If anyone would like to see the spreadsheet online, I have put it here;Alex Holowczak wrote:Page 25 of the British Chess Championship programme is interesting. It shows the number of entries to the Championships since 1989. They seem to have remained pretty constant at about 900-1000 entries, until recently where they're perhaps 100 short of that on average. The number of juniors playing has dropped by about half in that time, though. It went from 400+ juniors in the mid-90s to less than 300 on a regular basis just 5 years later. If you take out the change from Commonwealth to British Isles, I'd say that these numbers are good. While chess may have declined in popularity over that time (particularly the juniors), the British Championship seems to be just as popular as ever.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... y=COnCkZEJ