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Hello all,

KJCA Kings (Division 2d) are looking for a female or junior player for the Saturday and Sunday rounds (2nd/3rd May) of the final 4NCL weekend, at Hinckley Island Hotel (LE10 3JA). If you're interested then please e-mail me at [email protected].

Now up to 822 entries across all sections. This includes 366 in the Super Rapidplay, which contains 34 GMs and 40 IMs.

http://www.londonchessclassic.com/festival_entries.htm

There's still time to enter via: http://www.londonchessclassic.com/ticke ... aments.php

Now 480 entries across all tournaments; 30 GMs and 25 IMs have entered the Super Rapidplay, 20 GMs and 17 IMs have entered the FIDE Open: The top 20 seeds in the Super Rapidplay are: Hikaru Nakamura Fabiano Caruana Vishy Anand Michael Adams Vladimir Kramnik Matthew Sadler Simen Agdestein Igor Kovale...

Now 384 entries across all tournaments; 23 GMs and 21 IMs have entered the Super Rapidplay, 16 GMs and 14 IMs have entered the FIDE Open:

http://www.londonchessclassic.com/festival_entries.htm

Soheil, if you wish to receive a letter of invitation to help you get a visa, please e-mail a scanned copy of your passport to [email protected] explaining that you wish to attend the event.

The first festival entry list is now on the website: http://www.londonchessclassic.com/festival_entries.htm

So far the Super Rapidplay counts 16 GMs and 13 IMs among its entrants, the FIDE Open has 10 GMs and nine IMs.

Across all events, there are just under 300 entries.

For information on the 2nd London Chess and Education Conference, which takes place 6th - 7th December 2014, please see: http://www.londonchessclassic.com/conference/index.htm

The lineup for the main event of the 6th London Chess Classic has been finalised: The six player classical all play all will take place at Olympia London from 10th - 14th December 2014. The participants are (October 2014 ratings): 1. Fabiano Caruana (Italy), 2844 2. Vishy Anand (India), 2785 3. Anis...

Chess in Schools and Communities are hosting a tutor training course at Stratford Library (E15 1EL) on Thursday 2nd October, 10.30 - 16.30. Lunch will be provided. To register, please see: http://www.chessinschools.co.uk/bookingformnewham_30914.htm We anticipate that there will be courses in Leeds a...

I can't wait for this to start - anyone else planning on signing up?

http://yorkshirechess.org/fantasy-chess-olympiad-2014/

Malola Prasath is well versed in the Troitsky line, which he used to beat Jim Burnett during last season's 4NCL (North East England vs. White Rose 2). Rumour has it Gary O'Grady is the world's leading authority on King (e1) and three connected pawns (a2, b2, c2) vs. King (e8) and three pawns (h7, g7...

Doesn't "Chess in Schools" in the Kasparov sense, mean chess in Primary Schools? That's the focus of the UK's CSC which is indifferent as to whether there's chess in Secondary schools or not. Chess in Schools and Communities teach chess in a number of secondary schools, so this is clearly inaccurat...

That's extremely kind of you, Ihor!

If the opportunity arises for you to work with CSC, either as a paid tutor or a volunteer at a lunch time/after school club, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Chess in Schools and Communities aim to expand from 300 to 450 schools by September 2015. Consequently, we will be hosting a great many training courses over the next 18 months in order to recruit new CSC tutors. We can confirm that courses will take place in Sheffield (Tuesday 29th April 2014), Liv...

Felix Magath, the new Fulham FC manager, speaks about Yes2Chess: http://en.chessbase.com/post/yes2chess- ... lix-magath