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On the plus side, I very much welcome the tournament being expanded to more parts of the country. This is excellent if you don't live in or near a big city.

Congratulations to Matthew J! My claim to fame is finding his scoresheet on a pavement in Hastings and passing it on the next day.

Thank you for your responses. I guess we'll see how it pans out!

I have a related query which makes me quite concerned about this 30th of June thing, with reference to the introduced rolling ECF memberships. The 'pay to play and game fee 2023/24' page' clarifies that the 30th of June 2024 is the date that covers a player for game fee purposes in the 2023/24 seaso...

My heart goes out to Sabrina, Jennifer, and all victims out there. You are so courageous and your voices are powerful. These horrifying accounts illustrate how we have a collective duty to ensure chess is a safe space for everyone.

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Sun Feb 05, 2023 10:59 pm

And speaking of defaulting I was surprised to see Wessex 2 reappear after missing the first two weekends but still two players short - I had thought they had been expelled from the league already

Reports of Wessex's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Well done to everyone involved for making this tournament happen. It pleases me greatly to see women's chess on the up.

According to Chess24, Kamila's round 2 game was already over before the other games had started. I'm sure there was a good reason for that!

Well I thought the event was a lot of fun. Overall, I'm quite relaxed and enjoying the little bit of normality events like this and 4NCL Online are providing. One thing that does worry me is this issue of 'false positives' which innocent people can potentially get caught up in. I'm not sure how ofte...

I have never met or played Declan so I can't really comment on his chess but I hope he's alright. He's a young lad under a great deal of scrutiny and I can imagine this all being rather stressful for him, especially having read some the comments on Tim's blog. Sorry for coming over all 'snowflakey'!...

Hi friends, good luck to all teams competing in a final. I wish the English chess website had a link to the county results service website (https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/36/home). It's an excellent service, but not easy to find!

but Sussex can only find 10 players That is a sad state of affairs for an Open team, and I don't expect that it is the captain's fault. I wonder how many of his players couldn't face another run up the M1 so soon after last weekend's 4NCL. You're quite correct about the Sussex captain - he does a m...

What a crying shame it is that rules and barriers mean we don't have a team in this fabulous competition. A week in Turkey in a learning environment would have been an invaluable experience for our young talents. I am thankful for events on home soil like the LCC and Hastings which provide other opp...

Like many here, I love county chess and see it as important so I really appreciate the efforts of everyone involved to help keep it in the best shape possible. I must admit though that when I heard that Sussex had been drawn against Lancashire in the Open section I thought it was an April fools'! Th...

Well done Julie; your efforts are much appreciated.

There appears to be a problem with the list, I (selectively!) quote a colleague and grader as follows: "If you check your personal page you will find you're shown as having played some number "x" games over the last 12 months. However, if you then click on "Standard games played, last 12 months" yo...