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Are you using Swiss Master, Swiss Manager, UTU Swiss or creating the lovely old .txt file and emailing it Matthew Carr? I've built the websites for both leagues and I've included an option that lets me generate a txt file, which I'll then upload into ecfrating. For internal club results, I'm gettin...

I grade (or rate?) the Wirral League and the Chester & District League (which isn't planning on resuming until at least Jan 2022. I'm also currently grading the internal games of two clubs. My intention is to submit results at the end of every month. I'm not using the ECF LMS.

There may have been shorter games, but I recall this 9 move victory at the opening round of the Minor at Crewe in February 1997 1. c4 d6 2. d4 Be6 3. e4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nb8 6. e5 Nfd7 7. Ng5 h6 8. Nxe6 fxe6 9. Qh5+ Game lasted less than 20 minutes. I then had to wait until 11pm as the person w...

The Wirral League has been officially suspended for at least 1 month.

Results from the 51st Rhyl Chess Congress played 12-14 May Nigel Davies and Mike Surtees shared first in the Open Young Ifan Rathbone Jones surprised many by claiming first in the Major David Price won the Minor Crewe and Rhyl & Prestatyn shared team prize Open Pos Player Club Grade 1 2 3 4 5 Pts Ga...

All three =seconds were juniors and so shared Best Junior award. Somehow they have to share a trophy (a board) between the three of them!

Open Pos Player Club Grade 1 2 3 4 5 Pts Games Perf 1 Townsend, M Paul York RI 216 b10+ w12+ b8+ w3= b2= 4 5 220 2 Jaunooby, Ali Reza Denton 205 b15+ w11+ b3= w4+ w1= 4 5 215 3 House, Glenn L Morecambe 210 w13+ b5+ w2= b1= w8+ 4 5 219 4 Burns, Martin J Stockport 171 bye= b9+ w12+ b2- w5+ 3½ 5 206 5 ...

I am able to use the grading program on both my Windows 7 Desktop or my Windows 8 laptop. I keep everything in a folder called "League" including results.exe and several database files on a USB stick so I can switch between computers without losing any data. All I've had to do to get it to work is t...

I have the final standings for each section, don't remember all the prize winners OPEN Pos Player Club Grade 1 2 3 4 5 Pts Games Perf 1 Jaunooby, Ali Reza Denton 202 b13+ w5+ w6+ b7= w3= 4 5 214 2 House, Glenn L Morecambe 215 w11+ b8= w7= b6+ w9+ 4 5 211 3 Townsend, M Paul 4NCL White Rose 220 bye= b...

Where will the Liverpool event be held?

I'd like to attend, but it would be impossible for me to get there for 10 am using public transport. I could make it for round 2, but there appears to be no option for taking byes.

Wirral League http://www.wirralchessleague.com : Division 1 - 9 Teams; 5 Boards; 36 Matches; 180 games Division 2 - 9 Teams; 5 Boards; 36 Matches; 180 games Division 3 - 8 Teams; 5 Boards; 28 Matches; 140 games Knock Out - 8 Teams; 7 Boards Teams: Atticus (based in Liverpool, 1 team), Buckley/Mold (...

Because to get a part-rating from a tournament, you need to play at least three FIDE-rated players during the course of it. If only five out of a field of 25 are rated, that's a very tall order for anyone. Fair enough. So a mistake was made in thinking their would be enough FIDE rated players to be...

It was probably a mistake to have a FIDE rated Major in the first place. For an organisation that claims on it's own website "The Best Tournaments in the UK and Ireland", I don't expect these mistakes. I don't yet know the precise reason why this change was made. Perhaps the forced upgrade to Gold m...

It doesn't seem right to change the parameters of a tournament after announcing it. The West Brom Major (which is still FIDE rated) states " English players in the Open or Major must be ECF Gold members." When the Chester Major was FIDE rated, I upgraded my ECF membership to Gold about 5 minutes bef...