The 4NCL will be offering three prizes of £50 each for the best annotated games from the 4NCL 2010/2011 season, and we should be glad to receive entries for this competition.
I imagine that we will not be presenting trophies and prizes until the Hinckley Island weekend of 14-15 January when all the teams except those in the Northern League will be at the same venue. That said, we should probably set a deadline so that people who want to enter can do so while last season is still reasonably fresh in their minds, so can I suggest that entries be submitted by the end of July please?
Anyone wishing to enter a game should bear the following in mind:
1. Entries will be judged not only on the standards of the play exhibited, but on the level of insight, relevance, possibly humour etc. demonstrated by the annotations.
2. It is not necessary for the annotator to have been one of the participants in the game, simply that the game needs to have been played in the 4NCL during 2010/11.
Entries should be sent in PGN or Chessbase format please to 4NCL webmaster Steve Connor, whose contact details can be found on the 4NCL website.
Paul Littlewood, former 4NCL chairman, has kindly agreed to act as judge for the competition.
Mike