Somerset New Year Congress 2025

[Roger de Coverly]

Somewhat bizarrely, results for this event, due to take place this coming weekend have already been posted to chess-results.

Here's the link (as of 16.30 Thursday 9th)

https://chess-results.com/tnr1096782.aspx?lan=1

Chess-results seems to have the same entry list as the Congress website
https://www.cornwallchess.org.uk/congre ... ries.shtml

[John Upham]

The published playing schedule is

Playing schedule
Round Date Time
1 2025/01/11 0930
2 2025/01/11 1400
3 2025/01/11 1830
4 2025/01/12 1000
5 2025/01/12 1430

[John Upham]

Apparently:

7th Somerset New Year Chess Congress

Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th January 2025 at the Walton Park Hotel, Clevedon

[John Upham]

However, the other two sections have yet to start although they do have the same schedule as the completed section.

The mystery deepens!

[Roger de Coverly]

Apparently:

7th Somerset New Year Chess Congress

Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th January 2025 at the Walton Park Hotel, Clevedon

That's always been the date and it clashes with a 4NCL weekend. The mystery is as to how they have managed to get a complete set of pairings and plausible results up onto the chess-results server. A training exercise that escaped perhaps?

[John Upham]

I agree, most likely is someone is being trained to use Swiss Manager / Chess results and they've left the data online.

I checked to see if it was data from the previous years event and it wasn't.

The data has not been been submitted to

https://rating.englishchess.org.uk/v2/submit/

otherwise that would take us into The (Chess) Twilight Zone.

[John Upham]

The practise results appear to have been removed from chess results dot com.