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round 2 pairings with 3Cs promoted to 45th seeds

Dublin get the bye

Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:32 pm

Chris Rice wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:06 am

IM Bates, R. A. 2374 - GM Vitiugov, N. 2709

Good to see Vitiugov is intimated by Richard's preparation in the main lines.

And Svidler is avoiding Richard completely

chess24live from 1:15 pm

Tough start for Richard Bates and his teammates Whatever the discussions in Batumi about how to handle odd numbers in Swiss systems, they are still giving the bye to the lowest ranked team, in this case one of the Irish teams. Of the British teams, only Wood Green in the top half, just. I'd have th...

Tough start for Richard Bates and his teammates

I gather there's chess featured in 1 of the routines on Strictly this Saturday; Pasha plays (he's Russian) but his partner Ashley doesn't (she's American, Pussycat Dolls)

MartinCarpenter wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:40 pm

I wonder who's behind that Bolton & Worsley team? Could easily be OK, probably not likely to be too strong.

Paul Doherty

No problem Bob, it would be better if many gold members responded, whatever their views are, even if only to thank Ben & Roger for their efforts

Liverpool and England defender Trent Alexander-Arnold is keen to get more young people interested in playing chess

This would be great, and if Trent and Magnus have helped then good for them

Agree with that Roger

I'll be explaining to the Gold reps another reason to not vote for Tim

Those rushing to criticise Malcolm Pein in the wake of the FIDE elections seem to have forgotten his unparalleled track record in bringing sponsorship and investment into English chess. How much sponsorship for the national teams has been received in 2017 and 2018? Is it nil for 2018 or am I readin...

received today Dear Gold Member, The Annual General Meeting of the English Chess Federation will be held on Saturday 13 October in Birmingham. There are two main items on the agenda: 1. election or re-election of Directors; and 2. proposed future strategy of the ECF and its implications for budgets ...

Now there are 14 teams 1 3Cs 2 2 Bolton and Worsley 3 Bradford DCA Knights B 4 Bradford DCA Knights C 5 Cheddleton 2 6 Holmes Chapel 7 Jorvik 8 Manchester Manticores 2 9 Manchester Manticores 3 10 Manchester Manticores 4 11 Manx Liberty 2 12 Shropshire 1 13 Spirit of Atticus B 14 White Rose 2

I'm told we have too many players to go down to 3 teams, so will be sticking with 4, but there's a possibility of a 14th team joining (which would at least avoid the triangular matches, albeit not solve the pairing problems much) I don't think mandation would work; as said before, unless the venues ...

Not that anyone's really noticed, but the position of England's FIDE delegate is up for re-election. There is only one named candidate. I'd imagine that none of the above won't be voteless, but that Malcolm will get re-elected comfortably If he doesn't, not sure who would be a likely alternative; t...