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Northern semi final results attached


Quailifiers are Bolton Girls A (U11) and Fernwood School (U19)

Full results Southern semi-final: U19 1st St Paul’s Girls School (SPGS) 12 2nd= North London Collegiate A (NLC) Nonsuch A. 11 4th NLC B 10 5th= Henrietta Barnett A The Abbey A NLC D 9.5. All qualifying for the final Highfield losing tie break NLC E. Losing tie break 10th= Wellington College Henriett...

I will be quite keen to play bridge against him in Heaven when the time comes. 100 grapes per hundred.

Can I urge all those thinking of entering this congress to do so without delay. We are reaching capacity in many sections already. At this moment in time, there are still spaces left in all age groups, but this probably won't last beyond the end of this week. Please check the website for further det...

Entries will close to the southern semi at midnight on Sunday. Absolutely no entries will be accepted after that. Northern entries will be accepted right up until the day of the event in a desperate hope to get some extra involvement. It’s amazing that only one U19 team of three girls has entered fr...

Last call for all schools to enter this event. Entries close in little over a week.


The northern semi desperately needs some support.


Thanks

News has reached me that the West of England event has been cancelled. I am very sorry to hear this, but it does mean that there may be more entries for the South of England, particularly in the U11 section. Yateley Manor has an absolute maximum of 300 players on any one day, which includes the clos...

Only three weeks left until entries close. We could do with some more entries in the North!


Enter online here:

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/NSCC/u19-girls-2/

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/NSCC/u11-girls-2/

Highlights?

Oh dear.

Hi Simon I hope to be around for the 50th anniversary presentation. Speaking of memories ,whatever happened to Bob Pentecost? Of all the eccentrics at Centymca, he was one of the oddest. I’ll never forget that at one match, Bob was proudly displaying a set of photographs that appeared to show him wi...

The Houshang Nasseri saga. ( 40th anniversary edition - how time flies) From the backstreets of Teheran 1943 Came Houshang Nasseri champion to be His Daddy quit home and he was only two When another monkey came to join the zoo. So he drifted by himself,all alone From coast to coast Trying to find a ...

From Julian Clissold: Girls Chess in the North of England An opportunity to participate in a Girls Only Chess tournament ENGLISH CHESS FEDERATION GIRLS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP NORTHERN SEMI FINAL Saturday 12th January 2019 Bridgewater School, Worsley, Manchester. (Five minutes from the M60) Under 11 Girl...

The fact is that they are both petrified of what the other guy’s computer is going to come up with next. Look forward to faster and faster time controls in world championship matches. In the current case, 12 draws is a real possibility, if not favourite to happen!

A very interesting and original game!

Other Grandmaster views on the match:

http://www.spraggettonchess.com/world-c ... ip-london/