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Entries building nicely - enter by midnight tomorrow to benefit from the £5 early entry discount.

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Looking for a warm-up before the British? The 13th Weald Chess Congress will take place 13th - 14th July 2019 at Copthorne, near Crawley, Sussex. The venue is spacious and conveniently located just off the M23. 5-round swiss in 4 sections: Open, Major (U175), Intermediate (U140) and Minor (U110). Pr...

33rd Crowborough Chess Rapidplay - Saturday 15th September 2018 Only 2 weeks away - 6-Round Swiss rapidplay tournament with 25 minutes per player plus 5 seconds per move from start One section with grading prizes - full details on our website www.crowboroughchess.org Entry limited to ECF 215 and FID...

Early entry discount now extended to midnight on Sunday 8th July

Looking for a warm-up before the British? The 12th Weald Chess Congress will take place 14th - 15th July 2018 at Copthorne, near Crawley, Sussex. The venue is spacious and conveniently located just off the M23. 5-round swiss in 4 sections: Open, Major (U175), Intermediate (U140) and Minor (U110). Pr...

Neill and his team deserve thanks for once again stepping in to organise this event. As stated up thread Sussex knew a Brighton venue was sub-optimal when we offered it in 2016 but stepped in because a more suitable host county didn't come forward so at least the event took place. Obviously there ar...

Congratulations to Nick Pert and Richard Bates who shared the SCCU Championship.

Full results now at http://wealdchesscongress.org/results/

Just under 3 weeks to go - enter by 3rd July to secure £5 early entry discount.

To enter, or find out more including entries so far, see our website http://www.wealdchesscongress.org

Looking for a warm-up before the British? The 11th Weald Chess Congress will take place 15th - 16th July 2017 at Copthorne, near Crawley, Sussex. The venue is spacious and conveniently located just off the M23. This year we are hosting the SCCU Individual Championship which carries a British Champio...

A summary did appear on the ECF website: http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/7719-2/ The oxford fusion site is designed to publish results where the event has been run using their spreadsheet templates. While the U18 sections did use the oxford fusion templates, the U13 sections did not. I took the v...

Just over 2 weeks to go - enter by Sunday to secure £5 early entry discount.

To enter, or find out more including entries so far see our website http://www.wealdchesscongress.org

Thank you to everyone who has been in touch so far. Still plenty of time to enter but here is an update of the teams who have either confirmed or expressed interest: U18 Open: Herts, ?Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex U18 Minor: ?Kent, Leicestershire, Surrey x 2, Sussex U13 Open: Berkshire, Herts, ?Ke...

Looking for a warm-up before the British? The 10th Weald Chess Congress will take place 9th - 10th July 2016 at Copthorne, near Crawley, Sussex. The venue is spacious and conveniently located just off the M23. 5-round swiss in 4 sections: Open, Major (U175), Intermediate (U140) and Minor (U110). Pri...

Sussex are pleased to be hosting the ECF Junior County Championship on Sunday 26th June in Brighton. The format will be very similar to last year run as a jamboree in 4 sections: U18 Open – 12 boards U18 Minor – 6 boards, all grades < 130 U13 Open – 6 boards U13 Minor – 6 boards, all grades < 110 Fu...

Sussex are looking forward to hosting this event on 26th June in Brighton. We have just received the event specification and are currently working on the budget and fine details. Once this has been approved by Traci Whitfield the entry form and rules will be sent out to County contacts and posted he...