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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

And now several cannot get back on ...6-6 and a swift half at the pub Mr Underwood ?

Oh my - one of my players offered draw and aborted ..board 1 oppo declined ..now reboot been and gone and clock running for my board 1
Game now continuing.. some are on server ..I am locked out !

I envisage carnage then ...1730 is 23 hours after cut off for team submission (though i sent mine a further day early) and some of the players being coerced (press-ganged) in to online County chess are shall we say ..a little technologically naive ! Is there a reason for hiding confirmed line ups un...

Having missed the practice round as we had a tournament last week ...can anyone advise when we get the opposing team line up ...in Lincolnshire I may need to send homing pigeons to advise some of the far-flung players

It was kind of a shame Devon was forced out of the competition, even though I've been on the recieving end of many Devon victories I'd have still give them my support for such a great achievement of a 'proper' minor county making it to the final. Forced Out ? They chose to be the only team not to p...