In August and September 2025, the UK BCA took on the US Blind Chess Association in a fifteen board match with games played via email.  Each pair of players played two games, so that every player had the opportunity to play with the white and the black pieces.

Below you will find the details of the results seen from a BCA perspective. The players are in board order, and the first result is of the game where BCA had white.

Board BCA White Black USBCA
1. Philip Doyle Draw Loss Mario Montalvo
2. Bill Armstrong Draw Draw Viral Trivedi
3. Stan Lovell Win Draw Glen Crawford
4. Eamonn Casey Loss Loss Nick Baumgartner
5. Ben Fletcher-Harris Win Win Edward Zolotarevsky
6. John Fullwood Win Win Evan Reese
7. Malcom Jones Win Win Ajeet Kumar
8. Voldi Gailans Vinny Beatty. Opponent withdrew due to family commitments. BCA won single game played.
9. Tony Elbourn Adjudicated Win Draw Mark Melonson. Health problems stopped play
10. Nene Clayton Win Win Rohan Shardha
11. John Ramm Win Win Marilyn Bland
12. Maria Dodd Win Loss Ginny Alverson
13. Mark Higgins Loss Loss Dammie Onefeko. Work overload, resigned
14. Mike Flood Loss Win Dave Schuh
15. Ashar Smith Win Win Jim Homme

The strength of the US team lay in the top 4 boards where they took 5 of the 8 points. On boards 5 to 15, several BCA players contributed two wins giving BCA 16.5 – USA 4.5. The final total scores were BCA 19.5 to USA 9.5.

Bill Armstrong, BCA Chairman and match captain writes:

“My thanks to all the team members in this second BCA team correspondence match since computers made correspondence chess depend on the integrity of the player’s involved and mutual trust between the contestants.
Only older members of the BCA will remember our triumph in winning the braille correspondence world team event organised by IBCA before computers put an end to that competition. I treasure my IBCA gold medal and was delighted to captain a successful BCA team once again.
John Fullwood was a significant figure in the arrangement of this first international correspondence challenge to the BCA and as vice-captain; he has taken on much of the admin work. We owe him thanks for his hard work.
Finally, I would like to thank everyone involved for the cordial way in which the matches have been conducted and hope that future events will be arranged, perhaps involving both correspondence and remote games with the same friendly rivalry. My special gratitude to the US captain, Glenn Crawford, who never let his hopes for a win interfere with his major priority that the match should be run fairly and in a spirit of friendship.”