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Keith Arkell wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:51 am

This tournament is surreal.

Seems to be true today on boards 7 and 8 - currently not only an interesting position on both boards at move 19, but also the same position.

It seems really low this year, from a number of countries - not just England, so for example France are also only sending 3, it was the fact that no girls were going that caught my eye.

Results so far for World Youth Championships here http://chess-results.com/tnr470708.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=ENG&turdet=YES&flag=30. Details of team here https://www.englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/world-youth-championship-u141618-in-nagpur-india/ . I guess this must rank at least equal with the lowest n...

Commentary by Jon Speelman has been very good for this event as for the other events he has done on twitch or through lichess site https://www.twitch.tv/jonspeelman

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 20, 2019 4:44 pm

How they room at the top -

https://grandchesstour.org/2019-grand-c ... apid-blitz

From a quick look - not that well if they are staying on site as I don't think it has any accommodation

Congratulations to teams links to Glorney Gilbert results here http://www.glorneycupchess.org/swiss_manager.htm

Looks like one game left to be played today - https://www.icu.ie/articles/838 . Congratulations to Trisha on her WIM norm https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=45004722.

Links to Glorney Gilbert results here http://www.glorneycupchess.org/swiss_manager.htm

First some context - Plymouth (Devon's largest city) is more than 250 miles from Kettering. Even the furthest small outposts of Lancashire and Yorkshire are around the 175 mile mark, and of course the vast majority of their players would be a lot closer than that. The rules allow the nomination of ...

Given there will be quite a few players in Paignton would it be feasible to hold an extra blitz qualifier in or near there from about 4pm (or whatever time the main open is likely to finish)?

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2019 12:37 pm

Slightly off topic, but what about Fire Alarm breaks? There's little alternative to stopping the clocks and leaving the room.

One alternative I can think of is not stopping the clocks and leaving the room if you can see smoke and flames.

If I have calculated correctly recent World Schools results were 2018 8 players average score 4.31, 2016 no Eng players, 2015 8 players average score 3.62 2017 I think 1 player average score 4.5 but maybe I missed some as I couldn't find on chess results - only here https://chessinschool.ro/results/...

From the regulations "9.4 Each player, official and accompanying person shall pay 100 EUR registration fee for the event to the bank account listed below. Registration fee must be transferred till 17.03.2019 registration deadline. The Registration Fee includes airport transfers from/to official hote...

I think there is not really any such thing as a first "really serious" tournament, other than maybe the first tournament that someone plays in. There are just tournaments appropriate to a players standard and those that are inappropriate. Whilst it may not be necessary to travel that far its like co...

I think the above posts are in the wrong thread. It is worth pointing out that with a K of 40 a few under rated juniors can cause huge points loss (so for example Botswana lost 416.40 between 5 of them, Ukraine had only 2 players who lost a total of 114 points (they were seeds 1 and 4) . The pattern...