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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - PLEASE READ BELOW FOR DETAILS



Dear all,

Our sincere apologies to all concerned but we have had to postpone the 2nd London Team Rapidplay at more or less the last minute (15/Nov/2011, 11 days before the event). It is obviously incredibly poor form to postone or cancel a chess tournament, especially so soon after the incredibly successful Imperial College Chess Congress. We would highly appreciate if you could disseminate this message to those that have previously received e-mails regarding the event, and want to extend our apologies to those individual players who were looking forward to the event as well. The explanation for this is as follows.

A society of a musical nature has booked out the hall which is directly above the excellent playing venue, for the entire day on Saturday the 26th of November. In addition to this, rehearsals for the concert as well as the concert itself are understood to be going on for the entire duration of the day.

Unfortunately, we are unable to reschedule the tournament or move it to a different room due to administrative issues beyond our control – we were only notified of the above situation on the 14th of November, 2011. This does not leave us with sufficient time to find an alternate venue, which was also not provided for us. This puts us in a tough situation – hope the event works in the existing venue or wait until next time (and address the room booking issues with Imperial College directly).

We would categorically be unable to guarantee an environment quiet enough for a decent level of chess to be played, so it is with great regret that we had to postpone the event.

This is devastating for us as to be honest, Rapidplay events that have been previously held at Imperial College have been incredibly enjoyable and very social. I would like to emphasise that we fully intend to host another Imperial College Chess Congress soon, and that the Rapidplay is merely being postponed to a later date (we’re hoping for April-May 2012, more news when we know more) rather than being cancelled as an event.

I look forward to seeing many of you on the London chess scene in the near future, and I also look forward to seeing many others at the next Imperial College event.

Yours sincerely,
John Sargent
Competitions Secretary
Imperial College Chess Club

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28/Apr/2012 - The London Team Rapidplay - Results and Report!

The Tie Guy & Resident Starcraft II Shoutcaster

Hey John

This sounds great! I didn't know it happened last year! I really like the sound of it, as the team thing makes it much more sociable!

Can I arrange for a couple of girls teams to go along?

Or will this be seen as sexist? :s

The 1st of these was held at the start of April. It was a very successful event, but it had one or two ways it could be improved. Judging from the blurb above, John has taken measures to get around the difficulties created last time.

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February 16-17: 2013 BUCA Team Championship
April 20: 2013 British Blitz Championship
July 27-August 10: 100th British Chess Championships

Will you be arbitratingalong?

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Adam Raoof
FIDE International Organiser and Arbiter
Hampstead International Congresses - http://www.hampsteadchess.blogspot.co.uk
http://www.chessengland.com

Well, I haven't been invited yet...

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February 16-17: 2013 BUCA Team Championship
April 20: 2013 British Blitz Championship
July 27-August 10: 100th British Chess Championships

He has been now

Please also note: Due to the ECF's generous loan of digital clocks for the event, the time control has been amended to the favourable 25 minutes + 10 seconds per move starting from move one. Due to the slightly extended playing session, times have been updated accordingly.

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28/Apr/2012 - The London Team Rapidplay - Results and Report!

The Tie Guy & Resident Starcraft II Shoutcaster

The change to incremental time controls ties in with what I was saying in the other thread, about how any sensible arbiter will make sure the event they're arbiting has incremental time controls...

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February 16-17: 2013 BUCA Team Championship
April 20: 2013 British Blitz Championship
July 27-August 10: 100th British Chess Championships

Whew! Am I glad of that...

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Adam Raoof
FIDE International Organiser and Arbiter
Hampstead International Congresses - http://www.hampsteadchess.blogspot.co.uk
http://www.chessengland.com

Official disclaimer: Organiser distances himself from any and all zealous Birmingham-based politics The views of any invited arbiters are theirs alone!

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28/Apr/2012 - The London Team Rapidplay - Results and Report!

The Tie Guy & Resident Starcraft II Shoutcaster

Black Country, actually.

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February 16-17: 2013 BUCA Team Championship
April 20: 2013 British Blitz Championship
July 27-August 10: 100th British Chess Championships

(This post is a repeat of the first post's edit, and intended as a 'bump' to bring the thread to the attention of any previously interested parties)

Dear all,

Our sincere apologies to all concerned but we have had to postpone the 2nd London Team Rapidplay at more or less the last minute (15/Nov/2011, 11 days before the event). It is obviously incredibly poor form to postone or cancel a chess tournament, especially so soon after the incredibly successful Imperial College Chess Congress. We would highly appreciate if you could disseminate this message to those that have previously received e-mails regarding the event, and want to extend our apologies to those individual players who were looking forward to the event as well. The explanation for this is as follows.

A society of a musical nature has booked out the hall which is directly above the excellent playing venue, for the entire day on Saturday the 26th of November. In addition to this, rehearsals for the concert as well as the concert itself are understood to be going on for the entire duration of the day.

Unfortunately, we are unable to reschedule the tournament or move it to a different room due to administrative issues beyond our control – we were only notified of the above situation on the 14th of November, 2011. This does not leave us with sufficient time to find an alternate venue, which was also not provided for us. This puts us in a tough situation – hope the event works in the existing venue or wait until next time (and address the room booking issues with Imperial College directly).

We would categorically be unable to guarantee an environment quiet enough for a decent level of chess to be played, so it is with great regret that we had to postpone the event.

This is devastating for us as to be honest, Rapidplay events that have been previously held at Imperial College have been incredibly enjoyable and very social. I would like to emphasise that we fully intend to host another Imperial College Chess Congress soon, and that the Rapidplay is merely being postponed to a later date (we’re hoping for April-May 2012, more news when we know more) rather than being cancelled as an event.

I look forward to seeing many of you on the London chess scene in the near future, and I also look forward to seeing many others at the next Imperial College event.

Yours sincerely,
John Sargent
Competitions Secretary
Imperial College Chess Club

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28/Apr/2012 - The London Team Rapidplay - Results and Report!

The Tie Guy & Resident Starcraft II Shoutcaster

When I was a student at Southampton University, we had a season when we played home matches directly under the university ballroom which was holding a rock disco night. All was well for about an hour then all hell would break loose.

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"Of all the stupid questions so far, This one is particularly annoying, and irrelevant and when I meet you, I propose to write it down on cardboard and nail it to your face."
- Jerry Sadowitz

That happened once when I played for Bristol University. My opponent, a teacher, blundered immediately after complaining about Pink Floyd singing 'We don't need no education'.

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I remember playing for Roland Graf's Grasshoppers chess club upstairs at the Highfields Community Centre in Leicester in '82 or '83 while Misty in Roots were playing in the hall downstairs. Our room upstairs was bouncing with the 'thub thub thub' of the heavy dub. Great stuff.

The ultimate chess event would be where all the games are played with classic 70s & 80s rock / heavy metal in the background, especially Rainbow's 'Kill the King'.