English Chess Forum

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 06, 2026 8:49 am

Does he also need to play a 3rd nationality? His opponents have been English and 1 Scot so far

No my understanding is that there is no requirement in terms of Nationalities where it is a National Championship.

On the link Richard gave, the picture it takes you too, I was looking to see if there was anyone I knew, at the bottom right a lad in a blue hoodie. Probably harmless, but he does appear to be looking at a mobile during the game. I think he is almost certainly looking at and holding a piece that he...

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/nine-yea ... up/25g440x News feature on Tara Tamilselvan. It is from a few weeks ago but I didn't see that anyone else has posted, apologies if it is a duplicate.

Sorry for your loss.

From a facebook post by Gary Kenworthy "Toni Halliwell ( prior TONI BINNS) of Keighley, Keighley Chess Club / as per CED BINNS, of (Bingley College mathematics student and Bradford deputy head school teacher etc) who was in the film ""YANKS " along with very noticeable appearance in the 1978 film by...

The selection criteria doesn't mention titles and my instinct is that holding a given FIDE title at a certain age should be another route to selection. I cannot agree with that. It is far too easy to travel to eastern Europe and leave with a pocketful of rating points and a title. Back in the playe...

I had a quick look at the policy and below are a few fairly random comments. One of the issues is that the selection as a whole for A events seems to be limited to two players (with exceptions permitted). For some age groups/categories this may work but in others it will not and be far from ideal. T...

Sorry to hear the news about David he always seemed a very down to earth, genuine and likeable person. For anyone that hasn't read it, his candidacy statement when he stood for director of junior chess is an interesting read https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/C21.10.5.2-David...

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 07, 2025 12:52 pm

Yes, they would need to meet four non-English which look problematic for Yichen Han, Fava, Maciej etc

Is that correct, I think its possibly 3 (as max from England would be 6)? I only had a quick look at the reg so may be wrong.

I notice in the main championship there are now 7 players not paired (plus 1 bye) does anyone know why there are so many? I hope they are all o.k.

Commentary on junior rapidplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CjaVN-5Djc or https://www.twitch.tv/wim_natasharegan

Given that, in my judgment at least, England does not have a single junior player currently with the potential of Short-Adams-Sadler-McShane-Howell, the announcement carries some political risk of backfiring. Slightly surprised by that I though Bodhana was generally thought of as having significant...

I suspect he is in this video seated second left in the front row of the second team shown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhCszMBV3c

Not a bad month for Ivanchuk https://ratings.fide.com/calculations.p ... 1&rating=0

Well at least this week it taught me that I can touch my rook change my mind and move my King.