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I encountered Richard quite often when he was in charge of chess at King Edward's School, Edgbaston, Birmingham and used to run the Birmingham and District Schools Rapidplay tournaments for teams of eight players with model efficiency. These events attracted teams from distant places. Richard was ex...

The draft AGM minutes are available: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ECF-October-2023-%E2%80%93-Draft-Minutes-of-AGM.pdf There are also minutes for Board meeting 156 held on 26 October: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Board-Meeting-No.-156-Octobe...

The Nottingham Rapidplay will take place on Sunday 4 February and the Nottingham Congress on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April, 2024, both at our usual venue, Nottingham High School. Details of the Rapidplay have been published at: https://www.nottinghamshirechess.org/competitions/ The Rapidplay will ...

Junior chess is booming in Staffordshire:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-s ... e-67443179

IM Andrew Martin and Tournament Director FM Tim Wall discuss the final standings and have chosen GM Thomas Beerdsen's win against FM Edvin Trost as their Game of Round 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqjwbbXpCuw

Congratulations to GM Eldar Gasanov (6.5/9) who won the Nottinghamshire Centenary GM Invitational, half a point ahead of GM Thomas Beerdsen and IM Jonah Willow. See: https://chess-results.com/tnr831265.aspx?lan=1&art=4 The prize for the best rating performance by an IM was awarded to Jonah Willow an...

For those who can access ITV Central, chess featured on both the lunchtime news and, in more extended coverage, on the evening news. A news team visited the Nottinghamshire Centenary GM Invitational Tournament yesterday and interviewed Tournament Director Tim Wall, IM Jonah Willow, FM Ankush Khandel...

For the minutes of Board meeting 156, held by Zoom on Thursday 7 September, see:

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-cont ... -Final.pdf

The game from Round 5 selected by IM Andrew Martin and Tournament Director FM Tim Wall is between GM Eldar Gasanov (Ukraine) and GM Thomas Beerdsen (Holland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bgNMlifFlE Round 6's commentary features FM Edvin Trost (Sweden) v GM Mark Hebden (Leicester): https://www.y...

IM Andrew Martin and Tournament Director FM Tim Wall analyse an entertaining game from Round 1 between IM Jonah Willow (Nottingham) and IM Tarun Kanyamarala (Ireland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdpm3l_Sf0I Round 2's featured game is between IM Matthew Wadsworth (Maidenhead) and FM Ankush Khand...

Here are the broadcast links for the Nottinghamshire Centenary GM Invitational: LiveChessCloud: https://view.livechesscloud.com/#bdd2ca72-fdd4-41ee-9933-0c2899f08633 Chessbase.com https://live.chessbase.com/en/watch/Nottinghamshire-Centenary-GM-2023/ Lichess.org https://lichess.org/broadcast/notting...

I recall playing in the Centenary of the 1886 tournament - except that in the end it ( a 10 player round-robin) happened in 1987. Only just!! (20-29 January 1987): https://saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/198701nott-viewer.html I see that you won this "Chessforce" event by a point (7/9) ahead of a strong f...

The final event celebrating the Centenary of the Nottinghamshire Chess Association is underway at Nottingham Mechanics Institute. Nottingham Mechanics has a long history of involvement in chess, dating back to 1837. At a previous site, it hosted the famous 1886 Tournament: https://www.nottinghamshir...

Better than the first draft, but not good Perhaps the further key conclusion from this AGM is that the ECF needs to adopt a “one direct member, one vote” system for elections and other key votes to allow full democracy – as virtually every major organisation in the country does. Without this change...

Surely 136 - 137 is possible? Current 125 votes + 6 further potential votes from Silver rep 2 plus 6 further potential votes from Bronze rep 2. Was it 136 - 125 though, as a previous report said: Final membership vote: 136 - Board Option 2 (which convincingly defeated Option 1 and NCCU in previous ...