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Tomorrow sees a record entry of over 100 juniors compete at the Shropshire Junior Chess Championships. Follow all the live results here: 🔗 https://chess-results.com/tnr1151764.aspx?lan=1 Links to the live games can be found here: 🔗 https://lichess.org/broadcast/2025-shropshire-junior-championships/r...

What an absolutely bizarre and disgraceful about-turn by FIDE. 1) FIDE sets the rules including specifically prohibiting jeans, making clear there is an escalating set of sanctions and making clear the chief arbiter is the one to enforce them (completely out-of-step with the times in my opinion but ...

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Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:57 pm

Chief Arbiter Alex Holowczak telling us Magnus refused to change his jeans and was defaulted for round 9

Bold move by Alex.

https://x.com/chesscom/status/187278078 ... pag_w&s=19

Are other counties outraged by the methodology? Or is this fair? I suspect that this gives a good indiciation of the state of play of counties, even though you can quibble over the exact scores. It is probably more useful as an indiciation of what your county isn't doing and that perhaps it should ...

Alex Holowczak has recently published a County Chess Development Index in the October Chess Moves magazine. Whilst like most counties there are activities my county does that I feel should count towards our weighting and don't, I'm sure many other counties feel the same. Nonetheless I found it a fas...

Link to the live boards from the 2024 Shropshire Megafinal:
https://www.shropshirechess.org/junior- ... inal-2024/

Any late entries welcome!

i was surprise that people did not support the new gold to be £33 and i did notice someone from the board saying it was only £2. the reason is that and people from the board don't see it. if you a silver member, you jump from £27 quid to £35 quid, which is £8 but also for the pay to play would be £...

Link to the live boards:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/shropshir ... a7HWi4LOeQ

Round 1 starts 10am tommorrow.

The annual Shropshire Junior Chess Championships will be held on Saturday 23rd March at Charlton School (Telford). 5 sections: U8's U10's U12's U14's U18's There will be trophies for the winners (top boy and top girl) and if they score 50% or more they are guaranteed a medal. Everyone will receive a...

At the end of the day, the person who wants it most is probably going to qualify (I'm pretty sure withdrawing from the world rapid was a painfull decision). There were actions Wesley could have taken to stay ahead. He chose not to and now it's probably too late. I say fair play to Firouzja. As for F...

Live Boards:
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Results:
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Shropshire Junior Chess Congress Date: Saturday 18th March 2023 Venue: Charlton School, Telford, Shropshire, TF1 3FA Sections: U8, U10, U12, U14, U18 Rounds: 6 rounds Time Control: All moves in 15 minutes, plus 10 seconds increment per move. Cost: £15 Open to all players, both inside and outside Sh...