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They plan to travel on a day the trains are running. Unfortunately on the day they need to travel back, the strike is back on.

Belated congratulations Alex!

hi everyone, One of our local players will be competing at Hastings at the start of January. They'll also be playing in my team, Hull & East Riding Tigers, in the 4NCL Division 3 East matches in Daventry 7th & 8th January. As you are undoubtedly aware, train staff are currently on strike and further...

Does anyone know if there a tournament website?
On the ECF calendar there is only a name and email address, no further details.

Clubs have also started to set up teams on chess.com and lichess.org:
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/chess-clubs-online/

If any would like to play a club match against Beverley, please let me know.

Regards
Douglas

Nice Rapid tournament to burn off those mince pies, Christmas Turkeys and Christmas puddings :D Sunday January 5th 2020 from 10.15am to 5.15pm to be held at the Royal Hull Hotel Three sections - all of five rounds: - FIDE-rated Open - FIDE-rated U1900 (ECF 160) - ECF U120 Prize fund £540 Details and...

Yes, for some reason the digiboard software had added a few extra moves which had to be removed by the operator.

I have not received the proposed seedings. Can someone please forward them to me?
Thanks!

Hull 4NCL International Congress, in partnership with the Hull & District Chess Association and incorporating the 56th Hull Congress Fri 1 - Sun 3 November 2019 http://www.4ncl.co.uk/fide/information_hull_2019.htm The Royal Hotel Hull, 170 Ferensway, Hull, East Yorkshire, HUI 3UF. Hotel website: htt...

Has anyone else noticed that the venue for weekend 1 has been changed back to Holiday Inn Doncaster?

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:22 pm

are you looking for any grade as I have had two under 120 players looking to play at the 4ncl

Hi John,

Apologies for the slow response.
We have quite a few lower graded players already so we are now just looking for one or two >2000 FIDE rated (>ECF180 graded) players.

Regards
Douglas

hi there,

I'm forming a team to enter Division 3 North in the 2019-2020 competition. We currently have 8 players (from the East Riding of Yorkshire area) and would like to invite other, enthusiastic, players to join us.

Regards
Douglas