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Some of us may recall that Chris K started a poll for the matches to be shown live in the January weekend, and as it turned out, the most popular choices were the one selected.

Since the 4NCL site promises more live games for the February 23/24 weekend, but does not say which matches have been shown, it may be worthwhile to repeat the discussion. The first division matches are:

Round 5 - 14:00 Saturday 23rd February 2013
De Vere Venues, Staverton Park

Section A

WGHK 1 - Guildford 2
Barbican 4NCL 1 - Sambuca Sharks
Cambridge Uni 1 - Cheddleton 1
BCM Dragons - e2e4.org.uk 1

Section B

Blackthorne Russia - Guildford 1
South Wales Dragons - Jutes of Kent
White Rose 1 - WGHK 2
Barbican 4NCL 2 - Warwickshire Select 1

and then


Round 6 - 11:00 Sunday 24th February 2013
De Vere Venues, Staverton Park


Section A

Cheddleton 1 - WGHK 1
Guildford 2 - Cambridge Uni 1
e2e4.org.uk 1 - Barbican 4NCL 1
Sambuca Sharks - BCM Dragons

Section B

Guildford 1 - White Rose 1
WGHK 2 - Blackthorne Russia
Jutes of Kent - Barbican 4NCL 2
Warwickshire Select 1 - South Wales Dragons


Do we have any suggestions?

Very happy (as last time) to take account of opinions on ecforum when deciding on the live matches. I'm likely though to have limited access to the internet next week, so thoughts by the weekend would be very helpful.

Good-oh, I'll start (!)

Round 5: Wood Green 1 v Guildford 2, since Wood Green 1 still look fragile and Guildford may be motivated by the result in the "opposite" fixture between Guildford 1 and Wood Green 2

South Wales Dragons v Jutes of Kent: the biggest match for the Dragons for many years. They have two wins already in the tougher of the two pools, albeit partly courtesy of playing Wood Green 2 at the right time, and another surprise result would give them good chances of defying all expectations by qualifying for the promotion pool.

Wood Green 2 v White Rose: a must win for Wood Green 2, but what would be the consequences for the Yorkshire team which finished thrd in the previous two seasons?

Round 6: Cheddleton v Wood Green 1: Cheddleton's earlier loss to Barbican 1 is highly damaging to their chances of a top three finish at the end of the season and their best chance for redemption may be this match.

Guildford 1 v White Rose: a large part of White Rose's "secret" in finishing third in the last two seasons has been its win over Guildford 1 in both seasons.

Jutes of Kent v Barbican 2: Assuming the Jutes get past the Dragons, the winner of this match is likely thereby to play in the championship pool again. Last year's fixture was a hard fought 4-4 draw.

Ben has put in a request for BCM v Sambuca Sharks as they haven't been on the live boards yet this season and it's also a key relegation battle.

Fair enough - certainly every team in the first division should be on the live boards at least once. maybe that could take the place of Jutes v Barbican 2; actually, now I think about it, Jutes have been on the live boards twice already ...

I wanted the Sharks featured this weekend. We have played some very interesting matches this season and in respect to viewing, we are not one of the sides guilty of 4-5 <25 move agreed draws.

As much as I'd like to see us on the demo boards at all costs , getting smashed by Barbican 1 is not fun for any spectator. We will be outgraded 250 FIDE points per board and expected to get 1.5-2 points out of 8.

Worth noting that we play our best chess on the Saturday due to 'social factors' also.

id like to see:

White Rose 1 V WGHk2
Cambridge 1 V Cheddleton

On Sunday Id like to see

BCM V Sharks
Jutes of Kent V Barbican 2
Cheddleton V WGHK1

Ben

Ben Purton wrote: Worth noting that we play our best chess on the Saturday due to 'social factors' also.

BCM would be very happy to pick up the Sharks various bar tabs for Saturday night / Sunday morning but I suspect we could not afford them.

John Upham wrote:

Ben Purton wrote: Worth noting that we play our best chess on the Saturday due to 'social factors' also.

BCM would be very happy to pick up the Sharks various bar tabs for Saturday night / Sunday morning but I suspect we could not afford them.

That would cost way more that hiring the Wood Green teams!!

Record Bar Tabs(per person):

May Weekend 2010: £412 per member at the weekend(With £1700 for one player).

Wont be beaten.

Ben Purton wrote:Record Bar Tabs(per person):

May Weekend 2010: £412 per member at the weekend(With £1700 for one player).

Wont be beaten.

I like a drink but whoah!

the "60 shots of buca, 2 bottles of your finest red wine, 3 plates of chips and 20 boddingtons............What are you guys wanting to order?"

Was the best bit.

Ben Purton wrote:the "60 shots of buca, 2 bottles of your finest red wine, 3 plates of chips and 20 boddingtons............What are you guys wanting to order?"

Was the best bit.

My normal order would be:

Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke.

but I have cut down recently.

So you're back on the dry white toast then?

Mike Truran wrote:So you're back on the dry white toast then?

And some dry white toast please.
Y'all want anything to drink with that?
No ma'am.
A Coke.
Be up in a minute

I see the results for the 4NCL from round 5 for division 3 are available:

http://www.4ncl.livechess.co.uk/div3_20 ... 3s-rd5.htm

Couple of very close matches there.

I see round 5 results where games are finished for division 1b, and 2b:

http://www.4ncl.livechess.co.uk/div1_20 ... 1b-rd5.htm
http://www.4ncl.livechess.co.uk/div2_20 ... 2b-rd5.htm

But nothing for round 5 for 1a and 2a:

http://www.4ncl.livechess.co.uk/div1_20 ... 1a-rd5.htm
http://www.4ncl.livechess.co.uk/div2_20 ... 2a-rd5.htm

Am I looking in the wrong place?

EDIT: Stupid caching system. I hit F5 (refresh) and the results are there.