Manchester Rapidplay Sunday 17 March 2013

[Mick Norris]

Date is now confirmed, venue again the City of Manchester Stadium (or the Etihad if you prefer to use that name)

Thanks again to the Council, and to the staff at Manchester City, for their support, and to Sport4Life who will again be doing the organising

[Sean Hewitt]

Mick - will it be FIDE rated?

[Mick Norris]

Details not been finalised, to be honest I hadn't thought that much about it with too much going on otherwise

[Sean Hewitt]

Details not been finalised, to be honest I hadn't thought that much about it with too much going on otherwise

Understandable. However, with it currently being completely free there doesn't seem to be any reason not to do so. In fact, I don't know why all rapidplay events don't do it.

[Alex Holowczak]

Details not been finalised, to be honest I hadn't thought that much about it with too much going on otherwise

Understandable. However, with it currently being completely free there doesn't seem to be any reason not to do so. In fact, I don't know why all rapidplay events don't do it.

If people want to play in a FIDE-rated Rapidplay...

[Sean Hewitt]

If people want to play in a FIDE-rated Rapidplay...

Bugger off and get back to shuffling pairing cards.

[Mick Norris]

Mick - will it be FIDE rated?

This was agreed at a meeting yesterday

[Mick Norris]

Online entry here:
http://regonline.activeeurope.com/Regis ... ID=1138652

[Clive Blackburn]

If people want to play in a FIDE-rated Rapidplay...

I don't really see that it makes any difference whether it is FIDE rated or not to be honest, unless you are going to enter the Open section.

I played in the Under 140 section at the Birmingham Rapidplay on 7th Oct 2012. There were only 4 FIDE rated players in the entire section and I didn't happen to play any of them.

http://birminghamchess.org.uk/rapidplay ... index.html

So, although I did ok and scored 3.5 from 6 games, I still don't have a FIDE Rapidplay rating, just the ECF one

Please don't think that I am complaining, I enjoyed the tournament, but the "FIDE rated" bit doesn't affect me

[Alex Holowczak]

I don't really see that it makes any difference whether it is FIDE rated or not to be honest, unless you are going to enter the Open section.

I played in the Under 140 section at the Birmingham Rapidplay on 7th Oct 2012. There were only 4 FIDE rated players in the entire section and I didn't happen to play any of them.

You're right, of course.

But we can FIDE rate it at no extra cost, and with no additional membership requirement. So why not rate it?

[Steve Lloyd]

I need more information which the link given to enter online doesn't seem to give.

How many rounds?
Are byes available?
What are the round times?

[Mick Norris]

I'll post the entry form on here as soon as I get it

[Mick Norris]

Entry form at last!

I should have triple checked this, as the time control is wrongly stated - it is actually 20 mins plus 10 sec per move from move 1

I think the time has come for the MCF to decide which, if any, of my 3 jobs they want me to do - I clearly can't manage all 3

[Mick Norris]

Apologies, someone found another error on the form, revised version attached

[Ian Stephens]

Hi Mick, excellent tournament! playing conditions and venue great, voted my "Rapidplay of the year 2012" just a pity it didn't also apply to my chess that day! : )