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Subject: EPSCA Inter-Association Championships – Team Entry Invitation Hi Junior Organisers, Would your association like to enter a team in this season’s EPSCA Inter-Association Championships? We’ve made significant changes this year to make participation easier for smaller associations. Teams will ...

In general - for a large swiss competition (with many separate age rage competitions within it) - it is fine to publish the squad in advance. For an event such as the Glorney with a total squad of 20, where the whole squad of 20 plays each other squad of 20 - and the team are usually placed in grade...

Hi, Thanks to Kevin Stavely, Peter Purland and helpers of the National Chess Youth Association for running a great U18 and U14 chess championships in Northampton this weekend. http://www.nyca.org.uk/ Congratulations to all the winners, and well done to all on some great quality games. Regards Mike F...

If you have a PC/Laptop with speakers its easy to use Audacity (free software) to generate the appropriate sound when you want.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Peter Purland has an entertaining set of rules if you don't care too much about winning... (change sides being one of them..!)

Mike

Leonard, thanks for your comments. I'd like to make a response as a parent of one of the children playing. I've already thanked Mike McLaren personally for the effort he put into organizing this event - but would just like to publicly echo Mike's view that this was a success for almost all the child...