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Where are the Open results?

Entry form here:
http://www.burychessclub.co.uk/

Open, U170, U130 - £660 prize fund, discounts for ECF and NMS members, Game Fee Registered, New venue with free car park, email entires accepted

Open, U170, U140 and U110, £960 prize fund (may be increased), discounts for juniors and seniors, games will be graded – Very good venue with car park, not too far from railway station

Entry form can be found here:
http://www.manchesterchessfederation.co.uk/page2.html

We're not talking about Sheffield and Stoke as potential venues

Harrogate and Pott Shrigley (Macclesfield) are more likely

http://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/regscandidates.pdf

You may have better things to do than read all of this, but the key part is at the start

I think Aronian has won the GP regardless of who wins the 6th event (if it happens)

The World Cup winner qualifies for the candidates

I think Kramnik has almost certainly qualified by rating after the Tal Memorial, so presumably Carlsen has too

The games are not all complete - Hawkins v Arkell in round 4 went on for a lot longer than shown - Keith won a piece, he told me, before blundering He lost last year to Hawkins just after I turned up, and he drew with Howell then too - from a brief chat with him, he seems more focussed on the chess ...

Major – U171 – 31 players Joint winners – John Reed, East Cheshire (159), Daniel Broughton, West Bridgeford (158) and Ken Derbyshire, Bolton (155) with 5/6 won £70 each U155 grading prize was shared by Nathan Taylor, Bolton (151), Mick Norris, Bury (150), Malcolm French, Widnes (141) and Stua...

Organised by the Eagle Chess Club in association with the Manchester Chess Federation Sunday 21st March 2010 in the Citizens Suite at the City of Manchester Stadium Open, U160, U120 – over £800 prize fund, plus 3 junior trophies Details and entry form to follow http://www.manchesterchessfederatio...

My comments are merely a matter of opinion and others may disagree. I think the last big problem for David's game is the prevalence of serious time trouble and maybe a sports pyschologist could help here. However, one also has to accept that there is a big challenge because there are an awful lot o...

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He has lost again, which makes 3 on the bounce He's obviously very talented, but seems to have tournaments where he puts together lots of consecutive wins, and others where he has lots of consecutive losses - I wonder what the reason is, seems a bit more than just confidence Would someone like this ...

Thanks Mick and Bob - I'll pencil in two provisional teams! Would you two be the likely team organisers? I don't know how far ahead the Woodhouse Cup in Yorkshire agrees its dates, but if the 4NCL Northern League were held on the same weekends as the rest of the 4NCL that should hopefully help with...

4NCL North is a good idea - there is existing weekend chess in the Yorkshire league to consider, and Merseyside were discussing setting up something simliar a year ago In Manchester, we have some players unavailable for evening chess in the league who could play at weekends, and I imagine some playe...

A few observations as my chess job is to facilitate congresses in Manchester Bolton Rapidplay doesn't have an Open any more because stronger players don't turn up in sufficient numbers in mid November (which also features a 4NCL weekend, Preston Congress and the British Rapidplay) to justify it Ther...