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Joe McPhillips won the Open with 5/5 results

Major was won by Martin Burns (Stockport)

Minor was won by Arpad Busznyak, making it 2 wins for Bolton players

Another tough match today v Italy

2.1 GM Godena, Michele 2459 - GM Speelman, Jon S 2509
2.2 GM Garcia, Palermo Carlos 2407 - GM Arkell, Keith C 2467
2.3 IM Bellia, Fabrizio 2447 - GM Emms, John M 2474
2.4 IM Bruno, Fabio 2433 - GM Ward, Chris G 2425

Israel - USA and Iceland - Armenia

Busy Persons yesterday won jointly by Stephen Gordon and Joe McPhillips

Not sure when I last played in a tournament with a GM and an IM but I did manage to win a grading prize again

England without Keith beat Canada despite a loss from John Emms
USA win again and play Iceland possibly the last chance of a slip up
England play Armenia who are level on match points but ahead on game points
Tough match good luck to the team

Keith wins again as does John Emms who is 4/4
Team in bronze position and play Canada tomorrow

Wow, great result

Well done Keith; doesn't look like the result will be repeated this year though

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round 1 board results

Scotland's Neil Farrell draws with black v Joel Benjamin

round 2 pairings

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round 1 board results

round 2 pairings

Good luck to the English teams in the event

It's not clear to me how such a thing would be accomplished, since if Gawain and Lupulescu both won, the tie-break would be direct encounter and Gawain has just beaten him, whereas if Parligras won it would be Median Bucholz, which I don't think we can predict. At any rate it seems a bit unfair at ...

That's good; I see the top 14 qualify for the next World Cup (2020), which is the target I assume

Looks to me like Angus and Paul are in agreement I'd think the figures need to be for each team separately (i.e. open and women's), then split between how much it costs to send a team (hotel, air fares etc) and how much it costs to send this particular team (i.e. total of appearance fees, we don't n...

I'm sure you'll bounce back Keith; good luck to all the English players

It would also mae it more difficult to raise business sponsorship and, even more difficult to obtain philanthropic support. Really? I would be very sceptical of business sponsors or philanthropists who took that view. It's just bo**ocks isn't it? The reality is that if someone wants to sponsor, the...

Yes, but can he do it in Edinburgh on 26/27 May (is that the chess equivalent of a cold Tuesday night at Stoke)?