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We are pleased to onboard Steven Kawuma, a former the Hampshire Champion in 2007, who comes back to competitive chess after 2010 !
The numbers at 55 players with a day to go look quite respectable for the inaugural event.

44 players onboarded with 4 more days to go for the Congress...

Under 10 days to go for the inaugural Eastleigh FIDE Congress to be held at the Barton Peveril College at Chestnut Avenue, Eastleigh South. The event will run between 10:00 am on Saturday, June 28th to 6:00 pm on Sunday, June 29th The event is organised under the Psyon Chess umbrella with support o...

it would have been great to have a digital interface (all possible today) that would quickly convert the Mem # to Rating code, But the main reason could be the payment processing thread where a human interface may be stepping in to verify the payment has been received before code allocation...

there does not appear to be a standard SLA but I have seen the Membership number progress to a Rating code in about a week or so...

IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 02, 2024 6:47 am

Good choice. There's both a large Chinese community and a large Indian community there.

difficult but a good choice for both players...neutral ground eases the fan pressure / expectations & hopefully drives stronger performances similar to the last one!

Amazing to see great performances from Stanley & Zain, well done guys!

Aiming to hit the 50 mark soon on the first Cheam RapidPlay this Saturday ( 49 entries now with 2 more days to go!). The Open section could benefit from 5 more players to run as an "independent" section as the other two sections have hit the minimum threshold. Calling any last mile players for the O...

Brendan O'Gorman wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:30 am

Entries on the rise https://congress.org.uk/congress/391/entrants

Very encouraging to see that the Inaugural Cheam RapidPlay is inching towards the 40 mark now !!

4 more days to go...

Very encouraging to see that the Inaugural Cheam RapidPlay is inching towards the 40 mark now !!

4 more days to go...

Thanks Brendan, its always good to see a healthy turnout from locales on such inaugural events, especially as the weather gets better !

After a successful 1st Orpington Rapid Play tournament earlier in May this year, we ( Psyon Chess ) have had a surprisingly overwhelming response to the inaugural Kent FIDE Congress to be held in Tunbridge Wells between 8th & 9th July - the event was over-subscribed with about 2 weeks to go...as we ...

"I'm also of the opinion that the ECF Council - and don't get me wrong, it's full of well-intentioned people - isn't necessarily representative of the wider ECF membership. For starters, today's meeting consisted exclusively of (mainly white) men and I certainly didn't feel anyone related to (for ex...

amazing to see a record number of players - 401 from 46 countries, that I think beats any current tournament in England (food for thought to Organisers...)

Wishing you a speedy recovery David