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Only 2 spaces left as of this evening ...always nice to reach capacity with nearly a month to spare !

34 places left and filling quickly now

Open, Major U1800, Minor U1500 - Minimum £1200 guaranteed prize fund

Great venue in a brilliant city to visit


https://congress.org.uk/congress/598/home

https://congress.org.uk/congress/598/enter

https://congress.org.uk/congress/310

Entries open and despite the typically slow start to entries we will no doubt sell out over the next 5 weeks.

Good prize fund - super venue at Southside in Lincoln
Arbiters Douglas Vleeshhouwer and Jo Hutchinson

Organisers Kev McCarthy and Nigel Birtwistle

Yeah harsh on Sussex if we went Cov/Brum neutral venue for all 3 of the distant ones ..presume Cambridge venue for Lincs vs Sussex as about 105 miles each

So 2 Northern 'Derbies' and 1 Southern
1850,Minor and Open are all 200 miles plus apart so much to be discussed on either 5 mid-points or 1 central venue given there is only 4 weeks to organise venues/transport/accomodation

Unless you experienced the special Albania sickness you have no idea....we had 2 on drips early in the week and at least 2 sick on each of the last 5 rounds ..I was in bed on zero food and just water for 36 hours and only crawled to board in round 6 to allow my junior opponent a chance at medalling ...

https://congress.org.uk/congress/310/enter Rapidplay is nearly sold out and only 4 spaces left in the Open/6 in Major and 5 in Minor - There will be an overflow list and I am looking to add extra 16 slots if venue space allows. Guaranteed £1200+ prize fund, free parking,bookstall, hot and cold food...

As of today there are 12 spaces left only

2 Open
5 Major
5 Minor

Cleethorpes beginning to fill nicely and will be limited to the original total of 96 players across the 3 sections to maintain a comfortable playing environment. Online or postal entry available so please get your entries in to ensure you do not miss out on a great venue and big prize fund. http://c...

Lots of denial on here ...as in other parts of our chess community ...I would say 93% 'hit' rate for a casual sleuth is fairly successful ...not 'proud' but these cheats need rooting out or online chess competitively remains tainted...and yes some players on both main platforms(including an old coll...

The point of my original post is the mapping of all the things together ...I am stronger in all forms of the game than those I have described so benchmarking all aspects highlights the extraordinary allowing greater focus to be put on their games etc....Someone achieving 2850 on the Chess.com puzzle...

..130 graders with sub-1000 blitz and over 1900 rapid and 2800+ puzzle rating... On this specific example, can you expand on what is unusual? For a junior, 130/1900 is very plausible, and I would not be shocked by 2500+ on puzzle on chess.com. As for blitz, some players hate blitz and suck at it. O...

Sadly cheating is also rife in County Online although not too much being said about it - I have been sleuthing on Chess.com last few weeks and have reported 21 players so far of whom 18 have been banned (not all ECF Online by any means) - This includes a couple from my own County and several from ou...

Thanks all for efforts ...going to sac a piece in every round of the blitz i have just set up for them !

I have 3 back online out of 12