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Are there many clubs meeting over the board at the moment.

The English Bridge Union say the new measures remove any doubt that face to face bridge competitions can return and say it’s not possible at this time. European Bridge Union competitions will also be cancelled. They await suitable changes being made in the future before any clubs should reopen; htt...

That is producing a contrast with the UK, where nothing over the board seems to be planned for at least several months. Isn't it still illegal in the UK to hold indoor "meetings" involving multiple households? I'm wondering whether pubs, particularly those with outdoor seating will be configured to...

The question I would have is what benefit would you actually get for your money from renewing the membership. Please don't tell me that I can enter ECF online tournaments. I can enter online tournaments, without the benefit of my ECF membership and did so plenty of times, before I decided that I wan...

Is anyone going to be entering this event.

From the ECU website on restarting chess. The full document and a Youtube link is here https://www.europechess.org/how-to-restart-otb-chess-activities/ Space per player in playing halls shall be increased to cover at least the requirement of 1.5 m distance between the players. I am assuming though ...

Thanks for the feedback. I have just sent him some puzzles which have undefended pieces all of which I have picked up on chesskid.com

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 f6 4. Bc4 Nge7 5. d3 Nb4 6. O-O d5 7. exd5 Nbxd5 8. Bd2 Be6 9. Re1 c6 10. d4 Qc7 11. Nxd5 cxd5 12. Bb3 O-O-O 13. dxe5 fxe5 14. Nxe5 Ng6 15. Nxg6 hxg6 16. g3 Bh3 17. Bf4 Bd6 18. Bxd6 Rxd6 19. Re3 Rf8 20. Rc3 Rc6 21. Rxc6 bxc6 22. Qd3 Qb6 23. Qe3 d4 24. Qe1 g5 25. Be6+ Kd8 ...

As the chairman of my local over the board chess club, I am planning both things at the same time, the chess club once we restart over the board and in the meantime some sort of way of continuing the chess club online for the time being.

I certainly don't believe that the ECF year should start in any other month other than September, because that is obviously when most leagues start.

Regardless of how hard the finances of the ECF are hit, I hope they still decide to keep the free silver junior membership of the ECF to any junior that has not being a previous member of the ECF, for the first year. That has been really useful for some of my club members in previous years, and I ho...

I would hope that the ECF continue their free junior silver membership for any junior that has not been a previous member of the ECF when chess resumes, however hard the finances of the ECF will be hit. It is a useful initiative (one that I have used myself in the past) and obviously can lead to lon...

Is ECF membership free for ALL juniors at the moment. (I know that you can get free junior silver membership if you have never been a member of the ECF before anyway.)

The idea of pre-move is if you know your opponent has only got 1 legal move, or if you have checkmate in a few moves, and you know what moves you want to play regardless of what your opponent does. Personally I have never played with a time limit that requires pre-moves. In postal chess, or daily tu...

I assume you mean in terms of your ECF grade. The games played before the person has died are submitted for ECF grading in the normal way. The person will then become an ungraded player.

If this is because of an ongoing situation I will just add hope everything is alright as well.