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Bradford A really weren't that strong in Div2 last year, although likely to be a little stronger back on home ground.

We'll find out No idea who'll get promotion. I'm not sure if there's even one team who you'd say really want it this time round.

Overall? Surely not - we've lost the really strong team(s) from some earlier years.

Maybe one or two more weaker ones, depending quite where everyone lands up.

Thanks. That's logical enough

Any idea who J'Adoube are?

I do foresee a death of league chess as well, but more likely based on clubs bring priced out of their venues and gradually running out of people willing to do the large amount of unpaid admin work it takes to run them. Still, it is 4 years since this post was made and the league deaths are not hap...

Good luck coping with reassinging the date, geographic area etc of an incorrectly entered tournament once its stuck on an immutable chain :) The weighting thing isn't easy. Cutting it to 30 games is slightly silly when some people are playing 50+ games a year - they're all data. The time based cut o...

Eh, you have to be used to no lunch from the Sunday games anyway

Its something to do with them not wanting to set a legal maximum because of glass foundry workers and stuff.

Which is a pretty feeble excuse but anyway

They're doing high level interpretations of the results, which are obviously rather useful! All you can do anyway :) There's absolutely no way to go back and work what internal representations Alpha Zero has created to use for things like piece values, king safety etc. That's just how neural nets ar...

That was clever Well done Harrogate.

Fairly sure its the first time Forgrove have been relegated in their existence. They'll very likely come straight back up again of course.

Well, if no one else is writing about it properly, at least you are Very good thanks.

Looks like MM1 came up a bit short vs their strongest potential teams. Plenty of depth in the squad but not that much of it is 2200+.

I guess you can always relegate many of the bottom boards from MM1 to MM2 and move the MM2 ones up

Jorvik flying amusingly high in the end.

Looks right to me Job done for WR2, great effort from MM2!

Amusing to see how high Jorvik can end up - the draw really did end up very kind this weekend! Which was utterly the right thing to do of course.

Well that leaves it interesting Great result from the 3C's 2 lower boards to get the 3-3 draw in that match and Manchester winning as well.

Manx are looking pretty handily reinforced as well, so that should still be a big match when they play Guilford.