English Chess Forum

As somebody born in Manchester, who has played County chess for Lancashire, Yorkshire and Greater Manchester (and was involved in arbitration at the time of the dispute), I propose that you all just get on with the development of chess in the North of England. I assume that Jim Tennant-Smith has pas...

In general, whenever the question arises of why chess in England has been lagging behind other nations, the ECF has found it easier to say "it's FIDE's fault" than to do anything constructive. To the outside world the ECF just looks like a backbiting shambles, and the idea that it might play any si...