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Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 04, 2025 8:36 pm

Quite right too Jim

Many thanks - credit all his, however

Will we see an addition to the corpus of chess books written by parents about their offspring's journey up the slopes of the Chess Mount Olympus? :wink: I wonder how much has been written about chess parenthood, for want of a better word? The twists and turns along the way, the balance of competing...

Biased, and proud.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/ ... dApp_Other

Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:15 am

Thanks Thomas. I'll be honest, I care more about Matthew's norm chances than the others!

Me too!

Cambridge finished 6th (top European team, only lost match vs the event winners who won every match), and Bath finished 43rd. https://chess.stream/kcf_university_cup/standing

A Cambridge University team are 10th seeds in this online event taking place this weekend. See https://chess.stream/kcf_university_cup/teamentries (Disclaimer: personal interest given identity of Cambridge board 1) Round 1 starts at 3pm UK time on Saturday 6th Feb, on Lichess. Time control 10 minute...

Cambridge 5.5 Oxford 2.5

RIP David

Great result for Joe (6.5/ 9), and good tournament also for Marcus (6). The guys fly home tomorrow.

All the England results at https://chess-results.com/tnr422421.asp ... ES&flag=30

All on live boards today in round 8 (again 3.30pm uk time), and all on either 4 or 4.5

http://chess-results.com/tnr422421.aspx ... ES&flag=30

Wins for Justin, Matthew, Joseph, Marcus, and also Carl Strugnell (apologies, hadn't spotted him earlier). Draw for James and a loss for Sam. Round 2 tomorrow at 0830 UK, round 3 at 15.30 UK also tomorrow. No doubt the lads will all be early to bed given early round time and double round day.....

A strong group of young England players are competing in Paracin, Serbia this week, as is GM Justin Tan. Details at https://chess-results.com/tnr422421.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=ENG&turdet=YES&flag=30 Round 1 has just started, live games at Chess24 https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/paracin-...

Please ignore the league tables. I am sure the full results of this event will soon be published by the organisers. ...... When I proposed that the final be expanded to 16 teams, which has been hugely successful in terms of motivating secondary school chess, Dave Welch developed a fair system for p...

I gather from other sources that City of London Boys won- congrats to them. However, I have to say I am rather confused by the format of this year's U19 final. The published rules (https://www.englishchess.org.uk/NSCC/under-19-rules-2018-19/) say it should be a 4 round swiss, and no drawn matches ar...

Roger was delighted with Matthew Wadsworth clinching the IM title in March, winning with the Reti no less, and got to relive it all in May when he - Matthew, that is - went on to clinch his first GM norm, winning with the Reti again. Roger sees his second team as a vehicle for promoting young Engli...