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Would we automatically get squashed flat? Some very strong top boards in the minors at times, but there's definitely some players around ~185 long term average who don't get in Yorkshire's team but are actually quite good at getting results off ~200 grades. (Just not very ruthless at the other end.).

York has its own internal politics - in which I've actually got relatively little influence. I can see how it could end up looking that way to someone but it absolutely won't be because they're juniors. I'd absolutely trust the person concerned & actually also our quite good record at integrating ju...

I was just surprised because you've normally been so consistent. Glad to hear there's nothing really wrong :) Some slight annoyance about how it distorted the relegation fight but it does happen. Like the 7-0 to Central which was absolutely bad luck on Sheffield B's part! You might be right about cl...

Nah, I mostly post on forums to waste time :) Sometimes to point out problems, because that's actually a useful thing to do. My point was actually quite simple - if a team like Hull B are seriously threatening promotion to the Woodhouse (and they are) then we've got a real problem with the gap betwe...

The proposal isn't to *scrap* it - rather it is (essentially) to make the minor counties teams play one match vs the full open teams before slipping into the minors. A nice challenge and maybe 1 time in 10 you might win. Whether anyone really wants the resulting round of extra chess in summer I'm no...

I have reasons not to talk about that match too much

I do think your second teams dreams of promotion maybe indicate a problem we've got developing about the gap between the Woodhouse and IMB. Nothing to be done there I think mind, beyond finding some functioning junior systems......

Let’s use this place a little

Anyone know what has happened to Bradford A’s Woodhouse team? They defaulted their last match 8-0 and the Bradford A team who played yesterday looked awfully like the normal Bradford B team.....
(+ a couple of A team players.).

I still can't understand the fuss about the link from Union qualifying <-> National stages - from where I'm sitting its been essentially broken for a decade or so anyway. Whatever keeps people happy

As long we're not in the MCCU section itself - geography deserves a little respect ;) Steve Mann's website is actually excellent: http://mannchess.org.uk/YCA.htm I'm not sure how well known it is since he only relatively recently branched out from his (excellent!) history website. As for the grading...

We seem to have somehow lost the domain registration for Yorkshire chess, so.... It seems like the Yorkshire grading system might well be coming to an end - Jon Griffith is certainly taking very well deserved retirement at the end of this season and hasn't obviously lined up a replacement yet. In ge...

Suspect he'll be happy to try and neutralise things and see if Kramnik's muse leads him to self destruct

Kramnik - Ding certainly has to be a huge threat to Ding's chances of emulating Giri.

It does seem odd. They could always create a sister organisation or something.

That does seem unfortunately daft These split 4NCL weekends can make it very hard to find dates of course.

Don't think the weather this weekend will threaten 3N. Might be fun on the moors.....

Nothing and essentially nothing - its really just adding an s to manage in a slightly fancier way.

For whatever reason(s) the trains have been allergic to Bolton (and beyond!) for quite some time now.....