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56th Rhyl Chess Congress 12th - 14th September 2025

4 FIDE Sections: Open , Major, Inter & Minor

WCU FIDE event , 5 rounds of 110 minutes plus 10 second increments from move 1

Chief Arbiter : Peter Purland

Rhyl Town Hall
Wellington Road
Rhyl , LL18 1BA

Further delays to appear shortly

"Further delays to appear shortly"

Should this say "Further details", Gareth?

Gareth T Ellis wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 09, 2025 8:12 pm

Further delays to appear shortly

Any less news?

56th Rhyl Chess Congress Entry - September 2025
"Unfortunately due to a lack of public and organisational support the Congress has been cancelled for September 2025."
https://www.rhylchesscongress.co.uk/

MSoszynski wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 19, 2025 11:18 am

56th Rhyl Chess Congress Entry - September 2025

I had always associated the Rhyl Congress with May.

Indeed the 55th was earlier this year.
https://rating.englishchess.org.uk/even ... ction_no=1
but the 54th was in September 2023
https://rating.englishchess.org.uk/even ... ction_no=1
Otherwise the 53rd(?) had been in May 2019
https://rating.englishchess.org.uk/even ... ction_no=1

What is meant by "organisational support" in this context - funding?

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:07 pm

What is meant by "organisational support" in this context - funding?

I assumed it meant people willing to organise it. I thought "public support" might refer to funding and mean that the council weren't prepared to make the previous venue, Rhyl Town Hall, available, or maybe available at an acceptable cost.

Ian Thompson wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 19, 2025 5:56 pm

I thought "public support" might refer to funding

It could also mean that hardly anyone had entered so far.

The May Congress had 16 starters in the Open, 25 in the Major and 23 in the Minor

I also assumed that the "public" there meant actual players.