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Results and report on ECF website at http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/unde ... hips-2018/

I'm sorry if I've upset people If you post a critical comment the day before an event you are likely to upset organisers! Posting it the day after would have been preferable. There are areas where I have good contacts but academia is, sadly, not one. Amongst Watford's 50 junior members some go to s...

Thanks Michael for the report.
Also Knole Academy, Sevenoaks scored 3.5/4 (brothers on board 3 and 4).

Minor: Norfolk 9, Yorks 8.5, Kent 7, Notts 5, Surrey 2 Herts 1.5

For those interested in such things, here is a table of recent venues and entrants: Year Date Host Organiser U18Open U18Minor 2005 18-Jun Leics ECF 7 2006 20-May Leics ECF 7 2007 21-Apr Herts ECF 3 2008 10-May Derbys Derby 5 4 2009 28-Feb Derbys Derby 6 9 2010 27-Jun Surrey Surrey 6 4 2011 26-Jun Be...

Well, just six teams in the Open under-18 and six teams in the Minor - and Herts, Kent and Surrey having entered both - that means just nine counties will be participating which probably answers the "let us see how it goes" question. Hindsight is a marvellous thing but situating the event in Granth...

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:43 pm

wonder if you will have any more teams from the north going to enter

Final entries:
Under 18 Open – Hertfordshire, Surrey, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex
Under 18 Minor – Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Kent, Nottinghamshire

This very popular event (last year there were 52 six board school teams) was due to take place on Sunday 16th September. However, this now clashes with the UK Chess Challenge Terafinal. Eton College have kindly offer to host on Sunday 23rd September. Does anyone know of possible clashes on that date...

GPDR is something about Member States in EU which we are leaving? It is UK law, passed by UK Parliament: "People to have more control over their personal data and be better protected in the digital age under new measures announced by Digital Minister Matt Hancock." https://www.gov.uk/government/new...

Those who spend time on preparation see their results improve and their grades go up. Those who do not prepare struggle to maintain their grades. Is that so wrong? I have probably prepared specifically for more games in the last two years than in the previous fifty years. I do not normally do any g...

There's a standard phrase which at least some Congresses include on their entry forms, namely By entering, players agree to their grading information being published on the ECF website. Which does not give permission to the ECF to store and circulate their date of birth, as that is not amongst the ...

I think the ECF grading database storing the dates of birth of sixty thousand people, mainly inactive players, and then circulating them to all graders in a readable form, is a GDPR issue. How many of these people have given permission to the ECF to store and circulate their dates of birth?

Unsolved wall in only connect

Entries now coming in. So far: Under 18 Open – Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex Under 18 Minor – Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Kent (http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/counties-main/) The closing date for entries is 18th Februar...

Is a headline from today's BBC web site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42329564 But I have changed the word sport to Chess. The thrust of the argument put forward is that children have been driven away by coaches and parents forgetting it's all supposed to be fun. Consequently partici...

Entries now coming in. So far: Under 18 Open – Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Leicestershire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex Under 18 Minor – Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Kent (http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/counties-main/) The closing date for entries is 18th Februar...