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Wow Deeply impressed.

Brilliant result for Bradford today Great to see them back at 8 players this time round, too.

Guildford keeping the highest 8 board average grade, although Manx clearly serious

Indeed no Manx for the final weekend and something resembling an APA adopted - with a print out explaining it at length Seeded to keep the top seeds apart until late on etc.

Impressive work from the arbiters, but they'll have to work to keep it together.

Well I guess if they want to get a second team promoted, they'll do it.......

I wonder who's behind that Bolton & Worsley team? Could easily be OK, probably not likely to be too strong. Id imagine it's Nigel Short, David Norwood, Jeff Horner, Mike Surtees, Harry Lamb and some Worsley player You forgot McPhillips :) I'm not daft enough to quibble their historical strength! Bo...

I wonder who's behind that Bolton & Worsley team? Could easily be OK, probably not likely to be too strong.

At least White Rose 2 coming down gives us one (very) credible promotion candidate Enough teams that would do OK as a second.

Sounds right to me

Many chess players seems to be creatures of stoic habit and (as you say) considerable residual loyalty, which I think is enough to explain why people do it. Otherwise how many would put up with evening league playing conditions?

Well done Lancashire (a few times it seems.). Also Yorkshire U180 - that's down to our old U175 captain having a grade that qualified him for U180 this year!

The York evening league is apparently planning on ECF ratings for division 1 but letting division 2 go ungraded.

Amusingly brutal There has I think been a few 5 .. c6 games on Chesspublishing but clearly the warning about that sacrifice hasn't spread down yet. It does seem remarkably effective. Presumably computer generated originally.

Wouldn't be absolutely sure - the live nature of the calculations means that fixing a long standing mistake can be a relatively massive job.

Last I checked my brother still had one of my Woodhouse wins from last season

Good to hear about the league result service surviving. That is very useful.

Very impressed with the Yorkshire open team winning with some of our very top players out this year for various reasons.

I've a reliable report of Yorkshire winning their U180 semi by +3, so 9.5 - 6.5 I suppose.

And yes, the potential preemptive deterrent effect of this kind of fine was what worried me.