surrey and in the 4NCL.
John teaches chess at a girls prep school in Kingston and at Tudor Drive library on Thursday afternoons. He is also a councillor with the Education Commission of the European Chess Union. He has written a book on teaching primary chess and Checkmate! – an introduction to chess which has been translated into many languages. He is a keen cyclist and likes growing vegetables.
Stephen Moss is captain of Kingston Chess Club. He has been a club member since 2010. Stephen plays for the second and third teams. His main role is to communicate with the members, which he does as website editor and through our WhatsApp group. Stephen has been the force behind the Kingston Invitational summer tournament. He has also been active in stewarding our first team up to fourth place in the National Chess League (4NCL).
Stephen is a journalist, mainly with the Guardian, and writes on a wide range of topics, even occasionally chess. He met Bobby Fischer when the eccentric former world champion fled to Iceland, did the first interview with Garry Kasparov when he announced his retirement, and once played blitz with Magnus Carlsen – a game which did not end well for Stephen. He is the author of The Rookie: An Odyssey Through Chess (and Life). Away from chess, he has a keen interest in cricket and edited The Wisden Anthology 1978-2006: Cricket’s Age of Revolution.
Julian Way is a Fide Master who has been a member of the club since 1992. He has been chair and first team captain but is currently head of training. He started KCC Online (a monthly training session on Zoom) during lockdown and it still runs on the last Sunday of each month.
Outside of the club, Julian teaches chess in primary schools and has an MA in English Literature. He also runs a monthly book group for Elmbridge U3A.