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Many thanks for the info.

Date now in diary. I shall also put a notice up at the club.

Politicians prevaricating and sitting on the fence. Who would have believed it?

Does anyone know if the petition will be redirected to the home country sports councils?

Many thanks, Mick.

I shall try to get a posse of players from Huddersfield geared up to play.

Just a note for anyone thinking of playing in the Huddersfield Congress on March 28-30 - and I hope there are plenty of you - our chief organiser Nigel Hepworth has managed to procure the services of the caterers who provide refreshments at the Doncaster Congress. As anyone who has attended Doncaste...

Does anyone know if there is to be a Manchester Congress this year, and if so when and where it will be?

I have sent a message to the email address that was on last year's entry form with this query, but have not received a reply.

Thanks.

Deal, Charles. We plan to hold it on the last weekend in March year-on-year so I'd say it's fairly safe to mark it in your diary now. By the way, re the free chess sets for schools, have you had any contact from the Yorkshire Post (I'm deputy sports editor on the paper). Obviously this is a news sto...

Thanks for that, Charles. And good luck with the event you're going to instead. Maybe my enthusiasm will wane in future years, but having been away from the board for so long - because of professional and family commitments - I want to play as much as possible before I am called to that big chess bo...

Thanks, Charles. We were planning that after canvassing the views of an elder statesman who was playing at the Doncaster Congress and suggested the same thing. We have a month before our congress and hopefully that will give us the time to prepare a questionnaire and have it printed up. If there are...

I guess there must be a proportion - how big, I wouldn't want to guess - of congress entrants who are after the prize money, but at best the prize winners are likely to offset the cost of travel, entry, meals etc plus have a bit left over for the latest must-have chess book. My Mastermind specialist...

As Huddersfield's Congress approaches, myself and another club member were kicking around ideas about ways of improving what we already feel is a fine, but obviously not perfect event, and pondered on the possibility of possibly running two a year. On the prospect of implementing the latter idea, I...

Huddersfield Chess Congress March 28 – March 30 2008 At the Ukrainian Club, Edgerton Road, Huddersfield (5 minutes’ drive off J24 of the M62) Contact details Nigel Hepworth 01484 352989 / 07903 548 675 Email: congress2008@huddersfieldchessclub.co.uk http://www.huddersfieldschessclub.co.uk Entry...

The final entry was 93 despite a few no-shows from people who had entered before the day. Overall it was another very successful event and Huddersfield is becoming established on the chess calendar for both its tournaments. All the results and final leaderboards from the Rapidplay can be found here...

Open Winners Nigel Davies GM was champion again but this year shared the honour with Stewart Haslinger IM - both with 4.5. Jos Wooley shared third place with Alan Byron and Peter Shaw. There was one grading prize in the Open for the best U165 player - this was won by Michael Round and Dennis Owen, ...

6 round Swiss Tournament 30 minutes each per game ECF game fee registered At the Huddersfield Ukrainian Club, Edgerton Road, Huddersfield. Northern Membership Scheme Event Further details and downloadable entry form available at http://www.huddersfieldchessclub.co.uk/congresses/rapidplay%202007.htm...