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2013 Heywood Congress
Van Leeuwen Open
Venue: Heywood Civic Centre
Date: 22 Jun 13 to 23 Jun 13
Controller: Mr Simon Woodcock
Timings: First 40 moves in 100 mins. 20 mins to
completion.
ECF
R O U N D S
Pos Player Grade Code 1
2 3 4 5 A B C D
1 Jaunooby, Ali Reza....... 203X 241589G b13+
w9+ b5+ w7+ b2= 4½ 5 1137 227
2 Surtees, Mike J.......... 195X 119904D b12=
w11+ w3+ b5+ w1= 4 5 1086 217
3 McPhillips, Joseph....... 208A 267851C b11=
w12+ b2- w14+ b7+ 3½ 5 1015 203
4 Richardson, Alex......... 194A 117886G w7-
b16+ w6+ b9= b8+ 3½ 5 978 196
5 Armstrong, Malcolm J..... 178A 105843F w8+
b14+ w1- w2- b10+ 3 5 992 198
6 Bryant, Richard BE....... 174X 107574D b15-
w10+ b4- w13= bye+ 2½ 4 705 176
7 Gardiner, Eric D......... 189A 230802C b4+
w15+ bye= b1- w3- 2½ 4 792 198
8 Isherwood, Paul.......... 168B 113402E b5-
w13+ bye= b12+ w4- 2½ 4 729 182
9 Talbot, Mark A........... 193B 241564B w16+
b1- bye= w4= w12= 2½ 4 725 181
10 Broadley, Henry.......... 192A 261849H w14-
b6- w16+ b11+ w5- 2 5 810 162
11 Doran, Chris............. 172A 155319H w3=
b2- bye= w10- b14+ 2 4 729 182
12 Hamer, Martyn............ 175A 131102F w2=
b3- b15+ w8- b9= 2 5 901 180
13 Talbot, Nathan L......... 182A 246822A w1-
b8- bye= b6= w16+ 2 4 637 159
14 Armstrong, Philip........ 184A 256709L b10+
w5- bye= b3- w11- 1½ 4 650 163
15 Jackson, Oliver A........ 187A 113457H w6+
b7- w12- 1 3 488 163
16 Llewellyn, Alan M........ 138A 142739J b9-
w4- b10- bye+ b13- 1 4 512 128

2013 Heywood Congress
Data Matters Major
Venue: Heywood Civic Centre
Date: 22 Jun 13 to 23 Jun 13
Controller: Mr Simon Woodcock
Timings: First 40 moves in 100 mins. 20 mins to
completion.
ECF
R O U N D S
Pos Player Grade Code 1
2 3 4 5 A B C D
1 Brown, Brendan J......... 170B 166514F b15-
b19+ w22+ b8+ w7+ 4 5 1005 201
2 Burke, Mitchell R........ 181X 259332E w12+
b8= w16+ b11= w4+ 4 5 955 191
3 Carr, Stephen............ 157 108025J w13+
w11+ bye= b4= b5= 3½ 4 761 190
4 McCarthy, Damian......... 155X 230117K w19+
w5+ b15+ w3= b2- 3½ 5 951 190
5 Riding, Mick D........... 170X 117937J bye+
b4- b24+ w15+ w3= 3½ 4 694 174
6 Baxter, Harry............ 162A 274158B w20+
w15- bye= b16= b17+ 3 4 717 179
7 Cukovs, Oleg............. 158A 259664H w24+
b9= bye= w18+ b1- 3 4 721 180
8 Paul, Nathanael.......... 162 245834C w22+
w2= b10= w1- b18+ 3 5 928 186
9 Slinger, AJ (Tony)....... 167X 119124L w14+
w7= b18= w10= b13= 3 5 887 177
10 Trueman, Glenn........... 161A 120612G bye=
b20+ w8= b9= w11= 3 4 725 181
11 Wareing, John P.......... 169B 121145G w21+
b3- w14+ w2= b10= 3 5 884 177
12 Burrows, Nick............ 161D 171243D b2-
b14- w13= b19+ w20+ 2½ 5 873 175
13 Lovatt, Peter G.......... 167A 114599L b3-
w21+ b12= w17= w9= 2½ 5 803 161
14 Mulleady, Peter J........ 177 115944G b9-
w12+ b11- b20= w21+ 2½ 5 832 166
15 Olbison, Philip J........ 172X 185941K w1+
b6+ w4- b5- w16= 2½ 5 815 163
16 Vassiliou, Chris......... 158A 120826D w17+
w18= b2- w6= b15= 2½ 5 849 170
17 Burns, Martin J.......... 160X 181426G b16-
w23+ bye= b13= w6- 2 4 596 149
18 Whitehead, Mark A........ 174X 104852B w23+
b16= w9= b7- w8- 2 5 754 151
19 Garbuszus, Juergen....... 171* 258512B b4-
w1- b21= w12- bye+ 1½ 4 494 124
20 Newton, Robert A......... 177 125474B b6-
w10- b23+ w14= b12- 1½ 5 720 144
21 Taylor, Mark............. 158A 120139G b11-
b13- w19= bye+ b14- 1½ 4 534 134
22 Jones, Steven A.......... 192 245951G b8-
w24+ b1- 1 3 442 147
23 Lopez, J Pablo........... 159E 288556G b18-
b17- w20- 0 3 361 120
24 Scattergood, Ben......... 160A 263554K b7-
b22- w5- 0 3 370 123

My name mispelled again...

It is Steven Carr.

What can be done to correct this on the official rating database?

stevencarr wrote:My name mispelled again...

It is Steven Carr.

What can be done to correct this on the official rating database?

Let's find out what the problem is first.

Are you any of these people? http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?players=C ... S&inactive

If yes, which of them?

I am him http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=108025J

The ECF grading database has a feedback form at
http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/contact which appears to be the official contact route. Changing a name should be simple enough as long as you haven't been duplicated.

Thanks

I understand that this is one of a few congresses that uses the July list for its sections and ignores the January list.

That's perfectly ok of course and it was clearly stipulated on their entry form, but does anyone know why some events do this?

Sean Hewitt wrote:I understand that this is one of a few congresses that uses the July list for its sections and ignores the January list.

That's perfectly ok of course and it was clearly stipulated on their entry form, but does anyone know why some events do this?

I was wondering the same myself, when my first round opponent was graded 181

Nick Burrows wrote:

Sean Hewitt wrote:I understand that this is one of a few congresses that uses the July list for its sections and ignores the January list.

That's perfectly ok of course and it was clearly stipulated on their entry form, but does anyone know why some events do this?

I was wondering the same myself, when my first round opponent was graded 181

I've Often wondered this myself, quite a lot of tournaments do it in my experience - what is the point in the new January grading if they are never acknowledged in the one place you ever use them, congresses? League Chess in Yorkshire, is by and large done on the live YCA grading.

Still the first round of Heywood was funny, because the August grades were in use my opponent out graded me by 20odd points, when I checkmated him, he informed me that he'd “played like a Tw@t” and proceeded to scribble out his score sheet, before asking me why my grade was so low

Ummm no. League chess in Yorkshire is done on the yearly grading lists that Jon finalises from the live grades every summer (Well certainly the Yorkshire league.).

The live grades can easily go +-10 (15, 20 in extreme cases) in a couple of games at the start of a season so it'd be pretty mad to try and use them for board order/team list purposes etc.

Since the the January/July ECF lists mostly use the same methodology there's obviously much less reason not to use the more up to date one. Still I also can't especially think of any great reason to prefer January - the vast majority of the differences between the two lists will be down to random variation.

Maybe they just haven't got round to changing things yet?

MartinCarpenter wrote:Ummm no. League chess in Yorkshire is done on the yearly grading lists that Jon finalises from the live grades every summer (Well certainly the Yorkshire league.).

The live grades can easily go +-10 (15, 20 in extreme cases) in a couple of games at the start of a season so it'd be pretty mad to try and use them for board order/team list purposes etc.

You actually find in practice, some teams on the Wednesday night league in Leeds, will actually put a players live grading down on the team card, for board order - We don’t do it in Leeds Chess Club, but we did have to clarify things at the LCA AGM recently, because a vote was taken on a stricter punishment for playing out of board order.

But yes I appreciate what you are saying and quite agree