English Chess Forum

Sincerest apologies for the late notice - I was sure I'd posted here already.. Details on this year's Galway Chess Congress (April 8th to 10th) are here: http://www.galwaychess.com/galway-congress-2016/ . Not quite in the UK, granted, but flights and bus-fare are still available for half-nothing, so...

All Irish tournaments heretofore seemed to have included a clause along the lines of "Irish participants must be registered members of the ICU", but it was never really enforced. Perhaps now that they have expanded it to include all players, they will be more energetic about enforcing it? Requesting...

I dunno. If you fall a pawn behind, the temptation can be to cling on for a draw later. If a rule like this came in, it would mean people would have to go on the counter-attack much sooner. Might make for more open games. Surely any extra effort the "losing" player would supposedly have to make wou...