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Hello.
I wouls be glad to play in England. If you need a fforeignn player, please contact me.
Email:[email protected]

Regards
Soheil Hooshdaran

Some of my achievements as a chess player:

• 3rd place in student week chess tournament (2001)
• 2 time 2nd prize winner of Shiraz U20 (2002, 2003)
• 2nd place at board 2 in Technical students olympiad of Iran (2004)
• 6th place in Fars province Adult men championship (2004)
• Individual Silver medal & 8th team place in the first league of Fars province (2005)
• 3rd place at board 1 in Technical students olympiad of Iran (2006)
• 5th place in Iran Region 8 (2007)
• Individal bronze in region 1 of Islamic Azad university chess games (2008, 2009)
• 11th place in Shirkooh cup open chess tuornament of Yazd, equal with the 6th place (2009)
• 1st place U1900 in Norooz cup of Isfahan-Armen club (2011)
• 6th place in Parse open chess tournament (2012)
• 4th prize in Fars province Adult men championship (2016)

To be honest, Soheil, none of that will matter. Tournaments in this country will either need an untitled foreigner or they won't.

Why not email [email protected] with this information? I think he's running a tournament in Coulsdon at the end of August, and he often has trouble getting enough foreigners.

I am untitled, as you can see on my FIDE profile (well, a USCF chess expert, but don't know what that means other than my UScf rating.

Who is him?

IM Jack Rudd wrote:To be honest, Soheil, none of that will matter. Tournaments in this country will either need an untitled foreigner or they won't.

Why not email [email protected] with this information? I think he's running a tournament in Coulsdon at the end of August, and he often has trouble getting enough foreigners.

I am untitled, as you can see on my FIDE profile (well, a USCF chess expert, but don't know what that means other than my UScf rating.

Who is him?

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: Who is him?

The organiser behind [email protected]. Is it still Scott Kenyon?

Roger de Coverly wrote:

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: Who is him?

The organiser behind [email protected]. Is it still Scott Kenyon?

Scott Freeman.

Organizes what? Where?

FIDE-rated tournaments, some of them title-norm tournaments. In Coulsdon, an area of south London.

I emailed him and noted he should arrange for me the visa, transportation, lodging, and food provision.

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:I emailed him and noted he should arrange for me the visa, transportation, lodging, and food provision.

You are aware that you would need to pay for all of the above?

LawrenceCooper wrote:

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:I emailed him and noted he should arrange for me the visa, transportation, lodging, and food provision.

You are aware that you would need to pay for all of the above?

If they need me, they should bear the expenses, don't they?

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: If they need me, they should bear the expenses, don't they?

The problem is that they don't, or not at the expense of their budget for an IM or GM.

Even beyond the obvious one of locals who are SCO, WLS or IRL for FIDE purposes, London has any number of non-English players to say nothing of visiting tourists.

I didn't ask for an appearance fee or pocket money, and sometimes an organizer wants a foreign player in their tournament.
Otherwise it's cost me dearly.

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:

LawrenceCooper wrote:

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:I emailed him and noted he should arrange for me the visa, transportation, lodging, and food provision.

You are aware that you would need to pay for all of the above?

If they need me, they should bear the expenses, don't they?

What on earth makes you think that a tournament organiser would be prepared to pay all these expenses for someone rated 1756? You're ranked 70,000 in the world, not 7th.