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Date now confirmed at the City of Manchester Stadium

Details likely to be similar to previous years, and will be confirmed in due course

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Open, U160, U120 (trophies plus prize money) plus grading prizes and Junior trophies

Entry is cheaper before 28 February, and there is a £6 entry discount to ECF members

Time control 20 mins plus 10 sec per move

Free parking at Premiership Football Stadium

Refreshments available

Bulk discounts for MCF clubs

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Entry form

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Online entry now available here:

http://regonline.activeeurope.com/manch ... nt2012copy

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Address for postal entries has changed - revised entry form now here

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Entries to date are 81, close to last year's record of 87 players

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Entered Mick, looking forward

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"When you see a good move, look for a better one!" - Lasker

Excellent, see you Sunday

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Entries are now 115, must be getting close to capacity

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That's what we need Mick! By the way what is capacity?

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President of Liverpool Chess Club

Ian

I'm not sure, which I know isn't helpful, but ultimately would depend on how many digital clocks we have (which should be 65, I'm hoping to pick up 8 tomorrow)

I can't remember if the Citizen's Suite is the one we had last year, and of course there always seems lots of room, but 87 players is the most we have had

We did have to close the bottom section 1 year when we had loads of entries on the day

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If it helps Mick I can bring my own clock.

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President of Liverpool Chess Club

If it helps - I can lend you some. How many do you need?

Great event, even though young Bobby Fischer had me over in the last round had my eye on the prize money there. Certainly the best RP congress I've been to.

Maybe next year, people should be politely asked not to alter the clock settings for private blitz games in the breaks - I noticed quite a few people have to call the controllers over (myself included) because their clocks weren’t working properly at the start of a round, because of this.

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"When you see a good move, look for a better one!" - Lasker

Wouldn't normal Congress conventions apply? Namely the clocks used for the event aren't available for private skittles games.