Bolton Easter 14 - 16 April 2017

[Mick Norris]

FIDE rated Open British Championship qualifier
U170
U135

Busy Person's; Sat 15 April from 2:35 pm

Email [email protected]

[Michael Farthing]

Are you attending this year Mick?
It would be nice to meet you in person.

[Mick Norris]

I might make the Busy Persons and/or get to call in to the main event; it depends on my daughter really; since my Dad died it is harder for me to get time out for chess, though I am playing for the U160 v Cumbria at Lancaster on February 11th in a friendly, my first game for 12 months

[Mick Norris]

Please find below the entry form for the Bolton Easter Congress

We welcome email entries for this event. Please email your entry to [email protected]. If you enter by email you pay at the event. To enter by email please give us your name, your club, section entered, any half point bye requirement and your grade.

THE 2017 BOLTON
EASTER CHESS CONGRESS
Incorporating an afternoon Busy Persons Rapidplay
£1800 in Prizes
DATE : Friday April 14 to Sunday April 16
Busy Persons : Saturday April 15


VENUE : Ukrainian Social Club


99 Castle St , BOLTON , BL2 1JP

TOURNAMENTS

THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP :
FIDE rated : All English competitors must be ECF Gold/Pt. members
Prizes : £300, £150, £75 Under 2000 : £75
Entry Fee : £32 (Juniors £30)
Fide ratings or conversions to be used in this section


BOLTON MAJOR : For players graded below 170
Prizes : £240, £120, £60 Under 150 : £60
Entry Fee : £33 (Juniors £29)

BOLTON KNIGHTS : For players graded below 135
Prizes : £220, £110, £50 Under 120 £50 Under 100 £50
Entry Fee : £33 (Juniors £29)


BUSY PERSONS : Open to all. Prizes : £220
Entry fee : £6 (£8 on the day)

Discounts
ECF Silver/Gold/Platinum Members in the Major & Knights. Adults £7 Juniors £5
Players entering both the weekend event and the busy persons and entering on or before the Friday £1

The open has a British Championship qualifying place
Part of the ECF and MCCU Grand Prix

TIMETABLE

Friday Round 1 12.30pm - 4.30pm
Round 2 5.20pm - 9.20pm
Saturday Round 3 9.45am - 1.45pm
Busy Persons from 2.35pm
Sunday Round 4 9.45am - 1.45pm
Round 5 2.35pm - 6.35pm


RATE OF PLAY
40 moves in 100 minutes. After Black’s 40th move both clocks will be put back 20 minutes and the game finished in the time remaining. Re-pairings will take place after 30 minutes, for players without opponents.

BUSY PERSONS. 8 rapidplay games of chess.
Each player has ten minutes to complete the game.
Timetable : Saturday
Rounds 1 - 7 2.35 - 5.20 pm
Round 8 5.45 - 6.05 pm
Prizegiving 6.20 pm
Prizes : 1st £60 2nd £40 7 Grading prizes of £20 each.
185-166 ; 165-146 ; 145-126 ; 125-106 ; 105-85 ; u85
ECF longplay grades will be used.

Ukrainian Sports and Social Club.
The venue for the event is the function room of the Ukrainian Social club. The venue offers excellent playing conditions. There will be tea and coffee on sale and a bar open from 12 Noon

Directions : By Car : Approaching from Manchester on the A666, leave the dual carriageway at the slip road signposted Bury A579 (A58), immediately after the brown tourist information sign. Turn right at the lights then about 200 yards later turn right at the next set of lights into Castle Street. There is a small car park at the venue and ample on street parking. For Sat Navs the venue post code is BL2 1JP
By Train : Turn left outside the Station and go down the hill. Keep straight on. Castle street is half a mile away on the right at the third set of lights.

ACCOMMODATION
There is a Travel Lodge in River Street, 500 yards from the venue and 500 yards from the train station. Rooms are offered at low prices if booked well in advance Book at their website



There is one place available at the British Championships for the highest scoring player in the Open, who is not already qualified.

ENTRIES
The closing date for entries is Friday April 7 Entries can only be effected by payment of the appropriate fee. Late entries will be accepted subject to a late fee of £2. For entries on the day the late fee is £5.

Send entries to :- Chess Congress, 97 Dovedale Rd , Breightmet, BOLTON BL2 5HS with cheques made payable to ‘BOLTON CHESS CONGRESS’.

Competitors must quote their current ECF or ELO grade on entry. Competitors with no ECF grade must quote any other current grade or internet rating. Ungraded players must indicate on the entry form any recent tournament results and an indication of their playing strength. Competitors may claim a half point bye on entering.
The organiser's decision is final in all disputes. The organiser reserves the right to move competitors to appropriate sections.



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BOLTON EASTER 2017 - ENTRY FORM
PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY

Name ........................................... Club ............................
Address ................................................................................
...............................................................................................
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Post Code .................................. Tel No ...............................
Section .......................... Grade ............ in .......................list

email.......................................................................................................................

Busy Persons Entry Yes / No HPB Round......
Date of Birth (if Junior or in Open) ...............................
ECF No. ................ Category…… FIDE No…….... (if in Open
I enclose £ ............... comprising £ .................... entry fee(s),
£ .................. late fee and a donation of £ ............................
Signed ......................................... Date ................................

[Alex Holowczak]

BUSY PERSONS. 8 rapidplay games of chess.
Each player has ten minutes to complete the game.

Oh dear.

A.1 A ‘Rapidplay’ game is one where either all the moves must be completed in a fixed time of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player; or the time allotted plus 60 times any increment is of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player.

[Brian Valentine]

But game eligibility for grading:

1. Rapidplay
Each player must have at least 10 minutes, and less than 60 minutes, for all moves. This includes both the initial time control and any subsequent time controls or quickplay finish. When Fischer (cumulative) mode is used, the time available for each player is calculated on the assumption that the duration of the game is 60 moves.

[Alex Holowczak]

But game eligibility for grading:

1. Rapidplay
Each player must have at least 10 minutes, and less than 60 minutes, for all moves. This includes both the initial time control and any subsequent time controls or quickplay finish. When Fischer (cumulative) mode is used, the time available for each player is calculated on the assumption that the duration of the game is 60 moves.

Oh dear oh dear!

[E Michael White]

We've been here before.

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... re+minutes

A unified approach any year now ?

[Alex Holowczak]

We've been here before.

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... re+minutes

A unified approach any year now ?

I don't think I noticed that thread. I think the intention was probably always for it to be unified, but the language was just inaccurate when the Laws of Chess changed to reduce the Rapidplay cutoff to > 10 minutes from >=15 minutes. But now that I've noticed, I believe that page is to be updated.

Interestingly, I received the paper forms in the post today, so that I could put them out at the Birmingham Rapidplay on Sunday. It's interesting, because Mick posted:

"Incorporating an afternoon Busy Persons Rapidplay
£1800 in Prizes"

But the paper form says

"Incorporating an afternoon Busy Persons Blitz
£1780 in Prizes"

Anyway, the event is "particularly designed for players who can only spend half a day at their favourite game". I think that's an excellent idea, and I'm sure the event, Rapidplay or Blitz, will be well received.

Very much in the spirit of spending half a day at my favourite game, if the weather's nice I may well go to Edgbaston that afternoon for Day 2 of Warwickshire v Yorkshire.

[Roger de Coverly]

But the paper form says

"Incorporating an afternoon Busy Persons Blitz

It's been running for many years. Has it ever been included in the ECF grading list?

[Alex Holowczak]

But the paper form says

"Incorporating an afternoon Busy Persons Blitz

It's been running for many years. Has it ever been included in the ECF grading list?

Well, you can look it up for yourself on the grading database if you like.

[Roger de Coverly]

Well, you can look it up for yourself on the grading database if you like.

The detail on the grading website only goes back so far. Bolton is a tournament that pre-dates grading website detail and probably the 1994 limit of grading data capture.

[Brian Valentine]

The Bolton Rapidplay has been graded from 2009-16, I have not checked before that.

Brian Valentine
Manager of ECF Grading

[Mick Norris]

The Bolton Rapidplay takes place in November - standard 30 mins 6 round swiss

The Busy Persons has been running for years (there was one at Heaton Park at least one year, we even had one at Bury) and to the best of my knowledge has never been graded, nor intended to be

If you do have an issue with it, then suggest you contact Rod Middleton, Harry Lamb or Julian Clissold, rather than quoting me as I just copied and pasted from an email

[Alex Holowczak]

The Bolton Rapidplay has been graded from 2009-16, I have not checked before that.

Brian Valentine
Manager of ECF Grading

You've confused the Bolton Rapidplay with the Bolton Busy Persons Rapidplay/Blitz, as Mick has subsequently pointed out.

Well, you can look it up for yourself on the grading database if you like.

The detail on the grading website only goes back so far. Bolton is a tournament that pre-dates grading website detail and probably the 1994 limit of grading data capture.

I think we can all agree that the issue of whether or not the Bolton Busy Persons' Blitz was graded before 1994 is one of utmost importance that the ECF should spend a lot of its resources investigating.