British Chess Championship 2024

[Mick Norris]

Tenders are now invited for the bookstall, coaching and/or commentary at the British Chess Championships 2024 in Hull website

Arbiters – Call of Interest for the BCC and the Glorney Cup

[TomVilliers]

Do we know when the final details will be released regarding commentary, qualifiers etc. for the British this year?

[Roger de Coverly]

Do we know when the final details will be released regarding commentary, qualifiers etc. for the British this year?

As regards qualifiers there's a list at https://www.britishchesschampionships.c ... 024-V3.pdf

The Grand Prix will close at the end of May, with results promised for June.

The final list of qualifying players will be published in June 2024 with any amendments and additional qualifiers.

The interim British Grand Prix leaderboard can be found at the link here for information purposes only:
https://www.britishchesschampionships.c ... oard-2024/.
This will be replaced with the final British Grand Prix leaderboard which will take into account results in FIDE rated events played in the British Isles from 1st June 2023 to 31st May 2024. British Grand Prix Qualifications will be awarded based on places in the final leaderboard only.

[Mick Norris]

Entrants led by Mickey and Gawain

[IM Jack Rudd]

Eight 2400+ IMs, I see, which bodes well for the prospects of someone's getting a GM norm.

[LawrenceCooper]

Eight 2400+ IMs, I see, which bodes well for the prospects of someone's getting a GM norm.

Including four with 2 GM norms and others with 1.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Having too many norm seekers though can ruin everyone's chances; they can end up playing each other and not playing the beatable GMs, either because they aren't any (you would not label Adams and Jones as being readily beatable) or because the GMs might be doing too badly to be paired with the norm seekers (eg Hebden at Cambridge, where incidentally the vast majority of English GM norm seekers played, to no avail).

[Mick Norris]

Eight 2400+ IMs, I see, which bodes well for the prospects of someone's getting a GM norm.

Including four with 2 GM norms and others with 1.

The 4 being Ghasi, Grieve, Merry & Royal, of whom only Ghasi has been above 2500?

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Having too many norm seekers though can ruin everyone's chances; they can end up playing each other and not playing the beatable GMs, either because they aren't any (you would not label Adams and Jones as being readily beatable) or because the GMs might be doing too badly to be paired with the norm seekers (eg Hebden at Cambridge, where incidentally the vast majority of English GM norm seekers played, to no avail).

Indeed. You need more GMs, and/or to beat fellow IMs. There will be more GM entries. Who would you expect to enter based on previous tournaments?

[LawrenceCooper]

Eight 2400+ IMs, I see, which bodes well for the prospects of someone's getting a GM norm.

Including four with 2 GM norms and others with 1.

The 4 being Ghasi, Grieve, Merry & Royal, of whom only Ghasi has been above 2500?

Oh, there's five then, you missed Andrew Ledger.