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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

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

Apparently:

7th Somerset New Year Chess Congress

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

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

The mystery deepens!

John Upham wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:58 pm

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?

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.

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