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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...

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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?

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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...

The increasing number of daytime chess clubs provide an opportunity to play socially and some might find them more attractive than the traditional evening league based chess clubs. The gig economy means that not everyone is limited to play their chess in the evening or at weekends. In Surrey there ...

A few days ago a chess match was the second most popular stream on Twitch, with about 40,000 viewers. For the future, successfully streaming on Twitch might be more important than getting a late night TV programme.

Various counties have expressed interest in entering though few have entered so far.
It should be noted that for entries received after 1st February 2018 there is an added charge of £20 per team.

Thank you Neill. A great event to be sure and growing , but I am not fully satisfied . Draw a line horizontally across the country north of Oxford and we can see why. Andrew Walker's excellent NSCC participation maps here show a similar North/South divide in the U19 Open. Since most teams are run b...