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I got to know Adrian well when I first took the role of President of the Yorkshire Chess Association in the early 90s. He was the Correspondence Chess Controller as well as delegate for NCCU and BCF. He wrote a regular column in the Halifax Courier and kept this going for nearly a decade. I always r...

David. A simple solution is that you can, as an individual, self isolate from taking part in any chess activity you wish.

A worrying development as reported by the BBC today. 11:25 Czech Republic to close schools The Czech Republic has announced it is closing schools indefinitely and has banned events of more than 100 people. The country has 40 reported cases of coronavirus. Under the new measures, schools and universi...

To MJMcCready
Mark is the person who runs TWIC. I don't think they mean you when they made reference to Mark's Twitter account.

Here here!
I'll wear mine with pride.

This result should be on the TV evening national news. Who's the ECF publicity director again?

From Rupert Jones: Stuart Johnson and myself met up with Anne after Stuart was contacted around 2005/6 as she was shedding some of her old chess equipment stock which included oddly a box of cricket balls. I remember a lot of Lino chess boards. We visited about three times and both her and her husba...

Anne lived in Menston near Leeds and Bradford in the early to mid eighties. I managed to get her to play a couple of seasons for Bradford in the Woodhouse cup. I will try to check my old records to find out exactly when she played.

Hi Jon, Thank you for all your efforts over the years. Chessnuts is a tremendous site and I will miss checking individual player league records for all the leagues. The Bradford league agreed at their AGM to affiliate in its entirety to the ECF grading system and adopt the ECF League Management Syst...

That's reassuring to know Nick. I think moving to ECF grading is inevitable. How quickly it is done is anybody's guess. The next few weeks of Yorkshire local league AGMs will be interesting. I do expect ECF membership numbers in Yorkshire may be rising by the end of summer. It will be interesting to...

Hi Martin, Sorry I don't use this forum often but was surprised to see this question. All I can say is we have a lot of players who would like to play for the team but who also have other commitments too. Myself included! Sadly this sometimes means we have wildly differing strengths of teams availab...

What a dedicated committee they must be to keep this unloved and unwanted competition going for over 20 years.
Your inane rhetoric won't dissuade them from continuing to offer competition to those that want it.

Thank you Mr Robertson for your invaluable and positive insight. I’ll be sure to take your calm and reasonable views into consideration when deciding whether to offer to captain a team from my club in the competition.

Thanks Michael. This is a true and embarrassing position the most populous county finds themselves in. Is it true of most other counties too?
Will a dumbing down of the County Open competition really be of value to anyone?

Which Yorkshire respondents have said that? Yorkshire hat (mainly) on for this one. Alex couldn't reasonably be expected to provide names. In theory we should be spoiled for choice in Yorkshire at all levels but our inter club infrastructure is not good and building up a player base is not easy. OK...