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Well you may look a bit silly when you find I am right Nick Burrows. I am not responsible for your poor research. Please explain where my research failed. I counted all of your ECF rated tournaments over the last 10 years. Are you counting unrated opens? I look forward to your explanation and contr...

I have bow won 168 Opens a average of winning 1 in every 2 that I have entered. I would be surprised if anyone else has a better than 50 percent winning ratio for Open tournaments victories, possibly Arkell or Hebden. I didn't believe you, so I checked your open results over the past 10 years. I ma...

I knew Phil a bit when we both lived in Oxford (as I believe he still does). He gave up chess a long time ago, and when I bought a few secondhand books in Chess and Bridge some years back, I noticed some were signed P Walden. There is a strong player called Andrew Walden who played a few games for ...

Chess themed bedroom, evening lectures on political structures within English Chess - how do I book?

Oxford's 4 teams had 58 players turn out this season

Gawain on fire. Live rating of 2708 - reeling in Carlsen

Perhaps the reason was that Fischers' Catch had already played West is Best. It was an exceptionally lucky draw for us, but I like to think we earned it!

... and Leeds University Old Boys get relegated. They seem to have paid a heavy price for two board defaults in the preliminary section. They were docked two half game points for this. If they'd had players for these two games and those players had lost, they'd have been level with Iceni on game po...

It was a sub-plot for the round 11 Division 2 matches that wins for ADs (against Grantham) and Wessex against Manchester would see Grantham and ADs retain their places and benefit Wessex B by providing a fourth promotion place out of division 4S. How deeply improbable! Wessex A beat MM1 which gives...

There is no tie break regarding board count; it is average of the opponents but looking at this match Wessex were higher rated and I suspect Oxford 3 should be third Now I am confused! Our captain was confident it was board count. You say it's higher average rating. The regulations seem to say it's...

However the table is giving Wessex B as 3rd.

This was the match between us: http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/2018-19/4n ... export/#t4

Do I have the board count rules wrong?

Surprising to me, I thought they would make the promotion pool.

If the maths are correct. It seems that Wessex B drawing, and Oxford 3 winning 4.5-1.5, means they are equal on both match points and games points. Next tie break is their individual match score which was 3-3. Next is board count, which is in Oxford 3's favour! It also seems that Manchester Manticor...

So it seems MM1 have been relegated

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2019 6:39 pm

will go up with MM2 after the win today (unless I'm missing something obvious)

Unless MM1 come down!